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News: Pubs and theatre. An age-old pairing.
This exciting project will no doubt resonate with anyone that has ever stepped into a pub, so this February, grab your pint of Drunken Nights and witness something completely original and unique.
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News: The 28 Day Project launches wonderful opportunities
The 28 Day Project is an exciting initiative offering emerging talent a step into the film business.
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Have you got the Star Wars X Factor?
Thousands turned away at open auditions after standing in the rain for hours.
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News: TheatreCraft returns to help young people’s backstage careers
The 8th annual event returns to the Royal Opera House later this month.
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BLOG: Theatre: the best casino shows around the world
Casinos around the world offer some of the best theatrical entertainment you can find.
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BLOG: 5 Best Actors in Superhero Cinema
Is “superhero” acting any less challenging?
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Blog: Films to study for inspiration
Watching great actors can often inform your own work.
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Blog: Shakespeare experimenting with the limits of contemporary drama
Briony Rawle heads to Yorkshire and takes a closer look at Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.
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Review: Bat Boy, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
A campy fun musical with bite screams Douglas Mayo.
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Review: Visitors, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Barney Norris first full-length play is an exquisitely written examination of love and loss, writes Alex Delaney.
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Review: 1984, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This fresh vision of 1984 feels like a rediscovery of Orwell’s dystopia, writes Sophia Longhi.
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Review: Secret Theatre - Show 4, Lyric Hammersmith ✭✭✭✭
This review comes with a capitalised, emboldened and even italicised, SPOILER ALERT. That should do, writes Briony Rawle.
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News: Cuts: National Renames Cottesloe After £10m Gift
The National Theatre is set to change the name of the smallest of its three theatres from the Cottesloe to the Dorfman following a £10 million personal donation by Lloyd[readmore]
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Gossip: Book ‘Em: Cameron & Clegg Give RSC Recommendations???
In the wake of swingeing arts cuts, does it qualify as consorting with the enemy? Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg have taken the time to[readmore]
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Review Round-up: Critics Enjoy Good Weep at NT
Ena Lamont Stewart’s 1947 play Men Should Weep has received a rare revival at the National Theatre, where it opened in the Lyttelton Theatre this week (26 October 2010, previews[readmore]
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1st Night Photos: Starry Opening for Married
The all-star revival of JB Priestly’s When We Are Married opened at the Garrick Theatre last night (28 October 2010, previews from 19 October) where it is booking for a[readmore]
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Blog: What’s in a Theatre Name?
I have mixed feelings about the re-naming of the Cottesloe Theatre in the National as the Dorfman.
Thursday 28th October 2010
This will happen once the extensive refurbishments are complete, in honour of Lloyd Dorfman,[readmore] -
Review: When We Are Married ***
Forty years ago, producers Duncan Weldon and Paul Elliot launched their partnership with this imperishable J B Priestley play, and they’re back in harness for Christopher Luscombe’s cheerful, well paced,[readmore]
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News: Lloyd Webber Sells Theatres to Michael Grade
As previously tipped, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group (RUG) will sell four of its seven remaining West End theatres to former BBC and ITV chairman Michael Grade. RUG announced[readmore]
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News: Sadler’s Wells Breaks Records, Brings in Horses
On the same day that it learned that it - along with all other organisations regularly funded by the Arts Council - would receive a 6.9% cut to its subsidy[readmore]
Wednesday 27th October 2010 -
Blog: Hamlet Without Cuts
The full-text Hamlet at the National has prompted a splendid Radio 4 programmme by Michael Sheen who is himself slated to play the princely Dane at the Young Vic next[readmore]
Wednesday 27th October 2010 -
Review: Men Should Weep ***
Ena Lamont Stewart’s Men Should Weep, a Depression-era tenement tragi-comedy, a sort of Glaswegian blast of Clifford Odets, or Sean O’Casey, was written in 1947, revived by 7:84 (Scotland) at[readmore]
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