A Midsummer Night’s Dream continues at the Roman Theatre of Verulamium, St Albans until 11 June 2022. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ We begin and end with Puck (Guido Garcia Lueches) teetering about in sparkly shorts, platform boots and long white socks, camply flirting with the audience and being pleasantly outrageous. He […]
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Flute Theatre to mark Autism Awareness Week with special international online performances and new collaboration
Flute Theatre will celebrate World Autism Awareness Week with five days of online international performances linking autistic individuals and their families from across the world. Running from 29 March until 2 April 2021, the specially adapted performances have been created in response to Covid-19 with the aim of alleviating anxieties and offering unique opportunities for […]
Swingin’ the Dream – Royal Shakespeare Company.
Swingin’ the Dream, streamed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ If a jazz retelling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream featuring incredible swing music opened at a theatre near you, you would go check it out, wouldn’t you? Especially if it combined popular hits such as ‘Ain’t […]
RSC to live-stream special one-off concert performance of Swingin’ the Dream
A special concert performance of work in progress Swingin’ the Dream will be among the Royal Shakespeare Company’s live-stream special events in January. To be streamed as part of the current Tales For Winter 2020/2021 programme, the new version of Gilbert Seldes and Erik Charell’s jazz-infused re-working of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is currently being […]
New online interactive performances of Flute Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Flute Theatre will follow its successful lockdown version of Pericles with a new online series of interactive performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream tailor-made for autistic individuals and their families. Running from 12 October until 12 December 2020 the performances will last up to an hour and will be adapted to suit the individual needs […]
More Shows Added To London Outdoor New Normal Theatre Festival
The Olivier Award-winning Mischief Comedy, The Guilty Feminist Podcast and the world premiere of Philip Ridley’s lockdown monologues The Beast Will Rise are the latest additions to the packed line-up of shows in the programme for the newly-created New Normal Festival. One of the first outdoor theatre seasons announced as the lockdown eases, the New […]
Dear Evan Hansen tops the bill at Mousetrap Awards
Dear Evan Hansen was the big winner at the ninth annual Mousetrap Awards as the UK’s only theatre awards run by and for young people moved online as the lockdown continues. The Broadway hit that opened at London’s Noel Coward Theatre in November last year, collected four awards with actors Sam Tutty and Rebecca McKinnis, […]
Iris Theatre launches fundraiser
London’s Iris Theatre has launched an appeal for funds to guarantee its future following the decision to postpone this year’s first season from the company’s new executive team of Paul-Ryan Carberry and Paul Virides. With the two 2020 summer productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Carberry and Teresa Burns’ new adaptation of Robin […]
Pop-up Elizabethan-style Rose Theatre promises a glorious summer of Shakespeare for York
It is, perhaps, not solely the continued success of London’s Globe that has inspired international theatre producer James Cundall to create a festival of Shakespeare’s works in York. Certainly, open air Shakespeare performances take place all over the country during the summer months. What is different about Lunchbox Theatrical Productions’ quartet of Shakespeare classics is […]
