950 stories by "Laura Kressly"
Seventy years ago, J B Priestley's thriller An Inspector Calls was first staged in the UK. Twenty-five years ago, Stephen Daldry's acclaimed, progressive production opened at the National. H…
London in 1728 was a dark and dangerous place. Highwaymen, hangmen and harlots roamed the streets and life was hard. John Gay's satirical musical The Beggar's Opera steps away from the tradi…
For time immemorial we have sat in cosy circles sharing tales of gods, monsters and everyday heroes with those we love and those we have just met. Everyone has stories in their hearts –…
Terry Johnson's 1994 play functions both as a cleverly interwoven tribute to old school British comedy and a domestic drama, with a good balance of comedic and serious moments. But even thou…
Adrian Edmondson portrays William as articulate and sensitive, but the rambling, stream-of-conscious script moves at a brisk pace with little variation in rhythm or tone.
The advertising calls this is a 'shamanic rave' " perhaps that is the best description of this hour of shambolic, low-budget hedonism. But there's a lot to be said for Follow the Faun as a n…
Even the most moving performances are often largely removed from our day-to-day lives. But every so often you come across a piece of theatre that, whilst it may not be the objective best thi…
Glenda Jackson's return to the stage after more than two decades serving as an MP certainly should be a momentous occasion, and in one of the great roles. At age 80, in a time where audience…
You are eighteen years old. Ready to leap from the cusp of adulthood, the world is at your fingertips and the rest of your life unfurls before you.
Do we need another theatre awards ceremony? Independent critic Lucy Basaba, founder and editor of theatrefullstop, thinks so. Earlier this year, she launched the Theatre & Technology Awa…
The school play has no budget, so PE equipment gets a starring role as set and props, and their uniforms are costume with a few accessories. The line between the school girl characters and t…
Inspired by 1973 cult horror film The Wicker Man and his love for comedy, young writer Ed Hartland tries to take a humorous approach to 1970s horror films in self-referential, metatheatrical…
Schizophrenia is regarded as an incurable disease " once diagnosed, even if a person is able to lead a normal life, the medical community always considers them ill. Norwegian psychologist an…
The 'immersive' staging spreads the actors amongst sections of the audience in Monk's Bar, making the characters' volatility all the more threatening to those in the midst of their fighting …
What if your life has endless parallel possibilities? What if Sliding Doors is true? What if every choice you make leads to your timeline fracturing into endless paths that just keeps multip…
The BSC's ethos takes a character-led approach inspired by Ron Moody and Stephen Berkoff. The company's aims are to bring individual, characterful actors to the classics in the style of the …
The London Horror Festival is bigger than ever, new scare attractions appear all over the country every year and independent events like Frissonic's Howl expand the otherworldly and terrifyi…
Jim Walters is the first person sent to colonise Mars. But when a global apocalypse occurs, trapping him in the Earth's orbit and running out of oxygen, he and his guitar are left to broadca…
Theatre is well and truly a product of the left, with mainstream and commercial work often comfortably centrist at the most. It's rare to come across right wing work, particularly something …
Along with tickets, we are handed earplugs. Considering Christopher Brett Bailey's first work This Is How We Die, I'm not surprised.
Persephone and Eurydice's myths are defined by men. What happens when these men are removed and the characters plunged into a modern dreamscape? Maud Dromgoole's Acorn brings these women and…
Louise is a successful actor and singer with numerous, impressive credits to her name, a gorgeous family, and a plenty of auditions. But when a cold turns out to be a sign of something worse…
Professor Ashborn is on a mission to disprove Shakespeare's existence, but the academics with leather patches on their elbows are trying to stop him. Following Ashborn's lecture and an inter…
A man goes on a solo holiday after a difficult breakup. A woman fights through day-to-day life to find a job. These two little, globally insignificant stories are monumentally spotlighted in…
Haleema, Ruhab and Tisana have been friends for their whole lives. Like other girls, they enjoy chatting about celebrities, boys, and their future plans whilst doing each others' hair.
