302 stories by "Louise Penn"
By developing a language which is uniquely that of the theatre, the world in which Hot Coals Theatre's film My Darling Christopher exists comes to life.
A bold initiative from Platform 4 comes to your computer screen with this new immersive digital film. Invisible Music starts from the point of considering the issues around hearing loss but …
Harry Gabriel is one of those unsung heroes in theatreland: the stage door keeper. Part surrogate parent, part nurse, part firm friend, they are the conduit between front and back of house, …
Raising funds for her beloved Omnibus Theatre (a treasure based in a former public library on the edge of Clapham Common), Miriam Margolyes proves to be every inch the entertainer and racont…
In advance of its inclusion in this year's Hollywood Fringe (which is taking place virtually), Black Women Dating White Men has been made available as a Zoom recording put together during lo…
Hot on the heels of their starry audio version of The Understudy, Lawrence Batley Theatre has now released an audio version of Toast to the digital space following a successful tour last yea…
Love Letters At Home takes the well-worn Our Tune concept from the old days and uses it to develop a show where, no matter what's going on and whether we are together and apart, it is always…
At just eleven and a half minutes, this satirical musical by Haddon Kime is a quick diversion on YouTube from the Atlanta-based company Out of Hand.
The Barn Theatre in Cirencester has built on its broadcast earlier in lockdown of Henry V to develop a sequence of thirty-five monologues from Shakespeare's plays.
Series one begins w…
I'm sharing the message that I've sent to Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS).
Large West End production compan...
Up to Manchester for this Zoom screening of 2011's mix of movement and words from Quarantine, followed by a discussion with the creatives.
Entitled is "a show about nothing" on the su…
In Praise of Love is a complex play which relies on a claustrophobic gathering of people in one place and the tensions which come from hiding their feelings.
Over the past two weeks the…
The government stance appears to be that the arts is on its own and needs to prove its worth. I think, and hope, theatre has over many years of serving towns, topics and communities. I want …
The Berliner Ensemble have located a jewel in their theatre history. Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage is a modern classic of the German theatre.
Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage is a mo…
I wanted to try out something from The Yard Online's day of fun, and chose No Show, a Zoom performance which sounded something a bit different.
It's ...
'For the first time in my life, I feel truly vulnerable when I am singing these songs. It's terrifying and exhilarating at the same time.'
West End performer Siobhan Dillon's new albu…
Is it worth watching? If you like watching theatre or performance, yes. There are songs, monologues, poems, stand-up (or sit-down) routines, and a lot of charm and commitment.
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Edalia Day brings their mix of observational comedy, music, and Shakespearean interpretation to the video game space in the show Super Hamlet 64.
Original Theatre's touring production of The Habit of Art was one I missed in 2018. It was due to return this year, but circumstances being as they are, here is a streamed version available …
Making a dramatic property based on a book into a musical can sometimes be hit and miss, whatever the quality of the source material or the best intention of the adaptor.
Conor Mitchell's provocative and high camp opera Abomination: a DUP Opera made its streaming debut on the new Queen's Film Theatre online player, in a recording filmed at the Lyric Theatre i…
Bubble looks at the issues of free speech, feminism, misogyny, the use of language, the misuse of technology, the moral minefield around reportage, and the rise of hate groups.
Bubble…
This show by political comedian Mark Thomas takes a long, hard look at our National Health Service in its seventieth year of operation. He shadowed medics and interviewed clinical experts, e…
Orangutan is presented by Cup of Brew, written by Toby King, directed by Fiona Kingwill, and performed by Louise Waller. We first meet Alice sitting on her messy bed, overflowing with cushio…
The Barn Theatre in Cirencester is not a venue I have been to in person, so I am happy to be able to go "once more into the breach" in the ultramodern version of Shakespeare's Henry V.
