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Tim Foley's giddily ambitious Astronauts of Hartlepool is like the theatre equivalent of one of those origami fortune-tellers that children make wrapped
In Jenny Sealey's production of The House of Bernarda Alba words wrap around the stage. Graeae co-production with the Royal Exchange uses
Storyteller and performer James Rowland describes himself "a child of Richard Curtis." His debut show, Team Viking, opened with a funeral. His
Few solo shows are as well suited to the murk and lung-fug of the Vaults as Greywing House. With its dripping brickwork
Olivia is a writer. Ethan is a writer. They meet at a conveniently snowed-in-and-internet-free cabin for a writers' retreat. She's still smarting
Skelmersdale in Lancashire was meant to be a place of hope. One of the experiments in urban planning of the 1960s it's
London’s Vault Festival, which has been cooking up new and experimental work in the warren of tunnels beneath Waterloo railway terminus since
A knife thuds into a plank of wood, millimetres from a man's hand. Despite its often leisurely pace, this two-hander by French
On one level Danai Gurira's The Convert plays out a twisted reworking of Pygmalion. A man reshapes a young girl, putting words
The walls of London's Leake Street are covered in graffiti. A face stares down from the intricately decorated brick ceiling and there's
The announcements are not helping. Five minutes to go, the tannoy says. Three minutes. One minute. It's the interval of In the
You came to playwriting relatively late. What was it about writing for the stage that appealed to you? I was running a
Andrew Maddock's previous work includes The Me Plays and The We Plays, both double bills of short plays. His new piece, He(art)
With the infant year tottering around on unsteady legs, it feels like the right time, not for resolutions exactly, but for a
Le Gateau Chocolat solo show is a celebration of the music that shaped him. Icons is a cabaret show with a very
Gemma Arterton is the only woman on stage amid a sea of men. As the Maid of Orleans " the illiterate young
It's not as if I haven't tried. But I still find panto a puzzle. I just don't understand the appeal. Okay, maybe
Alexander Zeldin's follow up to the painstakingly directed, Beyond Caring, is an even more emotionally devastating piece of theatre. Love explores the
Hedda Gabler is one of those roles: she is slippery and difficult, brilliant and appalling; she digs her own holes with her
This year's Theatre Royal Stratford East is a treasure. It’s funny, smart, accessible and big-hearted. It also has a lot of fun
JB Priestley's early novel, Benighted, was filmed by James Whale as The Old Dark House in 1932. In his stage adaptation, playwright
George S Kaufman and Moss Hart's 1930 comedy is set in a time of great change in the entertainment industry. It takes
Near the beginning of Aleksandar Popovski's fascinating production of Hamlet for Belgrade's Jugoslovensko Dramsko Pozoriste, Hamlet " played by awesome Serbian actor
Sally Cookson's 2012 production of JM Barrie's Peter Pan, revived and revised at the National Theatre for Christmas, sees her reuniting with
Buried Child is the antithesis of a memory play. First produced in 1978, but not staged on Broadway until 1996 when it
