Martin Crimp’s “The Treatment” at Almeida Theatre
Playwright Martin Crimp’s 1993 satirical epic, The Treatment, is a fabulous work, but it’s rarely...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st May 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Martin Crimp’s 1993 satirical epic, The Treatment, is a fabulous work, but it’s rarely...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Apr 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Updating the classics is not without its pitfalls. How can a modern audience, which has a...
Read MorePosted by Mary Mazzilli | 8th Apr 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
There is something strangely genuine and comically truthful about the European première of David...
Read MorePosted by Mark O'Thomas | 4th Apr 2017 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Much has been written over recent months about the apparent bubble in which we are all now living,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Apr 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
The rehabilitation of playwright Terence Rattigan has surpassed even the stage when not only are...
Read MorePosted by Aida Rocci | 2nd Apr 2017 | Dramaturgy, Immersive Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
“But he which bore my letter, Friar John, Was stay’d by accident, and yesternight...
Read MorePosted by Adam Sherwin | 27th Mar 2017 | Immersive Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
Scenes depicting graphic sex and violence have a role in modern opera, the departing director of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Mar 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Philip Ridley has one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary theatre. His...
Read MorePosted by Aida Rocci | 16th Mar 2017 | Interview, London, Spain, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation, United Kingdom
Interview with Paula Paz, Associate Director of the Cervantes Theatre, the new theatre with hopes of becoming a house of Spanish and Latin American theatre and culture in London.
Read MorePosted by Alice Jones | 13th Mar 2017 | Acting, Interview, London, United Kingdom
“I didn’t think this was what I would be doing when I left drama school,” says Oliver Chris. What...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Mar 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
The current crisis in British new writing for the theatre is exemplified by the reliance of so...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Mar 2017 | Immersive Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
One of the reasons that Philip Ridley is the crown prince of imaginative playwriting is that he...
Read MorePosted by Adam Sherwin | 28th Feb 2017 | London, News, United Kingdom
The Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston will make his London stage debut in a National Theatre...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Feb 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Young British writers are often surprisingly unadventurous when it comes to locating their plays...
Read MorePosted by Andreea Scridon | 6th Feb 2017 | London, Review, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation, United Kingdom, United States of America
Simplified Production Deserves The Benefit Of The Doubt. Tracy Letts’ adaptation of Chekhov’s 1900...
Read MorePosted by Ágnes Bakk | 5th Feb 2017 | Interview, London, Participatory Theatre, Transmedia, United Kingdom
Sarah Ellis is the head of digital development at the Royal Shakespeare Company. She first studied...
Read MorePosted by Leah Lord | 3rd Feb 2017 | Interview, London, Russia, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
The London Russian Ballet School is unique in its offer of an authentically Russian ballet...
Read MorePosted by Alice Jones | 30th Jan 2017 | London, News, Review, United Kingdom
The Hypocrite Could this be the new One Man, Two Guvnors? Richard Bean is back, with a riotous new...
Read MorePosted by Alice Jones | 22nd Jan 2017 | London, News, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
This week, In the Depths of Dead Love opened at The Print Room in London. The play, by Howard...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Beeching | 11th Jan 2017 | Devised Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Dance, Transmedia, United Kingdom
IJAD Dance Company begins 2017 with two firsts: the launch of its pioneering new digital platform...
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