The Edinburgh fringe has taken steps to ensure the festival doesn't suffer after London theatre producers have said audiences may stay away during the GamesIt's that time of year if you are …
Arcola, LondonIt is the early 1990s, Estonia is at last independent and Aliide (Illona Linthwaite) is old and living alone in the cottage in the Estonian forest where her parents once farmed…
Oval House, LondonChris Goode didn't believe in God. Then, one day last April, he was walking home from the supermarket when he had a powerful sense that he was in God's presence. God/Head i…
Garrick, LondonNot since Propeller's Rose Rage cleaved cabbages to signify murder, execution and the mayhem of lots of people losing their heads has the West End had quite such a g…
Chris Goode follows his own path to a thoughtful new show, while Devoted and Disgruntled got everybody debating. Lyn Gardner rounds up the weekend's stage businessPlaces for experimentI'm a …
Greenwich Playhouse, LondonGreenwich Playhouse is a neighbourhood pub theatre that for more than 20 years has produced an eclectic mix of mostly classic plays, from Shakespeare to Ibsen. If …
I've been asked to write a play. What a dreadful idea'Critics," said the Irish writer Brendan Behan, "are like eunuchs in a harem. They know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, bu…
There are one-person shows galore in Manchester, a new Streetcar on the loose in Liverpool, and two chances to see playwright Dennis Kelly at different ends of the countryNorthThe Fuel seaso…
Polished performances rule the stage and the circus ring, but human fraility is just as gripping " and more moving " to watchTake a look at this video from Cirque du Soleil's Alegria.It's b…
Watford PalacePlaywright Charlotte Keatley has always been ahead of the game. In 1985 she wrote My Mother Said I Never Should, one of the first plays about mothers and daughters, a big, bold…
Research shows that theatres are prejudiced against female playwrights. What can be done about it?What would the playwriting landscape look like if all submissions to theatres were done anon…
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Theatre 503, LondonArtist-led is a buzz word in theatre at the moment, but writer-led is still more unusual, and when all those writers are women you know something is afoot. New theatre com…
Southbank Centre, LondonDennis the Menace is almost an OAP. He first appeared in the Beano in 1951, but for generations of children he " and his partners in crime, Minnie the Minx and Roger …
The Donmar finds a new answer to the perennial mobile problem, and are theatres getting more middle of the road?Switching audiences on to switch it offWe all know how annoying it is when som…
Cottesloe, LondonCameron (James Cooney) is a teenager glued to his MP3 player and not best pleased to find himself spending a week without a phone or internet connection with his research sc…
Palace, LondonUnless the threatened hosepipe ban materialises, it's probably safe to say that Jonathan Church's stage revival, based on the 1952 Gene Kelly movie set during the early days of…
Hot tickets include An Appointment with the Wicker Man in Aberdeen and hit puppet show The Table in Bristol, while Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker hits GlasgowNorthNewcastle is buzzing. Petty of…
With British regional theatre facing tough questions, WYP's new artistic director " announced today " will have his work cut outWhat are the biggest jobs in British theatre? Obviously headin…
The people of Diego Garcia, a British colony in the Indian Ocean, were thrown off their island to make way for a US military base. Lyn Gardner on how their story was made into a playHow wou…
The people of Diego Garcia, a British colony in the Indian Ocean, were thrown off their island to make way for a US military base. Lyn Gardner on how their story was made into a play Contin…
Royal Exchange Studio, ManchesterGoing back is not always a good idea " you never know what nasty surprises you might find lurking behind the sofa. The destructive past invades the damaged p…
Josie Rourke makes it look easy with a blissfully funny revival of The Recruiting Officer. But that doesn't mean the pressure is offWhen Josie Rourke woke up this morning I would hazard a gu…
BAC, LondonPuppetry and live music, drawing and storytelling come together in Paper Cinema's ingenious retelling of Homer's story, which offers 70 minutes that are a cross between a silent m…
Donmar, LondonMichael Grandage may have gone out in a blaze, such was his success in turning the Donmar into a glossy international theatre brand and the venue that Stephen Sondheim has call…