Listings - British Theatre Guide
WEB5 days ago · A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry. Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, Headlong, Leeds Playhouse and Nottingham Playhouse. Leeds Playhouse, Leeds. 13 – 28 September 2024.
Touring shows - British Theatre Guide
WEBThe 39 Steps. John Buchan, adapted by Patrick Barlow. Fiery Angel. Curve Theatre, Leicester. 31 July – 3 August 2024. The latest news and reviews about touring theatre productions including plays, musicals, opera and dance around the UK.
Theatre review: The Real Thing at Old Vic - British Theatre Guide
WEBThe Real Thing is only dated by its music, which in itself is a homage to Henry's tastes that were already old hat in 1982. Otherwise, it feels completely contemporary, as viewers will instantly recognise people and situations on stage that could as easily have come from life. Kevin Spacey should be delighted with the result of his latest ...
Things I Know To Be True - British Theatre Guide
WEBFrantic assembly's Things I Know To Be True sucks you into the world of an extraordinary, yet so normal family. The rapid-fire dialogue, beautifully crafted movement and levity keeps the pace carrying on, until the final moments when we are knocked sideways with the enormity of the tragedy. Bovell's writing and the cast’s delivery are so good ...
Theatre review: Stones in His Pockets at Lyric Theatre, Belfast
WEBMatthew McElhinney’s glossy revival of Marie Jones’s Stones in His Pockets, first seen last year at Cirencester’s Barn Theatre, marked the Tony-nominated, Olivier award-winning play’s 25th anniversary.It returns home to Belfast’s Lyric Theatre with a splash of celebrity cameos adding glamorous (albeit glancing) endorsements for Jones’s most successful play.
British Theatre Guide: Edinburgh 2018
WEBDoctors of Philosophy by Muriel Spark: A Theatrical Performance. Muriel Spark, edited by David Greig and Marilyn Imrie. Edinburgh International Book Festival and Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. Edinburgh International Book Festival. 19 August 2018.
Theatre review: Aladdin - A Wish Come True at The Mayflower, …
WEBWith the tag-line A Wish Come True, this Aladdin is full of magic and adventure. It is just a shame that pantomime, being seasonal as it is, means that the Mayflower's production can't transfer to the West End, which is where it truly belongs. Playing until 8th January 2011. Theatre review of Aladdin - A Wish Come True (Michael Rose Ltd, Chris ...
Pantoland at the Palladium - British Theatre Guide
WEBPantoland at the Palladium, as Julian Clary explains, has no plot. It’s a celebration of pantomime complete with stock characters, set pieces and familiar faces from the past five years. Clary shares the stage with fellow Palladium panto performers Gary Wilmot, Paul Zerdin and Nigel Havers who, together again, are back to play and indeed play ...
Theatre review: Bouncers at Royal Court, Liverpool
WEBJohn Godber’s Bouncers, first produced in 1984, was once described as "not so much a play, more a social phenomenon", and featured in the National Theatre’s NT2000 list of significant plays of the twentieth century.As a piece, it has, in common with Dylan Thomas’s ‘play for voices’, Under Milk Wood, the lack of a dramatic story, being instead a (sometimes poetic) rendering of a ...
Theatre review: Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare's Globe
WEBSean Holmes's new production of Much Ado for the Globe (only two years after Lucy Bailey’s) is set in an olive grove outside the house of Leonato, the Governor of Messina, and Grace Smart has espaliered orange trees across the theatre’s scena, spread colour around the stage with overflowing baskets of oranges and blue-painted iron balconies, encircling its pillars in filled hearts with ...
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