103 stories by "Veronica Aloess"
The latest show at the National Theatre Shed is Mission Drift, a pioneering journey across the USA in search of the character of American capitalism. Veronica Aloess finds out more.
Many people aren't aware that there's more than one musical adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera. Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit's musical Phantom was composed and rai…
After falling in love with Fourth Monkey Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, where they fearlessly produced six successful shows, I was worried that their latest show Project …
Veronica Aloess interviews the stars of Strictly Come Dancing on their hit new dance show, Burn the Floor, in London's West End.The post Strictly burning the floor with Robin Windsor and Kri…
What came first, the story or the site? Veronica Aloess explores this question with the help of Fourth Monkey Theatre Company.The post Site-specific or site-responsive? Fourth Monkey’s…
Veronica Aloess catches up with the Lincoln Young Company, performing I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here as part of Connections 2013.
“What are you going to see tonight?” my friend asked. “Watt.” I said. “What? I was asking, what are you going to see tonight?” she said. “Watt. The …
With his play Bottleneck currently at Soho Theatre until 9th March, Luke Barnes tells us more about storytelling and what's exciting about theatre.
My Romantic History is something different. Well, it’s a rom-com which isn’t different, but it is different to see a story told this purely onstage. We have Tom (David McCusker) …
References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot is a production from Troupel Theatre Company, a company which traverses two continents, and this international influence is at the heart of this produ…
Full of advice and insider tips for directors, companies and performers, Veronica Aloess reports back from the final day of National Theatre Connections Directors Weekend.
Reporting back from the second day of NT Connections Directors' Weekend, Veronica Aloess speaks to Lenny Henry and Jim Cartwright.
Veronica Aloess speaks to Michael Grandage as his company's West End season opens, starring Sheridan Smith, David Walliams, Simon Russell Beale and Daniel Radcliffe.
Veronica Aloess from AYT reports back from the National Theatre Connections Directors' Weekend, sharing some unmissable snippets of advice and behind the scenes action.
The Cat's Mother is a complex show from the all-female Foxed Up Theatre Company about the intricacies of memory which, ironically, messes with your mind. The plot is a web of questions promp…
Daddy Long Legs is an appropriate choice for the newly opened St James Theatre’s opening season. It might just be because it was press night, but the St James Theatre seems to return t…
Site-specific promenade piece La Fille a la Mode currently plays at Theatre Royal Haymarket and investigates celebrity culture, theatrical history and the cult of the It girl.
The Ones Who Kill Shooting Stars (TOWKSS) is a play which, reflecting its child-like characters, comes from a beautiful place but ends up somewhere confused. Henry (Gregory Finnegan) looks f…
I have a genuine fear of the dark, and being plunged into it whilst actors taunted the audience with song definitely made me scared: I was on the verge of screaming at the littlest movement …
Tape is one of those plays that has style. It takes a while to become immersed in the strange dialogue and eccentric characters, but once it finds its flow, Tape stands alone. Stephen Belber…
Staging Puccini’s legendary Tosca on a small stage in the back of a pub is one of those things you have to see to believe it’s possible. Big voices in a tiny space reverberati…
Woyzeck’s lover icily tells him that no one touches her without permission, and Woyzeck retorts with surprise that his lover has developed character. However, character is exactly what…
Tonight I watched a man “try”. Thom Pain's despairing monologue follows the transition from childhood into adulthood, and tonight I watched a man try to express the pain of that.…
I've always believed that theatre should be about the audience experience, not a passive action of sitting back and watching. Thanks to A Younger Theatre and The Old Vic, I was able to catch…
They say that art reflects life, but I wouldn't say Baggage does. Baggage follows the trials of online dating: the freaks and frauds, and general disappointments made possible by the so-call…
