Friday, August 9, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghA trio of siblings make their childhood sparring literal in a mesmerising dance show with heavyweight potential
Edinburgh's Summerhall has a rowdy late-night festival hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2019
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghBrigitte Aphrodite and Quiet Boy's colourful show follows a trio of teens in Margate who form a punk band and campaign to save a tree
Planting saplings has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis musical for over-threes adapted from the eponymous picturebooks comes with delightful puppets and lashings of puns
Kids love pirates. Kids also love dinosa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2019
Roy Alexander Weise and Bryony Shanahan unite to 'make work with and for' the city's people
Two acclaimed young directors are to jointly run Manchester's Royal Exchange, one of the UK's most…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Friday, July 5, 2019
Sleepovers, bossy monarchs and a desert-island McDonald's … The Orange Tree theatre introduces kids to The Tempest with a hands-on creative extravaganza
'Suspense!" "Romance!" "And a twist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2019
She was ruthless Ellaria in the TV epic. As she appears in a Noël Coward comedy, the actor talks about her dreams of returning to mime " and why sticking with her name may have hurt her c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Brooke Shields, Robert Powell, Jeremy Irons and Fanny Ardant share their memories of working with the virtuoso director
He was very tough but in a loving way. Franco was always wanting and e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 15, 2019
Italian equally celebrated as director of films, theatre and opera over 60-year career
Franco Zeffirelli, one of Italy's most revered artistic figures, has died at the age of 96.
In a career…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2019
The actor's one-man show includes a reading from Lord of the Rings, anecdotes about his Shakespeare days and a revival of his panto dame Widow Twankey
A West End run has been announced for I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2019
They have left millions boggled with their graceful card acts, great escapes and audacious stunts. But can The Illusionists make magic's fusty reputation vanish?
Our instinct when watching m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2019
In the run-up to the Edinburgh festival we'll be picking highlights from the programme. Here's a dozen for starters, including Eddie Izzard and a ukulele comedy
Assembly George Square Studio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2019
Iffy insults fly, heads bounce around and the wiper of the king's bottom takes a bow " all in the moat where alligators swam
'I'm Anne Boleyn, yeah, I'm married to this dude," goes the rap. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Opera House, WuppertalPina Bausch merges the domestic and dream worlds in a dark but playful version of Shakespeare's tragedy
In Since She, the first of two new full-length pieces created by…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Wild parties, stunning performances, silhouette erections and marrying Patrick Stewart twice. As the actor turns 80, friends including Derek Jacobi, Janet Suzman, Michael Sheen, Bill Condon …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2019
Time-travel film's co-creator to write dialogue while Olly Dobson takes Marty McFly role
A stage musical based on the blockbuster film Back to the Future will have its world premiere in Manc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Charley Miles's There Are No Beginnings is based on interviews with women who lived through Peter Sutcliffe's reign of terror
A play about the impact on women's lives of the hunt for the Yor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PM[SHARE]Monday, May 13, 2019
Milton Keynes theatreLiz Pichon brings the young hero of her witty books to life in an adaptation that explodes with animations
There is barely a boring sentence in Liz Pichon's books about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 8, 2019
The 600-seat theatre, due to open in Facebook's new offices in 2021, will be an adaptable auditorium in the mould of the Bridge
A new theatre is to open in King's Cross, central London, in a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Audiences will choose to be crooked traders or FBI agents in London production of Jordan Belfort's memoir this September
The Wolf of Wall Street, the outrageous memoir of former stockbroker …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2019
The actor-writer will perform her comic monologue, on which the hit TV show was based, for 30 performances this summer
It is the filthy, fiercely funny monologue that received mixed reviews…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Bells and Spells casts the French star as a kleptomaniac in a performance that leaves the audience guessing
In her mystifying shows, Aurélia Thierrée has crossed the stage in an upside-dow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Vaudeville theatre claims to break new ground in London with parent and baby showing of hit play Emilia
Cliche has it that matinee audiences are full of snoring older people. But it was infa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:39PM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2019
Ian McKellen throws his wand behind underdog in dramatisation of themed pub's legal threat from Middle-earth Enterprises
It is the nail-biting, crowdpleasing story of a plucky everyday hero …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM[SHARE]Jimmy Carr and Katy Brand among those to pay public respect to 'fearless' comic who fell suddenly ill during Bicester gig
Tributes have been paid to the anarchic comedian Ian Cognito, who di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Leyton Sports Ground, LondonThis craft-based installation celebrates a London borough's history of metalwork " and the wonder of tin
On a wall opposite Blackhorse Road underground station i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02PM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2019
The horror-film choreographer's new show, Vessel, weaves spells with writhing limbs, menacing ritual figures and a cauldron of gloop. He explains its origins
'A sculpture contains an energy,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 7, 2019
Danny Dyer saluted royalty, Akram Khan told us to keep moving and Laura Wade remembered meeting her husband
Olivier awards: list of winners
Laura Wade (best new comedy, Home, I'm Darling): "…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2019
In her new show, Muckers, the actor and playwright revisits the mess, mischief and bamboozling anxieties of growing up
'Ask her if it's true about the poo!" "Ask her what she really calls he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2019
Six and Waitress are the latest shows to find singalong success " and without a jukebox hit between them. What's their secret?
From The Sound of Music to The Greatest Showman, singalong scre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2019
New Boulevard theatre aims to awaken area's rebel spirit in the building that hosted Eddie Izzard and Rik Mayall in the 80s
A tiny new state-of-the-art theatre seeking to capture the "rebell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PM[SHARE]The stage show, directed by Michael Grandage, has been running on Broadway for a year
An invasion of tiny Elsas " and a few Annas " will hit London in autumn 2020, as the stage musical of D…
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