1,125 stories by "Natasha Tripney"
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London: John Donnelly's new play about the insanely pressurised, hermetic world of professional football charts the career of Jason, played by Rus…
Tristan Bates Theatre, London: Jeremy Kingston's retelling of the Oedipus story takes the form of two separate but complementary plays. The first is Oedipus the King, his new translatio…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London: It quickly becomes clear why Dominic Dromgoole has picked John Webster's tragedy to open the first season in Shakespeare's Globe's new indoor …
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London: This trio of short works by Samuel Beckett - which is playing for a brief run at the Royal Court before transferring to the <a href="…
Marylebone Gardens, London: Wilderness' evocative and often feverish immersive dance theatre piece draws on the early works of Tennessee Williams and the reportage of Studs Terkel to co…
Some venues faced funding cuts, while others welcomed new leaders. Natasha Tripney looks back on a time of change and a memorable festival in Manchester
Battersea Arts Centre, London: This building is full of stories and secrets. Returning for a second run, this collaborative show allows its young - and not so young - audience members to exp…
Southwark Playhouse, London: There are playful echoes of Noises Off in Goat and Monkey's meta-panto for Southwark Playhouse. Split neatly into two halves, the first has the company of f…
Soho Theatre, London: Returning to Soho Theatre after a brief run at the Jagriti Theatre in Bangalore, India, Phil Porter's subversion of the romantic comedy remains a bittersweet and t…
Arcola, London: Neil LaBute's 2001 play - which explores many of the themes to which he would later return - remains one of his most popular. It's easy to grasp the appeal of this …
Finborough Theatre, London: The Finborough's revival of this 1953 play by RC Sherriff - the first time it has been staged since its premiere - is a very odd cocktail indeed. It's e…
Arcola, London: Jeremy Green's biographical drama about the life of the Pre-Raphaelite muse - the model for Millais' Ophelia - depicts her as a complicated, creative woman with amb…
Covent Garden, London: Look Left Look Right's festive adventure designed for an audience of two people at a time takes its participants through the shops and streets of Covent Garden on…
Landor Theatre, London: The first London revival of <a href="http://www.thestage.co.uk/tag/polly-stenham/">Polly Stenham's</a> debut play, written when she was jus…
Director Loveday Ingram talks to Natasha Tripney about staging the first production of Richard III since the discovery of the notorious monarch's remains in Leicester last year
Soho Theatre, London: Monsters are a recurrent cultural trope - Lecter, Dexter, Dracula - men who can rip you to pieces, who can make you bleed. Hattie Naylor's monologue dives deep und…
Studio Theatre, Sheffield: There's an awful lot going on in Robin Hooper's new play, split between Helmand province and Hackney. On the surface it's a play about contemporary …
Trafalgar Studios, London: Martyn Hesford's claustrophobic play focuses on the relationship between LS Lowry and his domineering mother. Though ailing and bedridden in later life, she f…
Soho Theatre, London: Katie Hims' new commission for Clean Break - the campaigning company which tells the stories of women and the prison system - is a warm-hearted, tender and gently …
Finborough, London: Luke Owen's play, winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize, is an intelligent piece about the psychological ramifications of being exposed to disturbing imagery on …
Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham: This Out of Joint production of Dawn King's new play sees her reunited with Blanche McIntyre, who directed the award-winning Foxfinder. Where that earlier …
Theatre 503, London: This selection of work from the Hotbed new writing festival takes the form of three one-act pieces. The first and longest of these, Why Can't We Live Together?, is …
Jermyn Street Theatre, London: Anti-Semitism and the Jewish experience connect all five of the one-act plays in this night of new work by Steven Berkoff. This theme is most explicitly expres…
The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham: As a London-wide tour of Brand New Ancients, her euphoric and award-winning show, is announced - kicking off at the Royal Court in Novembe…
Old Laundry, Bowness-on-Windermere: Victoria Wood's BAFTA award-winning TV play of one woman's wartime experience was based on the diaries of Nella Last, a married mother of two fr…
