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The chaos of national politics in the mid-1970s seemed light years away in 2014, but how arrogant that assumption seems now.
The idea of re-performing Lungs while the actors safely socially distance got me thinking about other plays which have been performed over the past year or two that could be similarly revive…
Work is something that every single on of us is thinking about at the moment. Charlie & Jeff are having entirely different Lockdown work experiences under the same roof. Is it possible t…
"We have grabbed this opportunity with both hands to make something original " not a film of a staged version of the play BUT a new hybrid production." When COVID-19 ended hopes of a London …
Hairspray Live! is such a joyous show it should perk up many a flagging spirit. It proves far superior to the previous week's NBC Live offering of The Sound of Music.
Perfectly pitched: Anno Domino has all of the hallmarks of classic Ayckbourn - razor-sharp observation, subtle skewering of preconceptions, and exploration of murky hidden depths.
Free-to-view YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On continues its theatre lockdown weekly schedule with another 'live' television broadcast of a Broadway musical, Peter Pan Live!
In the treasure hunt for the most magical theatres in the country, Amber Massie-Blomfield provides a compilation of bite-sized chunks of captivating theatrical history...
The plotline of James Graham play covers several years during a period when majorities were slim and politics was a brutal business.
'There is no doubt that this is the first of many events from the Burn Bright family. A family that has staked it very existence on the fact that we need a seismic shift in the way we create…
It is not often that one reviews a play one saw six years ago, but with the forthcoming National Theatre At Home streaming of the Donmar Warehouse production of Coriolanus, right now seems a…
As a great American dramatist, Williams's timeless understanding of human emotion and the particularly explosive dynamics of family groups has always been such a notable feature of his writi…
The hugely-anticipated new West End production of Hello, Dolly! starring Imelda Staunton, which was due to begin performances at the Adelphi Theatre in London on Tuesday 11 August 2020, has …
While world history is 'officially' about facts, in reality, it is an amalgamation of thousands of experiences into one coherent narrative.
New 2021 performance dates have been announced for the West End return of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at The London Palladium, starring Ja…
Edinburgh's Lyceum Theatre has entered a period of "hibernation" as a building-based producing theatre, postponing all 2020 shows and entering into negotiations with all staff over redundanc…
Due to the ongoing impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, Anya Reiss' adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, in a version by Frank McGuinness, are both now…
The Berliner Ensemble have located a jewel in their theatre history. Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage is a modern classic of the German theatre.
Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage is a mo…
We need to use this time wisely. As audience members, what do we want to see; as creatives, what can be made. If the expectations don't match, then audiences won't be back.
The Old Vic's new artistic initiative combines a run of socially distanced performances of Duncan MacMillan's LUNGS, starring Claire Foy and Matt Smith, and a series of rehearsed play-readin…
Simon McBurney performs this stupendous and extraordinary solo show from Complicite. Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin's soundscape is nothing short of a triumph.
As theatre lockdown continues in the face of the coronavirus crisis, Cameron Mackintosh has cancelled his 14-month UK and Ireland tour of The Phantom of the Opera, starring Killian Donnelly …
Moment of Grace, a new drama exploring the monumental action taken by Princess Diana when she visited a London AIDS ward, has been transformed from an award-winning stage show into a film in…
World on fire: The NT Live recording of this classic Young Vic production stars Gillian Anderson and is genuinely unmissable.
Selladoor Worldwide has announced that it will suspend its 2020 touring productions " shifting the majority of shows to start in 2021.
