REVIEW: Anne Boleyn
Reading Time: 2 minutesHoward Brenton's script, first commissioned for Shakespeare's Globe in 2010, refuses the traditional biography to adapt to a ghost story.
Category Theatre
REVIEW: Rika’s Rooms
Reading Time: 2 minutesRika’s Rooms is a one woman play based on the life of the playwright Gail Louw’s own mother, whose extraordinary life is borne of vast historical events that traumatised swathes of humanity.
REVIEW: Alice In Wonderland
Reading Time: 2 minutesColourful, playful and packed with clever theatrical ideas There have been countless versions of Alice in Wonderland, but this lively production at Riverside Studios still manages to make Lewis Carroll’s familiar story feel fresh. Colourful, playful and…
REVIEW: For You Blue: Celebrating The Beatles Greatest Hits 1967–1970
Reading Time: 3 minutes"For You Blue: Celebrating The Beatles Greatest Hits 1967–1970" at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall was a lively, affectionate evening celebratng one of the greatest songbooks in popular music.
REVIEW: I Can Die Too
Reading Time: 2 minutesI Can Die Too makes its world premiere at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, featuring a creative set and an interesting storyline: a play-within-a-play with musical numbers throughout.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Jodie Steele
Reading Time: 2 minutesPrepare for a wonderfully funny, fast-paced romp as Graham Greene’s classic spy comedy arrives at Oxford Playhouse this month. Our Man in Havana sees Jack Ashton, Bob Barrett, Leon Ockenden and Jodie Steele playing more than 30 characters as they bring 1950s Havana vividly to life. Ahead of the run, we spoke to Jodie about the iconic espionage thriller
REVIEW: Life Out There
Reading Time: 2 minutesTim Foley’s Life Out There opened its doors for one night only at Jodrell Bank.
REVIEW: Metamorphoses
Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery generation, it seems, decides it invented uncertainty, and every generation eventually reaches for the same two-thousand-year-old stories to talk itself down.
REVIEW: The Smile of Her
Reading Time: 2 minutesChristina Lahti fights against misogyny in her autobiographical play, The Smile of Her Christina Lahti’s The Smile of Her is an autobiographical play with a sad list of content warnings. Lahti opens the vault of family secrets,…
REVIEW: Here Comes J. Edgar
Reading Time: 2 minutesA vibrant and polished biography that offers a great deal of fun. The life of J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial, deeply flawed, and arguably villainous architect of the modern FBI, might not seem like the most obvious…