Wednesday, December 13, 2017
The woman at the helm of the National Theatre’s Creative Diversity Project tells Lyn Gardner why she is determined to keep the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMNew Diorama, LondonA reunited brother and sister try to repair their relationship at Christmas time in this amiable show with songsChristmas is a time to be with family. But what if your fam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMMonday, December 11, 2017
At the Engage conference in Hull at the end of November, Arts Council England’s deputy chief executive Simon Mellor indicated that Arts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, December 10, 2017
Site, Royal Court, LondonCharacters morph into one another and the audience are peeping toms inside a darkly festive city in Julia Jarcho’s teasing, finely acted playRed Riding Hood was wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMSaturday, December 9, 2017
From festive horror-comedy Better Watch Out to Mariah Carey’s Christmas tour, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven days Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMFriday, December 8, 2017
Known for its adaptations of Julia Donaldson’s children’s books, Tall Stories wants everyone to enjoy its shows, whatever their ages. Its co-founders
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:34AMThursday, December 7, 2017
Royal Exchange, ManchesterRelocated to Harlem, Frank Loesser’s classic musical about Broadway’s gamblers and dreamers gets an extra jazzy swing in its step and more grit to its character…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Charing Cross theatre, LondonA masterly set of actors leave their mark on a gothic revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 2004 misfire which flattens the spikier elements of the Victorian novelA…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMMonday, December 4, 2017
It’s the time of the year when thoughts turn again to Edinburgh, as companies weigh up whether to take part in next
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSaturday, December 2, 2017
From Michael Haneke’s Happy End to Marilyn Manson’s latest tour, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMRomance and adventure abound as Rhys Ifans plays Scrooge, Guys and Dolls hits Harlem and Sherlock returnsMore to see: Carols and concerts | Dance | ComedyBea Roberts is a smart writer with a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMFriday, December 1, 2017
BAC, LondonFeminist theatre company RashDash rework the Brothers Grimm fairytale for a family audience, with colourful heroines in control of their own destinies‘No, not the Disney version…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMSleeping Beauty hasn't always been a docile object, says Lyn Gardner. She's had to face a cannibal queen, a rapist king - and even a Nazi princeFor our age of anxiety, Sleeping Beauty is the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMWednesday, November 29, 2017
As she announces her first season, including a My Left Foot musical, the new head of NTS says she wants to demystify the artistic process and is calling on young people to shape the company�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMMonday, November 27, 2017
“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage,” wrote Peter Brook in his famed 1968 book The Empty
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, November 26, 2017
The Pit, LondonCurrent events cast a timely light on this funny, gripping story of oppression, told through the world of all-female roller derby‘This is a witch hunt. We are the witches, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMSaturday, November 25, 2017
From Malian band Songhoy Blues to the Natural History Museum’s show about venomous beasts, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMFriday, November 24, 2017
Oval House, LondonSex workers and professional actors take to the stage together to undermine received ideas in a ramshackle but engaging eveningEarlier this year, the Young Vic handed over …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PMMonday, November 20, 2017
In Paddington 2, Hugh Grant plays villainous actor Phoenix Buchanan, a man of unlimited egotism and fading fame. To fund his one-man
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSaturday, November 18, 2017
From wartime race drama Mudbound to Phil Collins’s UK tour, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMThursday, November 16, 2017
Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffThis three-hour hymn to Welsh dockers in the early 20th century is a throwback to the musical theatre of the 80s – and exhausting to watchWriting a new musi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMTuesday, November 14, 2017
On the centenary of the Russian revolution, a glut of revivals show Chekhov’s characters struggling to adjust to the social earthquakes that engulf themIt’s over a decade since Katie Mit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMMonday, November 13, 2017
Last Thursday, The Stage and its editor, Alistair Smith, asked six key questions of the Old Vic board over the Kevin Spacey
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSaturday, November 11, 2017
From the Taylor Wessing photo prize to Hedda Gabler’s UK tour, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMFriday, November 10, 2017
Guildhall, HullPeake reels us in with this winning story about the women who fought for fishermen’s rights, featuring folksy music by the Unthanks ‘Good to see you. You’re a rum lot,�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMThursday, November 9, 2017
Park theatre, LondonKathy Burke directs this three-hander about a city boy seeking enlightenment but the jokes keep getting in the way of the storyYou’d expect plenty of jokes from the fir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMTuesday, November 7, 2017
Royal Exchange, ManchesterChris Goode directs Toyah Willcox in a wild reimagining of Derek Jarman’s film about a time-travelling queen and a generation with no future‘Welcome to Jubilee,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMFrom cabaret to a witty teenage odyssey, the Shoot the Breeze festival at Camden People’s theatre considers global warming and pollution in striking styleWas Shakespeare a chronicler of cl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMMonday, November 6, 2017
Jess Thom’s wonderful weekender featured bipolar pop star Captain Hotknives, a witty striptease by blind performer Amelia Cavallo and poetry done in BSL“Is there anything going on for us…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMLast week, Camden People’s Theatre’s outgoing executive director Amber Massie-Blomfield observed, very wisely, that not every small theatre has a big theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSaturday, November 4, 2017
Ustinov studio, BathPatrick Baladi and Niamh Cusack impress in Daniel Kehlmann’s two-hander about surveillance, but their characters are mere mouthpiecesJudith, a philosophy professor, is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM 
