521 stories by "Mark Ludmon"
By Mark Ludmon
While Nuclear War is at times confusing and disorienting, it is riveting throughout its 45 minutes, leaving you with words, sounds and sights that will continue to haunt.
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By Mark Ludmon
New short plays by Tom Wells and other writers will be staged by Paines Plough in Hull to tie in with it being the UK’s City of Culture for 2017.
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By Mark Ludmon
Hattie Morahan, Paul Hilton and Kate O'Flynn are to lead the cast in Alice Birch's new play, Anatomy of a Suicide, at the Royal Court.
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Alex Bourne will be Daddy Warbucks with Holly Dale Spencer as Grace Farrell alongside Miranda Hart as part of further casting announced for the new West End productio…
By Mark Ludmon
Curiously colour-changing drinks and other cocktails will be served up this spring and summer at a theatrical bar inspired by hit show Alice's Adventures Underground at The Va…
By Mark Ludmon
Emma Fielding and Forbes Masson are to lead the cast of courtroom drama Terror at the Lyric Hammersmith where the audience decides on the verdict.
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Ben Whishaw, Simon Russell Beale, Rory Kinnear and David Morrissey are among stars lined up for the first productions at the new Bridge Theatre opening in London in October. F…
By Mark Ludmon
The full cast has been announced for the new production of Shakespeare's Richard III starring Greg Hicks at the Arcola Theatre in London. Hicks, who is associate artist at the…
By Mark Ludmon
The cast has been announced for the European premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Obie Award-winning play, An Octoroon, at the Orange Tree Theatre in London. The line-up compri…
By Mark Ludmon
From small beginnings, Brighton Fringe has grown over the past five years and now features nearly 1,000 events from comedy, cabaret and music to theatre, dance and visual arts…
By Mark Ludmon
Bertie Carvel and Richard Coyle are to lead the cast of James Graham's new play about The Sun newspaper at the Almeida Theatre. Carvel will play a "young and rebellious" Ruper…
By Mark Ludmon
Natives is a sharply written chronicle of coming of age at a time when digital technology presents new challenges for young people but could also provide their salvation.
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By Mark Ludmon
In her illuminating new book, Brutus and Other Heroines, she takes us through the processes and thinking that led to Lloyd's ground-breaking all-female versions of Julius Caes…
By Mark Ludmon
We are pleased to bring you these great production images by Simon Annand of F Murray Abraham in Daniel Kehlmann's comedy The Mentor which plays at Theatre Royal Bath's Ustino…
By Mark Ludmon
Kate Wasserberg, the award-winning founder and artistic director of The Other Room in Cardiff, is to join Max Stafford-Clark and producer Martin Derbyshire to lead Out of Join…
By Mark Ludmon
The Royal Court Theatre has announced an exciting new temporary theatre space, The Site, which will specialise in presenting experimental new work. Curated by Royal Court asso…
By Mark Ludmon
A new cast has been announced for the London production of The Play That Goes Wrong as it continues on its path to world domination.
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A production of Molière's classic comedy, The Misanthrope " performed in English and French " is coming to London's Drayton Arms Theatre.
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A new musical based on classic 1970s sitcom The Liver Birds is to be presented for one night only at The Epstein Theatre in Liverpool.
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By Mark Ludmon
Aside from the device of making it an all-female cast, this is a powerful, enjoyable production. It may lose some of the masculine menace of the original but brings out more o…
By Mark Ludmon
It touches on the brutality of the death penalty at a time when the number of executions is on the rise around the world but it is ultimately a sharply written tale of what mo…
By Mark Ludmon
Sea Fret captures the human story behind this disintegration of homes and ways of life. While the narrative lacks clarity and drive at some points, the play confirms Brown as …
By Mark Ludmon
With planks and bales of hay as well as more inventive props, the farmyard world has been cleverly conceived by designer Emily Bestow. It all comes together flawlessly under d…
By Mark Ludmon
With a twisting plot and strong characters, Chinglish leaves you laughing but aware of an inevitable chasm of difference between the two cultures that means something will alw…
By Mark Ludmon
While the play will particularly delight film buffs like myself, it is a stunning and inventive piece of theatre that tells the story of Evans's life with as much drama and ex…
