Why We Should Expect Great Things From David Bowie’s New Musical Play
I’m not sure many saw David Bowie’s latest creative project coming. It was recently announced that...
Read MorePosted by Denis Flannery | 10th Apr 2015 | Adaptation, Essay, United Kingdom
I’m not sure many saw David Bowie’s latest creative project coming. It was recently announced that...
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 Daniela Kaleva | 12th Mar 2015 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
Beauty And The Beast is the quintessential story of a young beautiful daughter who has to live...
Read MorePosted by Eric Rasmussen | 11th Dec 2014 | Essay, United Kingdom
The Shakespeare First Folio (1623), the first collected edition of his plays and the sole source...
Read MorePosted by Emily McGovern | 7th Nov 2014 | Adaptation, France, Interview, Russia, Transcultural Collaborations, United Kingdom
British actor Harry Lloyd and French director Gérald Garutti’s stage adaptation of the Fyodor...
Read MorePosted by Gail Marshall | 24th Sep 2014 | Essay, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Several British theatres have made a pledge to address the levels of gender inequality on the...
Read MorePosted by Mareile Pfannebecker | 22nd Sep 2014 | Essay, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
The ghost, in this autumn’s Royal Exchange Theatre production of Hamlet, is in the light bulbs....
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 Emily Lindsay Brown | 15th Aug 2014 | Essay, Scotland, Theatre and Politics
Alex Oates’ debut Fringe play traces the journey of 19-year-old Geordie lad Bruce, as he begins...
Read MorePosted by Ruari Shaw Sutherland | 14th Aug 2014 | Festivals, Review, Scotland
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has, over the years, developed a reputation as a hotbed for...
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 Robin Ashenden | 25th Jun 2014 | Review, Russian Theatre Abroad, United Kingdom
David Schneider is probably most recognizable as BBC commissioning editor Tony Hayers in I’m Alan...
Read MorePosted by Cathy Westbrook | 24th Jun 2014 | News, Transmedia, United Kingdom
This post discusses the emergence and evolution of digital art and online performance in the...
Read MorePosted by Tony Howard | 24th Apr 2014 | Essay, Festivals, United Kingdom
We’ve been celebrating Shakespeare’s 450th birthday week with fun, festivals, exhibitions, a cake...
Read MorePosted by Tony Howard | 24th Mar 2014 | Acting, Essay, United Kingdom
In 1825 the African-American actor Ira Aldridge came to London in The Slave’s Revenge. Before...
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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