Award-winning theatre company Headlong, in association with the BAFTA-winning Century Films, have announced Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre From a State of Isolation, a major new digital project, bringing together celebrated playwrights to create a series of short digital plays, as a response to the current global crisis.
‘As theatre there are several memorable moments’: MISTY – Bush Theatre
At the centre of the show is Arinzé Kene himself. Having just finished his part in Conor McPherson’s Girl from the North Country in the West End, he devotes all of his considerable charisma to this meditation on the race politics of storytelling.
Did the Critics’ Circle Awards get it right? Ian Foster’s take
Even without trying, I end up being contrary! The Critics’ Circle Awards have announced their winners for 2016 and as I cast my eyes down the list, I was amused to see that their best new play and best musical – The Flick and Groundhog Day – were shows that I did not hugely enjoy.
NEWS: Harry Potter & Glenda Jackson scoop Critics’ Circle Awards
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was the big winner at this year’s Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, taking home three prizes, while elsewhere Glenda Jackson, Billie Piper and Stephen Dillane all won acting prizes.
Women Centre Stage: Power Play Festival runs this week
Yesterday (14 November 2016) saw the launch of the Women Centre Stage: Power Play Festival at Hampstead Theatre and The Actors Centre. Produced by Sphinx Theatre Company and Joanna Hedges, Women Centre Stage exists to promote, advocate for and inspire women in the arts and has developed and commissioned a wide range of new work which uniquely brings together a diverse array of women characters far from the margins into centre stage.
NEWS: Harry Potter wins best play at #ESTheatreAwards, full winners (& shortlists)
Winners of the 2016 Evening Standard Theatre Awards include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Billie Piper, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Kenneth Branagh. A star-studded ceremony indeed at the Old Vic Theatre.
NEWS: Harry Potter wins best play at #ESTheatreAwards, full winners (& shortlists)
Winners of the 2016 Evening Standard Theatre Awards include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Billie Piper, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Kenneth Branagh. A star-studded ceremony indeed at the Old Vic Theatre.
Text of the Day: Cuttin’ It
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Text of the Day: Cuttin’ It
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Cuttin’ It at the Young Vic Theatre
This hard-hitting play about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Britain, revealing the price that some girls have to pay to become a woman, is written by Charlene James and directed by Gbolahan Obisesan. It’s on at the Young Vic for a short run until 11 June 2016. What have critics thought of it?
CUTTIN’ IT – Young Vic & touring
A powerful account of the realities of FGM is brilliantly written and superbly staged as an urgent piece of new writing.
Shakespeare in Shoreditch Festival: Pelican Daughters/This Is Art
Shakespeare in Shoreditch Festival has given four writers the chance to write a play which is inspired by Shakespeare . There are four in the festival and you can see two at any one time. I reviewed Pelican Daughters and This Is Art, while the other two that unfortunately I won’t have chance to see are The H-Word and Grey Man.