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A Midsummer Night's Dream

7 hours ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Howard Loxton

Nicholas Hytner’s acclaimed 2019 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns to The Bridge in this spirited revival. It is a promenade production with the stalls audience roaming the flat floor in which multiple sections will rise to make action visible, played out on a variety of bedsteads to emphasise the dream, as fairies cavort acrobatically overhead on hanging silk swings. Bunny Christie’s design works wonderfully, its technical challenges brilliantly handled by the stage crew.
Royal Shakespeare Company Collection

10 hours ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Colin Davison

William Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare Company Released 25 April 2025 Share: When Gregory Doran became Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2013, he decided to produce all Shakespeare’s plays without repetition and to broadcast them to cinemas.
Come Fall in Love: the DDLJ musical

1 day ago | britishtheatreguide.info | David Chadderton

Manchester is getting another British première of a new musical, this time with a subtitle that references the highest-grossing Indian film of 1995 and one of the most successful ever, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (The Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride).
In Praise of Love

2 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Howard Loxton

Terence Rattigan was expert at showing the feeling hidden behind British reticence, but in this 1973 play, it takes a long time to see past the obnoxious behaviour of book critic Sebastian Cruttwell. Unable to sustain his early success as a novelist, he has a successful career assessing others for a posh Sunday paper. He claims to be a Marxist but behaves like a mandarin. He treats people like lackeys, especially his wife Lydia.
Permission from Tara Theatre, London at Tara Theatre, London

2 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Keith P. McKenna |Keith J. Mckenna

The world often seems to demand that women seek permission for almost everything they do. Hunia Chawla’s play explores this theme through the experience and resistance of the young woman Hanna (Anisa Butt), taking her from Pakistan to student life in London. It is told from the point of view of women, this being emphasised by the male characters being simply voice-overs.
North by Northwest

2 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Colin Davison

There is something faintly ludicrous about a plot that involves our hero confounding master spies, narrowly escaping beheading by biplane and scrambling for his life down the face of Abraham Lincoln. Perhaps that is what attracted Emma Rice, for her adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller is gloriously daft, bursting with visual and physical humour that typified her time as artistic director of Kneehigh Theatre in Cornwall and later at London’s Globe.
War and Peace from Bayerische Staatsoper

2 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Colin Davison

Even in 2018, when Bavarian State Opera first proposed staging War and Peace, it faced a formidable challenge, not only in the monumental scale of this usually four-hour epic. Prokofiev omits the happy, bucolic ending of Tolstoy’s pacifist novel as Pierre is united with Natasha. Instead, writing in 1943, with Russia invaded by Nazi Germany, the composer was forced to incorporate bombastic nationalistic choruses and peons to Stalin himself, such as that with which he ended the opera.
Letters From Max

2 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Howard Loxton

When Yale student Max Ritvo applied for a place on Sarah Ruhl’s playwriting workshop, his letter went into the reject pile, but Professor Ruhl pulled it out and found a place for the self-described “poet and comedian”. Their student and mentor relationship developed into a deep friendship.
Storyhouse goes solar with Theatres Trust aid

5 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | David Chadderton

Chester's Storehouse theatre has installed solar panels on its roof through funding from the Theatres Trust’s Theatre Improvement Scheme, in partnership with the Wolfson Foundation and Cheshire West and Chester Council’s Climate Emergency Fund. It claims that the panels will triple its solar energy capacity and lead to lower carbon emissions and significant cost savings.
Shakespeare North sells naming rights

5 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | David Chadderton

Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot, Merseyside is looking for a corporate partner to purchase naming rights over the venue. It expects to raise more than £300,000 per year for what it claims is the first deal of its kind for an established regional UK theatre. The 17th-century-style cockpit theatre opened in July 2022, and has since had more than 300,000 visitors to its home in Knowsley, identified as one of the most deprived areas of the UK.