London Theatre Company Brings Translators Centre-Stage
There are plenty of theatre translators who start out as actors, directors, playwrights or other...
Read MorePosted by William Gregory | 8th Dec 2016 | London, News, Translation, United Kingdom
There are plenty of theatre translators who start out as actors, directors, playwrights or other...
Read MorePosted by Aida Rocci | 19th Nov 2016 | London, Review, United Kingdom
J. B. Priestley’s most famous play An Inspector Calls has had quite an interesting life. Written...
Read MorePosted by Matthew Burgess | 14th Nov 2016 | London, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
The Royal Opera House’s production of the real-life mystery of Anastasia comes to a close today....
Read MorePosted by Adam Sherwin | 2nd Nov 2016 | London, News, Theatre and Age, United Kingdom
A new play staged by the National Theatre will thrust actors in their 70s and 80s onto the stage...
Read MorePosted by Hugh Montgomery | 15th Oct 2016 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Shopping and Fucking was the most iconic play of the 1990s. As it is revived, 20 years on, we look...
Read MorePosted by Diana Damian Martin | 11th Oct 2016 | London, News, United Kingdom
Performance festival Steakhouse Live returns for 2016 with a beefier line-up and a new embedded...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Sep 2016 | London, News, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
It is sad to record that the main controversy provoked by this summer’s West End mega-hit, Harry...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Aug 2016 | London, News, United Kingdom
Some of the best shows on the London stage hail from across the pond, and more American delights...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Aug 2016 | Essay, London, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Earlier this month, on 16 August, I went to a small, slightly stuffy London venue called Theatre...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Aug 2016 | London, News, United Kingdom
The hottest show in London’s West End this year, and for the foreseeable future, is Harry Potter...
Read MorePosted by Chloe Hamilton | 22nd Jul 2016 | Design, Interview, London, United Kingdom
Have you ever watched the original Thunderbirds and tried to count all the strings? Well, puppets...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 22nd Jul 2016 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Setting Shakespeare in modern Africa is risky business for a white first-world director. That...
Read MorePosted by Like Davies | 18th Jun 2016 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
Sex work has long been a contentious issue – divisive for feminists and policy makers alike. The...
Read MorePosted by Alice Jones | 22nd May 2016 | London, Review, United Kingdom
“The question is,” says David Baddiel a short while into the second half of his one-man show about...
Read MorePosted by Peter Tregear | 5th Jul 2015 | Essay, London, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
As an art form routinely accused of contemporary irrelevancy, opera rarely makes headline news....
Read MorePosted by John Drakakis | 9th Apr 2015 | Adaptation, Essay, London, United Kingdom
The announcement that a play about Jimmy Savile is to be staged in London this summer has raised...
Read MorePosted by Paula James | 5th Sep 2014 | Essay, London, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
The September 4 live transmission of Euripides’ Medea will have brought an ancient Greek tragedy...
Read MorePosted by Andrew Blades | 4th Aug 2014 | Essay, London, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
My Night With Reg, Kevin Elyot’s 1994 play, has returned to the London stage, poignantly only a...
Read MorePosted by Laura Swift | 23rd Jul 2014 | Adaptation, Essay, London, United Kingdom
A new production of Medea recently opened at London’s National Theatre to critical acclaim. This...
Read MorePosted by Preti Taneja | 1st Jul 2014 | Adaptation, Essay, London, United Kingdom
I don’t really go in for creative mash-ups. You know: Alien Vs. Predator, or the films where...
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