Rattlestick Playwrights Theater: The Off-Broadway new-writing venue transforming itself
For its current shows, the West Village's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has radically redesigned its auditorium and ditched half the seats. Its artistic
For its current shows, the West Village's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has radically redesigned its auditorium and ditched half the seats. Its artistic
Last week it was revealed that English National Opera is planning on using its safety curtain as a screen, on which it
Clean Break is a theatre company committed to highlighting the injustices women experience in and beyond the criminal justice system. This co-production
Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre has appointed Gareth Nicholls as interim artistic director, while the venue enters a period of consultation about plans for
A director on a scheme for minority ethnic arts leaders who is at the centre of an identity row has hit back
A woman is lying on a meagre camp bed in a small space marked out in white lines, wearing an orange prison
With the help of four participants (some of whom have never performed professionally before), Scottee is staging a fat rebellion. It's a
The fourth instalment in Jamie Lloyd's ambitious anthology of Harold Pinter's shorter works consists of an intriguing if uneven double-bill of one-act
Legendary drag performance artist Lavinia Co-op is very busy at the moment. Scheduling an interview, we had to work around no less
Hadestown "Â National Theatre, London Created by singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin, and starring Eva Noblezada, this musical reworking of the
As I'm finishing off my book on Channel 4's history, I've been reflecting on the elements and the stars missing from today's
On Friday, Mark Shenton drew attention to a string of recent interviews with Sheridan Smith, in which she was startlingly honest about
Jamie Lloyd's dauntingly ambitious and carefully curated season of Harold Pinter's entire body of shorter works continues with a series of pieces
It's been 25 years since choreographer Liv Lorent set up dance theatre company BalletLorent. Based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the company is known for
Outdoor arts company Without Walls has launched two new initiatives to support touring work. The first is the Touring Network Partnership, which
This week’s production news includes a transfer of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar to the Barbican, and
Winsome Pinnock has won this year’s Alfred Fagon Award for her play Rockets and Blue Lights. The annual award, for the best
Federico GarcÃa Lorca's Rural Trilogy at the Cervantes Theatre ends with a considered and confident production of his "tragic poem" Yerma, performed
Sue MacLaine's latest piece is a wide-reaching gaze over the abundance of inequalities directed towards women. Narrated stoically by Tess Agus, Angela
Christopher York's one-woman adaptation of The Pit and the Pendulum for Oxford-based Creation Theatre isn't a straightforward page-to-stage reworking of Edgar Allan
As he takes up the baton for Hawkwind's live orchestra, multifaceted musician Mike Batt tells Douglas McPherson about the highs and lows
Actor, puppeteer, and author Charlotte Charke was an intriguing but often overlooked historical figure, a woman who, in the early 1700s regularly
As a Holocaust survivor, the Italian-Jewish writer and chemist Primo Levi bore witness to the horrors of Auschwitz in a series of
Playwright James Graham has claimed publicly funded theatres have a duty to showcase new writing, arguing they should be required to programme
Tim Rice is to host The Best of Rock Musicals at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, featuring songs from shows including Evita,