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Solidly rooted and distinctive, this event is a chance for the Irish capital to have an important conversation with itself and the world. Which arts festivals do you reckon achieve success?I…
Project Arts Centre, DublinThis is a love letter from one Irish émigré to another. The writer is Emma Donoghue, author of the bestselling novel Room; the subject is Maeve Brennan, the tale…
Abbey, Dublin"All art is quite useless," is the first line of Neil Bartlett's arresting adaptation that offers up Oscar Wilde's 1891 novel as a play within a play, one that is a cross betwee…
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens at West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Abbey theatre brings The Plough and the Stars to Birmingham, while Circa display absurdly good circus in WalesScotland, Northern …
O'Reilly, DublinOver every Hamlet looms the shadow of the Hamlets who came before. Richard Burton played the Dane on Broadway in 1964, in a production directed by John Gielgud, one of the mo…
Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonParting is such sweet sorrow for the teenage Romeo and Juliet. But what if the lovers don't die, and grow old together? Will youthful passion survive thickening…
As a new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens in Leeds, we're inviting you to join our project and review the production. But there's no right or wrong approachThe first rule is that th…
As a new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens in Leeds, we're inviting you to join our project and review the production. But there's no right or wrong approach Continue reading...
Southwark Playhouse, LondonDesigner Simon Daw transforms the space into an enchanting, Narnia-style winter wonderland, but there is nothing magical about the Ukrainian forest where a deaf Ta…
Bristol Old Vic's partnership with South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company is an example of international collaboration that needs to happen more oftenAt last month's ITC conference, Simon …
Bike Shed, Exeter"This is a crocodile eating my wife," observes the artist Roger Hilton, referring to one of his paintings. Apparently his wife can't see the resemblance at all, and not ever…
Audience members have been leaving previews of the National theatre's Scenes from an Execution at the interval. Smart or short-sighted?At an art gallery, you can simply skip the works that d…
Adrian Howells asks audiences to don swimsuits at Govanhill Baths and Frantic Assembly tour with Beautiful Burnout but the big opening is Simon Stephens' double bill in SalisburyScotland an…
Drum, PlymouthLight bulbs shimmer like stars across the ceiling of the Drum theatre for Rona Munro's play about American women in the early days of the space race. Inspired by the real-life …
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonLove is hard and the future uncertain in these three plays by Nick Payne, Duncan Macmillan and Penelope Skinner, making up Paines Plough's Roundabout season.…
Arts Depot, LondonWhen children play, they do so with complete concentration and total abandon. The circus and theatre company Ockham's Razor play with that intensity in their latest show. N…
Rising ticket prices mean an evening out for two at a West End show in London is now beyond the reach of all but the affluentWhen the New Covent Garden theatre opened in 1808, following a di…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterSophie Lancaster was a 20-year-old goth with dreadlocked hair. On 11 August 2007, she and her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, went to talk to a group of teenagers in Stub…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterSophie Lancaster was a 20-year-old goth with dreadlocked hair. On 11 August 2007, she and her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, went to talk to a group of teenagers in Stub…
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O2 Arena, London"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do," cries an agonised Jesus on the cross. But it's the good lord, otherwise known as composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who sho…
Liverpool PlayhouseWhen the cat's away, the mice certainly do play in Ben Jonson's 1610 comedy " a play that, like theatre itself, revels in lies and illusions. With his master, Lovewit, saf…
Mike Bartlett's new version of Medea sets out on a nationwide tour from Glasgow and Tim Minchin plays Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar at the O2 in LondonScotland The big news this week is th…
Gate, LondonWhen you try to make revolution, who do you do it for, if not for your children? Kenyatta and his wife Ashanti X were involved in America's black revolutionary movements in the 1…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsA full moon hangs like a teardrop over the junkyard home of Albert and Harold Steptoe in this Kneehigh show that does more than simply follow the current fashi…
