2,878 stories by "Lyn Gardner"
Why stick a pin in the Fringe brochure? Here are my top tips from deep inside Edinburgh " and a few pieces of advice for anyone approaching the festival for the first timeAs I've said before…
From the revived York Mysteries in the north to The Importance of Being Earnest in Cornwall via Troilus and Cressida at the RSC, it's a good week for fans of the classicsScotlandNo surprises…
It's time we cut Shakespeare's allowanceShakespeare " don't you just love him? Judging by the total attendance figure for the recent Globe to Globe season, many of us do, myself included: 85…
Adult life through the eyes of a teenager at the Drum in Plymouth, teenagers and grandparents perform together in Manchester, and Miriam Margoyles takes Dickens's Women to Oxford and the Hol…
Camden People's theatre, LondonThe night roars with drumbeats, trees fry in towers of flame, and a church turns into a furnace as it is consumed by fire. The image of a city ablaze is a stro…
It's your last chance for Gatz in London, the RSC heads to Newcastle with Julius Caesar, and Deborah Warner's installation, Peace Camp, is set to light up the coastScotland and Northern Irel…
Theatre Royal, BathThe embittered, scandal-mongering Lady Sneerwell (Serena Evans) and her cronies are a nest of vipers always ready to spit poison about friends as well as foes. The double-…
As new works plunge audiences into ever more extreme situations, there's greater need than ever for artists to consider the ethics of manipulationI've written before how interactive theatre …
National Theatre, LondonAs night falls, 23 of us take our places around a table on the roof of the National Theatre. A large white helium balloon bobs above us, straining at its leash like a…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London"This is not theatre, it's hyper-reality," says The Voice. Big Brother may be airing almost unnoticed on Channel 5, but in east London you can see a two-h…
London's Old Vic closes its internship scheme under pressure from the Arts Council, Clay Shirky reveals a dark theatrical past " plus Samuel Beckett gets active on TwitterFairer deals for in…
Almeida, LondonThere is a moment towards the end of the first half of Inspector Sands' latest show that is as charged and heart-breaking as anything you will see on the stage. A wo…
Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonAs Filter's brilliant version of Dream has already proved this year, nights in the forest near Athens don't have to be stuffed full of prettified Arthur…
Simon Russell Beale plays Timon of Athens in London while Bola Agbaje responds to last summer's riots in Bristol. And Manchester is the place to meet for youth theatres from all over the wor…
Watermill, BagnorIn the style of National Theatre of Brent classics such as The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Messiah, Patrick Barlow and Sean Foley's adaptation of General Lew Wallace…
The West End is thriving, but fringe theatres are struggling to fill seats. Are ticket prices, Twitter or the sheer volume of shows to blame?Not so long ago, a rave review in Time Out plus a…
Finborough, LondonQuite fun, very camp and more than a mite perplexing, Joshua Conkel's black comedy is like a working-class version of Desperate Housewives meets Thelma and Louise.Stephanie…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsThere's rebellion and revolution brewing in the circus in this show-cum-interactive adventure created by Unlimited Theatre and Layla Rosa for family audiences.…
Gender imbalance isn't the only issue that British theatre needs to tackle; and can King Lear ever be family-friendly?Out of touchThis week Equity wrote to 43 theatres highlighting the need …
Bentwater Parks, SuffolkIf Margaret Catchpole had never set eyes on smuggler Will Laud, she would have probably married a ploughman, conceived a brood of children and died in her bed on her …
Norwich CathedralIt begins so enticingly. You walk into the darkened cathedral. The torches we've been given to help us negotiate uneven floors also help illuminate the gloomiest nooks of th…
Ghost Parade prepares to haunt Ebbw Vale, a delightful Midsummer Night's Dream is on offer in Manchester and a series of free shows kicks off outside the NT and at the ScoopScotlandIt's your…
National, LondonWe are on top of the world. Actually, we're on the top of the National theatre, in a secret space on the roof between the liftshafts. We're going to have a bit of a party, a …
Soho theatre, LondonI've seen the future and it definitely needs fixing in this collaboration between Soho theatre and Newcastle's Live theatre that explores notions of a perfect world. At a…
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, LondonThe opening outdoor show in this year's Greenwich and Docklands International festival is a reminder of how far both street arts and disability-led…
