Recently we heard casting news about Norma Jeane: The Musical (due this September): that Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona is to play the main character Marilyn Monroe. The language in the t…
Pinocchio, freshly crafted and finding his feet in Geppetto's dusty workshop, couldn't be more at home at the Little Angel Theatre, where puppetry routinely diverts “real” boys a…
Should we listen more to what children say? Chris Goode tells Sarah Williams about how he's trying to remind us that we're all ultimately people, whether child or adult.
"What is wrong with our generation? I mean, what is up with it?" a man asks, wearily. "I know, I know," the man to his left agrees. "I mean the clothes these girls wear," the first man conti…
Sarah Williams talks to playwright David Kantounas who has adapted short stories by American author Jonathan Safran Foer for Dream Epic's current fringe show.
"New Views" of Westminster: Arts in Parliament is offering free art, performance, dance, and poetry this summer. Sarah Williams discovers how ideas about politics are being re-written throug…
The Old Vic Tunnels have once again metamorphosed into a brave new (well, Victorian) world of underground curiosities. As scientists, historians, top-hatted storytellers, philosophers, psych…
Going from light to dark, America to Britain, solo artist to ensemble performer: Adamsdale reveals the challenges of the National's forthcoming Detroit.
In its new, deliciously naughty adaptation, RC Theatre has gone to town in shaking up Mozart's opera, subverting genders of everyone but the Don himself and supplanting Giovanni's Spain with…
As the Guardian opened its doors to readers for its first-ever "Guardian Open Weekend", Sarah Williams was on site to discover what there was to be said about theatre.
The glass is definitely half-full in this dark two-hander, set in a wine shop which borders on the ethereal. In just 30 minutes, Eye Saw Theatre delivers intrigue, drama and laugh-out-loud h…
The train lurches to a halt in a dark tunnel. As the minutes pass you wonder ever so slightly whether the next announcement will see you climbing down onto the dingy track, traipsing along b…
Dance Class in fact begins with a psychology conference, at which lecturer and addiction specialist Tom is rudely interrupted by tipsy nurse Eva, the stranger who will later become his wife.…
Imagine Rowan Atkinson fused with Sarkozy and you'd come close to envisaging the eccentric little man who giggles, grimaces, whines and whinnies over the stage as thirty years of marital ang…