Theatre, arts and events in London
With most theatre creatives and critics decamped to Edinburgh for the Festival, August used to be a rather barren month for new openings in London, but with rising costs and overwhelming amounts of choice in Scotland, for those remaining in the capital over the next three weeks there are great new shows to look forward [ ]
Usually reserved for their Christmas slot, this summer, Sadler s Wells eschews the classic musical for a touring revival of Matthew Bourne s The Car Man based on the opera Carmen and the movie The Postman Always Rings Twice about lust, betrayal and the impossible American Dream. Famed for his cinematic vision that makes his work immersive [ ]
How do you stage a possibly unstageable play? For her last show at the Almeida Theatre before moving to the Old Vic with Rupert Goold, Rebecca Frecknall, famed for her illuminations of mid-century playwrights, takes on a far more complex and certainly challenging work Sarah Kane s Cleansed which the writer herself described as being [ ]
His first non-Shakespeare play for more than a decade, Kenneth Branagh s second consecutive production at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon is a reworking of Chekhov s The Cherry Orchard, adapted by playwright Laura Wade, assembling an impressive cast including Hollywood actors Helen Hunt and Bill Pullman. With a weight of expectation from a sold out [ ]
Stephanie Bain s four year trilogy of community works based within the Almeida Theatre s Islington district comes to an end with an ambitious double millennium-spanning work that looks beyond the venue s existence to land in some of the key turning points from our history and the future, putting the borough in its political, economic, spiritual, technological [ ]