Friday, May 7, 2021
Frances de la Tour plays another of the playwright’s fascinating women in a three-minute sketch for Nottingham Playhouse’s digital series
If Covid-secure theatre accidentally sparked a r…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:36PMWednesday, May 5, 2021
The rising star’s rich career is built on a determination to widen diversity in theatre – and bring a true voice to his roles
Eben Figueiredo remembers a voice lesson at drama school in …
Linked From The Guardian at 10:12AMTuesday, May 4, 2021
As The Death of a Black Man returns to Hampstead theatre, it’s time to remember and revive Fagon’s other confounding and ambitious dramas
Alfred Fagon was many things before becoming a p…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:24PMMonday, May 3, 2021
Available onlineTyger Drew-Honey and Kirsten Foster star in Shaun McKenna’s noirish tale of crime and punishment
Apartment blocks can make convenient backdrops for noirish thrillers with d…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:12PMFriday, April 30, 2021
Available onlineIn a twist on John Byrne’s debut Writer’s Cramp, this is a fast-paced spoof hagiography of pulpy romance author Pamela Crichton Capers
In 1977, John Byrne staged his deb…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:06PMWednesday, April 28, 2021
Available onlineThis moreish serial drama finds new terrain with excellent performances from Rachael Stirling and Alec Newman
“You’re on mute,” says Emilia to Giovanni, minutes into th…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:54PMSunday, April 25, 2021
BBC iPlayer
Covid-postponed production moves the play to the 1950s but lacks the inventiveness of the National’s recent Romeo and Juliet
This RSC production opens in a 20th-century Sicilia…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:36PMWednesday, April 21, 2021
After embarking accidentally on his career, Pappenheim has created innovative soundscapes for theatre, opera and radio
Max Pappenheim’s journey into sound design comprises a series of happ…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:54AMMonday, April 19, 2021
Available onlineThis set of 15 monologues – from writers including Lemn Sissay, Jodi Gray and Juno Dawson – is heartfelt but feels underpowered
In one of the 15 monologues here, Juno Daw…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:48PMThursday, April 15, 2021
Available online A meeting between the writer and the double agent, once colleagues at MI6, is strong on friendship and betrayal – but takes us no closer to the heart of either man
In Febr…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:18PMTuesday, April 13, 2021
The Young Vic and Royal Court are rethinking their work practices to unpick centuries of ingrained attitudes – and achieve ‘the miracle of equality’
The Young Vic and Royal Court theat…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06PMWednesday, April 7, 2021
US activist and dramatist Erika Dickerson-Despenza wins Susan Smith Blackburn prize with the play cullud wattah
A “bold and urgent” play about the Flint water crisis, seen through the ey…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:42PMSunday, April 4, 2021
Sky ArtsJosh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley captivate as the star-crossed lovers in a pacy, painterly and emotionally raw production
The National Theatre’s first foray into film-making is a…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:42PMThursday, April 1, 2021
After the pandemic nixed a stage run of Shakespeare’s tragedy, the theatre launched an ambitious film version starring Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor
Just over a year ago, Simon Godwin…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:32AMWednesday, March 31, 2021
The bright mind who lit up Blindness at the Donmar and the National Theatre’s panto approaches each job like a mystery
After Jessica Hung Han Yun’s first professional gig as a lighting d…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:24AMFriday, March 26, 2021
Available onlineDeborah Bruce’s grief-stricken monologue Guidesky and I is the pick of the Orange Tree theatre’s introspective bunch
Inside comprises three short studies of what it means…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:48AMThe minds behind Britain’s oldest black theatre group discuss pulling out of Birmingham Rep when it became a Nightingale court – and their plans to conquer the West End
Britain’s oldes…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:36AMThursday, March 25, 2021
Available onlineThe playwright takes us inside the mind of his late mother in a poignant audio play that dramatises her shifting sense of self
Anyone who has observed dementia at close quart…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:36AMMonday, March 22, 2021
In the second of our two-parter, rock stars, roadies, actors, dancers, composers and comics describe how their lives have been transformed without live shows – and imagine what now lies ah…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:12PMThursday, March 18, 2021
Available onlineIan Hallard’s entertaining romance is full of conversational crossed wires and social awkwardness
A pandemic drama that centres on two people in a Zoom conversation is a ri…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:32PMHome, presented by the Abbey theatre, shines a light on decades of abuse of unmarried women and children in Ireland
Ireland’s Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, which …
Linked From The Guardian at 04:06PMWednesday, March 17, 2021
This online experiment uses live motion capture to bring the fairies and sprites of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to vivid life
The opening moments of Dream contain all the enticements of an a…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:06PMAfter drama school, the actor feared she’d made a terrible mistake until she had a run of acclaimed roles on stage, TV and in the hit film version of David Copperfield
Rosalind Eleazar rem…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:54AMMonday, March 15, 2021
Available onlineEternal youth and beauty exist only online in this thoroughly modern adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s fable, which counts Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley among its impressive cast…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:12PMThe acclaimed Swedish director’s Projekt Europa will have a UK residency in Kent and collaborate with migrant theatre-makers
Maria Aberg was having one of the busiest times of her 20-year …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, March 12, 2021
Available onlinePart two in NTGent’s Sorrows of Belgium trilogy is a visually arresting account of the rise of the Rex party and the horror of the second world war
Director Luk Perceval’…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:06PMThursday, March 11, 2021
Available onlineIn Steppenwolf theatre company’s creepy satire on palace life, two women have an intense teatime meeting
It is tempting to assume that an American drama about black women c…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:12PMTuesday, March 9, 2021
BBC Radio 4David Mamet’s new play, adapted as an audio drama, follows an indomitable Manhattanite willing to sacrifice everything to save her murderer son
It is peculiarly low-key for a p…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:03PMMonday, March 8, 2021
Thirst Trap and Swimming Home are two new audio productions which audiences listen to while submerged – but don’t expect a relaxing soak
Two new immersive audio shows involve running a w…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:32PMFriday, March 5, 2021
Available onlineScenery, sounds, light and casting are treated with endless invention in this charmingly low-key take on Fitzgerald’s classic
Stage and screen adaptations of The Great Gats…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:48AMWednesday, March 3, 2021
Available onlineAs two women compete for the attentions of a middle-aged man, Athena Stevens’ production explores abuse and complicity
Everything about Late Night Staring at High Res Pixel…
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