123 stories by "Tom Wicker"
The most knowing laugh in this revival of Alexi Kaye Campbell's 2009 play Apologia has come with the passing of time. While
From the Crystal Maze to live adventure shows, interactive events are gaining popularity. Tom Wicker looks at the theatre companies that are
Writer and director Rikki Beadle-Blair has put sexuality, gender and diversity at the heart of his work from early in his career.
Clare Lizzimore gets in the head of a woman trying to hold herself together. Tom Wicker reviews.
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When the National Theatre's West End production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time closes its doors on June
Six years after directing his first play, Robert Hastie has already come full circle as he takes the reins as artistic director
Two for the Seesaw's history with Russia's Sovremennik Theatre is richer than the play itself. Translated from writer William Gibson's 1959 Broadway
On April 23, the Off West End Awards " also known as "the Offies" " will celebrate this year's winners at London's
Commercial producer Emma Brunjes has had a rollercoaster time since she and Les Enfants Terribles first produced the Lewis Carroll-inspired, site-specific Alice's
The huge drum of the Roundhouse stage bristles with tension. A stream of circus performers fill it " and begin fighting. There's
Danish author Karen Blixen's life was as fantastic as her fiction. A baroness who married one twin brother after the other died,
It’s been 40 years since Mike Leigh's formidable Beverley first metaphorically skewered her hapless house guests with a cheese and pineapple stick.
For many people Dodie Smith's 1949 novel I Capture the Castle exists in a place somewhere between fact and fond memory. Set
For Chris Stafford, chief executive of Leicester's Curve, the ever-open door to the rehearsal room epitomises why he enjoys working with the
If you dropped David Brent from The Office into a dystopian alternate timeline where capital punishment has been reinstated, you might end
The one-night performance has its roots in variety. And one of the venues with the most extensive history in this area is
Blood, spit, tears and cum. That's what theatre-maker Scottee's latest show, Bravado, boils down to. It's a memoir of a north London
How do you live in the shadow of a parent's fame? That's a question asked by Halley Feiffer's I'm Gonna Pray for
This isn't Othello's production, nor Iago's. It opens with Michelle Cassio tying back her hair. She already seems weary, apprehensive, as she
The circle of life is an irresistible metaphor. Combine that with the circus ring " with the idea of life as a
A 2007 play inspired by a set of Republicans is now reflecting a wave of political and social issues buffeting a post-election
By his own admission, Mathew Horne isn't a big sleeper. By the time most of have arisen, bleary-eyed, he's often been awake
Anyone who has seen the Feeling live will know that Dan Gillespie Sells is a theatrical performer, he explains with a light
How do you try to re-capture the now-ness of the material verbatim theatre draws upon? The Listening Room adds chance to the
With outlandishly outsized buttocks, Euripides Laskaridis sits on a chair, wearing teeteringly high heels. His beige bodysuit " which also covers his
