1,125 stories by "Natasha Tripney"
Brighton Festival Every year the Brighton Festival has a different guest director. This year, it is performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson
The next seven days sees the opening of the Brighton Festival and Fringe and a major new production in Stratford-upon-Avon. In London,
After the onslaught of last week, with a major opening taking place every night as well as the events to mark the
The weekend of April 23 is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death and there will be events taking place all around the
The Cyr wheel is a large metal ring the size of a person. It was the only piece of acrobatic apparatus to
Cruel April may be, but it sure isn't quiet, with openings over the next seven days including Pulitzer-winning drama at the National
This is the week of all the things, everywhere. There are multiple King Lears and Royal Court openings in abundance " and
The next seven days see major productions open at the National Theatre and the Royal Court, London, the latter of which –
What is it we actually mean when we describe a play as being a museum piece? I found myself asking this question
Though relatively quiet because of the long Easter weekend, the next seven days include some major openings including the transfer of People, Places
There's an interesting mix of things this week, including a rich range of new writing in London, as well as a chance
Robert Icke really, really likes an interval. His 2015 production of Oresteia at the Almeida Theatre, London, had three of them, and
The last time I stood in the square outside Sheffield's Crucible Theatre, Alan Lane had just set the place on fire. Okay,
There's a really rich and interesting spread of work opening around the UK this week, including an intriguing and contrasting double-bill of
The next seven days continues to be busy with a cluster of exciting things all happening on March 3, including the directorial
Is this really the story we want to be telling? With dispiriting predictability the mainstream press has latched hungrily on to the
The reviews of Mrs Henderson Presents have been an educative exercise in writing about nudity. Or, rather, not writing about it. Many of
After last week's great wave of openings, things slow down slightly during the next seven days, though only comparatively speaking. The return
This week is absolutely packed. Following a fairly quiet January, it feels like everything has suddenly woken up and there are new
While the Vault Festival hums away beneath London's streets, above ground there's new writing at the Gate Theatre and the Finborough, as
As Rachel O'Riordan knows, there are many ways into the theatre industry. "I didn't have a very traditional path into the business,"
It's still relatively quiet, particularly around the UK, but there are a number of intriguing new openings taking place in London this
2016 might still be mewling like a newborn kitten but there are already new shows to be seen, including the UK staging
Robert Icke's Oresteia " the triumphant first production in Rupert Goold's thrillingly ambitious Almeida Greeks season " was not only a superb
With new openings all but wrapped up for the year, this week's theatre picks takes the form of a collection of some
