35,882 stories from The Stage
Like many only children, Ashley (Mae Munuo) has a vivid imagination. Instead of helping her mum prepare dinner or clean the house,
Following the success of Sweat on Broadway and in London, Lynn Nottage's latest play is a comedy that revisits the same de-industrialised
John Michael is on a roll. Not only has he got a new boyfriend, but it's the first time he's ever had
Like all the best things in life, Rouge is at its best when the clothes come off. There are instances of total
Music and memory are fundamentally entangled. Even when someone has advanced Alzheimer's disease music can often return them to the world, albeit
"We put this bit in for people who came expecting more, you know, circus," announces one of the seven powerhouse-women of Yuck.
As I waited for Warheads to start, I tried to think of any theatre I had seen before that could be considered
Mika Johnson has been through a lot in navigating love and the gender binary. The issue was never with Johnson not knowing
It's not an easy watch, this, especially by the time CCTV footage of Christopher Alder's death is projected into the room in
This month's column comes with a public service caution: It may contain political themes. I have never felt so concerned for the
There is undeniably something odd about the fact that those bringing a show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from New Zealand or
Purposeless Movements " The Studio, Edinburgh This dance-theatre piece by Glasgow's Birds of Paradise is written by Robert Softley Gale for four
Emma Frankland creates a work full of beautiful, dark magic in Hearty, her one-woman celebration of the weird science behind her own
Here's a headline you can trust: Fake News is a full-on failure. Osman Baig's one-man show attempts to craft a cautionary tale
This is Scottish Opera's second show for babies; after the huge success of BambinO for six to 18-month-olds, Fot-Tot! is aimed at
Time travelling magicians Morgan and West have branched out this year. Their new show sees them celebrating scientific method in a manner
Musicals Leicester's Curve has announced casting for West Side Story, which runs from November 23 to January 11, 2020. Adriana Ivelisse and
The 'Edinburgh bubble' is a very real phenomenon. The relentless 24-hour mania of the Scottish capital during festival season provides almost total
The number of young people taking A-level drama has fallen below 10,000 for the first time, with 40% fewer entries recorded this
Lucy Roslyn describes her one-woman show as "an act of communion". Not, she stresses, the kind of communion that involves bread and
There's something reassuringly nostalgic about the panic we felt for the millennium bug. Computers thinking it was 1900 was just such a
Throughout the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Pleasance has been running an eco-friendly pop-up theatre at Dynamic Earth, near Holyrood. Inside the science
Alan Harris is an uncompromising writer " his plays slip and stumble along, often with a healthy dose of hectic surrealism stuffed
"Just a quick warning," says Lee Mark Jones, poking his head out from behind the curtain. "Things will fuck up." And they
Many plays explore our basic human need for companionship but Eliana Ostro's Anything With a Pulse chooses to examine the games we
