Monday, June 23, 2008

ATW NewsClips - London


The Independent

'Blue Peter' goes pink in cross-dressing Fringe show
Take one openly gay former Blue Peter presenter, dress him up in drag, add sexually explicit content and light lampooning of his former employers' obsession with their squeaky clean image, and you have a show that is definitely one for after the watershed.

Review: Sail Away, Lilian Baylis Theatre: Sadler's Wells, London

Review: Twelfth Night, Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, London

The Times UK

Ten Tiny Toes, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
A mother's search for answers after her serviceman son is killed in Basra evokes powerful emotions

Monkey!, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
This ancient Chinese tale of the Monkey King is cross between a circus-tinged, live-action cartoon and an Asian-flavoured alt-panto

The Guardian

The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Globe, London
This production packs in the gags like a sitcom, writes Lyn Gardner

Giffords Circus: Caravan, Tackley, Oxfordshire
This wonderful circus must be the only one to reference The Winter's Tale, writes Lyn Gardner

The Guardian - Performing Arts Blog

Lyn Gardner: Theatre programmes: don't you just love 'em?
Andrew Haydon: Criticism should not need ethical guidelines

Whatsonstage.com

Survival of the Fattest: LaBute’s Pig

Fisher & McGowan Play Our Song for Menier, 4 Aug
Opening: Black Watch, Women, Diver, Divas & Slam

London Theatre Guide

Fisher and McGowan make music at Menier

Connie Fisher returns to the stage alongside Alistair McGowan in the musical romance They’re Playing Our Song at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 25 July (press night 4 August).

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