Tag: Stage

‘I knew I was being followed’: Keira Knightley on her hacking nightmare – and new Stasi spy play The Lives of Others

As the Oscar-winning Stasi surveillance film hits the stage, Knightley and co-star…

Nina review – a riveting series of horribly invasive auditions for The Seagull

Battersea Arts Centre, LondonWomen up for a role as Chekhov’s aspiring actor…

Two Doors Down review – outrageously sharp, joyously sweary return of the Latimer Crescent favourites

OVO Hydro, GlasgowAhead of the sitcom’s new series in 2027 the full…

First Encounters: Julius Caesar review – so thrilling it kept a hall full of teens in pin-drop silence

Ormiston Bushfield Academy, PeterboroughAn intro to Shakespeare doesn’t get any better than…

The Guardian view on Keynes in the West End: James Graham’s latest play captures the zeitgeist | Editorial

As the chancellor, John Healey, ponders options ahead of his first budget,…

Can a ballerina do a stomp? Natalia Osipova on making her fearsome, foul-mouthed acting debut

Osipova plays the wife of bisexual economist John Maynard Keynes in a…

Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists review – It caused fury across Europe. In the UK? Laughter and coughing

National Theatre, LondonTiago Rodrigues’s play has incensed audiences abroad with one character’s…

Sylvia Plath Stole My Boyfriend: the 95-year-old who has turned her romance with Ted Hughes into a play

The Yorkshire poet had a ‘magic touch’, Liz Hicklin recalls, felt by…

Hang Time review – a chilling picture of the horrors of racial violence

Royal Lyceum theatre, EdinburghThree men bicker and reflect like they’re chatting at…

Elouise Eftos: Aphrodite review – ‘Australia’s first attractive comedian’ asks if love is real

Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Heckling herself in character as the Greek goddess, the…