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You, of course, always hope a piece will be received well, but if you go in thinking, "this could be the next big hit" you're kinda focussing on the wrong thing.
In terms of recent gay history, Coming Clean is instantly dated as a pre-AIDS play but its emotional world is one that still resonates strongly.
Stockard Channing and Laura Carmichael star in Jamie Lloyd's new West End production of Alexi Kaye Campbell's 1999 play Apologia. Here is what critics have been saying about it.
Mythic emotion: Meet Me At Dawn, a new play by Zinnie Harris presented by the EIF at the Traverse, is a sombre but beautifully open-hearted depiction of love, loss and regret.
Hyperion " a naval ship, a Greek god, a romantic novel by Friedrich Hölderlin. It's also the setting for George Siena's one-man, multi-thematic, blended performance.
Oliver Ford Davies is an unusual actor because he’s also an accomplished academic – that makes him a pretty cerebral blend of practical and theoretical. His latest book Sha…
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's play tries to balance comedy with serious ideas but ends up feeling incoherent in Katherine Nesbitt's production.
West End musical THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS will now end its limited season at the London Palladium on Saturday 2 September 2017.
I started to wonder whether being cast with an all Indian company " to reflect the population of a typical Lancashire street of terraces nowadays " might better highlight the characters' iss…
Forty-five years after William Peter Blatty's best-selling novel terrified an entire generation, The Exorcist will be unleashed onto the West End stage for the very first time, opening at th…
Uncompromising: Take the original Trainspotting movie and put it in IMAX. Turn the sound up to 120%, the acting to 130%. and have all the gore, faeces and bile flying out of the screen, righ…
What a horrifying title but as Hair announces a one off ‘Clothes Optional’ performance on 11 November. Is there anything theatre won’t do to attract new and alternative aud…
Katy Lipson: "Every show you've seen me do I've loved and I would see it every night if I could. From Jerry's Girls to Tommy to The Return Of The Soldier to The Addams Family to Toxic Avenge…
"It's not just about the soundIt's about the eventA radical change in the state of things"Though the quote above is taken from the play boom, it could also be about the epithet 'fag' which i…
Urgent: There is undeniable promise in The Last Queen of Scotland. It is told in a voice largely absent from the stage, and presents a story which seems to have been largely forgotten, but r…
"I should warn you that nobody likes me"Truth be told, I resisted seeing Ink for the longest time, mainly because I had zero desire to see a play about Rupert Murdoch. I feel the same way ab…
Set in the arena of a carnival, the audience are propositioned with hula hoop competitions, pin the tail on the donkey (an appropriate addition) and dazzled by card tricks.
Wild: The EIF's Rhinoceros is a thoroughly contemporary take on a modern classic, combining knockabout comedy with a deep consideration of human society.
There's not much I can add about Emma Hatton's powerhouse of a performance that hasn't been said already. I was also impressed with Kevin Stephen-Jones portrayal of Perón which seemed to …
Boom is a play unsure of itself. Is it a story of Adam and Eve in the time of Craigslist? Is it a biting satire on cultural and biological heritage when everyone is ignorant about where they…
Having never read a David Walliams book before I did not know what to expect from the stage adaptation, so I took along a young person who had. Here is what they had to say.
The 1960s were "hilarious", says one young character in this revival, starring Broadway icon Stockard Channing, of Alexi Kaye Campbell's 2009 family drama at the Trafalgar Studios. How so? "…
A quieter day at EdFringe as I moved around the City, which is packed with theatremakers looking for theatregoers, theatregoers dodging the showers between tourists, tourists looking at vist…
It's a twee, nostalgic tale of a girl who can't get a job as an actress and contemplates suicide. The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign is Peg Entwhistle, not Joanne Hartstone's charact…
New writing can be hit and miss, however this gruelling sensation of a piece has emerged from the Theatre Lab into a production after just shy of six years in the making.
