853 stories by "Matt Trueman"
The Light Princess, the centrepiece of the National's 2012 spring season, has been postponed indefinitely, the Guardian can revealA keenly anticipated new musical by Tori Amos, scheduled to …
Days after Katori Hall's The Mountaintop receives Broadway premiere, off-Broadway Kraine theatre hosts musical MartinA new musical about the life of Martin Luther King opens in New York toni…
Group of Connecticut students objected to two male actors kissing on stage during visiting production of Zanna, Don't!A musical shown in Connecticut high schools as part of an anti-bullying …
Theatres up and down the land are eager to celebrate 400 years of the King James Bible. So why does the word of God work so well on stage?We all know by now that the King James Bible is 400 …
Rediscovered text of Exorcism, a one-act play drawing on O'Neill's suicide attempt aged 24, appears in New YorkerA lost play by Eugene O'Neill, arguably America's greatest dramatist, has bee…
Former X-Files star will be joined by Oscar-winner Helen Hunt in Relative Insanity, a big-screen update that will see the Russian play relocated to present-day New YorkDavid Duchovny and Hel…
Stage adaptation of Donn Pearce's novel, starring Hustle actor Marc Warren, is to finish next month after only 67 performancesTwo weeks after opening in the West End, the stage adaptation of…
On Sunday the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical will begin its first theatrical run in the Austrian city where it is setOver half a century after its Broadway premiere, The Sound of Music…
Choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker claims Beyoncé borrowed her routines in the video for new single CountdownA leading choreographer has accused Beyoncé of "stealing" dance moves, af…
Members of the public have been invited to allow their phones to be 'hacked', forming the basis of six new plays on the scandalA London theatre is to "hack" the voicemails of members of the …
We cram too many shows into our busy festival schedules. Longer, more challenging performances are paying the priceThere's a strange symptom among Edinburgh festival audiences called the 50-…
A late-night bus tour through London's streets, as part of the InTransit festival, opened my eyes and ears to how far audio-based theatre has travelledSat on the N11 night bus between London…
Katie Mitchell's new video installation at the V&A refracts Ophelia's death scene into five 20th-century dramatic stylesWho would win in a fight between the greatest theatre theorists of…
Katie Mitchell's new video installation at the V&A refracts Ophelia's death scene into five 20th-century dramatic stylesWho would win in a fight between the greatest theatre theorists of the…
From a four-storey-high dance show to intimate tales inside a camper van ... theatre got down with the gigs at this year's Suffolk music bashWhile the nation tuned in to watch Tom Pellereau …
As Ambassador Theatre Group begins installing 49,000 high-tech seats nationwide, I took my derriere along to test the latest development in theatregoingFew things in life draw the same low-l…
From a community theatre storm in East Yorkshire that went viral to Mamma Mia! in China, Matt Trueman considers the week in theatreMatt Trueman
From dreamy moments as the Barbican to backstage bullying and Kevin Spacey's Shakespearean sensation, the highlights of the last week in theatreMatt Trueman
Do theatremakers have a duty to warn the audience of any potential after-effects of a performance?Last night, I went to the theatre and I was healed. Healed, you ask. Yes, I know. It does so…
High-concept theme or a bit of everything? Classics or new work? How do artistic directors find the right balance?You can say this about Sean Holmes: he's not a man to go back on his word. W…
For the arts sector to survive, those in luck when the national portfolio organisations are named should not neglect those who miss outAt 10am on Wednesday, when the national portfolio organ…
The sheer variety of British new writing means that refracting plays through the prism of national identity, as Aleks Sierz's new book does, feels blinkeredPick a play " any play written in …
Theatre-makers need previews to fine-tune their shows. Reviewing them online before they're ready shows a lack of respect for all involvedA few days ago on this blog, Alistair Smith argued f…
Alien armies, incoming meteors, climate change ... Hollywood takes on global threats with gusto so why does theatre struggle?Under a vast black tarpaulin something is stirring. The plastic s…
Artists need to come together and regain control of their future " and the perfect platform for collective action already existsFor the last five years, in an invariably cold room, assorted …
