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There's a famous scene in Citizen Kane where Orson Welles chronicles the disintegration of a sixteen year marriage in two minutes of screen time through a montage of increasingly chilly brea…
With the ongoing Loyalist protests on the streets of Belfast over the flying of the union flag, Field Day Theatre Company's ambition to probe political and cultural identity is as relevant t…
This is a brave and ambitious choice for an RSCÂ family Christmas show.
It was, it has to be said, one of the most unprepossessingly titled shows in Edinburgh Festival memory. Now When Women Wee is being turned into a film by Damian Jones, the powerhouse produce…
Farce " with its panic-propelled exits and entrances and its heavy dependence on doors " should not officially work in in-the-round theatres.
Look busy! That's the default strategy when the new boss drops by. But when the workers are the dancers of English National Ballet, and the boss is ex-Royal Ballet principal Tamara Rojo, who…
It's a perfect match, a marriage made in heaven. And I don't mean Dominic West's Henry Higgins and Carly Bawden's Eliza Doolittle. After all, they may not even get hitched.
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His staging of Privates on Parade at the Donmar in 2001 helped mark out Michael Grandage as the successor to Sam Mendes.
Ian Brown comes within a mole's whisker of matching last Christmas's feelgood revival of Annie with his Wind in the Willows, which faithfully evokes a kinder, gentler world where financiers …
"This is not like one of those Pirandello plays," mutters Javier Marzan at the end of the first half, shortly after his fellow performers have stormed from the auditorium, "no-one is acting …
A massive clock with a complicated system of whirring cogs dominates Ruari Murchison's fetching, resourceful set. It betokens how time is of the essence in Charles Way's inventive, charming,…
"If you want Santa to come, you have to go to sleep," Joêl and Wilkie solemnly tell each other in BOING!. Easier said than done. In this brilliantly child-friendly show, the excitement of…
As she packs her bags for Sloane Square and the artistic directorship of the Royal Court, Vicky Featherstone is speaking out.
Who is Priscilla Presley? Wife, mother or child of Elvis? Turns out she's wife, or widow, though she does look uncannily like a little sister. And you may have seen her in Dallas, or the Nak…
Her iconoclastic maitresse of ceremonies was the best thing about Kneehigh's otherwise lacklustre West End stage version of The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg.
When Dominic West returned to the stage as Iago in his native Sheffield last year after achieving international TV success in The Wire, it was the performance of his co-star Lily James, then…
Innovative, edgy new seasonal shows are a growth industry but have not yet absorbed the Birmingham Hippodrome pantomime, thank goodness, always one of the best in the land, and resoundingly …
This bewitching take on Cinderella " first seen last year at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol " bounces off the Brothers Grimm adaptation of the story rather than the Disney-influencing Pe…
Travelling Light's bewitching take on Cinderella " first seen last year at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol " bounces off the Brothers Grimm adaptation of the story rather than the Disney-infl…
It's become a truism that Strindberg's depiction of marital hell in The Dance of Death paved the way for the lacerating, liquor-fuelled slug-fest and the unholy game of "Get the Guests" in W…
"I have never found it easy to belong. So much repels," declares Alan Bennett (uncannily well- played by Alex Jennings) towards the close of the first in this delectable double-bill of short…
His staging of Privates on Parade at the Donmar Warehouse in 2001 was one of the productions that marked out Michael Grandage as the natural successor to Sam Mendes.
