Everyday Maps for Everyday Use, Finborough, London
Finborough, London: Tom Morton-Smith's intriguing play - part of the Papatango New Writing Festival - probes the place where sexual fantasy and reality meet. Read the full review
Finborough, London: Tom Morton-Smith's intriguing play - part of the Papatango New Writing Festival - probes the place where sexual fantasy and reality meet. Read the full review
Lyric Hammersmith, London: Joel Horwood and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's fourth pantomime for the Lyric Hammersmith follows the same formula as previous offerings - which is no bad thing, as …
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Gate, London: Caroline Bird's powerful new version of Euripides transplants the tragedy to the mother and baby unit of a modern prison hospital, a stark clinical space cut off from the …
Theatre 503, London: Drawing on his own experience working in a children's psychiatric hospital, Joe Hammond's first play is a fumbled attempt to explore the salve of the imaginati…
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: It's difficult to divorce Gregory Doran's production of the play sometimes referred to as the Chinese Hamlet from the controversy that has surrou…
The Studio, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: DC Moore's new play, an adaptation of a 2009 film called Humpday, by the US writer and director Lynn Shelton, turns out to be as much about male…
Young Vic, London: Nathaniel Martello-White's debut play is concerned with more than just the various hurdles faced by black actors; it also encompasses broader themes of race, identity…
Finborough, London: Originally discovered via Angle Theatre's Call for Plays campaign, Shamser Sinha's play depicts the lives of two teenage refugees living in London. Khadija is t…
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Theatre Royal Haymarket, London : Performed in the afternoon in the public spaces of the Theatre Royal Haymarket - current home of One Man, Two Guvnors - in its opulent bars and corridors, o…
Natasha Tripney catches up with Actors Centre chief executive Louise Coles, as the organisation celebrates a new chapter in its impressive history
Featuring work by Devero, Blind Summit and Compagnie 111. The post London International Mime Festival 2013 appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London: Playing in tandem with Love and Information, Caryl Churchill's new short play acts neither as a coda nor a bonus scene to the former, ra…
Natasha Tripney talks to artistic director of Birmingham Rep about leading the company into a new eraThe post Strong sense of duty appeared first on The Stage.
Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon: Ben Power's delicate reworking of Romeo and Juliet premiered in Newcastle in 2009, the same year as Tom Morris' Juliet and Her Romeo appeared in Bristol.…
Time has not been kind to Alan Ayckbourn's 1984 play A Chorus of Disapproval at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Or at least that's the way it feels in Trevor Nunn's undeniably glossy but stilted…
Southwark Playhouse, London: Following its lively BSL production of Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe to Globe festival earlier this year, Deafinitely Theatre's new work tells…
The West End is in no way short on jukebox musicals, but Let It Be, the new "theatrical concert" at the Prince of Wales Theatre, timed to coincide with the Beatles 50th anniversary celebrati…
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Drayton Arms, London: Timidity has no place in this world. Sarah Kane's final play before she committed suicide in 1999 is many things but it is not nice, nor is it gentle. It's a …
Union, London: After the great summer of Gatsby, the stream of things Fitzgerald-related shows no sign of slowing. Ahead of a Trafalgar Studios transfer for Kelly Burke's one-woman show…