Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghSimon Longman’s teen tale of ‘left behind’ Britain pulls no emotional punches but risks becoming two-dimensionalKate, Sam and Pete live in a town made…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMFriday, August 3, 2018
Underground Railroad Game and On the Exhale are among several shows at the festival exploring the way America sees itselfAs the UK’s so-called special relationship with the US becomes incr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMThursday, August 2, 2018
Any stage version of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved children’s book hangs on the garden of its title. In Liz Stevenson’s production, the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMWednesday, August 1, 2018
The grass is always greener, so they say. But for vicar Hugh (Jamie Baughan) and his wife Louise (Louise Shuttleworth), it really
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMMonday, July 16, 2018
This summer, community-led shows are encouraging residents to tell their own tales of loss, love and Bruce Springsteen gigsAt the Crucible theatre, Sheffield’s teenagers are thinking about…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMFriday, July 13, 2018
The RSC actor on the moral ambiguity of Mantel's Tudor world and the thrill of bringing her Wolf Hall books to the West End• Michael Billington's review of Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies•…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMFriday, July 6, 2018
★★☆☆☆/★★★☆☆ Shakespeare’s Rose theatre, YorkThis new venture offers spinning fairies in an otherwise flat Midsummer Night’s Dream and espresso-fuelled scraps in a mor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMIn this country, too often there’s a crude, limiting idea of what Shakespeare on stage looks like. Audiences expect opaque verse, loud
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:58AMThursday, July 5, 2018
Royal Exchange, Manchester Peake’s play is a fierce cry for recognition of the movement that supported miners and their families and saw women occupy a coal pit in protestThere’s a famil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMTuesday, July 3, 2018
Sheffield CrucibleDirector Caroline Steinbeis takes up the gauntlet by reshaping and mining Churchill’s 57 fleeting scenes for less obvious meaning Scripts are both instructional and nebul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMWednesday, June 27, 2018
Everyman, LiverpoolWith a cacophonous cast of characters, Robert Farquhar’s new take on Peer Gynt dashes through the second half of the 20th centuryThe spirit of ensemble, an idea at the h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMFriday, June 22, 2018
York Theatre RoyalA keen young player bonds with his mum on the way to a big match in Tutti Frutti’s imaginative kids’ showAs England pursue World Cup glory, the hero of Tutti Frutti’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMThursday, June 14, 2018
Venues in Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield are putting work by refugees and asylum seekers at their heartIn 2013, West Yorkshire Playhouse staged Refugee Boy, an adaptation of Benjamin Zephan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMWednesday, June 6, 2018
Scarcroft Allotments, YorkMikron’s show about East End women’s sacrifices for suffrage awkwardly seesaws between parody and sincerityMikron aim to make theatre for everyone, so it’s ap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMMonday, June 4, 2018
As a sound designer and composer Isobel Waller-Bridge works across stage and screen. She tells Catherine Love about the skills theatre has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMThursday, May 31, 2018
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester Beckett’s tragicomedy is deftly retuned for an age of ecological anxiety and mounting plastic wasteCentre stage, a barren mound of earth. At its edges, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMFriday, May 11, 2018
When RashDash wanted to move up in scale, artistic directors advised the company to tackle a classic. Three Sisters – irreverently exploiting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMThursday, May 10, 2018
Having examined the hothouse environment of British schooling from students’ perspectives in A Level Playing Field, the second of Jonathan Lewis’ trilogy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:58AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
How can women or people of colour find a voice in theatre’s classics when so much of the canon - written by white men - confines them to the sidelines? Meet the theatre makers who are rein…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMSaturday, April 28, 2018
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsFeaturing 18 tracks by the Scottish duo, this spirited show is a thing of joy. By the time I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) comes on, resistance is futileWhisper it,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMWednesday, April 18, 2018
Everyman, LiverpoolPeppered with the novelist’s own songs, this musical makeover of Anthony Burgess’s classic finds plenty of contemporary resonancesA Clockwork Orange was the story Anth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMThursday, April 12, 2018
Manchester is a city known and celebrated for its music. Honouring that musical heritage, the Royal Exchange Young Company – winner of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:05AMFriday, April 6, 2018
The gravity-defying feats of contemporary circus and the weightlessness of moving through water make a good match. As performers dive through the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMThursday, March 29, 2018
Rituals of remembrance: Argentinian artist Lola Arias' exploration of the Falklands War comes to York.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:50AMTuesday, March 20, 2018
As Red Ladder celebrates its half-centenary, the Leeds-based company’s artistic director and producer tell Catherine Love how the company has evolved while focusing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:47AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Class is often absent from discussions about diversity in theatre but it remains a barrier for audiences, actors and others in the industry. What’s the solution?In 1979, giving a talk at C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMMonday, March 12, 2018
With his Frankenstein freshly brought to life at the Royal Exchange, the director and DJ tells Catherine Love why he’s dug into
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMThursday, March 8, 2018
Circle Mirror Transformation is a drama of accumulation. Annie Baker’s slow, delicate play deposits character layer by miniscule layer, like silt collecting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMLiverpool EverymanThis smart version of the rarely performed Lerner and Loewe musical subverts the dodgy gender politicsLerner and Loewe’s rarely performed Paint Your Wagon is synonymous w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
Playwright and actor Amelia Bullmore has done everything from Brass Eye to Ayckbourn. She tells Catherine Love about returning to Manchester, where
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMSunday, January 14, 2018
Home, Manchester 19 micro-plays, crammed with detail, writhing with contradictions and set to the familiar pulse of Joy Division and the Smiths, try to distil the Mancunian essenceWhat defin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:47AM 
