Friday, November 10, 2017
‘Daringly unconventional’ was The Stage’s five-star verdict of the Yard Theatre’s hit play from earlier this year, now revived. Its writer and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:11AMWednesday, November 1, 2017
Presented by Artangel, Stifter's Dinge contains no actors. So does it still count as theatre?When the National opened its recent production of The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, much of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMThursday, October 12, 2017
Theatre photography normally operates via two angles: the ubiquitous close-up or the mid-torso action shot. But what can the photos really tell us about a play?Here's a question: when could …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AMThursday, October 5, 2017
Hanns Johst’s Schlageter is perhaps the great unproduced Brexit play, the rise of populism epic that has yet to see the light
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMMonday, September 25, 2017
Leeds theatre company Red Ladder’s latest show, The Shed Crew, is based on the 1990s memoir Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:07AMSaturday, September 16, 2017
There are two ways you can experience The Wedding, visual theatre company Gecko’s latest piece; you can either read the brief programme
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
It is salutary to think that the first production of Oh! What a Lovely War was closer the end of First World
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMFriday, July 14, 2017
Twenty-five dancers fill the large, temporary stage, a shiny silvery padded floor set amid the industrial columns of the abandoned warehouse in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMWednesday, July 12, 2017
The concept behind Jane Horrocks’ latest gig-theatre project is an excellent one. In 1861, due to the American Civil War, the supply
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMFriday, July 7, 2017
Live performance is inescapably trapped in the present. Available Light, showing as part of the Manchester International Festival, is 34 years old
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:11AMFriday, June 9, 2017
After learning his craft in Germany and assisting Ivo van Hove, the director is bringing a radical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThursday, April 13, 2017
If you’ve ever watched a play being rehearsed you’ll know that the rehearsal can feel more live, more compelling, even somehow more
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AMMonday, March 13, 2017
Please forgive the dramatic headline, but this is important. Three weeks ago, a play opened. It is an artistically important play. I
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:36AMThursday, February 23, 2017
On paper, Klatwa (The Curse) is a 1899 play by Polish dramatist and renaissance man, Stanislaw Wyspianski. It has long been out
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:41AMThursday, February 9, 2017
Schaubühne, BerlinSimon McBurney’s production, based on Stefan Zweig’s 1938 novel, brings past and present together in a desperate vision of failed empire Related: Rereading: Beware of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMThursday, January 19, 2017
There’s a very fine, sensible new report on the Columbia Journalism Review website entitled: Curtains Fall on Arts Critics at Newspapers. Reading
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMonday, January 16, 2017
The ongoing refugee crisis in Europe is one of the great unsolved problems of our times. It also presents a very real
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:21AMThursday, November 3, 2016
To echo The Stage’s print editor, Alistair Smith, Ed Vaizey’s 27-minute lecture to the Royal Society of Arts is well worth watching
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMFriday, June 17, 2016
The New York Times recently tweeted a story about how the musical revival She Loves Me is going to be live-streamed. I
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMWednesday, May 11, 2016
‘Unpaid bloggers often lack ‘intellectual background’ to write theatre reviews‘ Thanks to some eye-catching headlining here at The Stage, fringe producer Danielle
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMMonday, February 15, 2016
Schaubühne, BerlinSimon McBurney’s production, based on Stefan Zweig’s 1938 novel, brings past and present together in a desperate vision of failed empire Related: Rereading: Beware of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Polly Stenham's That Face has been hailed as a great debut, but a playwright's first professional production is rarely really their first workPolly Stenham wrote That Face when she was 19. P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:26AMThursday, October 22, 2015
Forget traditional adaptations. Productions such as National Theatre Wales’ Iliad reveal a new type of staged book – and increasingly, the sources needn’t actually be a work of fiction…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AMThursday, October 1, 2015
Last week, I went to the Belgrade International Theatre Festival in Serbia and then, a day after returning, was on a panel
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMWednesday, September 30, 2015
Some say that theatre is all about liveness and intimacy, others that it needs to be epic in scope. Both can't be right, surely?Does size matter? It strikes me that the biggest single issue …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:52AMMonday, September 28, 2015
The Belgrade International Theatre Festival, universally known as BITEF (Beogradski Internacionalni TEatarski Festival) has been running for 49 unbroken years. A remarkable
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMSunday, August 16, 2015
Three of the most outspoken and inventive plays at this year’s fringe come from alumni of Warwick University fired up by recent student protestsThe best three pieces of theatre that I’ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Contact theatre, ManchesterFrom a pea-eating contest with cocktail sticks to a Bacchic ritual of desire and violence, this inventive, physical triple bill was enjoyably tough to categoriseEv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMWednesday, June 24, 2015
Forced Entertainment are live-streaming tabletop versions of the Bard’s complete works, with cutlery, cans and candlesticks as characters. If that sounds unpromising, then it fits the comp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:38AMSex and scandal are integral to this classic Viennese play, but British directors seem to be shy of telling it like it isIf most new openings seem to be about communism at the moment, it's s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:08AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Recent events in Hungary, Belarus and Iraq show that governments find theatre dangerous enough to think it's worth banning. So what should we be doing in response?In the past month, three ra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PM 
