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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMBrighton festivalNoFit State’s new show mixes skill, humour and physical poetry but sidelines the womenSwapping their trademark promenade-style circus for a retro seated show in a big top,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMThe festival season is upon us. The Brighton Festival is blooming on the south coast, Mayfest starts shortly in Bristol with a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMEveryman, LiverpoolPlaying a female Othello who has bedded Desdemona, Golda Rosheuvel casts new light on both Shakespeare and societySamuel Taylor Coleridge famously talked of Iago’s “mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMLondon ColiseumEven Alexandra Burke can’t save this lumbering story told with tracks by the Abba songwritersMusicals are the toughest of mediums, requiring the score, book and production t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMSoho theatre, LondonKathryn Hunter is the patriarch in Hideki Noda’s strange, yet ultimately moving, family tale that draws on Japanese traditionHideki Noda is a master of the theatrical e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMOn Friday, The Stage published two news stories reporting on different events, but I believe they are connected. One reported Madani Younis,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMIt has been a good year for first-time playwrights, which bodes well for the The Stage Debut Awards in 2018. First, at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFinborough, LondonMen openly tell rape jokes in Sarah Daniels’ 1983 play, which has renewed impact in the era of #MeToo, even if this revival could be sharperWhen Trump was caught on tape …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PMTheatr Clwyd, MoldAn inventive score and an intelligent script combine in this smart satire with nods to Jerry Springer: The OperaThe most provocative thing about this show is the title. Chr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMHampstead Downstairs, LondonBlack Mirror meets Brave New World in a chilling debut play by Ella Road starring the terrific Jade AnoukaBea (Jade Anouka), a phlebotomist, falls head over heels…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMRoyal Court Upstairs, LondonAnthony Neilson considers the male reaction to #MeToo in a well-meaning yet toothless two-handerJess and Jimmy are in their late 30s and have been together for ni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMOrange Tree, Richmond Set in a Shropshire village, Joe White’s tender and wise play is suffused with grief, loss – and unexpected laughsIt’s cold comfort down on the pig farm in this h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMTrafalgar Studios, LondonThere is much to enjoy and to squirm about in Joel Drake Johnson’s dissection of the office politics of some highly manipulative, racist characters The meaning of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMMany happy returns to William Shakespeare: 454 years after his birth the playwright still dominates British theatre and culture. He is one
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMCurve, LeicesterThe hit movie romance has been adapted into a musical, but its gender politics have dated and it lacks gritThe 80s have already generated a slew of screen-to-stage hits inclu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMWe’ve all been there. A friend has written, or directed, or has a role in a new production. You’ve been to see
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTheatre 503, LondonJohn Fitzpatrick’s play about a family with a wonky moral compass swings between all-out farce and truth-telling dramaIt is possible to really enjoy a play without ever …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMImmersive hit the mainstream in the past decade with audiences flocking to work by pioneering companies such as Punchdrunk, Coney and Shunt.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMNottingham PlayhouseAdult realism fuses with youthful fantasy in this rollicking adaptation of Louis Sachar’s much-loved detention camp taleAdam Penford’s tenure as artistic director at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMWith the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room reopening after refurbishment, Rupert Thomson tells Lyn Gardner how the Southbank Centre’s eclectic events
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMLast week, The Stage published an interview with UK Theatre president Fiona Allan to mark the organisation’s publication of 10 principles designed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMUK Theatre’s president tells Lyn Gardner how personal experience has informed her approach to harassment allegations and why theatre must no longer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMHope Mill, ManchesterThis rock-musical version of Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play about sex, abortion, abuse and depression has some great tunes but never quite fliesHope Mill has staged one mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44AMThe actor is set to play Shakespeare’s army commander as a gay woman in Gemma Bodinetz’s new production at Liverpool’s EverymanWhen Golda Rosheuvel stars as Othello at the Liverpool Ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMEven at my advanced age I quite frequently look around a theatre audience and feel relatively young and spritely. Of course, there
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMUnicorn, LondonThe enterprising children in Tim Crouch’s moving comedy learn that growing up is hard to doIf you’ve ever looked in the mirror and seen a glimpse of your 10-year-old self,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AMNST City, SouthamptonChelsea Walker’s intriguing take on Tennessee Williams’s play conjures illusions before cruelly dismantling themI don’t want realism. I want magic!” cries Blanch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:50AMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterA lawyer adrift in Hong Kong summons the spirit of her Chinese grandmother to explore their shared history – and a passion for foodHelen is a Cambridge-educated l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMLike many people, I find change hard. But I know that whenever change has been forced on me, it has turned out
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMUstinov, BathIn Trevor Nunn’s handsome but stilted production, an Edwardian painter is caught between her art and the affections of three men‘Only little bits of me are developed, and th…
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