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A show featuring three and a half tonnes of coal opens in Cardiff, Katie Mitchell frees Ophelia from Hamlet at the Royal Court, and Daniel Evans makes his directorial swansong in SheffieldWi…
O No! | King Lear | Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour | The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom If you have an aversion to audience participation and theatre about the…
Some audience members seem to think their ticket guarantees an autograph too, but actors are well within their rights to miss the late-evening salutationsWhen the Duke of York's theatre floo…
Wyndham's theatre, London Mark Strong, Nicola Walker and Phoebe Fox star in a menacing, meticulously conceived production. It's like watching a runaway train hurtle towards youThere have bee…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonRice's opening production as artistic director is a modern mash-up, but while the gags are fast and furious, it never fully taps into a sense of the enchanted"Rock…
Baker's heartbreaking Pulitzer-winner, is set in a doomed picturehouse but it's really about how nothing beats the live theatrical experienceSome months ago, a friend and I walked into the w…
A handful of current shows, including The Flick at the National Theatre, ditch the traditional sense of narrative drive but still manage to draw you in"Nothing happens. Twice." That was the …
Barbican, LondonShakespeare gets a close-up in Toneelgroep's compression of three plays " Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra " a remarkable six-hour marathon played without a…
Roedale allotments, BrightonArtist Marc Rees's deliciously understated promenade piece unearths the story of eccentric Shakespeare scholar James Orchard Halliwell-PhillippsThe Brighton festi…
There are festivals all across the country, while Philip Ridley's Radiant Vermin returns and James Graham's Monster Raving Loony arrives in SohoThe Ricochet Project's Smoke and Mirrors looks…
Fake It 'Til You Make It | The Encounter | The Flick | Boy | The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-TimeIt was only some time into their relationship that performance-maker Bryony Kimm…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonEmma Rice's debut is a brave adaptation of one of the bard's best-loved comedies"Rock the ground," declares a red neon sign high above the Globe stage where the ne…
Park theatre, LondonLondon 2012 is the setting for an exuberant update of The Beggar's Opera, featuring greedy mayors, pavement dissenters and an investment of lyrical witJohn Gay's The Begg…
Gate, LondonEuripides's gory tale of murder is recast in four short plays that draw in Greek soldiers, Hollywood directors and the maid who found Agamemnon's corpseWas Agamemnon a decent man…
Baker's heartbreaking Pulitzer-winner, is set in a doomed picturehouse but it's really about how nothing beats the live theatrical experienceSome months ago, a friend and I walked into the w…
Secret location, London This novel and surprising mystery, which unravels in a former rug factory, casts theatregoers as police officers"Crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot," qu…
Jamie Lloyd's noisy production made me want to lie down in a quiet room but it's an admirable attempt to get a new and younger audience into the theatreJamie Lloyd's production of Doctor Fau…
The Brighton festival and fringe begin, Spymonkey tackle all of the deaths in Shakespeare's plays and Ambreen Razia performs Diary of a Hounslow Girl Continue reading...
Boy | Right Now | Kings Of War | The Brink | The FatherYou wouldn't exactly describe Leo Butler's play as an enjoyable watch. But it is an utterly compelling 70 minutes. Deprived teen Liam h…
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonA corpse falling from the sky triggers a fragmented series of stories in a show combining sound and movement to good effectWe are all connected, but often don't r…
For three years, a bright red box on the South Bank has hosted exciting shows. The National must retain its spirit if it is to truly live up to its nameThe National Theatre's Temporary Space…
Gemma Bodinetz's plans for a multi-skilled, community-based company with a 50:50 gender split is a bold new vision of the theatre's 70s rep modelThe news that Liverpool Everyman plans to tri…
Richmond theatreBruce Norris's incendiary and excruciatingly funny play, which explores racial tensions and gentrification, gets a finely acted revivalIn Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play A Rai…
Emma Rice's tenure at the Globe begins with A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Cymbeline hits Stratford-upon-Avon " plus the rest of the week's best theatre Clybourne Park, Bruce Norris' uncomfo…
Roundhouse, LondonDeadpan comedy, athletic tumbling and the politics of men behaving like performing dogs drive Barely Methodical's latest show A smartly dressed woman (Nikki Rummer) watches…
