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BLACKBIRD wows off-Broadway
TheatreVOICE regular Matt Wolf reports back from New York on the unexpected success of DAVID HARROWER's Blackbird, a play about a ...
Published on: 30-May-2007
TRANCE is on its way
The international premiere of Trance, SHOJI KOKAMI's 1993 super-hit (about a thousand productions in Japan), takes place at the Bu...
Published on: 28-May-2007
The greening of the NATIONAL
In an amazing move, the National Theatre on London's South Bank has greeted the summer by covering its brutalist concrete fly towe...
Published on: 26-May-2007
RIDLEY blasts Blair
This week, new on listenNOW, free to stream or download: controversial playwright PHILIP RIDLEY talks to Aleks Sierz about his lat...
Published on: 24-May-2007
Laurence OLIVIER tributes
With the 100th anniversary of Laurence Olivier's birth, several newspaper commentators are reflecting on his gilded career: the Gu...
Published on: 22-May-2007
Michael BOYD talks about the Histories
On listenNOW, free to stream or download: MICHAEL BOYD, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, talks to Heather Neill...
Published on: 20-May-2007
Playing CHEKHOV
In the Independent, Clare Bayley takes a close look at the role of Arkadina in ANTON CHEKHOV's The Seagull, and examines how three...
Published on: 18-May-2007
Return of the BLONDE BOMBSHELLS
One from the archive: as Alan Plater's love letter to the swing bands of the 1940s, Blonde Bombshells of 1943, embarks on a summer...
Published on: 17-May-2007
HYTNER blasts aged male critics
In a baffling outburst, the artistic director of the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner, has attacked the main newspaper critics fo...
Published on: 15-May-2007
Whither NEW WRITING?
As the Royal Court and Soho theatres, the new writing powerhouses in London, start showing off the fruits of their recent regime c...
Published on: 13-May-2007
BRISTOL Old Vic - a crisis erupts
Closure for the Old Vic in the summer, ahead of a suddenly announced period of refurbishment... Simon Reade, artistic director, to...
Published on: 12-May-2007
RIDLEY on the rack
Philip Ridley's latest play, Leaves of Glass (Soho), has had mixed reviews, but its author probably isn't bothered. He doesn't hav...
Published on: 11-May-2007
OLYMPIC cash grab on arts challenged
Following on from Mark Ravenhill's Guardian complaints that in the battle to fund the 2012 Olympics the British are privileging sp...
Published on: 09-May-2007
Blair: the LEGACY for British theatre
In his Guardian blog, the critic Michael Billington wonders what outgoing PM Tony Blair contributed to British theatrical life - a...
Published on: 08-May-2007
GREER busts the RSC King Lear embargo
Germaine Greer, the legendary feminist and sometime cultural commentator on the Guardian, today breaks ranks with other reviewers ...
Published on: 07-May-2007
Whither the WEST END?
In the Daily Telegraph, a roundtable discussion - a la theatrevoice - in which the lead theatre critic Charles Spencer hosts a con...
Published on: 05-May-2007
New: ACTORS in the spotlight
This week, on listenNOW, free to stream or download, are two actors, MICHAEL SIMKINS and JIMMY AKINGBOLA, talking about their care...
Published on: 03-May-2007
NEW YORK update
In his blog this week, theatreVOICE regular Mark Shenton reports on his visit to the Big Apple. Read all about the latest Broadway...
Published on: 02-May-2007