Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Taking over a theatre building for the first time can come as a shock for artistic directors and they soon learn that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMonday, July 9, 2018
Old Vic, BristolScaramouche Jones, born at midnight on December 31 1899, a strange, pale, white-skinned "oyster" who popped out of his Gypsy prostitute mother in a fishmongers in Trinidad. A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM“Please don’t feel ashamed of having a day job to support your dream of working in the arts. A lot of people
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Mind the Gap has become a world leader in creating work with, and not just for, learning-disabled actors and theatremakers. Lyn Gardner
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PMTuesday, July 3, 2018
Competition to find the next hot emerging playwright can be fierce among theatre publishers hoping for a long and rewarding relationship. But
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMMonday, July 2, 2018
Some theatre is like a haunting. It is a prickle down the spine, a sense that you are watching something uncanny, something
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, June 27, 2018
Garrick, LondonNot exactly your usual West End fare (after the bloody splatterfest, you might be feeling a little too queasy to face dinner à deux), Martin McDonagh's play is a hugely enjoy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMMonday, June 25, 2018
Money makes all the difference. Back in the 1990s, when I was travelling the country reviewing regional theatre, the evidence of years
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, June 24, 2018
Curve, LeicesterSue Townsend’s tormented teenage hero makes a jaunty appearance in this smart, low-key musical adaptationIt is more than 30 years since Sue Townsend created Adrian Mole, th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMMonday, June 18, 2018
News that creative arts graduates earn 15% less than the average university leaver five years after graduation – and so may expect
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, June 17, 2018
She wrote Mamma Mia! Now she's back – with another story about a wedding. Lyn Gardner meets the down-to-earth Catherine JohnsonCatherine Johnson is downing an energy drink that promises to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMMonday, June 11, 2018
Last week I was invited to speak on a panel about space and place at the International Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, June 8, 2018
As theatre company Quarantine hands over the stage to ordinary people, joint artistic director Richard Gregory tells Lyn Gardner how deaf performers,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMThursday, June 7, 2018
It would have been nice, of course, to see another woman appointed to head up a major theatre. But never mind, it’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMMonday, June 4, 2018
I spent part of last week at the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival. It’s one of an increasing number of children’s arts and
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Curve, LeicesterIt's the early 1990s, the Northern Ireland peace process is taking its faltering first steps, and INLA man Mad Padraic is hard at work pulling out the toenails of Belfast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMWednesday, May 30, 2018
Vaudeville, LondonIt's hard not to warm to the sweet silliness of Ian Ashpitel and Jonty Stephens's tribute to Morecambe and Wise"Where would you be without me?" asks Eric Morecambe. "Be a c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMMonday, May 28, 2018
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe YouTube star plays a girl trying to escape a failing resort in Rob Drummer’s ill-pitched revival of Judy Upton’s playOne wag has worked out that if every f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMPeter Hall was once at a party where a woman collared him and said: “What would poor Samuel Beckett’s career have been
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From Zama to Tacita Dean, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
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Attenborough Centre, BrightonInviting guest performers of all ages to serve as art objects, Gob Squad’s show is a meditation on beauty and decay Beauty, creativity and decay are neatly ent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMWednesday, May 23, 2018
As her 1986 drama Leave Taking is revived at the Bush, the playwright talks about the pain of being neglected, the barriers faced by writers of colour – and her new play about London‘I a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMHome, Manchester Scottee’s show is an act of ‘fat rebellion’ with a cast who share their stories and consider their identities through dance A large bearded man is dancing centre stage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMTuesday, May 22, 2018
Hope Mill, ManchesterThis verbatim piece about Martyn Hett, one of the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing, is a joyous meditation on friendshipVictoria Melody once described funerals as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMMonday, May 21, 2018
Every night that I am at the theatre, I marvel at the talent on display. And I often muse why one particular
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Norfolk and Norwich festivalThe breakdancing Barely Methodical Troupe prove truly inventive as they transform each other into human marionettesEveryone gets tied up in knots at times. Or wan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AMWednesday, May 16, 2018
Barbican, LondonThis two-hander draws the audience right into the action in a surreal yet moving look at mortalityWe all know we will die. But we bury our heads in the sand. Lois Weaver and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMMonday, May 14, 2018
Soho theatre, London Open Clasp’s hard-hitting and sophisticated production shines a light on all-too invisible domestic abuseYou might meet James anywhere. In a bar, like Suzy (Christina …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM“Dear William. You are so lucky to be dead.” That was just one of the hundred or so comments underneath my Guardian
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Minerva, ChichesterThe stage becomes a memorial as two families a continent apart confront unimaginable loss in this vivid revival of debbie tucker green’s prescient works‘The worst is n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMFriday, May 11, 2018
Royal Exchange Studio, ManchesterThis brilliantly witty show asks who the classics are for – and what Chekhov’s play means for young women todayA woman in a wedding-cake dress twirls, a …
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