Cheek by Jowl’s “The Winter’s Tale” – A Stone, A Woman, A Journey
Molly Ziegler reviews Cheek by Jowl’s adaptation of The Winter’s Tale at Glasgow’ Citizen’s Theatre.
Read MorePosted by Molly Ziegler | 11th Mar 2017 | Adaptation, United Kingdom
Molly Ziegler reviews Cheek by Jowl’s adaptation of The Winter’s Tale at Glasgow’ Citizen’s Theatre.
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 Jonathan Kalb | 8th Mar 2017 | Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Like Beckett and Pinter, Caryl Churchill is writing fugues in old age (she’s 77). Far Away, A...
Read MorePosted by Adam Sherwin | 7th Mar 2017 | Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The story of the “coughing Major” who cheated to win the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? jackpot is...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Mar 2017 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
The 1980s were a great decade for British women playwrights. During those Thatcher-dominated...
Read MorePosted by Beatriz Cabur | 4th Mar 2017 | Immersive Theatre, Interview, Transmedia, United Kingdom
The Theatre Times recently republished an article called “A New Form of Theatre Consumption...
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 Andrew Edwards | 28th Feb 2017 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Scotland, Theatre and Dance, Transcultural Collaborations
An interview with Edinburgh-based theatre-maker Flavia D’Avilia about dramaturgy and...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 28th Feb 2017 | United Kingdom
Irvine Welsh’s in-yer-face, anti-fairy tale of no-hope NEDs (non-educated delinquents), and the...
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 | 22nd Feb 2017 | Adaptation, Review, United Kingdom
There are few modern literary fables that really resonate in the wider culture. And most that do...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Feb 2017 | Review, United Kingdom
The new writing year has started slowly. Apart from a couple of obscure fringe shows, there have...
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 Lisa Peschel | 18th Feb 2017 | Czech Republic, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The film Denial, which opened in the U.K. on Holocaust Memorial Day, tells the story of author...
Read MorePosted by Tom Bawden | 16th Feb 2017 | Transmedia, United Kingdom
The way media is produced and consumed has been transformed in the past decade or so thanks to...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Feb 2017 | Germany, Review, Theatre and Politics, Translation, United Kingdom
A day or so after Theresa May’s keynote speech about Brexit the words Europe and European carry an...
Read MorePosted by Robert Reid | 14th Feb 2017 | Adaptation, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Orwell’s novel 1984 is currently a bestseller in the U.S. We can soon expect many...
Read MorePosted by Adam Sherwin | 7th Feb 2017 | Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Emma Rice, the artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe ousted for introducing modern sound and...
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...
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