Review: AUTUMN, Park Theatre
Based on Ali Smith’s novel, Autumn is a curious blur of images and ideas, which weave in and out of each other with varying success. At the centre of it all, however, is an unlikely friendship, originally formed between an eight-year-old girl and the elderly man next door.
Review: RED PITCH, @sohoplace
Tyrell Williams' award winning play is triumphantly promoted up a league to the West End after two runs at the Bush Theatre
Review: MEETINGS, Orange Tree Theatre
As The Statesman says, the late Mustapha Matura was “the most perceptive and humane of Black dramatists writing in Britain. His 1981 satire Meetings can be proof of that, first opening Off-Broadway and now making its first major 21st-century UK return to the Orange Tree Theatre. In his directorial debut, JMK Young Directors Award winner Kalungi Ssebandeke’s production proves why this classic remains hilarious as ever.
Review: TITUS ANDRONICUS, Shakespeare's Globe
Jude Christian's visually stunning take on this goriest of stories from Shakespeare is bound to raise more than a few eyebrows. In a gender reversal of what likely took place on its first outing, this production has an all-female cast committing the heinous murders. The many, many deaths are portrayed by candles being snuffed out. This may be set in ancient Rome, but the dress code here is pyjamas and, in place of lyres and pan pipes, the music here consists mainly of darkly comic songs. A classic interpretation? Hardly
Full Cast Announced For NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND at The Watermill
The Watermill have announced the full cast of the brand-new stage adaption of Bill Bryson's award-winning memoir NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND, affectionately celebrating the quirks and eccentricities of British life, adapted by BAFTA and Olivier Award winning playwright Tim Whitnall.
Jermyn Street Theatre Announces Initial Cast For ORLANDO
It was announced today that Taylor McClaine has been cast as the eponymous Orlando in acclaimed playwright, Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's time and gender shifting masterpiece to be staged at Jermyn Street Theatre this spring.
Photos: Go Inside Rehearsals for BRIEF ENCOUNTER at The Watermill
Get a peek inside rehearsals for BRIEF ENCOUNTER, a new production of Emma Rice’s stage adaptation of Noël Coward’s epic love story, based on the critically acclaimed 1945 film, that will play at The Watermill from Thursday 14 October – Saturday 13 November, with opening night on Monday 18 October.
Casting Announced for BRIEF ENCOUNTER at the Watermill
Full casting has been announced for BRIEF ENCOUNTER, a new production of Emma Rice’s stage adaptation of Noël Coward’s epic love story, based on the critically acclaimed 1945 film, that will play at The Watermill from Thursday 14 October – Saturday 13 November.