Madani Younis has unveiled his inaugural season as artistic director of London’s Bush Theatre, saying he intends to take more work “beyond the building”. The season launches at the Bush’s new home in the old...
A New York ensemble is to stage an eight-hour production of The Great Gatsby, as part of the London International Festival of Theatre. Gatz is described as “not a retelling of the Gatsby story but an enactment of the novel itself”....
Shenton’s View: Success in the theatre, as in life, breeds success; they acquire momentum, confidence and of course an audience in turn, and a virtuous circle is created. The opposite is also true: there are theatres locked in vicious cycles of...
Shenton’s View: Because theatre is live and therefore endlessly mutable, it is one of the most instinctive, intuitive and personal art forms around to respond to: whatever we feel about it cannot be a snapshot of the event in its entirety,...
Education and Training: Here’s something different. Could this modus operandi possibly evolve into the way forward in these cash strapped times? Fourth Monkey Theatre Company is an actor training company led by Steven Green. Based in Muswell Hill in north London’s Borough...
Shenton’s View: I’ve previously worried away here at the fate of critics in an ever-changing media landscape, where dead-tree journalism is hurtling the way of the Dodo towards flightless oblivion, but since everyone’s a critic already on the internet, there’s a...
Education and Training: Redbridge is not a sexy borough. It has neither the deprived-so-we-must-help image of, say Tower Hamlets, nor the prosperous middle class ambience of, for example, Bromley. And my perception is that because of this it tends, rather unfairly, to...
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