71 stories by "Alex Needham"
The comic on making gags about your partner, artistic paranoia and whether comedy can ever be an agent of social changeReview: Sara Pascoe takes lively tour of her magpie mind10 questions fo…
Paxo combines clips, opinions, anecdotes and audience Q&A to make one of Edinburgh's most sought-after tickets Continue reading...
Though its an unflattering portrait of the pop-culture columnist, Tim Fountains sequel to his Burchill play reminds you of her rhetorical force Continue reading...
Musician Michael Burdett describes how he travelled the UK inviting strangers to listen to an unreleased recording by the cult British folk singerListen to Nick Drakes Cello Song from a John…
Underbelly, EdinburghCarefully concealing his masterful control of the show, the former Perrier winner explores the interzone between comedy, theatre and spoken word Continue reading...
The new staging of Baz Luhrmann's film ladles on the glitz, but drowns out the simple human core that made the movie so well-lovedWith its motto "to live with fear is a life half lived&…
In this spoken-word show, the Pope of Trash signals his intentions to remain subversive into old age " and beyond, says Alex NeedhamAlex Needham
David Sefton, the director of the South Australian arts festival, gives us his picks, from six-hour interactive Shakespeare to a career retrospective of avant garde legend John ZornAlex Need…
Dunstan theatre, AdelaideHaving played recently in London, where it got the garlic and crucifix treatment by the critics, Nosferatu has chased the sun to the Adelaide festival. This version,…
The German Club, AdelaideA couple of days after The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart exits the Adelaide festival, another poetic adaption roosts amongst the tables, chairs and steins of Wei…
David Eldridge's resonant and richly populated play put England's postwar paradoxes on stage " and it was funny, tooDavid Eldridge's In Basildon did many things. It proved that it was possib…
In the second of a series of interviews with the newsmakers of 2012, Alex Needham speaks to the star who shocked the ballet world in January Continue reading...
'Charmless, messy, lacklustre,' 'scrappy, lazy, inconclusive,' 'I wanted it to stop' ... The reviews are in for Jennifer Saunders' Spice Girls musical, and they don't make pretty readingOn T…
It was a Scarborough theatre's budget Christmas show. Twenty five years on, The Woman in Black remains one of British theatre's biggest " and scariest " hits. Yikes, says Alex NeedhamRobin H…
In my humble, non-reviewer opinion, no single actor dominates this radical yet perfectly balanced production at the GlobeThanks to the World Shakespeare festival, one of the Cultural Olympia…
In my humble, non-reviewer opinion, no single actor dominates this radical yet perfectly balanced production at the Globe Continue reading...
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonWhat is probably Shakespeare's first play is not frequently performed " it was once on an RSC list of works believed to be guaranteed to lose money " so staging it…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonAccording to Ben Johnson, Shakespeare had "small Latine and lesse Greek" " but how would a viewer with no Greek at all cope with Pericles, hardly the Bard's most f…
Actors' union Equity enlists famous names, including Antony Sher, to support gay actors who choose to be openWhen Antony Sher started acting with the pioneering Gay Sweatshop theatre company…
Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton are performing in three of the most celebrated shows in LondonOn Halloween 2002 The League of Gentlemen's third and final series came to an …
Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton are performing in three of the most celebrated shows in London Continue reading...
Variety of London theatre scene embodied in starry line-up, with theatrical comedy and musicals enjoying landmark yearThe Theatre Royal Haymarket has seen its share of glitzy West End talent…
Ten years after he first applied for the job, Doran becomes only the fifth artistic director in the RSC's five-decade historyGregory Doran has been named artistic director of the Royal Shake…
The playwright with 40 years' experience at the cutting edge of British theatre will be online to answer your questions ahead of his Guardian Open Weekend event on Sunday 25 MarchSir David H…
Cymbeline to be performed in Juba Arabic as part of Globe to Globe strand of World Shakespeare festivalTheir country is less than nine months old and still coping with the aftermath of decad…
