Monday, October 27, 2014
Greenwich theatre, LondonDumbshow delivers a clever and funny stage version of John Steinbecks novella about the worth of a jewel against the worth of family Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:47AM[SHARE]In Sheffield, women take to the frontline of the miners' strike, while Tom Stoppard's best play is revived in Nottingham and check out the half-term happenings all over the country Continue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 26, 2014
Deptford Lounge, LondonThis rough-and-ready promenade piece on the streets of southeast London explores storytelling with no shortage of vim Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2014
Ustinov, BathFlorian Zellers Molière award-winning play, starring Lia Williams and Kenneth Cranham, takes us into the confused world of an elderly man and his carer daughter Continue readin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:11AM[SHARE]Is it an aesthetic? A political statement? Or just the best way to get things done? Do-it-yourself theatre is all around us Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:59AM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2014
Garrick, LondonThe story of nine black men, falsely convicted of raping two white women, is reframed as a minstrel show with a brilliant cast and electrifying choreography Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AM[SHARE]Streamed live from Berlin on Saturday night, Speak Bitterness proved that it's possible to have a communal experience watching theatre in your own home"How do you clap over Twitter?&quo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Hunt out stories on the streets of Deptford, see Sweeney Todd in London's oldest pie-and-mash shop or catch up with Mark Thomas's raw and angry Cuckooed out on tour Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2014
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonKev Orkian delivers a terrifically warm performance, even as this stage adaptation of the hit film topples into pantomimic excess Dont put a fatwa on it: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:45AM[SHARE]Ganesh Versus the Third Reich has been seen around the world. The Diverse Futures project is focusing on nurturing British equivalents to the Australian company Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2014
Ayub Khan Din takes to the stage in his depiction of growing up in a mixed race household in the early 1970s Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
The Pit, LondonThree offerings from the Midlands festival promoting new work range from the neat to the chaotic, producing a disjointed evenings entertainment Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Emotional theatregoers are bursting into tears more and more but it shouldn't be a measure of how good a play is Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AM[SHARE]St James, LondonAny real sense of tragedy goes missing in a production that encourages too much acting and mistimes the big moments Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:21AM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2014
Sherman theatre, CardiffTrue love makes this Romeo bland. His stroppy Juliet tries hard to make the part new, but doesnt quite pull it off Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AM[SHARE]Action Hero are in Crewe with the hugely entertaining Hoke's Bluff, Simon Stephens and Katie Mitchell reinvent Chekhov at the Young Vic, and Forced Entertainment live stream Speak Bitterness…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2014
Ambassadors, LondonThis Oscar Wilde update is a neat idea, but it embraces, rather than dissects, our looks-obsessed celebrity culture Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Come to Where I'm From, Paines Plough's project in which new writers focus on home, succeeds in nurturing regional richness Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2014
There's been plenty of war on stage in this first world war centenary year. But do the difficulties of staging conflict leave theatregoers battle-scarred? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:14AM[SHARE]Barbican, LondonDespite a barnstorming lead performance, Iggy Pop songs and Sam Shepard poetry, this rock-star version of Ibsens fantasy fable is a bit obvious Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Ambassadors, LondonThe poignancy in this tale of brothers at war is deserted by the clutter of the National Youth Theatres clumsy production Video: Michael Morpurgo meets the youngsters brin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
Fifty Shades of Grey gets ripped up in Camden, Ibsen finds himself collaborating with Sam Shepard and Iggy Pop at the Barbican and there's an all-day theatre lock-in in Cardiff Continue rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2014
Tania El Khourys interactive piece marks the lives of 10 Syrians whose families were forced to bury them at home Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Forced Entertainment have a UK premiere at Warwick Arts Centre, Here Lies Love brings Imelda Marcos to the NT in disco style, and Fun Palaces pop up all over the country this weekend Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2014
Europe's oldest theatre festival opens again in Dublin this week, with the perfect combination of modest size and top-class work. What are the essential components of a great festival for yo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Peacock, LondonCircus innovators Les 7 Doigts de la Mains recent quest to match Cirque du Soleil has robbed their work of any profundity Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:05AM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2014
Jacksons Lane, LondonThis plucky experiment in theatrical form, inspired by an early Tennessee Williams play, brings together a multiplicity of distinctive voices Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:23PM[SHARE]With Agatha Christie the only female playwright represented in London's West End, a Tonic Theatre initiative is taking aim at the traditional gender imbalance in British playhouses Continue …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:17AM[SHARE]In a packed week across the British Isles, Kristin Scott Thomas takes on Electra, there is exciting work from a host of independent companies, and the brilliant German director Thomas Osterm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2014
Immersive theatre has become ubiquitous, but too often such billing is just a commercial come-on designed to sell tickets Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2014
A new theatre show celebrates the colourful past of one of Victorian Englands finest seaside pleasure palaces Continue reading...
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