140 stories by "Roger Foss"
Hot Ice is celebrating its 81st season with a spectacular new show entitled Dreams. But this year's skaters are noticeably youthful, as
We're led into a heartless immigration screening room. Here, young Mohamed, who we have seen enter illegally from Syria with no identity
If you could rate smugness, the middle-class family gathering around the dinner table at the start of Nina Raine's play, Tribes, would
Sarah McDonald-Hughes' play makes for an impressive opener to Paines Plough's fourth annual season for its perky, pop-up Roundabout theatre. The first
"Deeds not words" was Emmeline Pankhurst's militant motto. So when you are caught up in a melee outside York Minster involving placard
A few days before we meet to talk about putting together his first Manchester International Festival as artistic director, John McGrath has
Right now there's a lot of trauma in Manchester following the recent terror attack. Both out in the city and inside Home,
Did the gentry frolic semi-naked at foam parties in Jane Austen's day? They do in Jeff James' radically rejigged version of her
If there's any comparison to be made between Charles Dickens' 1854 novel and Stephen Jeffreys' 1982 stage adaptation, it's that one is
Now that China is a major UK commercial investor, this stirring piece of verbatim theatre is a timely reminder of the generations
Timberlake Wertenbaker's last play, Jefferson's Garden, was set in 1780s America. Her new play is set closer to home: atop Winter Hill,
Right from the start, Richard Fitch's youthful production of The Importance of Being Earnest looks and feels like freshly de-cluttered late Victoriana.
Ken Dodd once told an interviewer that laughter is just noise that comes out of a hole in your face. Anatomically, Doddy
The Graduate has graduated. It's about time a woman director grabbed hold of Terry Johnson's stage adaptation and shook something more satirically
Blitzed Britain. A ship transporting 90 child evacuees to the safety of Canada is sunk by German U-boats. Most of them drown.
As a denunciation of apartheid, there's surely nothing in theatre as consciousness-raising as the re-enactment of the Antigone-Creon trial scene at the end of
The growth of social media might suggest we are all closely connected, but the premier of Alan Harris' play explores social disengagement
The rain it raineth very hard during the shipwreck opening of Jo Davies' joyous Royal Exchange production. But there's nothing wet about
The twisted realism of Melbourne playwright Declan Greene's two-hander makes for unsettling viewing. Moth is partly a schoolboy's fantasy about a robot saving
"It shouldn't be a battle, dad, bringing up a family." This is one of many barbed home truths aimed at Rafe Compton
Rat poison in the wine? Blood on the rug? Bodies in the cesspit? Nazi assassins on the loose? Psychopath husband bumps off pregnant
This National Theatre Wales collaboration with the residents of Rhyl begins with a guided stroll through the town centre taking in short
Mikron Theatre embarks on its 46th annual tour with a show that takes a scenic hike through the history of the Youth
This is hardly an English idyll. With a parish priest abducted by elemental spirits and replaced with a replica, the local WI
Was Giacomo Casanova just an 18th-century sex addict, or a man of many colours? He was a trainee cleric, gambler, writer, violinist,
