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Joe ORTON and friends
Forty years ago, the Sexual Offences bill became law. It decriminalised homosexual acts and allowed gay men some freedom to live ...
Published on: 31-Aug-2007
Paterson JOSEPH on the big stage
Paterson Joseph, the star of the National's Emperor Jones, who is also appearing in George Bernard Shaw's St Joan on the Olivier s...
Published on: 27-Aug-2007
Can The EMPEROR JONES still shock?
As the National Theatre's revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, first staged in New York in 1920, gets underway, the Ind...
Published on: 24-Aug-2007
Simon McBurney on COMPLICITE'S new show
Artistic director of Theatre de Complicite talks to Brian Logan in the Times about the forthcoming new one from his world-famous o...
Published on: 21-Aug-2007
SPOOF's Broadway transfer
The surprise West End hit, The 39 Steps, not only won an Olivier Award earlier this year, but has also now got a Broadway transfer...
Published on: 18-Aug-2007
SHENTON contra Barber
If the sneering cynicism of much of what passes for arts journalism makes you sick, then read theatreVOICE regular Mark Shenton's ...
Published on: 13-Aug-2007
Mark RAVENHILL on losing his mind
In the Telegraph, reporting from the Edinburgh Festival, Dominic Cavendish, theatreVOICE founding editor, talks to Mark Ravenhill ...
Published on: 10-Aug-2007
John TIFFANY interview
The young director, who wowed the Edinburgh Festival last year with his production of Black Watch, talks to the Guardian's Lyn Gar...
Published on: 08-Aug-2007
COOKE at the Court
As the run of Bruce Norris's The Pain and the Itch (the first to be directed by new supremo Dominic Cooke) reaches its end at the ...
Published on: 04-Aug-2007
WEST END in crisis
In the Guardian, veteran critic Michael Billington revisits the age-old question: is Theatreland in dire straits? Looking not only...
Published on: 02-Aug-2007