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The Show People Podcast: Julie Atherton on becoming a director & empowering the next generation
23rd June 2018In this episode of The Show People Podcast, host Andrew Keates is joined by Julie Atherton, shortly after completing the West End run of The Grinning Man at Trafalgar Studios. Julie shares her experiences of working with puppets in The Grinning Man and many other… .. Read more
NEWS: Further casting is announced for Martin McDonagh’s A Very Very Very Dark Matter at the Bridge Theatre
22nd June 2018Johnetta Eula’Mae Ackles, Elizabeth Berrington and Phil Daniels will join the previously announced Jim Broadbent in the world premiere of Martin McDonagh’s A Very Very Very Dark Matter. The London Theatre Company’s production directed by Matthew Dunster will now preview at… .. Read more
‘The Barn’s is a stunning energy to witness’: Michael Strassen on directing The Rise & Fall of Little Voice
20th June 2018Michael Strassen directs the new Barn Theatre, Cirencester production of Jim Cartwright's Olivier Award-winning play with music, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. In the latest in our Feature Show series, Michael tells us more about the approach he's taking and why London… .. Read more
NEWS: Director Peter Brook returns in National Theatre season which also features new plays from Nina Raine & Anthony Neilson
19th June 2018Details have been announced for the National Theatre’s season running from July 2018 to January 2019. Highlights include: Peter Brook returns to direct at the National Theatre for the first time in 50 years with The Prisoner, co-directed with Marie-Hélène Estienne Following the… .. Read more
NEWS: Ruth Jones will star in new comedy The Nightingales, on UK tour prior to West End transfer
19th June 2018Ruth Jones, well known as the co-writer of the award-winning BBC comedy Gavin & Stacey in which she also appeared, will star in the new comedy The Nightingales, presented by Jenny Topper and Theatre Royal Bath Productions. The production, written by William Gaminara and directed by Christopher Luscombe, will run at… .. Read more
Beirut Q&A video: What would you sacrifice for love? For sex? What can’t you live without?
18th June 2018A warning to start: Beirut is not for the prudish. In this two-hander, Robert Rees‘ Torch starts the evening buck naked (doing pull-ups) and he and co-star Louisa Connolly-Burnham, as his lustily willing-to-risk-anything girlfriend Blue, spend the next 65 minutes in various… .. Read more
Other recent articles
‘Impossible not to appreciate it on most levels’: THE COUNTRY WIFE – Chichester
23rd June 2018Minerva Theatre, Chichester – until 7 July 2018 How many productions does it take for a playwright to have a moment? We could be on the cusp of a William Wycherley wave, with the second production of The Country Wife to arrive… .. Read more
‘The starkest, most eloquent & humane warning to history’: NOTES FROM THE FIELD – Royal Court Theatre ★★★★★
23rd June 2018Royal Court Theatre, London – until 23 June 2018 Sometimes you just know you’ve seen the experience of a lifetime. Twenty five years ago, Anna Deavere Smith came to London with a heartfelt, revealing portrait of New York tensions between… .. Read more
‘Everything for a superb night at the theatre & then some’: KISS ME, KATE – West End ★★★★★
23rd June 2018London Coliseum – until 30 June 2018 Guest reviewer: Rhys Scrivener Broadway producer Arnold Saint-Subber based Kiss Me, Kate on the real-life story of husband and wife actors Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne and their arguments and antics during the… .. Read more
The Show People Podcast: Julie Atherton on becoming a director & empowering the next generation
23rd June 2018In this episode of The Show People Podcast, host Andrew Keates is joined by Julie Atherton, shortly after completing the West End run of The Grinning Man at Trafalgar Studios. Julie shares her experiences of working with puppets in The Grinning Man and many other… .. Read more
‘An extraordinary story that deserves to be told’: PRESSURE – West End ★★★★
23rd June 2018Ambassadors Theatre – until 1 September 2018 This deeply fascinating true story makes for surprisingly compelling drama that reminds us that what a major difference ordinary people made in the outcome of the Second World War. If there anything that… .. Read more
‘The sense of kinship is refreshing & invigorating’: MISCHIEF MOVIE NIGHT– Touring
22nd June 2018Touring – reviewed at Curve Leicester A stripped back stage, an ensemble of actors, rapt and ready with an impish twinkle in their eyes, and a lively audience of film fans; the canvas for Mischief Theatre’s latest offering. Anyone that… .. Read more
INTERVIEW: Spotlight On… Shakespeare in the Squares’ Katharine Moraz
22nd June 2018The actress spoke to Love London Love Culture’s Emma Clarendon about bringing Shakespeare’s As You Like It to London’s parks and squares this summer. Hi Katharine, thanks so much for talking to Love London Love Culture. How excited are you… .. Read more
‘Such a refreshing concept’: KISS CHASE – Bunker Theatre ★★★★
22nd June 2018Bunker Theatre, London – until 7 July 2018 Guest reviewer: Evie Freeman Kiss Chase is an interactive evening of speed dating. It gives you the chance to connect to a room of strangers, regardless of your usual romantic ‘type’, over… .. Read more
‘Remains a ripping yarn & a jolly entertaining night’: THE UNEXPECTED GUEST – Sonning
22nd June 2018Mill at Sonning Theatre – until 28 July 2018 Guest reviewer: Meredith Jones Russell Arriving at the Mill at Sonning you might as well be stepping into an Agatha Christie novel before Brian Blessed’s revival of The Unexpected Guest even… .. Read more
‘A mystery why tutors chose this spoof as a graduate showcase’: DAISY PULLS IT OFF – Charing Cross Theatre
22nd June 2018Charing Cross Theatre, London – until 20 June 2018 I’ve said before that Guildford School of Acting turns out the best ‘triple threats’: those performers who sing, dance and act with equal and effortless skill. Now it has a new… .. Read more