Tuesday, April 4, 2017
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance”, Charlotte Lucas informs Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. While the pragmatic Charlotte
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMMonday, February 27, 2017
A starry cast enlivens the UK premiere of Stephen Karam’s one-act dark comedy. While a film version of Speech and Debate is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMWednesday, February 22, 2017
Chekhov considered The Cherry Orchard, his final play, to be a comedy, even though Stanislavsky staged it as a tragedy. Certainly it’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:44AMMonday, February 20, 2017
According Ersi Niaoti’s one-woman play Stegosaurus, one of the many myths perpetuated by Hollywood is how easy it is to be bulimic.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMWednesday, February 15, 2017
Dorothy Parker once quipped about the love story between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith being one of the prettiest in history, and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:56AMMonday, January 23, 2017
This is perhaps the winter of most discontent in many years. In such times, theatre that stimulates and relates to the modern
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMMonday, January 9, 2017
The isle is full of noises in Amy Draper’s production of The Tempest, this year’s offering in Southwark Playhouse’s Shakespeare for Schools
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMMonday, December 12, 2016
One of the most memorable and heart-rendering sequences in Planet Earth II was the penguin colony on Zavodovsky Island. It’s hard to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AMAlbert died shortly before Christmas, in 1861. Famously, Queen Victoria never got over her loss, wearing mourning for the rest of her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:58AMTuesday, December 6, 2016
The festive period offers the perfect excuse for theatres not participating in pantomime to indulge in their own silly season. Bryony Lavery’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMMonday, November 28, 2016
The Monkhams in Rodney Ackland’s play After October – first performed in 1936; this is its first London revival – could be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:36AMJM Barrie’s Peter Pan first appeared in 1902, after pantomime had become established as a quintessential Christmas tradition in the late 19th
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMFriday, November 11, 2016
When Fifty Shades of Grey was new in 2011, there were apparently record-breaking library waiting lists for the book. Five years on,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:50AMThe modernisation of myth is proving a popular theme in fringe theatre this autumn but it’s not always an easy thing to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMSunday, July 7, 2013
The swinging sixties might have launched the Beatles and the Stones and the Age of Aquarius, but it was also a time in which musicals with Victorian or Edwardian settings were a dime a dozen…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:48PMSaturday, February 2, 2013
The synopsis of John Van Druten’s 1931 play London Wall (filmed twice for television, but rarely seen since) calls to mind a British Mad Men. It’s telling that Matthew Weiner’s series …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:17AMThursday, January 31, 2013
[CONTAINS SPOILERS] Henry James’s 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw is one of the ripest pieces of fiction for re-reading. One never ceases to marvel at Henry’s genius in creating a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:35AMFriday, October 26, 2012
The stereotypical image of the English Civil War is that of clumsy Roundheads and graceful Cavaliers – when I think of this period, it’s Keeping Up Appearance‘s pageant, in…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:03AMMonday, September 17, 2012
Egad: I adored this show from the very beginning. Dispensing with the original prologue written by playwright Thomas Baker, in which the audience is asked not to judge Susanna Centlivre’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:54AMTuesday, September 11, 2012
No one could accuse Bedrich Smetana of lacking in ambition: disappointed that Czechoslovakia (as it was then) rarely appeared on the cultural map of central Europe, he declared, “No other …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:29PMWednesday, August 1, 2012
Having recently hosted a transfer of All Star Pro’s enjoyable production of Kander and Ebb’s first show Flora the Red Menace, the Landor now presents the professional British premiere of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:10PMSunday, July 1, 2012
There’s something very made-for-TV about playwright and Booker-nominated novelist Sebastian Barry’s 1892-set play The Only True History of Lizzie Finn, which premiered in Dublin in 1995 …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:19PMSunday, May 20, 2012
It’s easy to label any show about the Great Depression as a timely revival. The Finborough Theatre recently presented Arthur Miller’s unrelentingly pessimistic verbatim play The American…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:12PMTuesday, May 1, 2012
The Great Gatsby is one of the great twentieth-century novels – many would say it’s the greatest. Recently released from copyright, 2012 marks three stage adaptations in London (this…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:00AMMonday, April 23, 2012
When it’s as cold as November in April, a vintage musical comedy filled with dazzling tunes and tap dancing is undoubtedly the best way to lift the spirits. Whether the plucky underdogs wi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:56AMSunday, April 1, 2012
Please note: This review contains spoilers. The isle is full of noises and the stage is filled with wailing, haunted, urchin-like figures. J.M. Barrie’s 1920 ghost story (which Alfred Hitc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:14PMFriday, March 16, 2012
Landor Theatre’s Artistic Director Robert McWhir performed something of a theatrical miracle with his production of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens’s sweeping epic Ragtime, which fo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:31AMSaturday, March 10, 2012
Before Count Almaviva became a baritone and a lecher, he was a tenor and bit of a stalker. As Rossini’s The Barber of Seville is an operatic adaptation of the first play in Beaumarchais’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:23AMSunday, February 19, 2012
Gilbert and Sullivan had a particular knack for choosing pertinent subjects, and exposing their absurdities with wit and style that could be interpreted as either satire or celebration of th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:49PMWednesday, February 1, 2012
There are few titles more vague than Freedom. In Rick Limentani’s play (quite possibly the first ever written about opium farmers in Tajikistan), it’s the name of a fried chicken takeawa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:35AMMonday, December 19, 2011
The Orange Tree Theatre is very good at Victorian and Edwardian plays with an ‘upstairs-downstairs’ theme, and Auriol Smith’s most agreeable revival of St John Hankin’s 1905 comedy T…
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