1,125 stories by "Natasha Tripney"
BAC, London: The crackle of the gramophone gives way to the thunder of drums as the Little Bulb company, in the opulent surroundings of Battersea Arts Centre's Grand Hall, begins to tel…
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: The stage of the Swan has been designed to resemble the London docks, a place of arrival and intersection, for Tanika Gupta's new play, which sees her…
Nuffield, Southampton: There's a pleasing, playful quality to Blanche McIntyre's reworking for Headlong of what is perhaps Chekhov's best play. John Donnelly's expletive-…
Barbican, London: Declan Donnellan's inventive reframing of Alfred Jarry's attack of a play captures something of its adolescent ferocity.
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Playhouse, Liverpool: Written in 1967, Peter Nichols' play still has the power to devastate. Its potency comes in part through the juxtaposition of the heightened theatricality of the s…
Arcola, London: It's impossible not to admire the chutzpah of a company who follow up an adaption of the German expressionist film, the Cabinet of Dr Caligari, with a stage version of H…
Finborough, London: Caryl Churchill's previously unperformed play - written in 1972 but only now receiving its world premiere - is based on the Wretched of the Earth by the psychiatrist…
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: There are times when <a href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/buy-tickets/p/hamlet" target="_blank">Jonathan Slinger's Ha…
Royal and Derngate, Northampton: Alan Ayckbourn's homage to the silent movie era is one of the prolific playwright's less frequently staged works. Written in 1963, it was a flop in…
Lemn Sissay tells Natasha Tripney about his play Refugee Boy, a stage version of Benjamin Zephaniah's novel
Rose Bankside, London: House on the Hill's production of Christopher Marlowe's first play is solidly done, if a little frayed at the edges. Taking place above the archaeological re…
Gemma Bodinetz, artistic director of Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, tells Natasha Tripney why the city's cultural heart beats so strongly despite the cuts
Hampstead Theatre, London: William Boyd's play takes two of Chekhov's later short stories, My Life - one of his longest - and the less well known A Visit to Friends, and fuses them…
Gate, London: Written in the wake of 9/11, Bruce Norris' 2002 play - here receiving its UK premiere - is set in the Midwest in the 1970s and explores similar emotional terrain to Norris…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: For the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Citizens Theatre co-production of Christopher Marlowe's play of one man's damnation, two of the original acts …
Soho Theatre, London: Arinze Kene's new play is set in Deptford in the early 1980s, in the wake of the Brixton riots. Chima returns home after a ten-year stretch in prison to find that …
BAC, London: The first feature-length work by Paper Cinema, returning to BAC for a second run, blends elements of animation, film, music and puppetry to create a kind of living pop-up comic …
Arcola Theatre, London: Part of an ambitious double-bill of productions which includes a stage version of Moby-Dick, Simple8's reworking of the hugely influential German expressionist f…
Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon: The RSC's A World Elsewhere season - which set out to explore events and developments happening in the world during Shakespeare's lifetime - concludes wi…
Royal & Derngate, Northampton: The first production in the Royal & Derngate's Made in Northampton season is also the last that current artistic director Laurie Sansom will direct be…
Finborough, London: Tricia Thorns' charming and wholly satisfying production of John van Druten's infrequently performed play explores what it was like to be a woman in the workpla…
Hampstead Theatre, London: Amelia Bullmore's funny and moving play, previously seen in Hampstead's Downstairs Theatre - though with a different cast - is eloquent in its exploratio…
Natasha Tripney looks back on the regional highlights of the year
Trafalgar Studios, London: The second production in the Donmar Warehouse's season of work by young directors at Trafalgar Studios sees Titas Halder tackling August Strindberg's sti…
BAC, London: There are two magnificent balls during Kneehigh's inventive reworking of Cinderella, a narrative device designed to give the mixed-age audience as much time to dance around…
