45 stories by "Laura Stevens"
Image: Barbican Theatre The largest theatre and live performance festival ever seen in Plymouth has been launched this week. Plymouth Fringe Festival is showcasing over one hundred acts i…
Image credit: Amit Lennon "It's designed to open up the theatre and Shakespeare to secondary school children." This is the bold opening declaration from Georghia Ellinas, Head of Learning at…
Photo by Brinkhoff Mögenburg It is not characteristic of an actor to wish to shun the limelight. Stereotypically acting professionals are renowned for craving their names in lights or st…
Andrew Lloyd Webber's tale of the Jellicle Cats is one that captured imaginations when it nimbly leapt and pranced its way onto the West End in 1981. And to do so, it defied many an obstacle…
London's biggest festival of new and unusual theatre is returning for its seventeenth year. Camden People's Theatre (CPT) has announced its Sprint 2015 line up with acts including Drunken Ch…
Image by Richard Hubert Smith With widely praised performances in several major UK theatres, Alex Waldmann is carving out a name as one of the country’s most exciting acting talents…
For those who prefer their cabaret on the civilised side, and indeed alongside a slice of pizza, glass of wine and the beautiful ambience of the King's Road, Cabaret Confidential would be ju…
One of the beauties of theatre is its fleeting nature. Its sense of the ephemeral heightens the sense of wonder that a performance can portray, but can also be a huge sense of frustration. W…
Grounded is a searing piece of theatre that tells the story of a female fighter pilot whose wings become clipped after falling pregnant. From flying a F16 fighter jet, the pilot now sits for…
A season including new commissions and a world premiere has been announced today by Royal & Derngate, Northampton. The theatre introduced its 2015 Made in Northampton season, which will …
Image by Richard Stanton When I get through to Elizabeth Freestone on a patchy line she's not quite certain where exactly she is: "I'm currently at Darwen Library Theatre… I got a train he…
Recently, it seems there has been a relentless barrage of bad news. From each newspaper front page or TV tickertape, there have been foreign tragedies, domestic disputes and horror in paradi…
For once this was a play that did what it said in the title. Shit-Faced Shakespeare was an entirely serious Shakespeare play with an entirely shit-faced actor. For the Bank Holiday Friday au…
(4/5 Stars) Any play rooted in the perverted incestuous love of a brother and sister is not likely to make for an easy or comfortable watch. And, Cheek by Jowl in their production of the Jac…
(4/5 Stars) With 2014 marking ten years of improv by the Maydays, their Fringe show focused on delving into the audience’s memories of the past decade. While entering the Komedia's dar…
(3/5 Stars) Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho begins with the simple, but utterly ridiculous premise that the former Iron Lady accidentally became a gloriously camp cabaret act on the eve of t…
(3/5 Stars) Calling all Whovians! Can you keep a secret? I Need a Doctor: The Whosical is based on one of the BBC's most popular shows but Stormy Teacup Theatre Ltd. is determined to keep…
The news has recently been awash with an abundance of stories detailing the 'dark side' of the internet. From Edward Snowden's NSA revelations to Bitcoin's murky dealings, the world wide web…
Often there appears an impenetrable wall between the sciences and the arts. On one side of the dichotomy is the world of the rational and clinical, and on the other a world embodied by passi…
Was 2013 a year of enormous leaps forward for feminism? People around the globe united behind the courageous Malala, politically determined Wendy Davis in Texas and even the refusal of Jenni…
