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WEBThe History Boys Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge 1–5 Oct 2024. Ghost the Musical Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham 1–5 Oct 2024. Macbeth Harold Pinter Theatre, London 1 Oct–14 Dec 2024. A Midsummer Night’s Dream Palace Theatre, Southend 1 Oct 2024. TUTU The Peacock, London 1–5 Oct 2024.
Listings - British Theatre Guide
WEB6 days ago · A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry. Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, Headlong, Leeds Playhouse and Nottingham Playhouse. Oxford Playhouse, Oxford. 2 – 5 October 2024.
Theatre review: Aladdin at Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
WEBAladdin is possibly the first pantomime to credit a Sensitivity Reader in Daniel York Loh. There’s no lazy punning of Asian cuisine or derogatory jokes based on pronunciation; instead, the Marlowe Theatre’s production relocates the action to a Canterburyesque Sturry Road, the site “where East meets West”, enabling the presentation of ...
North West - British Theatre Guide
WEB3 days ago · Take the Red Pill! 22 October 2023. A reviewer follows The White Rabbit to go behind the scenes at the opening production at Aviva Studios, Manchester's newest arts venue. The latest news, features and reviews from theatre, opera and dance in Manchester, Liverpool and throughout the north west of England.
Much Ado About Nothing - British Theatre Guide
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 ...
Accidental Death of An Anarchist - British Theatre Guide
WEBMore than fifty years since Nobel-prize-winning Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame wrote Accidental Death of An Anarchist, amazingly not much seems to have changed regarding police corruption. The Italian partisan protest song “Bella Ciao”, closing and opening the acts, is a nod to the play’s origins.
Edinburgh 2024 recommendations - British Theatre Guide
WEBJul 28, 2024 · Edinburgh 2024 recommendations. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the biggest arts festival in the world. It was cancelled in 2020 due to COVID and there was a tentative, part-live, part-online return in 2021 but it has been building up since then and it is now back to full strength. Every year, there is a new breakout hit show or star performer ...
Theatre review: Swan Lake at Royal Opera House
WEBSwan Lake promises all the hallmarks of grand, sweeping Romanticism from Tchaikovsky’s eloquently weepy score, great gasp-worthy swathes of emotion (if pitched right), shimmering lakes, dying swans and sumptuous costumes, and this version does not disappoint. The Royal’s production of Swan Lake, commissioned in 2018 from the late Liam ...
Theatre review: Coriolanus at National Theatre (Olivier Theatre)
WEBSep 26, 2024 · Hidebound by his sense of honour and duty—his own honour and duty—Coriolanus can’t play the political game. Tribunes Brutus (Jordan Metcalfe) and Sicinius (Stephanie Street) can and do; this production gives them prominence, and Peter Forbes makes Menenius more sharp-tongued and a less gentle peacemaker than I have usually thought him.
Much Ado About Nothing - British Theatre Guide
WEBOverall, this Much Ado About Nothing recorded on stage in 2022 pays too little homage to Shakespeare and will almost certainly disappoint those with happy memories of Nicholas Hytner’s pitch-perfect version 15 years earlier. National Theatre at Home is available on subscription, broadcasts in HD, costs only £9.99 for a month or £99.99 for a ...