Anders Hayward and Conleth Hill in Adults.
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Kieran Hurley’s new play treads the familiar debate of millennial precarity versus boomer affluence with verve and insight.
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There will be almost 3,000 shows playing at this year’s Fringe, which can feel a little daunting, especially for the first timer. Here’s how to get it right.
Zizi Strallen as Q, Angela Marie Hurst as Dee, and Carly Bawden as Anna in the new musical production of Rock Follies.
Johan Persson
Foot stomping songs and charismatic performances make the stage adaptation of the 1970s TV series a hit.
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There is a great track record of musical theatre tackling political material. Bloom seems too afraid of its own subject material to truly tackle the issues.
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A powerful play that puts the voices of the people first.
The National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) in Prahran, Melbourne.
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The relationship between universities and performing arts training in Australia has often been uneasy or contentious.
Tracker, from Australian Dance Theatre and Ilbijerri Theatre.
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My top three works situated witnessing as a political act. These works invite you to revisit what you thought you knew.
David Nellist as Daniel Blake at Northern Stage.
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As more people find themselves in poverty, the play’s mix of fictional story with real-life testimony powerfully tells the story of what it’s like to navigate the benefits system in the UK.
Jan Versweyveld
The book is a hard read and some say the play is an even harder watch - is it just trauma porn?
Keegan-Michael Key and Cecily Strong in season two of Schmigadoon!.
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Compared to the dopamine-fest of season one, Josh and Melissa’s situation in season two feels bleak.
The stage of the 67th annual Eurovision Song Contest at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool.
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2023 sees the UK host the Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of Ukraine. But what role does the stage itself have to play in the musical spectacle?
Shakespeare’s First Folio was the first published work to include Macbeth.
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Without the First Folio, the canon of Shakespeare’s plays would have decisively shifted.
Could arts and culture become a new ‘bread basket’ export? This is one of four scenarios the Future Prairie Theatre research team explored.
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Amid ecological and social change and economic instability, theatre artists in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba are mapping possible outcomes and goals.
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Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is a ‘bible’ for scholars, voted a top 10 book of the 20th century. It also fascinated general readers, as a guide to social manners.
The scene is set for the feast at Sicilia in The Globe’s production of The Winter’s Tale.
Tristram Kenton
The Globe has used both its theatres in tandem for a single production, for the first time in its history.
Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner in Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons.
Johan Persson
In a story where you have to choose your words carefully, it’s important to convey meaning to audiences in other ways.
The National Youth Theatre’s production of Much Ado About Nothing.
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Shakespeare’s Conrad is now an ambitious ‘story producer’. With an eye over all the ‘Nothing Island’ action, he seeds rumours that bloom into reality TV gold.
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Maeve Marsden’s play lays bare what happens when love and family are politicised.
Hazem Shammas as Macbeth.
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Calls to decolonise curricula overlook the many ways in which Shakespeare’s plays are constantly being reinterpreted and revitalised in performance.
Readers reports, scripts and selected photographs. From top left Garland Anderson, Una Marson and Isabel Cooley who appeared in the ethnic Players Theatre Guild productions of Anna Lucasta.
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Theatre censorship laws stifled Black playwrights for more than 200 years – here’s what we found in the archive.