Susan Elkin meets Lou Stein. new director of Chickenshed
Lou Stein is a man with vision. Only a few weeks into his new job at Chickenshed, based in Southgate, north London,...
Lou Stein is a man with vision. Only a few weeks into his new job at Chickenshed, based in Southgate, north London,...
Listening is the key to good acting. The best actors listen to each other and respond with convincing spontaneity and truth. It...
It’s an opera, as George Ikediashi reminds us at the beginning and the end in his spectacularly deep speaking and singing voice....
It is Helen McCrory’s evening. Hardly off stage in two and a half hours, she is whey-faced and brittle as Hester Collyer,...
Adapted by Helen Edmundson from Jamila Gavin’s young adult novel for the National Theatre in 2005, this large-scale ensemble piece is a...
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 brochure has arrived. As usual, it’s the size of a thumping great telephone directory – an astonishing...
NT Connections claims to be the largest youth theatre festival in the world. It’s certainly hard to think of anything comparable. In...