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He considered himself impervious to stage horror, but after taking part in a research project monitoring audience's heart-rate activity while watching live
Good state-of-the-nation stuff: Fergus Morgan reviews Mike Bartlett's new play at the Almeida.
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In the late 1970s, punk band Oxy and the Morons nearly made it, coming within a pen-stroke of signing with record label EMI, before
What an awful moment for Venus in Fur to arrive in the West End. With stories of Hollywood’s deep-seated misogyny dominating the
The lights come up. A woman in a giant mouse costume is furiously riding a prostrate man. They climax, then, in thick Belfast accents, have an
A sledgehammer made of metaphor: Fergus Morgan reviews Rory Mullarkey allegorical play about the history of Britain.
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Dublin Theatre Festival turns 60 this year, not that artistic director Willie White is particularly focused on commemorating such longevity, announcing that “Anniversaries are…
Talk about reanimating the dead. US comedy legend Mel Brooks’ classic 1974 spoof film Young Frankenstein had been gathering dust for 33
If there was an Olivier for most intimidating play title, Simon Stephens’ new two-hander would be a shoo-in. Fret not, as Heisenberg: The Uncertainty
Does James Graham ever take a break? Not content with two West End runs already in 2017 " This House, which finished its long-overdue transfer back
David Farr’s hectic 1996 football comedy Elton John’s Glasses " here given its first UK revival by Psyche Stott " is a
We’ve already had one Take That jukebox musical: in 2008, the ill-fated Never Forget had a brief West End run before sinking
Originally a classic Ealing comedy starring Alec Guinness, then an under-par Coen brothers rehash with Tom Hanks, and finally a West End play
Yep, you read that right. Yet another Hamlet, starring yet another white British man who either has, or probably will at some
After a torrid few months hosting Yael Farber’s Salome and DC Moore’s Common, the Olivier is crying out for a hit. Its autumn offerings start with a bang, wi…
Alan Harris’ one-man play Sugar Baby is a great laugh, a chaotic comedy caper set on the streets of Cardiff with a
Last year, Phosphoros Theatre’s Dear Home Office turned heads with its bold, brutal evocation of life as an unaccompanied child refugee. Dear
Written by Ontroerend Goed’s Joeri Smet, directed by Warts and All Theatre’s Christopher Elmer-Gorry and performed by members of the Almeida Theatre Young Company, FromÃ…
In November 1919, Franz Kafka wrote a 50-page letter to his father, in which he articulated in minute detail the emotional abuse
Pub Corner Poets’ first show, Angry, divided audiences. It won author Josh Overton the Sunday Times Playwriting Award at the National Student
Theatremakers in Hull are hailing the birth of "something special" in the city's performing arts scene, as demonstrated by a particularly strong
Transgender stories have featured high on the agenda at this Edinburgh Fringe. At Pleasance Courtyard, trans theatremaker Kit Redstone and physical theatre
Kiwi physical comedians Trygve Wakenshaw and Barnie Duncan welcome you to Rucks’s World of Leather Interiors (“Imagine a room made of skin”),
Oh, it’s horrible. It’s so horrible. It’s so grimly, wincingly, cringingly, stomach-churningly, infuriatingly, terrifyingly horrible. Galvanised by Donald Trump’s inf…
Adapted by Anders Lustgarten from David Peace’s 2006 stream-of-consciousness novel, Red Ladder Theatre’s The Damned United tells the story of Brian Clough’s
