This Seagull soars away to over three hours, as there are also some Billy Bragg songs to perforate the fourth wall from the start and later to underline the working class credentials of Simon ...

Edward II (Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon) Edward II is a play beloved of students hoping to combine political protest with sexualised barbarism. That makes it an interesting choice for the ...

Last night, director Thomas Ostermeier’s production of The Seagull, which he adapts from Chekhov alongside Duncan Macmillan, celebrated its official opening at the Barbican Theatre. Cate Blanchett ...

That's how Zachary Hart (who plays Simon Medvedenko) opens Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, adapted by German director Thomas Ostermeier, at the Barbican Theatre. The Seagull is a play written by ...

What’s the point of theatre? It’s the question that director ... she’s talking to because she’s always playing to the gallery. You keep thinking, as all the characters face their reckoning ...

Cate Blanchett is incandescent in a Chekhov adaptation from Thomas Ostermeier and Duncan Macmillan that is relentlessly meta What’s the point of art when the world is ending? In this of-the-mome ...

“Theatre is awful. It’s overpriced, elitist, indulgent, outdated and entirely irrelevant to what’s actually happening in the world,” he complains. But Ostermeier’s production absolves ...

estate should note that the film star doesn’t make conventional theatre choices. Whether it’s Susan Traherne, the wartime secret agent falling apart in David Hare’s Plenty, or When We Have ...

Theatre Dance Lab, a new artist development programme from Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, has confirmed further details. Successful applicants will receive coaching from artistic director Drew McOnie ...

She’s never able to fully engage with the person she’s talking to because she’s always playing to the gallery. The Guardian, Arifa Akbar: Blanchett may be the glitteriest of castings but ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald ... The 2.2 acre site, close to York Barbican and next to the StayCity aparthotel is across the road from the Bar Walls and has been ...

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