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Just as the National’s extraordinary Angels in America hits the headlines on its Broadway transfer, London gets another epic, seven-hour, two-part play
Spoiler alert: something happens just before the interval in Bruce Graham's White Guy on the Bus that twists it from a compelling
Cramming all 11 characters in Philip Ridley's Moonfleece onto the small stage of the Pleasance's second space is quite a challenge, but
People, mainly theatre critics, love to talk about the death of theatre criticism. The story is a familiar one by now. For
Clacton-on-Sea. Once a busy seaside resort, thronged with holidaymakers, now a forgotten town stuck in the past. Its declining fortunes provide a
With 300 shows, Vault Festival was a sprawling, multifaceted and gloriously eclectic event. The Stage sent Fergus Morgan to cover the event
It's like a kind of reverse, simian version of The Metamorphosis. Turner Prize-winning painter Simon Dykes (an anxiety-ridden Bryan Dick) wakes up
When the audience becomes a part of the production, how do you avoid chaos? The crew responsible for running Nicholas Hytner's promenade
One-woman shows don't come much more visceral than this. Jodi Gray's Big Bad, directed here by Deirdre McLaughlin, sees a solo performer
The third and final show from theatre company Joyous Gard at this year's festival, David K Barnes' and Michael Milne's Timothy is
No one mentions the name, but we all know what this is about " a taxi-hailing app, that's revolutionised transportation, growing from
PIP and petty crime: Chris Collett reviews a moving double bill at Newcastle's Elevator Festival.
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A selection of international playwrights has been commissioned, using a $5 million fund from Amazon audiobook giant Audible, to write new plays
Br'er Cotton has got all the right ingredients. A bold new voice in American playwright Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, a timely subject, and
Vault Festival finally comes to a close this Sunday, after two weird and wacky months underneath Waterloo. Here are five shows not
With 2016 show Still Ill, collaborative collective Kandinsky explored the paradoxical pressures of psychosomatic illness with insight and intelligence. With Trap Street,
RedBellyBlack picked up a people's choice award at the 2017 Vault Festival for A Year From Now, a show that explored ambition
Tatty Hennessy's A Hundred Words for Snow was the pick of a triple-bill of monologues presented by Heretic Productions at the Arcola
Hermetic Arts' new show Unburied wrongfoots you from the off. It presents itself as a podcast recording. Last night, show host Carrie
Rufus Norris’ National regime was marred by several high-profile flops in the Olivier last year. Salome, Common and Saint George and the
Going Greene: Bryony Lavery's new adaptation of Brighton Rock is unsettling and menacing.
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What'll it be? Oh, a pint, a packet of peanuts and a great big slice of Jim Cartwright please, mate. Cartwright's 1989
Another week, another uber-long play on one of London's biggest stages. After Annie Baker's John at the National and Eugene O'Neill's Long
As London's Vault Festival moves into its penultimate week, Fergus Morgan picks out five highlights to catch… A Hundred Words for Snow Tatty
In 1973, in the West Germany town of Würzburg, there was a murder. Or so Bête Noire Productions' painstakingly put-together docudrama Father
