1,125 stories by "Natasha Tripney"
Hampstead Theatre, London: Hampstead Theatre ends the year by revisiting Nina Raine's popular 2011 play set in a busy London hospital. The production feels a little tighter than on firs…
Young Vic, London: 1927's previous show, The Animals and Children Took to the Street, was outstanding so Golem comes with a considerable weight of expectation. It turns out to be an oft…
Olivier, National, London: My, but this one's beautiful - Lizzie Clachan's design of the National Theatre's big family Christmas show is both ambitious and magical. It makes f…
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: The RSC marks the centenary of the start of the First World War with Phil Porter's play about one of the most moving passages of that con…
Theatre 503, London: The Sleeping Trees' rather frantic festive show for family audiences is not a panto in the traditional sense but rather a mash-up of familiar tropes and characters …
Vaudeville Theatre, London: Will Tuckett's balletic version of Kenneth Grahame's classic children's book returns to the West End with Alan Titchmarsh reprising his role as the…
Bush Theatre, London: Barney Norris' tiny knife of a play was staged to acclaim at the Arcola earlier this year and now transfers to the Bush Theatre. Tender, unexpectedly funny and war…
Lyric Hammersmith, London: The Lyric Hammersmith won't be officially reopening until April, but until then there's a chance to see Tom Wells' new panto, his second for the the…
Royal and Derngate, Northampton: The Royal and Derngate's Christmas show takes the form of an Arthurian origins story.
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Festival Theatre, Chichester: Rachel Kavanaugh's rather starry production of Oscar Wilde's play of scandal and blackmail is a decidedly unsprightly affair, a bit blunt in the tooth…
Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London: Earlier in the year, in the warren of rooms beneath Shoreditch Town Hall, Philip Wilson adapted a series of Philip Pullman's versions of the Grimm B…
Gate, London: The Gate Theatre's Who Does She Think She Is? season continues with Suli Holum and Deborah Stein's cerebral solo show, which premiered at the 2012 Under the Radar Fe…
King's Head, London: Norris Church Mailer was Norman Mailer's sixth and last wife, the Catherine Parr to his Henry VIII, the one who would outlive him. She worked as a model but was als…
Old Red Lion, London: Stewart Pringle's first season as artistic director at the Old Red Lion gets off to a very impressive start with Max Barton's revival of Philip Ridley's …
The Drum, Theatre Royal, Plymouth: The new play by DC Moore for the Theatre Royal Plymouth sees him stretching himself as a writer.
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Theatre 503, London: Stuart Slade's first play boldly uses Operation Yewtree as inspiration for a comic and unexpectedly tender two-hander. The play explores the relationship between Je…
Park Theatre, London: Tricia Kelly gives a rich and physical performance in this intense one-woman play by the German director and playwright Manfred Karge. She plays Max Gericke, the widow …
Crucible Studio, Sheffield: The Studio space at the Crucible has been transformed to accommodate Bryony Lavery's new play about the legacy of the 1984/85 miners' strike. Designer M…
Studio 2, Trafalgar Studios, London: Based primarily on the transcripts of the libel and criminal trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895 (the former only recently discovered), this play by Merlin Hol…
St James Theatre, London: Anya Reiss' third Chekhov modernisation - following her takes on Three Sisters and The Seagull, both previously staged at Southwark Playhouse - lacks the fizz,…
Barbican Pit, London: This is the fourth year that the BE Festival - the Birmingham Festival of European Theatre - has sent a selection of its work out on tour. Made up of three pieces from …
The Print Room, London: The Print Room has taken the decision to christen its new home, in Notting Hill's atmospheric old Coronet Cinema, with an intense solo piece adapted and performe…
Minerva Theatre, Chichester: Chichester Festival Theatre concludes its Hidden Histories season with the premiere of Mark Hayhurst's play about the life and death of the German lawyer Ha…
Gate, London: The Gate Theatre begins its 35th anniversary Who Does She Think She Is? season with the UK premiere of Adam Rapp's almost-monologue. Shannon Tarbet plays Bernadette, an el…
Jermyn Street Theatre, London: Before this revival by Anthony Biggs, John Van Druten's pacifist play had been all but lost and hasn't been seen on stage since the Second World War.…
