Roundhouse circus producer David Pitt on Compagnie XY's 'It's Not Yet Midnight...' and what to expect from contemporary circus.
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Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough…
….Thriller Live certainly hasn’t! The show opened at London’s Lyric Theatre in January 2009, just a few months before Michael Jackson’s death, and has stayed put ever since. It had already broken the Lyric Theatre’s record for longest running production when, earlier this month it played its 3358th performance and so broke the record of Jesus Christ Superstar to become the 15th longest-running musical in the West End. That doesn’t sound so very remarkable until you consider some of the shows in ...
Read More »Marco Filiberti: An Italian Director in London
Marianna Meloni responds to an evening at the Italian Cultural Institute with celebrated cinema and theatre director Marco Filiberti.
Read More »‘Benighted’ Playwright Duncan Gates on the Process of Adaptation
Benighted playwright Duncan Gates discusses the process of adapting J.B. Priestley's 1927 novel for the stage — and the lessons he's learned along the way.
Read More »The Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2016 — ET Was There!
Neil Johnson offers his first-person account of this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Read More »SLEEPLESS: Living in the Shadow of a Genetic Condition
SLEEPLESS director and writer Hannah Barker explores the impulse to use theatre to explain the horrifying condition of living with a genetic disease.
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Dreamplay director Sarah Bedi discusses the thought processes adapting Strindberg's classic work — and the process of dreaming itself — for the stage.
Read More »The Rise of the One-Woman Show
Sarah Tattersall has written a one-woman show. Here, she explains why we shouldn't hate it.
Read More »Exploring the West End with Sir Ian McKellen
Marianna Meloni gives her impressions of the Official London Theatre Audio Tour with Ian McKellen, a new way to experience London's Theatreland with one of the British theatre's biggest stars.
Read More »‘In Memory of Leaves’ and the Power of Site-Based Work
Natasha Landridge discusses the power of site-responsive work and the motivations behind her piece In Memory of Leaves in this guest blog.
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