765 stories by "Tim Bano"
What's brilliant about this puppet parade of gruesome deaths is the seriousness with which it's so silly. Our host Nathanial Tweak, also
Of all the NHS-themed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, this one shouts the most quietly. There’s none of the in-your-face politicking of
Gbolahan Obisesan's adaptation of Chigozie Obioma's novel makes for a supreme piece of theatre. It's pared to essentials " two actors and
The directions Laurent Pelly takes familiar works in, and the designs he gives them, are always pretty revelatory. That's true of his
Jon is thinking about leaving. What, and to go where, we don't know. Magne van den Berg's play doesn't deal in the
How does Chris Thorpe make a middle-aged white man with a guitar and a show about being British absolutely the opposite of
The trouble with the Homeric epics is that for us today they exist only on paper, as big, impenetrable books in stilted
Despite controversially taking over Edinburgh's Meadows site four years ago, Underbelly's Circus Hub is now a near sell-out and is taking risks
It's strange to think that the nature of grief has changed over the years. It seems like one of those permanent emotions,
For the past 13 years or so, Nir Paldi and George Mann have taken it in turns to create a show for
In Le Gateau Chocolat's raggedy makeshift world, ugly ducklings don't turn into beautiful swans. Life isn't that simple if you're 'different'. Instead
Originally performed by its author David Leddy, this monologue has to be one of the most stylish productions at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Everyone would be a lot happier if they had Julie Hesmondhalgh to tell them bedtime stories. Her husband Ian Kershaw's lightly sci-fi
'Active shooter' is a term with which most people don't have to be familiar. But American playwright Martin Zimmerman's monologue, responding to
In a career spanning three decades, John Partridge has been in countless West End musicals and the long-running BBC soap. But in
There are a lot more laughs here than Othello usually provokes. In their latest team-up, director Claire van Kampen and husband Mark
Nothing much has changed for Les Miserables over the past 33 years. The orchestrations have been tweaked to get rid of a
One of the more eyebrow-raising shows at the Edinburgh Fringe plays out a controversial game in which American schoolchildren re-enact the Civil
Intimacy and intensity sold audiences and critics on Ian McKellen's King Lear in Chichester last year. Jonathan Munby's regal production was squished
Unlike Gerard Alessandrini's revue show Forbidden Broadway, which takes popular songs from musical theatre, reworks their lyrics and lampoons their singers, his
One of Alan Bennett's best bits of writing is set in a hospital. It was a 1982 Play For Today called Intensive
There's not much light in the story of a 13 year old boy watching his mum die of cancer. But, in Sally
Having found his role in The Stage, technical manager Jason Wescombe has overseen 100 Almeida productions and is now working on Machinal.
Before he created the Eden Project, Tim Smit came across a thousand acres of bramble and broken masonry on the Cornish coast,
Although The Muppet Show was filmed in the UK at Elstree when it started life in 1976, Jim Henson's creatures have never
