60 stories by "Ed Frankl"
Cockpit Theatre, London: Elsinore is reimagined as a school for spoiled kids in this impressively staged, if conceptually confused, 90-minute Hamlet in which Horatio teaches "modern Dan…
Arts Theatre, London: The foyer of the Arts Theatre was filled with kids crossing balloon swords, the assorted ranks making entry to the auditorium quite a challenge. To the testament of the…
Old Red Lion Theatre, London: This pantomime-season parody searches for new ways to mock fairy tales, attempting to flip the stories in the manner of the Shrek films but coming out like a we…
Drayton Arms Theatre, London: A handful of very fine performances elevate this modern melodrama about the effects a murder has on four Londoners.
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Tristan Bates Theatre, London: Simon Mason was drug dealer to the Britpop stars, an addict who gave away cocaine for free to get into A-list parties. But alongside the highs came the paralys…
Shoreditch Town Hall, London: The quarterback of the Hoke's Bluff American football team has one shot to seize the day - one more throw of the dice, one more 'play'.
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St Bartholomew the Great, London: A medieval Pilgrim's Progress-style morality play is a tricky start to Little Spaniel's tenure as the new resident company of the 12th century St …
Tristan Bates Theatre, London: Actor Max Saunders-Singer's drama of two infantrymen who are unwilling to fight gives voice to the 306 men executed for cowardice during the First World W…
Arcola, London: Only five months divide the Arcola Theatre's last Marius von Mayenburg production - his spiky satire Eldorado - with this latest UK premiere at the venue, a dystopian ni…
The Lord Stanley, London: Nabokov's 1955 masterpiece finds curious echoes in today's mass media climate of stories of historical sex abuses. But this revival of Victor Sobchak'…
This year's Alan Bates Bursary for a graduating actor has been given to Charles Babalola of LAMDA. At a ceremony at the Actors Centre in London, actor Celia Imrie presented the award to Baba…
Shakespeare's Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole has claimed that other countries have a "great deal more insight" about Shakespeare than the British. In an exclusive interview with T…
Law firm Pinsent Masons has become the principal sponsor of the Menier Chocolate Factory until 2016, in the first major corporate partnership for the theatre. As part of the partnership, the…
The National Theatre will collaborate with the BBC Proms for the first time as part of a special War Horse Prom, commemorating 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. Puppets us…
The Hull Truck Theatre has been handed a £400,000 bail-out in emergency public funding to ensure its financial stability, three years before the city hosts the UK City of Culture ce…
The Play that Goes Wrong, which originated at fringe venue the Old Red Lion Theatre in north London, is to transfer to the West End this autumn. The Mischief Theatre production is currently …
Former soap actors Debra Stephenson and Steven Pinder are to headline Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers at St Helens' Theatre Royal. Producers Regal Entertainments have adapted the pla…
The Vertical Hour by David Hare is to receive its first London revival this autumn at the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park. It will be directed by Nigel Douglas, who returns to the theatre for&…
Mark Rylance, Ian McKellen and Michael Grandage are among those British actors and theatre-makers that have been nominated for this year's Outer Critics Circle Awards, which recognise theatr…
Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre has revealed its first season under the sole leadership of artistic director Sarah Frankcom, including a revival of Little Shop of Horrors and the premier…
The first ever UK performance of Noel Coward's 1920s comedy This Was A Man is to feature as part of the Finborough Theatre's summer season. Coward's play " a portrayal of adultery in the mid…
Production staff working on series such as Silent Witness, Mr Selfridge and Call the Midwife have threatened to disrupt filming through industrial action over pay. Backstage union BECTU is p…
Michael Sheen, Jonathan Pryce and Griff Rhys Jones will feature alongside singer Tom Jones in a one-off BBC adaptation of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, to be broadcast in early May. Celebra…
Birmingham Stage Company is working with acclaimed children's playwright David Wood to adapt picture book Dinosaur Roar!,which will tour museums and theatres from next year. The theatre comp…
Swansea's Palace Theatre, which was last year listed as one of the most endangered buildings in England and Wales, is set for a £75,000 regeneration. Local authority the City and County o…
