765 stories by "Tim Bano"
As her all-female Much Ado About Nothing hits the stage, the artistic director of Watford Palace Theatre talks to Tim Bano about
Here's art not for art's sake, but for very little sake at all. Nick Dear's portrait of a young, horned-up William Hogarth,
As the company celebrates its 25th anniversary, the award-winning director tells Tim Bano the occasion is giving him a chance to take
To use only simple elements was Jean Cocteau's aim for La Voix Humaine. “Not to rely too heavily on the production to
Heather, Heather and Heather. Not only supercool high school megabitches but, thanks to Daniel Waters and Michael Lehmann's 1989 cult film, style
The idea with Carl Miller and Christopher Ash's willfully weird show is that the Brontes were like a rock band. The musical
After wading through the daft protests outside the Kiln Theatre, the newly refurbished, rechristened building is beautiful. The auditorium feels wider and
A few years ago twice Pulitzer-finalist Stephen Karam came across a risible self-help book called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
Tom Wells is master of the adorkable. There's a lovely, gentle, huggable quality to his plays. And that continues here, although perhaps
From humble beginnings, the Pleasance has risen to become one of the biggest venues at the world's biggest arts event " the
This isn't a Jon Bon Jovi jukebox musical. Well it is and it isn't. It's definitely a very clever deconstruction and fond
Although Boxless makes physical theatre, the strongest moments in this piece about the impact of music on different generations come from the
It's apt for a show about fake news and the bombardment of information in the digital age that most of the time
When it's good, this is what the fringe excels at: a really tightly written, deftly performed monologue. And this is good. Growing
It's a bit difficult to grasp, this. The idea that nothing has happened until it's happened. And before that moment, infinite outcomes
It takes brass to tackle Mistero Buffo. Dario Fo's twisted mystery play was a showcase for the late great man himself, as
A really brief note on the free sheet for this physical show by National Theatre of China says it's about the life
As Lil points out at the beginning of this startling reinterpretation of Jonathan Swift's satire, the only bit of Gulliver's Travels people
Earlier this year the BBC announced it was shutting down its Maida Vale studio. It's a shame considering its incredible history, no
It's a winner, this combination of Hijinx and Spymonkey. Hijinx works brilliantly with actors who have learning disabilities, while masters of daftness
Purportedly a comedy, purportedly a dark one, there's no evidence of that in Christopher Reid's verse piece about a middle-aged man meeting
A lot of the writing in Dangerous Giant Animals is so good because it's so taut and simple. Christina Murdock picks small
John Gay's 1728 opera was so popular in its time because it erased all the class associations of snobbish Italian opera. Gay
The concept here is strong: to work magic into the narrative of a theatre piece. But this collection of three scenes doesn't
One of the startling things that comes out of Danielle Ward's play is how the comedy industry is stacked against women's success.
