Friday, August 5, 2022
Dorfman theatre, LondonPersonal, political and polemical, this intensely moving play about disability and austerity challenges preconceptions
As Francesca Martinez’s urgent, funny and inte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMMonday, August 1, 2022
Watermill theatre, NewburyNew production reshapes the 1996 original set in rural Louisiana as a taut fable of faith and fear
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most recent musical, Cinderella, morphed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMFriday, July 8, 2022
Ustinov, BathThe veteran director’s arrestingly visceral production honours the sheer strangeness of Shakespeare’s late play
One of Britain’s most visionary directors, Deborah Warner, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMWednesday, June 8, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA company of dancers from African countries deliver Bausch’s shattering vision of Stravinsky with devastating force
‘How would you dance if you knew you were goin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMMonday, December 13, 2021
Children on stage can intensify the jeopardy in difficult dramas, but how it will affect them is a matter of growing concern for the industry
Two young children cower before an avalanche –…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMTuesday, September 14, 2021
At university, director Rebecca Taichman and playwright Paula Vogel were both drawn to Sholem Asch’s 1907 sensation God of Vengeance. Their show about its controversy now hits London
Books…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMTuesday, May 18, 2021
The musicals sensation is starring as the troubled French chanteuse in the bawdy biodrama Piaf. How will she hit the high notes when she can’t speak the language?
Don’t ever ask Jenna Ru…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMMonday, April 19, 2021
Dynamic choreographer whose meteoric rise at the Royal Ballet was halted in the wake of sexual misconduct allegationsIn ballet, choreographic voices typically develop slowly, often followin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMMonday, March 29, 2021
The mentor to some of Britain’s top performers believes the best acting comes from a childhood sense of playfulness – and is fraught with danger
There’s a famous yarn about Laurence Ol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMWednesday, February 24, 2021
New visa rules, taxes and transport restrictions are some of the hurdles British dance and theatre organisations must now overcome to tour Europe
Brexit or Covid? Hardly a cheerful choice, b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMTuesday, December 29, 2020
Tony Lidington spent 30 years with the anarchic Pierrotters. He recalls trading songs for mackerel – and lifting spirits with a little lockdown flea circus
Let’s start with a pierrot dan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMWednesday, October 14, 2020
With the industry on its knees and audiences running scared, a handful of creatives have pushed on with planned new venues, determined to rise to the current challenges of making theatre
Is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMThursday, March 26, 2020
Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein’s ballad, which yearns for a safe place where love abounds, reflects 50s America and endures today
Earlier this month, as UK theatres prepared to shu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMWednesday, March 11, 2020
Three drama school productions highlight the appeal for established names in sharing passion projects with actors flexing their performance muscles
‘Strap in, lads.” The Scottish playwri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMWednesday, February 26, 2020
You’re meant to shut up, keep still and pay attention at the theatre – but what if that’s a problem? We examine the rise of ‘relaxed’ spaces where anything goes
It started with the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMThursday, February 13, 2020
The defiant lyrics to the classic Les Misérables track are reverberating through uprisings in Hong Kong and China
It has soared during an airport sit-in, united street protests and drowned …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMTuesday, January 28, 2020
The playwright’s son used to find it excruciating when people called him ‘Tom’. Now he’s embracing his heritage in the deeply personal family drama Leopoldstadt
It must be a nightmar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMSunday, January 26, 2020
In 1833, Britain took out a loan to compensate slave owners – only recently paid off. Juliet Gilkes Romero reveals the shameful history that inspired her play The Whip
‘This gives me goo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMThursday, January 2, 2020
Can dancing digits really move an audience as much as real actors? Absolutely. Enter the miraculous, miniature world of Cold Blood, a dance and film show by Kiss & Cry Collective
It’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMMonday, December 30, 2019
With its defiant, irresistible, glitter-ball spirit, the La Cage aux Folles showstopper has been embraced at Pride marches and the Paralympics – and defined many a diva
I was leaving a wed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMTuesday, December 3, 2019
What if Shakespeare’s evil king was a scheming, disabled high school student? The creator and star of a new play talk sexuality, shame and why being teenage sucks
Like its title character…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMWednesday, October 23, 2019
The theatre designer on creating a family dinner at Agamemnon’s, an election night Oedipus and the night Fiona Shaw got stuck
‘You never know anything, you can only do your best.” Hild…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMFriday, September 6, 2019
This West End musical, featuring a barmitzvah and the song Four Jews in a Room Bitching, deserved greater representation – and raises other questions about identity
If this summer’s spat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMSunday, June 30, 2019
After a string of hits, the writer and director are collaborating again but The End of History, a drama based on Thorne’s parents, is filling him with anxiety
When Jack Thorne’s wife rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMMonday, June 3, 2019
What’s the scene like in the rehearsal room in the third week? At fringe play J’Ouvert, injury leads to a frenzy. At the RSC, the actors scour footnotes. And on Captain Corelli they’re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
These late 17th-century plays – with their sea of unfamiliar words – can be daunting for actors. But this disillusioned world speaks to our own age of uncertainty
‘It’s the most ter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMWednesday, March 13, 2019
The US has a rich tradition of Jewish theatre – but in the UK it’s been more circumspect. Artists from Hofesh Shechter to Tracy Ann Oberman explain why
I ask the Israeli-born, British-ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMMonday, March 4, 2019
The ghostly showgirls of Follies, Wayne McGregor’s spellbinding Raven Girl and the madcap world of The Cat in the Hat have all been realised by the designer, who looks back at five of her …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMMonday, January 21, 2019
They have always lost out on romantic lead roles. But while glamour fades, talent endures – letting these supporting stars win the long gameWhen the actor Paul Chahidi was leaving drama sc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04AMFriday, December 7, 2018
As the director and playwright reunite to stage The Cane at the Royal Court, they talk about their friendship and the passion and pain behind their playsAn artistic director has no secrets f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMMonday, September 24, 2018
Leading dancer Laurretta Summerscales has said the endless repeats of crowd-pleasing classics is one reason she left the ENB. So why is it so keen on Swan Lake and The Nutcracker?How many sw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM 
