London: War on Harry Potter Ticket Touts
The hottest show in London’s West End this year, and for the foreseeable future, is Harry Potter...
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...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Mar 2013 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Science is an area of perennial fascination for the theatre. In the past, plays as various as Tom...
Read MorePosted by Phoebe Taplin | 28th Sep 2012 | London, Review, Russia, United Kingdom
Dark comedy and psychological breakdown are never far from the surface in Benedict Andrews’ bleak...
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