35,882 stories from The Stage
Mark O'Rowe's quietly powerful three-hander takes the form of series of conversations. Three women " Cora, Anna, and Denise " discuss the
This is vital verbatim theatre. Adapted from more than 200 hours of interviews and reams upon reams of public documents, Lung Theatre's
One of my favourite journalists recently observed: "I thought I saw Vince Cable at the theatre and then I remembered that everyone
The End of Eddy " the Studio, Edinburgh Stewart Laing directs a new stage adaptation of Edouard Louis' brutal autobiographical novel about
As we enter the third week of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, companies, producers and programmers will be making plans to tour their
Of all the American performers currently integrating apologies into their work at the moment, none comes close to the creative eloquence of
Within the first few minutes of Kids Play, you think you’ve got the premise pretty much tied up. Booted and suited, Greg
When there’s nothing but a bible and megaphone by way of set or stage dressing in a performance about the DUP, you
A lot of the writing in Dangerous Giant Animals is so good because it's so taut and simple. Christina Murdock picks small
If The Rockford Files is the main point of reference in your show, then chances are your expected audience will be in
Writer-performer Molly Taylor unpacks the lives of the couple she grew up down the street from. A jumble of memories, objects and
Ah, be still my beating heart. Tallulah Brown's Songlines, co-produced by DugOut Theatre and HighTide, is the kind of quirky teenage love
There's a commendable degree of ambition to House of Mirth's new play Chihuahua, but the execution isn't there to match it. Phil
The National Student Drama Festival is such a potent Petri dish for young companies; it's galvanising to see so many recent participants
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
Martin Zimmerman’s On the Exhale and Underground Railroad Game by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R Sheppard have won Scotsman Fringe First awards
This week’s production news includes a production of Fiddler on the Roof to be directed by Trevor Nunn at the Menier Chocolate
The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts has set up a new training hub providing professional development workshops for theatremakers. The Northern
A children’s theatre is being set up at the back of a bookshop in north London. Pickled Pepper Books has been operating
There are coming-of-age tales aplenty at the Fringe but this moving story from Ben SantaMaria captures the well of loneliness that a
Jess Love offers audience members a cup of tea and a biscuit as we file into the room. Her solo show, which
In Unconditional real-life mother and daughter Stefanie Mueller and Josie Dale-Jones play a mother and daughter putting on a show together. The
In 2012, the elasti-lipped Valentijn Dhaenens made a splash with Bigmouth, a mash-up of historical oratory and a tour de force of
One of the startling things that comes out of Danielle Ward's play is how the comedy industry is stacked against women's success.
