Sunday, July 27, 2014
The former punk rocker on what he's planning for his one-man show at the Edinburgh fringe Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSaturday, July 26, 2014
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonDavid Eldridge's quickstep through the long war between Christianity and Islam veers from portentousness to pantomime Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMRoyal Court, LondonChilling warning of virtual paedophilia in a dystopian future Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSunday, July 6, 2014
The standup on leaving crowds bemused, his fear of hubris and why he had to stop playing squashTim Key has performed at the Latitude festival in Suffolk every July for the past five or six …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMSunday, June 15, 2014
The activist-comedian on his new show about corporate spying and why his political work keeps him goingMark Thomas can remember exactly where he was when he began to think that a close frien…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:05AMSaturday, June 14, 2014
Doon Street car park, LondonAn interesting, but ultimately not terribly gripping, look at the influence of computer gamingWhere do we draw the line between theatre and computer gaming? Is al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 24, 2014
The Birmingham-raised playwright explains why her new play is set on the city's number 11 bus routeAs sources of artistic inspiration go, Birmingham's number 11 bus has to be one of the most…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 10, 2014
The sibling playwrights manage to keep family rivalry in check as they work on a new show"I'm bossy and grumpy," says Nina Raine, "and he's very sunny and adorably laid-back. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMMonday, April 28, 2014
It was the first juke-box musical, filled with highwaymen, thieves, jailers and trollops in bulging corsets I loved it when I was 10 and I still love it nowOn Saturday 24 April 1993, I was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSaturday, April 19, 2014
Quick-fire delivery and rapid character changes make Nick Payne's cerebral new work both brilliant and bewilderingWe need more playwrights like Nick Payne. He is that rare thing: a writer wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMSyrian refugees tell their stories, both funny and horrific, to the aroma of frying onionsGiven the potential of theatre to appeal to at least four of the senses, it's surprising that more d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMMonday, April 14, 2014
Can fire-eaters and acrobats help people who are questioning their sexuality? Laura Barnett gets a sneak preview of a circus project that mixes confession, contortion and wobbly dessertIt's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSaturday, April 12, 2014
Director Ivo van Hove pulls Arthur Miller's play out of the tenements and into a black box to startling effectThe Belgian director Ivo van Hove has made his name with bold, experimental stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, April 5, 2014
Will Attenborough is the latest in an illustrious line of young actors to have made their names in Julian Mitchell's 1981 playJulian Mitchell's play, first seen in 1981 as a career-making ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMTuesday, March 25, 2014
On being part of a living heritage of dance and why John Coltrane's music should be wallpaperDescribe your earliest memories of dancing.I was first introduced to dancing through the TV: I re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:47PMMonday, March 24, 2014
The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland is based on a new approach called 'open dialogue', and replicates the experience of having an auditory hallucinationCan theatre offer a cu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMSaturday, March 22, 2014
The actor, about to star in A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic, on taking liberties with Arthur Miller – and the lure of playing the bad guyMark Strong has an uncanny ability to make …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMWednesday, March 12, 2014
'My beloved helped me shave my entire body once a week with a beard trimmer'What first drew you to acting?I went to this very odd school, Christ's Hospital – like Eton for poor boys. I rem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Don't be put off by the 'stupid, tacky' name. The Tony award-winning show – which ran for three years on Broadway – is a sharp satire on the dangers of climate changeUrination may not be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSaturday, March 1, 2014
The comedian on his posh past and his first arena tour. Just don't remind him that it kicks off in three days…Jack Whitehall doesn't seem like a man troubled by self-doubt. At 25, he …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMTuesday, February 18, 2014
The former Royal Shakespeare Company chief talks about the joy of creating worlds he wants to live in, getting bad reviews, and why theatre must not become a plaything of the wealthyWhat fir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMSaturday, February 15, 2014
The actor and writer, and star of daring new play The One, on the secret to good dramaThe first time I saw Phoebe Waller-Bridge at London's Soho theatre, she was naked and stepping into a ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMTuesday, January 28, 2014
The stage star talks reveals how comedy cost him his athletic figure, why he struggles to be taken seriously as an actor – and why doing a 10-metre dive on Splash! changed his lifeWhen did…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMMonday, January 20, 2014
Why are so many health organisations funding art projects and what can artists and scientists gain from close collaboration?Anna Dumitriu turns bacteria into art. She has stitched strains of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:40AMTuesday, January 14, 2014
The actor talks about getting the rhythm of Shakespeare, why parts for older women are opening up, and resembling a chickenWhen did you realise you wanted to act?I was a dancer for years, bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:59AMSaturday, December 28, 2013
The Shed at the National Theatre, LondonRhys Ifans is superb as a rough sleeper caught up in the Occupy demonstrations in Tim Price's commendable playFor an article marking the National Thea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, December 14, 2013
Vaudeville, LondonAn energetic farce about the MPs' expenses scandal has plenty of good one-liners but runs out of steam in the second actTo call the MPs' expenses scandal farcical feels lik…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
The Russian ballet star talks about her formative years with the Bolshoi, the troubled times it has faced – and why life on stage is nothing like Black SwanWhat's your earliest memory of&n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMSunday, December 8, 2013
PG Wodehouse Society treasurer Jeremy Neville praises a clever, cross-dressing stage translation that stays true to the books – and is enormously enjoyableTranslating PG Wodehouse to the s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:59PMTuesday, December 3, 2013
Actor Martin Shaw talks about working with Polanski, the dumbing-down of his profession, and the death of his fellow Professional Lewis CollinsHow did you become interested in acting?It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26AMSaturday, November 30, 2013
Tricycle, LondonA controversial play from the 70s no longer shocks in Kathy Burke's spirited revivalMary J O'Malley's comedy about piety and puberty at a Willesden convent school in the 1950…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM 
