Since it began in 2010, NTW has been through ups and downs. In a new decade, with a new artistic director, what
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01PMMore than 20 years ago, theatremaker Kaite O’Reilly met a former Second World War codebreaker, Molly Schuesselle. After a half-century of silence,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:25AMFounded in 2014, the Welsh pub venue won The Stage award for best fringe theatre just two years later. Its artistic director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMCardiff’s New Theatre has marketed Cinderella as “the godmother of all pantomimes” and the creators of this year’s festive offering have gone
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMThe Sherman’s Christmas show is a Cardiff tradition and this year the company turns to the versatile Conor Mitchell to provide script,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMIt speaks volumes of the tumultuous times in which we live that so many new plays are set in dystopian near-futures that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMTheatr Genedlaethol Cymru (Wales’ Welsh-language national theatre company) tackles a seminal piece of European drama in this new translation of Brecht’s The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:40PMA premiere of an Ed Thomas play is a rare event. It’s been 15 years since his last play and three decades
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMAs the Rugby World Cup gets underway in Japan, the National Dance Company Wales is going the extra mile to support its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe Clink is one of Cardiff’s best restaurants and, attached to the city’s prison, it’s staffed by prisoners in the last phase
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMTwelve months after an open letter protested at National Theatre Wales’ apparent disregard for Wales-based artists, Nicholas Davies looks at the progress
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:33AMAs one of the first countries to have equal gender representation at parliament level, Wales has a cultural history of equality, reflected
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMWhen, three years ago, Kully Thiarai was named artistic director of National Theatre Wales, she immediately signalled her intention to work with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMKatherine Chandler’s play is, for the most part, a gripping three-hander. Three people’s lives hurtle towards the sweet release of a booze-filled
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMAfter 10 years of creating outdoor plays involving D/deaf and physically disabled actors (performing in spaces as unlikely as woodland and castles),
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:26AMJo Clifford takes on one of Shakespeare’s more troublesome plays in this re-imagining of The Taming of the Shrew, co-produced by Sherman
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMBlue is the first fully-fledged new production for young theatre company, Chippy Lane Productions. It’s a classic premise: a very domestic drama
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:02AMSherman Theatre’s artist development programme bears fruit in this gripping new play by its most recent graduates, writer Elgan Rhys and director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30PMThe New Theatre’s panto combines genuine musical and comedy talent with affable rugby hero, Gareth ‘Alfie’ Thomas. Alfie’s slowly becoming a stage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMThe Other Room pub theatre has created a Christmas tradition of offering a grown-up ‘anti-panto’ as an antidote to the usual family-oriented
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:25AMJason Robert Brown’s glorious 2001 musical, exploring a couple’s passionate yet doomed relationship from each partner’s perspective, has seen a number of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMKevin Jones’ one-man play, Cardiff Boy, is a love letter to the 1990s – a spirited monologue that plays to an evocative
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PMIt’s unlikely that a play exploring such diverse themes as unemployment, suicide, deprivation and Brexit will ever evoke as much as joy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:08AMThe Other Room’s latest season kicks off with a stripped-back, one-woman play that is both funny and unsettling. Lily (Lauren O’Leary) is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMThis new play by Alan Harris is one of National Theatre Wales’ five Love Letters to the NHS. Its location could not
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMNational Theatre Wales’ The Stick-Maker Tales is one of five monologues – Love Letters to the NHS – each performed in different
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AMQuarantine and National Theatre Wales are natural bedfellows, two trailblazers in representing their communities as much as the performing arts sector. Their
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:48AMFor its first ever production, new company OtherLife tackles Jack Thorne’s 2012 two-hander. Marian and David are a young middle-class couple, seemingly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:35AMLove, science, trust and ethics all collide in Lucy Prebble’s intelligent 2012 play, The Effect, set in a pharmaceutical trial facility. It’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:17AMAfter a proud 200-year history of shipbuilding at Pembroke Dock, it’s a curious fact that the last vessel to be constructed there
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AMThe question of whether forbidden love can survive the ravages of dementia places Matthew Trevannion’s new play squarely at the centre of
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