2,878 stories by "Lyn Gardner"
Arcola, LondonThe scene straight after the interval when the disgraced Nils Krogstad (Alexander Gatehouse) and the unhappy Kristine (Emma Deegan) find each other again and cling like wrecked…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonHoward Brenton's play begins as it means to swagger on: in teasingly intelligent style. Miranda Raison's Anne walks on to the stage with her own decapitated head i…
Hampstead Studio, LondonIf you don't know the name Tim Price, you will soon. One of the founders of the Welsh new writing company Dirty Protest, Price's Salt, Root and Roe will premiere in t…
Half the theatre world may be at Latitude, but there's a bumper crop of summer shows to catch, from carnivals to Katie MitchellA great deal of the theatre world is at Latitude this weekend, …
Bristol Old VicSally Cookson's production of Ali Baba at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol a couple of years back was a miracle of good-humoured invention, and if this devised version of Rober…
Royal Exchange Studio, ManchesterWe all strut and fret our brief hour upon the stage, endlessly performing different versions of ourselves on the dusty road to death. Quarantine's latest exp…
Pavilion, ManchesterIf there is a cooling-off period after purchase, Manchester international festival might want to send this one back. It hasn't quite been sold a piece of tat, but this li…
Pearson Street, LondonThe few minutes after a Punchdrunk show are often as thrilling as the piece itself, as the audience comes together again to share stories of what occurred and discover …
The era of tokenistic 'outreach' programmes is over. The row over Beached shows that community projects are integral to the work of arts organisations " and need handling with careWhatever r…
Take the children outside for Treasure Island or Shakespeare and Watch This Space for some free festival fun for all the familyTwo of the quietest weeks of the year lie ahead, but it's a goo…
Jermyn Street Theatre, LondonThe title suggests an urgency that never materialises in this double bill of Arthur Miller plays dating from 1987, which mostly proves that even great playwright…
A feast of festivals " with Victoria Wood on song in Manchester and a fusion of female fury and Greek tragedy in BirminghamThere is no such thing as a quiet period in theatre any longer. Jul…
Barbican, LondonThese days, a lot of theatre can put you to sleep quicker than a sedative, as almost any night in the West End proves. The lights go down, and the whole of row E no…
Theatremakers must work together if they are to survive, say speakers at a recent UK-wide arts symposium"Collaboration" has been one of the buzz words of the year in the arts, but quite what…
Crucible, SheffieldIt is 1958 and illustrator Sylvia has invited Oliver, a children's author, to meet her husband Philip. The elephant in the room is not just hanging on the living room wall…
Watermill, BagnorSomething very curious happens during Kate Saxon's revival of Beaumarchais's comedy. The play premiered just five years before the 1789 revolution, and provided the inspirat…
Move over Glastonbury, we've got our own festivals up and down the country; and there's a battle of Richard IIIs raging in London So many pleasures to come this week, with the Greenwich and…
Arcola, LondonChekhov's play loses the definitive article in its title, and has some cuts (demanded by the censor before its 1896 premiere) restored in this new version by Charlotte Pyke, Jo…
Soho Theatre, LondonArtistic director Steve Marmion's Soho reign gets off to a promising start with a play about a man spending Saturday doing nothing. It's not even a new play, having …
New Alexandra, BirminghamThe Wiz is not quite the biz, in fact it doesn't even come close. Never mind, this 1975 musical which neatly imprints the black American experience on the Wizard of …
In an age of cuts, would regional theatre be better served by investing in people and ideas rather than bricks and mortar?If travel broadens the mind, that goes for theatres too. It's going …
Finborough, LondonWhat a bizarre little show this is. From its topsy-turvy title to its outmoded sexual politics and racial stereotypes, Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley's 1964 musical is …
From a Noh-style love story in Glasgow to The Pride in Sheffield, there's plenty around ahead of the festival season " and don't forget your Handbag in YorkshireIn the week in which the Edin…
Soho theatre, LondonIt's not surprising that playwrights are drawn towards restorative justice, the process by which the perpetrators and victims of crimes are brought together in an attempt…
Murrays' Mills, Manchester"The mills lead us to no further destination than death," says the weaver Stephen Blackpool in Charles Dickens's novel, set among the misery and ignorance of Coketo…
