1,125 stories by "Natasha Tripney"
Uncle Vanya feels like such a natural fit for Toby Jones that it's a wonder he hasn't played the role before now.
Lucy Kirkwood is a writer who continually tests and stretches herself, shifting from workplace satire to butcher-shop dystopia to an intense promenade
New year. New class. Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae's uplifting musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie enters its third year in the
For many people, no matter how deep their love of theatre, the phrase "90 minutes, no interval" is still one of the
Scenes With Girls " Royal Court, London The Royal Court starts the year with a new play by Miriam Battye about female
Chaplin Chapin and Stan Laurel arrived in the United States on the same ship. They'd both honed their slapstick skills as part
London's subterranean arts festival gets bigger every year. Occupying a series of tunnels under Waterloo Station and increasingly spilling out into the
Scrounger " Finborough Theatre, London Athena Stevens stars in her new play about the realities of living as a disabled person in
The potential for things going wrong is a fundamental part of any magic act. The best magicians use it to their advantage;
"I'm sorry. How much?" I asked, assuming I must have misheard, but no. £20 for two normal sized, in no way remarkable
Operation Mincemeat " Southwark Playhouse, London Spitlip's dizzyingly inventive musical based on a fascinating true story from the Second World War was
Black Beauty " Southbank Centre, London Created by Andy Manley, Andy Cannon and Shona Reppe, this show for ages five and over
"Together, we remake things." This is said towards the end of Ella Hickson's Swive [Elizabeth] at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Hickson's witty
Snowflake " Kiln Theatre, London Mike Bartlett (Cock, Bull, Albion) brings his play about a complicated father-daughter relationship, which premiered last year
"How can I be a head of a country and yet subject to a husband?" A reasonable question posed by Queen Elizabeth
Australian actor Daniel Monks has realised a dream of playing both Joseph Merrick and Richard III. As Teenage Dick, an adaptation of
Having worked wonders on Tennessee Williams' under-appreciated and pretty flawed play Summer and Smoke, director Rebecca Frecknall works a similar magic on
Breach made its name with a series of shows exploring the idea of re-enactment, most notably It's True, It's True, It's True,
Joan of Leeds " New Diorama, London Breach, creator of hit fringe show It's True, It's True, It's True, returns with a
Words are everything in Jamie Lloyd's stripped-down and shaken-up Cyrano. Martin Crimp's adaptation plays fast and loose with Edmond Rostand's 1897 play
Of all the many versions of Charles Dickens' classic Christmas fable being staged this winter, this is one of the most inventive.
Returning to the Old Vic for the third year running, Jack Thorne's adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic morality tale manages to be
Strange Tales " Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Grid Iron's new show for the Traverse is based on the stories of Chinese writer Pu
The Snow Queen " Sherman Theatre, Cardiff The Sherman Theatre's festive show is Tessa Walker's production of Hans Christian Andersen's seasonal favourite,
Last year, a writer introduced me to the term 'cul-de-sac-ing'. She used it to describe her frustration at the fact that, having
