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Before writing a review of The River by Jez Butterworth, I saw that other people had called this revival "totally incomprehensible." After seeing the play last night at the Greenwich Theatre, those reviews were the ones I was most puzzled by. Because, yes, let's get this right, there is a puzzle box element to the play,[...]

We Can Be Heroes is a new production that premiered last night at the Lion & Unicorn theatre, above the Lion & Unicorn pub between Camden and Kentish Town, as part of the Camden Fringe. Written by Anna Krauze, performed by Anna Krauze and recent addition James Georgiou, and directed by Coral Tarran, it begins with Anna on stage[...]

Running from the 5th of October to the 20th of December, Jodie Whittaker is to star in a revival of The Duchess at the Trafalgar Theatre in London's West End, and I will probably cycle past it twice a week wondering how I can grab cheap seats Adapted and directed by Zinnie Harris from John[...]

He has adapted and combined three classic episodes into a new two-hour play which will open at the Apollo Theatre in London in May 2023 It stitches together "The Hotel Inspector," "The Germans," and "Communications Problems," the original series, into a single multi-pronged farce with "one huge finale." In a statement released on Friday, Cleese said:[...]

There are a couple of weeks left of the Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image The Musical at the Phoenix Theatre in London's West End I went to see it back in June and thoroughly enjoyed it In its final fortnight, there are tickets going for £25 quid up, and maybe just a couple of minor spoilers[...]

And it's on at the Pleasance Theatre in Islington this week There will be performances tonight, Friday and Saturday This Friday's performance will be followed by a post-show talk by members of the creative team, who will be joined by the founders of Table 11, a UK-based bereavement peer-support group for people in their 20s,[...]

Fresh from the end of Killing Eve on television, Jodie Comer is making her West End debut as a barrister in the one-woman theatrical legal drama Prima Facie, now running at the Harold Pinter Theatre just off Leicester Square The play will be filmed and broadcast in the cinemas overseas, including in the US as[...]

Last night saw the Press Launch for the West End debut of The Ocean At The End of The Lane, at the Duke of York Theatre, on St Martin's Lane in London Bleeding Cool was there, and on the way in (and out), spied a number of celebrated types, from Simon Callow to Ruby Wax,[...]

Reflecting that the real Prince Edward once worked in theatre, he didn't actually play Edward when on stage, instead a variety of background characters, constantly mugging to the audience, speaking directly to us and getting us to treat Camilla as the Pantomime baddy Which Tracy-Ann Oberman utterly did, as much as her Torchwood head in[...]

I'll be older and I'll have a son who's getting older, I see more of me being a man of letters, writing books about cinema, and maybe writing theatre, that's how I see myself in my autumn years." Which gave him the excuse to mention that he's actually already written a stage play, completed after[...]

After months of streaming their plays for free on YouTube, the United Kingdom's National Theatre has finally launched National Theatre at Home, a paid streaming service available for audiences worldwide The National Theatre first began streaming its recent productions during the UK's initial COVID lockdown during Spring and Summer when theaters and cinemas were closed,[...]

"So I've written a monologue, which is going to be performed in a London theater when London theaters are allowed to reopen." Hare said he cannot reveal yet who will play him in the play or in which London theater it will be staged at until the government allows theatres to reopen He hopes this might[...]

While my youngest has now discovered we can afford West End theatre. Last night we went to see The Mischief Theatre's long-running The Comedy About A Bank Robbery at the Criterion Theatre, at Piccadilly Circus Seats are usually in the £60-£80 ballpark We went to the half-price ticket booth on Leicester Square at 5pm and bought[...]

So I went off to a movie theatre to watch a stage play A filmed stage play shown like a movie because I couldn't be in the country where the play was on It's a surreal, meta experience The play is the original one-woman stage version of Fleabag Phoebe Waller-Bridge is performing it for the[...]

And now as she plays droids in Star Wars, rewrites James Bond into something I'm excited to watch and pulls in Emmys and Baftas with Killing Eve, she is returning to London to put on a final run of the play, for her at least, at the Wyndham Theatre. Tickets sold out in May Returns go[...]

The role features one of the longest monologues in theatre that demands not just concentration but emotional turns on a dime at feverish speed His TV and movie roles barely hinted at what he's capable of here as an actor. Keri Russell is the main character of the play She plays Anna with a more naturalistic[...]

Frazer Brown writes: Stan Sakai's beloved and iconic Samuarai Leporidae Usagi Yojimbo has been making his stage debut last Friday at London's Southwark

The Baker Street Irregulars is a comic book by Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood, published by Hachette but now out of print. That hasn't put of its fans

Edmund." Gordon, who would later attach his fame to Lovecraft bloodbaths like Re-Animator and From Beyond, spawned this trippy trilogy complete with a buggy extraterrestrial princess, purple apes, distant alien planets and psychedelic alternate realities. Warp! delivered the fantastic tale of a mild-mannered bank teller who learns his destiny as the avenging Lord Cumulus is linked to[...]

The Speakeasy already challenges assumptions about theatre, about history, about our notions of the past, but to break down your real-time perceptions, too—that's pretty much priceless. I, of course, can see now why Seth Kushner did a photo profile on Cynthia von Buhler previously and why his wife and friends knew it would be the perfect[...]

We debuted it at Soulpepper Theatre, which is the top theatre company in the city [of Toronto] So what it is, it's a unique stage show It's a hybrid of the comic and a theatre show So what we do is we take the images from the comic and project them up onto a screen[...]

Equally his final confrontation with his past convinces us of the consequences of Gorge's actions – and shows us how little he cares – or rather will allow himself to care. It's a thrilling play that uses the form so well, a traditional play in many ways but one that uses extremes of experimental theatre to[...]

At the end of next month, timed to coincide with Phillip Pullman's Grimm Tales For Young And Old, Pullman will be sitting down for an evening of conversation about fairytales with Neil Gaiman at the Cambridge Theatre in London, currently showing Matilda. If you want to go, you had better click here fast. At the end[...]