Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Get to know the playwright Hammaad Chaudry, the 13-year-old actress Rileigh McDonald and the actor Andrew Burnap.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:22PMWednesday, January 31, 2018
Breach Theatre’s new show turns the spotlight on courses preparing people for emergency situations. Do they dispel fear, or cause it?In a windowless room in a disused office block, Breach …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMAcademy Award nominee Daniel Kaluuya – it has a certain ring to it, no? Strange to think this south London boy’s rise
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMTuesday, January 9, 2018
Zombie janitors and living sculptures rattle the nerves in the world of the surrealist Belgian duo who have created a terrifying trilogy from family lifePaintings swallow people whole. Sketc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:17AMWednesday, December 20, 2017
New York Times reviewer Ben Brantley draws criticism for labelling married star the 'bi-est guy in town' – then claims he doesn't mean it literallyNew York Times theatre critic Ben Brantle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMFriday, December 15, 2017
The National Theater’s adaptation of this animated classic adds more music and mischievousness — all in the hands of the director of the new Harry Potter show.
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When theatre lurches forwards, it’s immediately apparent. It shows in the shows. As audiences, we find ourselves agog again and again, sitting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical about the Profumo affair will end its run on 29 MarchViva Forever lasted seven months. From Here to Eternity will have survived for five by its last performance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMWednesday, November 22, 2017
After the wild success of Jane Eyre and Peter Pan, the director and her company are conjuring up The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. She talks about how the Good Fairy got her into theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
The personal is political. Theatremakers have turned the maxim of 1960s activism into a mantra of their own. Individuals sit within political
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
The award-winning director has brought David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross to the West End. He talks to Matt Trueman about being an actor’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMFriday, October 20, 2017
With cuts in funding, safer programming, shrinking audiences, new writing is the first casualty in this vicious circle. The Out of Joint founder says something has to changeMax Stafford-Clar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMWednesday, October 18, 2017
Let’s start – where else? – with Lady Gaga. There’s a moment in her new fly-on-the-wall Netflix documentary when the singer Florence
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
Scottish actor to reprise Emcee role that won him a Tony award in 1998 - but not with Anne Hathaway as Sally BowlesLife in the Kit Kat Club is so beautiful that Alan Cumming will return to K…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMMonday, October 2, 2017
After a beleaguered three years, in which it has not recouped its $75m costs, producers are to transfer the musical to Las VegasAfter three years, at least six major injuries and several hig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMSacked director and co-author wants more than $1m in compensation for work on Broadway's blockbuster musicalJulie Taymor, who directed and co-wrote the book for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMTuesday, September 26, 2017
In the wake of a concert bombing, the Royal Exchange Theater in Manchester added “Our Town” to its fall schedule.
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Ian Holm used to call stage fright “the actors’ industrial illness”. For better or worse, it comes with the job. Nonetheless, we
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMTuesday, September 19, 2017
The London-based brothers set out to establish careers in music, but theatre turned out to be their true calling – and West
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMMonday, September 18, 2017
To create The Tin Drum, the theatre company spent two weeks tucked away in a cluttered rural retreat where they eat, run and rehearse together – just don’t call it a commune, says artist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMTuesday, September 12, 2017
RSC's founder defends the company's right to be subsidised, saying 'controversy is the lifeblood of the arts'Director Peter Hall has dismissed complaints about the RSC's revival of Marat/Sad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMTuesday, August 22, 2017
HiddleHamlet is at hand. Come September, Hollywood’s very own Tom Hiddleston will take on the Dane as directed by Kenneth Branagh in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThursday, August 3, 2017
Edward Fox steps in to play opposite Helen Mirren in Peter Morgan's play after Robert Hardy stands down due to injuryBafta-winning actor Robert Hardy has pulled out of The Audience at the Gi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMThe fringe is a festival of discovery. It always has been. From Tom Stoppard to Breach Theatre, from Beyond the Fringe to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMMonday, July 17, 2017
R&B singer-songwriter plans stage version of successful 'hip-hopera' about one-night stand gone surreally awryDefecating midgets are hardly a Broadway staple, but R&B star R Kelly ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04PMFriday, July 14, 2017
As he directs Sienna Miller and Jack O’Connell in a sizzling Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the Australian discusses waging war on the old guard, his obsession with desire and why he’s inspired …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMThursday, July 13, 2017
Have we pulled the ladder up on new writing? After the golden age, the drought. Or so says the president of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, July 7, 2017
As Committee, the verbatim musical about the demise of Kids Company, opens at London’s Donmar Warehouse, its composer tells Matt Trueman about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThursday, June 22, 2017
Ahead of her new show, director Zoe Lafferty tells Matt Trueman how working with the ‘Che Guevara’ of theatre transformed her from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMBertie Carvel has humanised troubled characters from criminals and adulterers to politicians and child-hating headteachers. As he prepares to star in Ink
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThursday, June 15, 2017
In New York, musicals were the talk of this year’s Tonys. Even if there was no stand-out best new musical nominee –
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