765 stories by "Tim Bano"
This is only the third play at the Bridge Theatre " and the third configuration, from end-on in Young Marx, promenade in
While a number of companies offer accessible performances for learning-disabled children, few are aimed at over-18s. The designer of Frozen Light's latest
Music is, maybe, the most human thing there is and the music industry, possibly, the most inhuman. And it's not had its
There are as many permutations of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' Cold War metaphor musical as there are moves in chess. Since
The award-winning director of The Mountaintop has helmed Nine Night at the National. He tells Tim Bano how a chance trip to
Baz Luhrmann's warm and silly 1992 debut Strictly Ballroom, the first of his 'Red Curtain' Trilogy " followed by Romeo + Juliet
How can anyone resist the iconic climax from An Officer and a Gentleman, with Up Where We Belong blasting and love finding
It’s good to be back in Jim Steinman’s world, a world full of too much leather and picaresque songs in which the
Yes, it's a jukebox musical. And no, it's not imaginatively told, galloping straightforwardly through Tina Turner's life and works from childhood to
It's hardly Chicago's fault " more a consequence of the show's success and longevity " but there's something about that black and
For a long while it's not clear what Chelsea Walker is trying to do here. The director, who won the RTST Sir
This cult show, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1992 is an admirable act of self-defeat; a show that points out its own pointlessness.
When it premiered 18 years ago, Vincent River was seen as a departure for Philip Ridley. Moving away from the slightly fantastical,
It has been a novel, a play, a film, another play and a musical. Now Manuel Puig's love story has been adapted
In 2016 the Abbey Theatre in Dublin staged Sean O’Casey’s 1926 masterpiece to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, an event
The idea of a Sondheim revue is both a huge temptation and a folly. As magnificent as so many of his songs
Every so often one of those plays comes around whose existence is just completely baffling. Not because it's no good – far
"Rarely-performed Tennessee Williams play" are words that can make the heart sink. There's usually a reason something is rarely performed, and Williams
As Kneehigh's multimedia staging of Brief Encounter returns to a London cinema, the show's projection designers tell Tim Bano explain how they
Hooked on Nigerian elders' stories from childhood, Joan Iyiola swapped a potential law career for performing. The Mono Box founder tells Tim
As well as being a play about war, John Ward’s adaptation of the Ancient Greek story of Electra is a production at
Set to a text by German writer Falk Richter, director Jude Christian's inventive, occasionally bamboozling show, Trust, is like watching a huge
It's a worry when Euripides is thanked in a play's acknowledgements. In a way, the brutal, blindsiding climax to Dennis Kelly's monologue,
Peter Gill's 2002 play is a masterpiece of subtext " appropriate for a play about directors and actors since subtext is their
As Nuffield Southampton Theatres prepares to open a long-awaited second site in the city, its artistic director tells Tim Bano how the
