67 stories by "Andrew Haydon"
'Daringly unconventional' was The Stage's five-star verdict of the Yard Theatre's hit play from earlier this year, now revived. Its writer and
Presented by Artangel, Stifter's Dinge contains no actors. So does it still count as theatre?When the National opened its recent production of The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, much of…
Theatre photography normally operates via two angles: the ubiquitous close-up or the mid-torso action shot. But what can the photos really tell us about a play?Here's a question: when could …
Hanns Johst's Schlageter is perhaps the great unproduced Brexit play, the rise of populism epic that has yet to see the light
Leeds theatre company Red Ladder's latest show, The Shed Crew, is based on the 1990s memoir Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew
There are two ways you can experience The Wedding, visual theatre company Gecko's latest piece; you can either read the brief programme
It is salutary to think that the first production of Oh! What a Lovely War was closer the end of First World
Twenty-five dancers fill the large, temporary stage, a shiny silvery padded floor set amid the industrial columns of the abandoned warehouse in
The concept behind Jane Horrocks' latest gig-theatre project is an excellent one. In 1861, due to the American Civil War, the supply
Live performance is inescapably trapped in the present. Available Light, showing as part of the Manchester International Festival, is 34 years old
After learning his craft in Germany and assisting Ivo van Hove, the director is bringing a radical adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion
If you've ever watched a play being rehearsed you'll know that the rehearsal can feel more live, more compelling, even somehow more
Please forgive the dramatic headline, but this is important. Three weeks ago, a play opened. It is an artistically important play. I
On paper, Klatwa (The Curse) is a 1899 play by Polish dramatist and renaissance man, Stanislaw Wyspianski. It has long been out
Schaubühne, BerlinSimon McBurney's production, based on Stefan Zweig's 1938 novel, brings past and present together in a desperate vision of failed empire Related: Rereading: Beware of Pity…
There's a very fine, sensible new report on the Columbia Journalism Review website entitled: Curtains Fall on Arts Critics at Newspapers. Reading
The ongoing refugee crisis in Europe is one of the great unsolved problems of our times. It also presents a very real
To echo The Stage’s print editor, Alistair Smith, Ed Vaizey's 27-minute lecture to the Royal Society of Arts is well worth watching
The New York Times recently tweeted a story about how the musical revival She Loves Me is going to be live-streamed. I
‘Unpaid bloggers often lack 'intellectual background' to write theatre reviews‘ Thanks to some eye-catching headlining here at The Stage, fringe producer Danielle
Schaubühne, BerlinSimon McBurney's production, based on Stefan Zweig's 1938 novel, brings past and present together in a desperate vision of failed empire Related: Rereading: Beware of Pity…
Polly Stenham's That Face has been hailed as a great debut, but a playwright's first professional production is rarely really their first workPolly Stenham wrote That Face when she was 19. P…
Forget traditional adaptations. Productions such as National Theatre Wales' Iliad reveal a new type of staged book " and increasingly, the sources needn't actually be a work of fiction, or e…
Last week, I went to the Belgrade International Theatre Festival in Serbia and then, a day after returning, was on a panel
Some say that theatre is all about liveness and intimacy, others that it needs to be epic in scope. Both can't be right, surely?Does size matter? It strikes me that the biggest single issue …
