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The Paines Plough Roundabout is the most reliable, new writing venues at the fringe. With a collection of work that represents the width and breadth of the UK both geographically and themati…
'It's a very hyper-masculine world and the conversation isn't being had by a lot of clubs.' How would an openly gay footballer cope in the Premier League? Mark Starling explores the idea in …
For anyone unfamiliar with the show, it is based on the 2003 film starring Jack Black as a wannabe rock-star who masquerades as a private school teacher and ends up taking his class to Battl…
Why was clowning the perfect medium for the tale of almost-30 American girl desperately trying to find love? Performer Carly Jurman explains all about innocence, performing solo, Steven King…
In A Game of Death and Chance, the National Trust for Scotland's first ever Fringe show, four characters from the 17th century " and death himself " have occupied an old Edinburgh tenement t…
Yasmin Paige and Simon Manyonda exude "chemistry" in the "highly watchable" and the zeitgeisty European premiere of Anna Zeigler's Actually, which is now running at the West End's Trafalgar …
Cherie Blair, as played by Mary Ryder, shares her memoir with the audience, recounting her time from childhood right through until the end of Tony's time as PM in 2007.
A fierce indictment of cuts and callous indifference, Who Cares? comes straight from the mouths of young carers in Salford.
Ned Bennett's minimalist and thoughtful production of Equus is by turns thrilling and dull, sensationally staging the sexual and violent aspects of the story while confining the psychiatrist…
Olivier Award winner and Miranda star Patricia Hodge will join the cast of Peter Nichols' A Day in the Death of Joe Egg opposite Toby Stephens and Claire Skinner, running at London's Trafalg…
In a production that is as much rally as world class musical, Jamie Lloyd transforms Evita into a commentary on recent times as well as a showcase of some of the finest performing talent to …
Actually is a complex play that explores more than consent, it raises questions about attitudes towards sex and relationships, race, religion, upbringing and family.
The point " and it's a major one " is that the actor, irrespective of all other considerations, must be the best possible interpreter of the role for the work in question.
From tuneful trumpet practice to to rather more violent domestic exchanges, check out these fantastic production images to get a taste for the new revival of Philip King's 1970s drama Go Ban…
As Alice in Canning Town brings its East End reinvention of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Newham playground, Arc in the Park, get a flavour for the show with this new trailer. And book…
At last, someone has laid the sugary ghost of Elaine Paige. Jamie Lloyd's stripped-back Evita at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park has all the metallic modernity of their Jesus Christ Su…
It may not be the company hitting their absolute heights, but it knows what its audience wants having been versed over the past few years and plays all the hits. Like your favourite festival…
More2Screen has announced the cinema release of the critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Angela Carter's Wise Children, which will be screened in more than 250 cinemas across the UK and …
Actually has its issues as a drama and the heavily discursive competing narratives approach limits how the play is staged that can feel repetitive at times, but Ziegler has created a scenari…
The concept of the piece was fascinating, with the production beginning with an introduction of the actors in a travelling performance group tasked with telling the story of The Hunchback of…
Set against the backdrop of Princeton University, Actually provides a reminder that, even in the era of #MeToo and #TimesUp, there remain plenty of grey areas when it comes down to defining …
Ross Howard's six short plays are set in worlds that are burlesques on absurdism. Relationships don't so much fail to work as unnervingly malfunction.
Rare Philip King play tries to turn a farcical situation into a serious drama - and it doesn't quite work.
One test of biography jukebox musicals is how much an uninitiated audience member ends up learning about the artist through the course of the show.
To the credit of Kwame Kwei-Armah and Idris Elba " and maybe Tori Allen-Martin and Sarah Henley " you can feel the urge to find a healing of all sides in a conflict between black and white S…
