Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Camden People’s theatre, LondonA crack cast of trans and gender-fluid actors deliver a playful and often moving version of the Greek mythGender fluidity and the trans experience were highl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMRoyal & Derngate, NorthamptonSam Holcroft’s comedy, which debuted at the National and is now directed by Simon Godwin on a UK tour, begins in Ayckbourn mode then turns vicious‘Too mu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMMonday, September 18, 2017
It’s terrific that the for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s summer 2018 season, the directorial line-up will be all female for both the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, September 17, 2017
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonThis story of reclusive research and rock'n'roll is at its best when communicating through music and songThe 52-hertz whale has been called the loneliest whale i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMFriday, September 15, 2017
Bristol Old VicChristopher Haydon updates the 1960 play about the machinations of a homeless houseguest into a piece about paranoia and the migrant experienceEntering the theatre, it looks a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMSally Cookson’s witty, inventive take on Charlotte Brontë’s novel comes to Hull, while the city’s New theatre reopens with a visit from the Royal’s dancers1 Living With the Lights O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMThursday, September 14, 2017
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonWalking the audience through the struggle between the monarchy and the people during the English civil war, this show chimes with our own timesGemma Brock…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Hamilton hits London, Bryan Cranston’s news anchor goes berserk, Wayne McGregor turns his DNA into dance, Mae Martin revisits her teen addictions and Toyah Willcox is a time-travelling que…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMMonday, September 11, 2017
The good news is that Punchdrunk is doing a new show, it’s called Kabeiroi and is based on fragments of a lost
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, September 10, 2017
Richmond theatre, LondonShared Experience’s modern update of the Little Mermaid has a seductive dreaminess, but there’s far too much going on to successfully re-empower the characterTher…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06AMFriday, September 8, 2017
Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris’s staging of the children’s novel returns, while Hofesh Shechter’s new show imagines an anarchic apocalypse1 War HorseWith it becoming such a huge and d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSecret location, HullIn dreamthinkspeak’s new show, audiences explore the spaces of a mystery multi-storey venue to delve into South Korea’s past, present and futureFor their latest show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMArts theatre, LondonThis software-generated Greenham Common musical is risibly stereotypical but pleasant as a milky drinkPlenty of musicals written by humans sound as if they have been comp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
Hull Truck theatreJames Ngcobo’s adaptation of a story about a couple finding their way in 1950s Durban is refreshingly direct and galvanised by Hugh Masekela’s compositionsThe suitcase …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMBeginning our series of Guardian writers' favourite musicals, Lyn Gardner describes why she loves Stephen Sondheim's 1971 'pas de deux of regret'"Without music, life would be a mistake," sug…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMMonday, September 4, 2017
On almost my last day at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2015 I saw a show called Labels made by Joe Sellman-Leava who
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, September 1, 2017
Shôn Dale-Jones turns his attention to the increasing divide between rich and poor, while Requardt & Rosenberg deliver an intense performance about memory1 Me & Robin HoodIn his las…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMTuesday, August 29, 2017
After being intoxicated by the creativity on display at the world’s largest arts festival, many theatremakers will fancy a go themselves. Lyn
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMMonday, August 28, 2017
The headline on a recent Stage story – York Theatre Royal invites non-theatregoers to decide programme –had a companion in Edinburgh spluttering into his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, August 27, 2017
Summerhall, Edinburgh A sprint through the modern history of surveillance and the arguments states use to legitimise it makes for a chilling hour in the company of Proto-Type TheatreRachel B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMSaturday, August 26, 2017
Buzzcut festival, GlasgowIt’s hardly sophisticated but this shambolic show about a night on the tiles makes us recognise its tales of shame and triumphThere’s a new wave of female-led co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PMFriday, August 25, 2017
Zinnie Harris’s retelling of Aeschylus’s drama adds muscle to the tale, while As You Like It is the inspiration for James Cousins’ latest choreography1 Oresteia: This Restless HouseThe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThursday, August 24, 2017
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghShôn Dale-Jones delivers a thoughtful piece about inequality, myths and taking control of your own storyShôn Dale-Jones’s greengrocer father was a devotee of M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMPleasance Grand, Edinburgh This revered blast of desperate babble, uttered by a woman suspended in mid-air and obscured but for her mouth, is given an unforgettable twist by disabled artist …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMWednesday, August 23, 2017
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThree decades of rivalry and messy love play out in Elinor Cook’s sharp new play about the intensities of bonds forged in childhoodThe title page of the s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMTraverse, EdinburghDramatist and poet Inua Ellams tells the tale of his tortuous path to the UK from Nigeria with passion and humourThe theatre-maker and poet Inua Ellams – whose hit show,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMMonday, August 21, 2017
The fringe programme is bursting with family theatre this year, from the gentle Snigel and Friends to a campsite Peter and the WolfA long time ago, when the actors’ union was still a close…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04PMAssembly George Square, Edinburgh This hilarious cabaret brings back to life the 5th Marquess of Anglesey, who squandered his family fortune on sparkling costumes and flaunted them in his ow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMDuring this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, I’ve had the odd moment of sneaking nostalgia for the days when theatre meant sitting in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSaturday, August 19, 2017
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA Tinder date with the grandson of 70s TV scientist Jacob Bronowski prompts a thrilling mystery that asks almost too many big questionsThe mathematician and sci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMOne woman interrogates her personal assistant in Siri, The Believers Are But Brothers brings the war on terror to your mobile, and Frogman conducts an underwater murder investigation via VR …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM 
