1,125 stories by "Natasha Tripney"
Royal and Derngate, Northampton: Ansu Kabia - performing with his arm in a sling following a recent bike accident - plays Ricky Braithwaite, a highly educated former RAF officer who ends up …
Finborough Theatre, London: Inspired by the legend of the Wild Man of Orford, Elizabeth Kuti's new play - first presented as part of the RADA Festival earlier this year - takes the form…
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: Mark Ravenhill's five act response to Voltaire takes the form of a journey through a series of possible worlds. Inspired by the classic French philoso…
Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh: The Forest Fringe's old home, the former Forest Cafe, has this year been colonised by Assembly, branded and absorbed into the cacophony of Bristo …
Lyceum, Edinburgh: In its hypnotic take on Hamlet, the Wooster Group uses Richard Burton's famous 1964 Broadway production of the play as the basis for an exercise in theatrical ghostin…
Natasha Tripney talks to Game of Thrones actor Gemma Whelan as she stars in two very different roles at the Edinburgh Fringe
Shakespeare's Globe, London: Created with the talented trumpet soloist Alison Balsom in mind, Samuel Adamson's new play for the Globe takes the form of a series of vignettes linked by t…
Temple Studios, London: To say the new London production by Punchdrunk was eagerly anticipated would be an understatement. The company, which formed in 2000, is a pioneer in the field of imm…
Young Vic, London: Filmmaker Joe Wright made his stage directorial debut at the Donmar earlier this year with a bright, light Pinero comedy. His second stage production sees him tackling Aim…
Campfield Market Hall, Manchester: The ideas behind Matt Charman's play about chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov's famous defeat by IBM's Deep Blue computer are fascinating - qu…
Albert Hall, Manchester: Maxine Peake's recital of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem, written in response to the Peterloo Massacre, is an electrifying experience, one made all the more p…
Shakespeare's Globe, London: Eve Best's directorial debut at the Globe begins with a burst of drums, a driving primal sound. It's an exhilarating opening, the whole cast united on …
AE Harris building, Birmingham: The act of eating together, of artists and audience sharing a meal, is central to the experience of this year's BE Festival. It's the ultimate act o…
John Gielgud Theatre, RADA, London: The RADA Festival, which launched this year, is a public festival designed specifically to showcase the work of RADA alumni and staff. The festival, which…
Natasha Tripney meets magician and actor Andy Nyman
Soho, London: Katherine Kressmann Taylor's slender epistolary novel about the malignant creep of Nazism was written in 1938 and subsequently banned in Germany. In bringing it to the sta…
Theatre Royal, Bath: Bath's Theatre Royal launches its summer season with a starry production of Noel Coward's comedy of class and status.
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Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: For his RSC debut, Sean Foley has dropped Thomas Middleton's exceptionally bawdy comedy into a seedy 1950s Soho setting. On a basic level this update …
Finborough, London: Two schools of thought about Scottish independence are aired in David Hutchinson's contemplative, if tangled, new play.
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Playhouse, Norwich: Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Life and Times is an epic exploration of a single suburban American life formed from hours of telephone conversations with one of the co…
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: The concluding production in the Crucible's Sheffield Season, a revival of Alan Bennett's celebrated play, makes a fitting companion piece to the first…
Emma Rice, joint artistic director of Kneehigh talks to Natasha Tripney about her projects for 2013 and how she has managed to bring the Cornish atmosphere to the city
Founded more than 35 years ago, Tara Arts the cross-cultural London venue is now creating a new, enhanced site. Natasha Tripney explores.
Various venues, Halesworth, Suffolk: The HighTide Festival, held in a picturesque corner of Suffolk, is now in its seventh year. With a focus on new writing and the championing of emerging p…
The Albany, London: Bola Agbaje's engaging play about faith and family has a tendency to swing between outright comedy and something more questioning, never quite settling on a tone of …
