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King LEAR: the naked truth?: Ian McKellen is playing the title role in the RSC's King Lear, now previewing in Stratford-upon-Avon, and the 67-year-old actor ta...; Published on: 31-Mar-2007
Michael PALIN at the National: The National Theatre's series of public platforms includes a reading by Michael Palin from Another Sky, a collection of work by wr...; Published on: 29-Mar-2007
SHAKESPEARE in the north: Theatre director David Thacker is heading a campaign to set up a Cockpit Theatre of the north in the Lancashire town of Prescot &n...; Published on: 28-Mar-2007
Arms and the WRITER: Playwright Joe Penhall, whose latest play Landscape with Weapon, opens at the National Theatre next week, has a knack of taking th...; Published on: 27-Mar-2007
It's such a DREAM: Director Tim Supple's much-lauded RSC version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is currently enjoying a good run at the R...; Published on: 25-Mar-2007
Are CRITICS just too literal-minded?: Encore Theatre Magazine, a contemporary website version of the legendary theatre magazine of the 1950s and 1960s, reports on the c...; Published on: 23-Mar-2007
Anthony NEILSON's manifesto: Playwright Anthony Neilson, one of the original in-yer-face writers of the 1990s, has lost none of his provocative charm. As his p...; Published on: 21-Mar-2007
Maggie SMITH on stage fright: Despite a career that has spanned a half century, Maggie Smith still suffers from nerves every time she appears live on stage. Now...; Published on: 20-Mar-2007
Katie MITCHELL does it again: Director Katie Mitchell's current revival of Martin Crimp's 1997 play, Attempts on Her Life, at the National Theatre has divided c...; Published on: 18-Mar-2007
PINTER on the airwaves: The Nobel-Prize-winning playwright is playing the part of Max in his own play, The Homecoming, now revived in a radio version. Oth...; Published on: 17-Mar-2007
MENIER celebrates success: David Babani, artistic director of the Menier Chocolate Factory, a unique fringe venue in Southwark, talks to Philip Fisher about...; Published on: 16-Mar-2007
SPLURGE of theatre-writing in the TLS: The latest edition of the Times Literary Supplement features a raft of theatre-related reviews, a handful of which appear in ...; Published on: 15-Mar-2007
New BUSH THEATRE supremo: West London's Bush Theatre, the small but perfectly formed powerhouse of new writing, has just announced that Josie Rourke is thei...; Published on: 13-Mar-2007
TUCKER GREEN generates excitement: Generations, the new play by Debbie Tucker Green at London’s Young Vic theatre, is only about 30 minutes long, but it has al...; Published on: 12-Mar-2007
When should ARTISTIC DIRECTORS retire?: As Mike Bradwell, Bush Theatre supremo, retires from the job after ten years at the helm, a Guardian blog asks what is the optimum...; Published on: 08-Mar-2007
Tim CROUCH on acting in the dark: In Tim Crouch's latest theatre piece, An Oak Tree, a different actor joins him every night on stage. This actor knows nothing abou...; Published on: 06-Mar-2007
A glimpse of CRIMP: The National Theatre's website offers a short promo video of Katie Mitchell's upcoming revival of Martin Crimp's 1997 play, Attemp...; Published on: 05-Mar-2007
PINTER, Pinter everywhere: As more and more revivals of Harold Pinter's work are being put on, including versions for television and the radio, critic Michae...; Published on: 04-Mar-2007
Watch the drama of FOOTBALL: There's a taste of Pilot Theatre Company's energetic touring revival of Roy Williams's race-and-footie-fest, Sing Yer Heart Out fo...; Published on: 02-Mar-2007
PLAYWRITING as news: Thrusting young theatre company Nabokov have unveiled their latest Present Tense event - which involves some of Britain's brightes...; Published on: 01-Mar-2007

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