Friday, August 2, 2019
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe officially opens today, but lots of shows have been up and running since Wednesday. I love the first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, July 31, 2019
With claims of exploitation, the ever increasing cost of accommodation and concerns about its impact on the city, can the Edinburgh Fringe
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMonday, July 29, 2019
With less than a week to go before the start of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, another report has just been published that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, July 22, 2019
Unlike some commentators in the tabloid press, I rather doubt that West End theatre ushers being issued with bodycams signals the imminent
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, July 15, 2019
Last month, I was involved in The Art of Self Care, a day of workshops, panel talks and provocations at London’s Roundhouse.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, July 8, 2019
If #MeToo was a moment that made British theatre take a long hard look at itself, then the controversy over the authorship
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, July 1, 2019
I have often wondered what might happen and the benefits that would accrue to the whole theatre ecology, if instead of funding
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, June 24, 2019
What does the play Education, Education, Education – currently at Trafalgar Studios – have in common with Touching the Void, set to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, June 17, 2019
I have always thought the best place to trial universal basic income schemes would be in the arts community, because of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, June 10, 2019
Theatre critic Kenneth Tynan once described Guys and Dolls as the greatest work of American drama after Arthur Miller’s Death of a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, June 5, 2019
The news that theatre critics Henry Hitchings and Fiona Mountford will no longer be writing for the London Evening Standard is not
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMMonday, June 3, 2019
Who is theatre’s greatest collaborator? Undoubtedly, it’s the audience. Without them the show is nothing. But do some audiences give better audience
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, May 31, 2019
Audiences don’t normally get to choose the length of a show, but we do with Into the Mountain, a site-sensitive walking performance
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:17AMMonday, May 27, 2019
Last week, The Stage published a piece I had written that followed a production on the London fringe – The Amber Trap
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, May 22, 2019
Just how hard is it to have a play picked up, staged and made profitable on the fringe? Lyn Gardner goes behind
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMMonday, May 20, 2019
There are many things to love about the production of Death of a Salesman currently running at the Young Vic. It is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, May 13, 2019
I love silence in the theatre, as I’ve written before: in particular, those rare moments when it feels as though everybody in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, May 6, 2019
I have a friend who is a doctor. He seldom tells strangers what he does because too often they want to tell
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, April 29, 2019
Late last month, the night before the UK was supposed to leave the European Union, I sat in a theatre in Hull
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, April 22, 2019
When reviewing, there is nothing I enjoy more than sitting down to write about a show and discovering that I think entirely
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Theatre is grappling with questions around who it serves, why it should be funded by the public, who benefits and how we
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, April 8, 2019
I was clearing out some old coats the other day and in the lining of a pocket I found some loose change
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, April 1, 2019
“Let this conversation stop with our generation. Let young people come into this industry and let them talk about something different,” said
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, March 25, 2019
It is Mother’s Day at the end of the week, which is a good time to speak a little louder about the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMonday, March 18, 2019
If we want real and lasting change in the theatre industry, if we want theatre to be more diverse, to tell different
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThursday, March 14, 2019
Good feedback is crucial to making a good show, but where can you get it? Lyn Gardner meets circus company Upswing, which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMonday, March 11, 2019
Adrian Scarborough’s assertion that London-based actors should commit to more work away from the capital to help support regional theatre is both
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThursday, February 28, 2019
Sarah Frankcom’s time at the Royal Exchange in Manchester has been a game-changer. Not just for the theatre itself – which had
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:56PMMonday, February 25, 2019
If the last few weeks of the Vault Festival in London have demonstrated anything, it is that there’s no shortage of talent
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, February 18, 2019
All theatre has a context. The shows of Kneehigh mean something different when they play to a local audience in Cornwall than when
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, February 17, 2019
By Lyn Gardner. Lyn Gardner, theatre critic for the Guardian, looks at how several British theatre companies are redefining their mission and expanding in ways to be of greater benefit to th…
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