Monday, April 15, 2019
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeIn this revival of Lizzie Nunnery’s debut about a family in the 19th-century Liverpool slums, misery is piled upon misery – for the audience and the characte…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:36PMFriday, April 12, 2019
Royal Exchange, ManchesterSarah Frankcom and Aletta Collins ditch Jerome Robbins’ choreography and keeps the stakes high in a superb production
For more than 60 years, productions of West …
Linked From The Guardian at 05:36AMMonday, April 1, 2019
Theatre By the Lake, KeswickHoward Brenton’s no-nonsense translation of Strindberg’s astute drama charts the marriage of a failed artist and his more successful wife
Adolf is in the mid…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:00AMSunday, March 31, 2019
SWG3, GlasgowOriginally planned to coincide with the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, the National Theatre of Scotland’s night of cabaret and comedy was performed under a sombre cloud
Imagin…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:21AMFriday, March 29, 2019
In a defiant riposte to president Bolsonaro and intolerance, performers at São Paulo’s international theatre festival are reclaiming the rights to be seen and to be different
If ever ther…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:24AMThursday, March 28, 2019
Tramway, Glasgow Stef Smith’s excellent adaptation has Noras experience economic and emotional pressures through history
There are three door frames and three cavernous pathways to an unce…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:42PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Yang Sing restaurant, ManchesterThis rich, dreamlike play feeds body and soul as it chronicles the complex lives of migrants from China
Cheung Wing is looking back over his life. He’s been…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:04AMMonday, February 25, 2019
Dukes, LancasterThree young fighters grapple with a world of blue-eyed heroes and foreign-looking villains in Nick Ahad’s witty play
Real life has a way of sneaking into the theatre. Only …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:46AMMonday, February 18, 2019
Traverse, EdinburghKwaku Mills is a revelation as a boy growing up amid poverty in this touring revival of Arinzé Kene’s crackling, compelling monologueImagine an inner-city version of Un…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:54AMWednesday, February 13, 2019
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeBeatrice and Benedick engage in heartwarming hostilities in Northern Broadsides’ rich and rewarding productionRobin Simpson’s Benedick has just been …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:24AMThursday, February 7, 2019
The Manipulate festival in Scotland has surreal square dances, puppetry without puppets and jaw-dropping human landscapesIn between shows at the Manipulate festival, a veteran arts producer …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:54AMWednesday, February 6, 2019
Derby theatreSabrina Mahfouz has impressively distilled the inspired novel about a world where the power rests with the black populationAt the heart of Malorie Blackman’s young adult novel…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:42AMMonday, January 28, 2019
Hull TruckDementia drama and Jacobean bloodbath sit uneasily alongside each other in a reworking of King Lear during the fishing industry’s dying daysThey’re a hard-bitten lot, the Lear …
Linked From The Guardian at 05:04AMTuesday, January 15, 2019
The national theatres of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland have all caused a stir about what they represent. How should they reflect a country’s identity?They had Richard Eyre on the ra…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:42AMWednesday, December 19, 2018
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeAn immersive show for the under-fives strikes gold and acts as a primer for Peter Leslie Wild’s inventive and boisterous main stage productionAs is often the c…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:54AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
Hull TruckA sumptuous choral score is key to this slick, polished production featuring an impressive female Fagin and tightly drilled young companyThe statistics about the working poor in Th…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:04PMSunday, December 9, 2018
From Victorian penury to Caribbean party music, new productions at Leeds Playhouse and Northern Stage in Newcastle revisit Dickens’s festive favouriteIt isn’t only the ghosts of Christma…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:12PMTraverse, EdinburghKieran Hurley’s gripping Edinburgh-set two-hander confronts the economic divide in the city and the stranglehold the middle-classes have on the artsKieran Hurley’s pro…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:32AMTuesday, December 4, 2018
Pantomime legend Johnny McKnight does his usual festive double, starring in Mammy Goose at the Tron in Glasgow – and writing Sleepin’ Cutie at Macrobert, StirlingIs pantomime a reactiona…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:32AMMonday, December 3, 2018
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghElla Hickson’s adaptation of JM Barrie’s story is a funny and heartbreaking coming-of-age tale for its swashbuckling heroinePeter Pan is as much a concept as a cha…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:48AMFriday, November 30, 2018
Theatre Royal, NewcastlePlacing the story in the context of two rival circuses, Michael Harrison’s show boasts jugglers, skaters and motorcyclistsIf you want the secret behind the UK’s f…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:04AMThursday, November 22, 2018
Live theatre, NewcastlePlaying themselves with humour, grace and honesty, a former inmate and her daughter tell their story and reveal their bond Cheryl and Abigail Byron are on adjacent cha…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:42AMMonday, November 19, 2018
Coliseum, OldhamKevin Shaw’s colourful panto is an enjoyable sugar rush seemingly powered by E-numbersFine Time Fontayne and Simeon Truby make their first entrance as the Ugly Sisters wear…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:12AMFriday, November 9, 2018
Cast, Doncaster Anna Jordan tunes into intertwined lives and captures the oblivion and camaraderie of the dancefloor in her new dramaIt’s no spoiler to reveal that Pop Music ends with Come…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:36PMThursday, November 8, 2018
Northern Stage, NewcastleStaged in the round, Elayce Ismail’s production relocates Dylan Thomas’s dramatic poem about the people of Llareggub In divided times, there’s something comfor…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:06AMFriday, October 26, 2018
Live theatre, Newcastle Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher is restaged in a Tyneside mental hospital in a poignant and politically charged musicalIt sounds like a challenge f…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:04PMThursday, October 25, 2018
Traverse, EdinburghAnna Jordan’s four-hander for Frantic Assembly, unfolding across time to tell parallel war stories, is performed with heart and focusA man is trying to cross the sea to …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:24AMThursday, October 18, 2018
Unity, LiverpoolDeparting from convention and reality, Leo Butler’s simulated psychedelic experience crashes around with jolly abandonYou can imagine an Open University programme that sets…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:33AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Royal Exchange, ManchesterSarah Frankcom gives Arthur Miller’s decline-and-fall drama an extra edge in this powerful productionDon Warrington’s Willy Loman is at the centre of his own un…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:36AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
Traverse, EdinburghClare Duffy’s play skirts the big issues as an ecowarrior and her mother clash in a locked bathroom Opening in the week the UN has made dire warnings about climate chang…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:04PMMonday, October 1, 2018
Theatr Clwyd, MoldWilliam Golding’s fable of desert-island anarchy is reinvented for the modern age in Emma Jordan’s brutal, bold productionThere’s a theory being pushed by the psychol…
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