765 stories by "Tim Bano"
This contemporary drawing room comedy by David K Barnes might not break new ground but it is a properly funny. Birthday Suit
What once was an underground car park has now firmly established itself as a trendy and artistically shrewd fringe theatre, but after
Pantomime is already quite self aware as an art form. There’s barely a fourth wall, and shows can expand and contract, reacting
High up in the warren of the National Theatre's offices, Patrick Marber, blue eyes blazing and shoulders characteristically hunched, seems excited. He's
With Linda Robson in 2014's panto and Pauline Quirke this year, all the Beck Theatre needs is Lesley Joseph for a Birds
It may not be the biggest Wind In The Willows to open this year " that honour goes to Stiles and Drewe’s
To most it’s called Platonov; to Michael Frayn this early untitled Chekhov play, which Frayn adapted in 1984, is Wild Honey. It
We don't get a happy ending in the Globe's Christmas show, adapted by Joel Horwood from stories by Hans Christian Andersen. Instead,
Roald Dahl’s 100th anniversary year comes to an end with a colourful adaptation of his farmyard yarn, Fantastic Mr Fox, set to
No man is an island, even if he’s named after one, but in Somerset Maugham's 1932 play Joseph "Sheppey" Miller feels the
Back in 1979, US producer Alexander Cohen observed: "The theater is going in a different direction. Buried Child just won the Pulitzer
The expanse EV Crowe's play covers is dazzling. A mother destroys herself as she measures her successes and faces up to her
This rambling, fractured narrative by bestselling Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri, following a young man in the 24 hours after a bomb
There's little of the anarchy of The Young Ones and Bottom here, Adrian Edmondson's most famous TV creations. Instead, in this adaptation
After plays about office politics and dockers, Zoe Cooper has delivered an adolescent drama that finds magic in the mundane. She says Jess and Joe Forever is the most honest thing she's writ…
Kenneth Branagh doesn't make life easy for himself. After a 13-month residency of six plays at the Garrick Theatre, whose stars have
It's the ultimate Edinburgh Fringe fairytale: in 1966 a student company called the Oxford Theatre Group mounted a one-act play by a
Chichester Festival Theatre's revival of Frank Loesser's classic musical seems to be in several places at once, splitting into a West End
Virtual reality is nothing new. The term was, in fact, coined in 1938 by legendary theatre director Antonin Artaud. He used it
If Shakespeare were alive today, what sort of playwright would he be? A James Graham, taking the temperature of the nation with
Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow When: April 6-10 What: A pay-what-you-can melting pot of the finest performance art in the country, now in its
Scarborough in March is an unlikely place to find the Caryl Churchills, the Jamie Lloyds and the Antony Shers of tomorrow. But
In 1961, when Tennessee Williams turned 50, he had two Pulitzer prizes and four New York Critics' Circle awards under his belt,
Aside from Broadway invasions, long-dead Greeks and Chekhov, it's rare to see work by non-British playwrights in London. Florian Zeller is an
Julius Lester was effusive in his praise: "Her effect on others was like the seepage of rain into the earth, nourishing roots
