1,125 stories by "Natasha Tripney"
While there are major new productions opening both the Donmar Warehouse and the Young Vic in London, one of the most exciting
Reader, I loved it. Sally Cookson's adaptation of Jane Eyre for the National Theatre is a thing of riches. First staged at
Alongside big openings this week at the Lyric Hammersmith and the Almeida, there's intriguing new work at the New Diorama and Battersea
When Laura Wade talks about the Sheffield Crucible her face lights up; it is, she says, her "home theatre". The opportunity to
"I think about oxbow lakes a lot." My conversation with Barney Norris, though contained in time and space, sat on a sagging
September continues to be busy with an epic Iliad in Wales, major new productions at the Royal Exchange and an intriguing double
September is certainly not showing any sign of slowing. Major opening follows major opening. Nicole Kidman kicks the week off with Photograph
The autumn season kicks up a gear this week with a slew of new openings in London and a major festival of
The phrase that keeps recurring is: "Not a vintage year." That seems to be the consensus. There's been a lot of solid,
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is over for another and while it's left me, as ever, feeling slightly smudged at the edges and
Each Edinburgh Fringe tells its own story. Different themes and narratives emerge every year. One of the threads running through this year's
We're entering the final stretch of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this week, but there's no sense of things slowing, with a whole
"People have this sense of ownership of this play, ergo I have this great sense of responsibility." Nadia Fall is in the
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a place of collision. It's inevitable " with so many performers crammed into a relatively small city,
Another all-Edinburgh series of picks from me – because at the moment nothing else really exists; the fringe has the ability to
"We were making by doing in the first instance." Andy Field and Ira Brand, two of Forest Fringe's co-directors (the third, Deborah
Time works differently up here. I know how that sounds; I know just how that sounds – but Fringe time is definitely
We've hit the second week of the Fringe and the bubble is firmly in place so this is, by necessity, an all-Edinburgh
Right then. Here we go. The vast dark star that is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe erupts into life this week. This year’s
The Edinburgh Fringe is almost upon us but London never sleeps and there's still plenty of exciting work opening this week. In
"We're looking for the best work for our stages." Over coffee in one of the upstairs rooms in Soho Theatre, Steve Marmion,
On any given year, the mammoth Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme can feel as overwhelming as it does appetising. As artists and their
This week, while dominated by Edinburgh Fringe previews (of which I’ve compiled some highlights), also provides the opportunity to revisit (or just
For the second week running, everything (well, almost everything) is happening in Manchester. The Greater Manchester Fringe is now well underway and
Theatre began outdoors: stories told under the sun, under the stars. Over the centuries we've put walls around it, a roof over
