123 stories by "Tom Wicker"
It's 1981 and London's gay club scene is a refuge for stage electrics student Joseph and the only place ambitious would-be DJ
It's a wonder that Jamie Lloyd hasn't directed Philip Ridley's work before. Recognised for his signature in-your-face directorial style, here he's tackling
A chill permeates Ashes. It's a melancholic, mournful portrait of obsession that doesn't try to explain the destructive acts it depicts. Instead,
Dirty Great Love Story has got bigger and bigger. Starting out as a short poetry two-hander in a pub backroom, it grew
Budget-slashed local authorities continue to tighten their belts and Arts Council funding has either levelled off or been reprioritised in the face
Extra Yarn is the Orange Tree Theatre's first in-house show for young people under artistic director Paul Miller. Elinor Cook's adaptation of
Witches and wizards are flying high, post Harry Potter. Kiki's Delivery Service, adapted for the stage by Jessica Sian and based on
It's a welcome return for All the Angels. Nick Drake's choral play about the first public performance (in Dublin) of 18th-century composer
This new production of playwright David Wood's adaptation of Dick King-Smith's much-loved children's story, Babe the Sheep-Pig, gets a lot right. Director
"Yeah, well, ancient history," says one character in Anders Lustgarten's new play, The Seven Acts of Mercy. Not so for Lustgarten, whose
Scrooge and the Seven Dwarves won't win awards for its slickness. But its festive mash-up of Father Christmas, Dickens, Snow White and
Underneath is a tale from the crypt that brings new meaning to the term corpsing. With a rumbling laugh, Pat Kinevane "
Putting Words in Your Mouth is a verbatim show that gets messier and more complicated the more you grapple with it "
At a time when people are being priced out of the London housing market, Teatro Vivo (co-producing with the Albany) serves up
After two hours, the stage was strewn with foil curtains, roadie paraphernalia and dry ice. "I'll never forget my first Forced Entertainment
Christian Parker, chair of the graduate theatre programme at Columbia University School of the Arts, notes how times have changed. "Culturally, we're
This month, Wicked celebrates a decade on stage in London. In October, The Phantom of the Opera will have stumped up 30
Cressida Pollock, chief executive of London-based English National Opera, recently observed that the majority of performing arts audiences in the UK are
This August, there will be 3,269 shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Of these, 1,731 will be premieres. The fringe might well
In Polka's main theatre, there's netting ready to tip a giant, inflatable fruit over the audience as part of a production of
The Faction theatre company's latest production is a pop-up staging of Shakespeare's comedy, Much Ado About Nothing. But it's not where you
Director Iqbal Khan has had a longstanding relationship with Macbeth " since he was an eight-year-old growing up in Birmingham, in fact.
Other than Joan Collins, Freddie Fox probably gets asked about dynasty more than most. He laughs when I try this line out
If all the world's a stage, Shakespeare will definitely be hogging it this weekend. April 23 marks the 400th anniversary since his
The artistic director of Talawa Theatre Company is in reflective mode: "There should be more black theatre companies. I think, in the
