Paines Plough Reveals 2025 Programming
by Stephi Wild - Feb 26, 2025
Paines Plough has announced its programming for 2025, with two new commissions set to tour the UK. This follows the company’s 50th anniversary fundraising gala at the Criterion Theatre earlier this month.
Photos: CONSTELLATIONS At Rubicon Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 21, 2025
RUBICON THEATRE will continue its 2024/2025 Dare to Dream Season with the Central Coast premiere of CONSTELLATIONS, a spellbinding romantic drama by Award-winning playwright NICK PAYNE. See photos from the production.
Review: CONSTELLATIONS at West End Players Guild is a Bittersweet Nugget of Relationship Reality
by James Lindhorst - Feb 15, 2025
West End Players Guild’s production of CONSTELLATIONS is a bittersweet dose of reality. It is a relationship story more than a love story. Payne examines how we react to two things in life, our partner’s behaviors and what the fates hand us. No one can predict when, or if, life will bring happiness, heartbreak, pain, or loss. Life must be lived and be experienced.
Review: CONSTELLATIONS at Constellation Theatre
by Brian Bochicchio - Feb 12, 2025
The title is not a typo. Hey, what are the odds? Could it be kismet, a prearranged theatrical landing spot, or totally happenstance? And if we cosmically reset the situation, would it happen again in the same way? Would we want it to happen the same way?
Review: A-Class Act in Teater Pandora’s Constellations
by Rakaputra Paputungan - Jan 9, 2025
I had my first experience of watching Nick Payne’s Constellations on the National Theatre website. The production I watched was produced by DONMAR, directed by Michael Longhurst, and performed by Peter Capaldi and Zoë Wanamaker. Although the stage was empty, the use of colour and empty space enhanced by the blue and white balloons surrounding them made the play feel spectacularly otherworldly. I was instantly in love.
ONE DAY WHEN WE WERE YOUNG Comes to the Park Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Dec 2, 2024
From the Tony Award-nominated writer of Constellations and BBC/Netflix drama Wanderlust, Nick Payne’s timeless play One Day When We Were Young is returning to the stage over a decade since it was first performed.
2024 George Devine Award Shortlist Revealed
by Stephi Wild - Nov 29, 2024
Artificial Intelligence, erasure, coercion, faith, unrequited love and social housing amongst subjects explored within the five shortlisted plays announced as contenders for the 2024 George Devine Award.