1,125 stories by "Natasha Tripney"
In 1992 actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith created a verbatim piece about the LA riots. She interviewed over 300 people for
This really shouldn't work as well as it does. Girl from the North Country takes songs from throughout Bob Dylan's career "
Love stories between two women remain a rarity on our stages. For this reason alone, Lucy Foster's Lobster is a welcome addition
Billed as "an unreliable version of a true story filtered through a hazy memory and vivid imagination", Anoushka Warden's debut play, My
Now that pantomime season is almost behind us ("Oh no it isn't" etc), here's The Stage's list of pantomimes that scored the
2017 was a pretty dispiriting year all round, but it was a particularly dismaying one for women. As if it wasn't enough
The Waterloo arts festival is bigger and more diverse than ever, with shows performed underground and in a bookshop, a car and two shipping containersA warren of tunnels lies underneath Wate…
Alongside politically charged dramas about race and gender, standout works this year have included searing, re-imagined classics and a menagerie of onstage
There are moments in John Tiffany's stage version of Pinocchio that seem engineered to seep into your dreams " and not always
It’s that time of year again. The time of year when I start to question whether some psychotropic substance has found its
Mike Poulton is the go-to man when it comes adapting plot-dense novels for the stage. Having successfully adapted Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell
Sally Cookson, more than most directors, is able to capture that moment of magic when a child opens a book for the
Phineas Taylor Barnum lived a large life. The salesman, showman, promoter, impresario and would-be politician " who probably didn't say "there's a
Lost children populate JM Barrie's work. Not just the motherless boys of Peter Pan, but the vanishing daughter of Mary Rose too.
Syrian writer Liwaa Yazji's play about the conflict in her county, a war that makes young men into martyrs, features six live
When the first branch of Dishoom opened in 2010, it was one of the few places where you could get a decent
Matthew Warchus' staging of Charles Dickens' never-more-timely morality tale brings the magic of a carol service to the West End. Staged in
The Lyric Hammersmith panto, now in its ninth year, has never relied on big names or snazzy special effects. Its strength lies
In a year in which we've already seen Tamsin Greig as Malvolia in Simon Godwin's Twelfth Night at the National Theatre and
Written in 1983, David Mamet's lancing of American masculinity and capitalism feels more an indictment than ever. Glengarry Glen Ross' team of
Even if you don't subscribe to film critic Mark Kermode's view that The Exorcist is a cinematic masterpiece, its power to disturb
Despite kicking off with a scene of confrontation, this new stage adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's 1947 novel of lonely souls thrown together
The Bridge Theatre " Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr's shiny new 900-seat theatre near Tower Bridge " throws open its doors with
Lyn Gardner has already done a very good job of covering the meat of last week's Widening the Lens debate on diversity
You can see why the idea appealed. The council chamber at County Hall, with its pillars and panelling, with its grand galleries,
