35,882 stories from The Stage
From a feminist perspective, the character of Salome is seriously problematic. In Richard Strauss's opera, based on Oscar Wilde's play, she's a
In 2012, when cuts to local government budgets were biting hard, Nicholas Hytner " then director of the National Theatre " held
Mrs Dalloway "Â Arcola Theatre, London Having set the world on fire in Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Emilia at Shakespeare's Globe, Clare Perkins plays
Few working in theatre today, beyond a group of ostriches with their heads firmly buried in the sand, are unaware of the
A hundred years since the end of World War One " the war supposedly to end all wars " armed conflicts around
Ruth Negga makes a mesmeric Hamlet in Yael Farber's production for the Gate Theatre. At the start, she looks unbearably small and
Plays The first major stage production of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, based on Louis de Bernieres' novel, has been announced for a UK
Theatre by the Lake in Keswick and Belfast’s Grand Opera House are among the 12 regional winners of the UK’s Most Welcoming
The National has had a patchy period when it comes to Shakespeare. The theatre's community-focused musical adaptation of Pericles met with widespread
First performed in 1951 " and in permanent repertory at the Theatre de la Huchette in Paris ever since " Eugene Ionesco's
Stuck on an international flight when she learns that her life has been spectacularly derailed, data analyst Lisa grapples with overwhelming feelings
Richard Bean's broad, and at times crude, comedy, The Nap, premiered in Sheffield, the home of UK snooker, in 2016. The play's plot
Cast's verbatim show The Last Seam may be focused on the closure of Yorkshire's Hatfield Colliery in 2016, but its stories of
Director Phyllida Lloyd and musical theatre star Adrienne Warren were among presenters and nominees at The Stage Debut Awards 2018, who called
Theatre convention StageCon has been postponed until 2019 amid concerns over ticket prices for the event. StageCon was due to take place
Les Miserables' West End home is to more than double its toilet capacity, after it emerged that audience members are missing up
Arts organisations are being prevented from planning effectively because funding terms are not long enough, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation has claimed. In
Richard Molloy’s Every Day I Make Greatness Happen terrifyingly captures the trauma of state education. Both for teachers and students. Designer Lucy
Immersive, interactive dining experiences are becoming a part of London's theatre scene " there's a multi-course Dionysian dinner show in the Vaults
Sandi Toksvig will adapt the story for the Mamma Mia! spin-off show when it opens at the O2 in London next year.
The London production of Hamilton has announced its first cast change, as it approaches its second year in the West End. Allyson
Never has Homer's Iliad seemed less like a dusty schoolbook text than in this searing 'excavation' by poet Alice Oswald, dramatized so
"One has to be so scrupulous about language," purrs the interrogator in one of Harold Pinter most chilling plays, his short One for the
The Stage critic Tim Bano and associate editor Lyn Gardner discuss the National Theatre’s latest major opening " Antony and Cleopatra starring
On my last birthday, I received the gift of a bus pass from Transport for London. Rather than put it to use,
