Monday, November 19, 2018
Silbert " whose first job was as a Hampstead script reader " will leave Birmingham Rep for her new post in spring 2019Roxana Silbert has been appointed artistic director of Hampstead theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Playwright-director will take over from Madani Younis at the west London venue in JanuaryThe playwright and director Lynette Linton has been announced as the new artistic director at the Bus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2018
Musical improv elves, cabaret and interactive hijinks abound in these festive shows for familiesRoyal & Derngate, Northampton, 27 November-30 December. Then touring. Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PM[SHARE]Superstar comic will give first UK performances in seven years at the Hammersmith ApolloJerry Seinfeld is to give four rare performances in London when he brings his standup show to the Hamm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]The UK tour will visit theatres with a personal connection to the actor and performances will encourage audience members to share the stageIan McKellen is to celebrate his 80th birthday next…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 4, 2018
Original music by Imogen Heap features in the ambitious two-part stage playMusic from the triumphant West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been released as a new album by the G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Monday, October 15, 2018
Installation by the stage door honours stars including Bruce Forsyth, Cilla Black and Cliff RichardAndrew Lloyd Webber has unveiled a "wall of fame" installation on the exterior of the Londo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2018
Jubb, who has spent 15 years in the role, is to leave the arts centre that has fully reopened after its fire three years agoBattersea Arts Centre, the vibrant London venue that recently full…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Monday, September 24, 2018
The Egg, BathWith two turntables, a street's worth of houses and a German fairytale, performance poet Toby Thompson creates a beautiful show for over-sevensChildren live in the moment but by…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 20, 2018
Almeida director Rupert Goold says Anne Washburn's new play Shipwreck will 'wrestle with what Trump is both politically and existentially'A "nightmarish comedy" about Donald Trump, with char…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 18, 2018
British dramatist, whose plays included Valued Friends and I Just Stopped By to See the Man, is celebrated for nurturing later generationsTributes have been paid to the influential British p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]The Trills musician is used to her lyrics being used in trailers but her play Songlines puts her in the spotlight with the actors Playwrights don't usually share the stage with the performer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 6, 2018
Michael Patrick's youth was blighted by a bizarre testicular condition and the death of his father. They provided the perfect material for his moving and wincingly funny one-man showWhen Mic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Monday, August 20, 2018
Dance Base, EdinburghRamesh Meyyappan's solo theatre show explores our daily struggle to hold it all togetherYou know the feeling. The alarm clock goes off and for a few seconds it's all a b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 19, 2018
Dance Base, EdinburghThe four brothers that make up Taiwan's Chang Dance Theatre share stories of family life in a tender and playful showOne childhood memory recurs in this vivid, bracingly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PM[SHARE]Monday, August 6, 2018
Toilet-paper weaponry, cake-baking, nautical adventure and a drag pop concert … here are some of the festival's most imaginative performances for young peopleSummerhall, 10am, until 26 Aug…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 5, 2018
Zoo Southside, EdinburghOrdinary chairs become monsters, vehicles and a perilous walkway in Compagnie Nyash's gently mischievous performance for over-threesFifteen junkshop chairs enter the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2018
Giving his partner's daughter free rein during the creative process has resulted in Owen Roberts' most surreal show to date " and the sort of laughs other comics at Edinburgh dream ofIn a sw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2018
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker will collaborate with the director on first Broadway version not to follow original choreographyThe Jets and the Sharks are returning to Broadway with some new mov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2018
Following a fire that damaged the building in 2015, BAC opens up renovated hall " and celebrates community spirit in a photo-letter to the US presidentBattersea Arts Centre is to reopen its …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2018
When Matt Lucas withdrew from the opening night of Me and My Girl, his stand-in had just two hours to prepareEvery understudy awaits their big break. Yet few replace a household name on the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2018
Tributes paid to the former dancer and choreographer whose West End hits included The Phantom of the OperaGillian Lynne, the leading British choreographer who created the slinky moves of Mac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AM[SHARE]Friday, June 29, 2018
Superstar standups, daring dance, Brexit cabaret and a Bon Jovi musical … Dive into our guide to some of the shows at the world's biggest arts festivalGilded Balloon Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2018
According to the reviews, the 'arrestingly husky' Lohan has 'genuine if unstable star presence' and 'breathless naivety' in her West End debut' Speed-the-Plow: in pictures' Why Mamet's play …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamildrops project gives his leftover lyrics a new life. What happens to other songs dropped from musicals " and how do their creators feel about them?When Hamilton open…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2018
Josie Rourke describes her successor at London theatre as 'one of the most gifted, original and impressive directors in the country'Michael Longhurst has been appointed as the new artistic d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Playwright Martin McDonagh and Ireland's president Michael D Higgins pay tribute to revered dramatist whose works include A Whistle in the DarkTributes have been paid to the influential play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Angels in America and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are in the running for prizes at New York's theatre ceremonyThey won acclaim in London for their stage performances as a grownup Harry…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2018
Angela Lansbury's return to the West End stage in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit is one of London's hottest tickets but the star is still best known as TV sleuth Jessica Fletcher. Can you gu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2018
New artistic director will stage a musical version of Twelfth Night and introduces £5 tickets for every first preview at the theatreThe Young Vic's new artistic director, Kwame Kwei-Armah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2018
Playwright Barney Norris will collaborate with the Booker prize-winning author on a production opening in Northampton in 2019Twenty-five years after it was made into an Oscar-nominated film,…
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