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The Trial – Kafka’s play comes to Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Sunday 10 March 2013 at 09:24

Adaptation of Kafka’s The Trial sees audience members hotfoot around East London

Watt – a charged performance

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 19 February 2013 at 13:16

A stage adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s second novel Watt opens this month at the Barbican

Prophesy – prophets and loss of love

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 13 February 2013 at 15:30

A young Paris and Helen of Troy are lead characters in Prophesy, a play intent on going against the theatrical grain

Mare Rider – review

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 11 February 2013 at 19:47

Arcola co-founder Leyla Nazli’s new play has echoes of The Master and Margarita’s magical realism

Leyla Nazli – juggling myth and reality

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 15 January 2013 at 19:14

Leyla Nazli manages to write plays about mythical creatures whilst simultaneously helping to run the Arcola Theatre

The Master and Margarita – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 15 January 2013 at 18:29

Mikhail Bulgakov’s ‘unstageable’ masterpiece at the Barbican

Staging the ‘unstageable’ – The Master and Margarita

By Hackney Citizen | Sunday 23 December 2012 at 15:51

The Master and Margarita returns for a second stint at the Barbican

Meet Susie McKenna – Hackney Empire’s pantotime queen

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 17 December 2012 at 20:35

Dick Whittington and His Cat is this year’s pantomime at the Hackney Empire. The Hackney Citizen talks to the show’s writer and director, Susie McKenna

Dead On Her Feet – review

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 17 October 2012 at 23:12

Arcola Theatre, until 3 November 2012

Caucasian Chalk Circle – review

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 21 September 2012 at 15:10

Marxist playwright’s famous work seems quite at home in Shoreditch Church

Binoche stars in Strindberg’s Mademoiselle Julie

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 14 September 2012 at 15:23

The hottest tickets in town this month are for the Barbican’s blockbuster Mademoiselle Julie

Carousel- review

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 14 September 2012 at 15:08

Opera North’s Carousel is an enjoyable, if hardly revolutionary version of the classic musical

Reasons to be cheerful

By Hackney Citizen | Sunday 9 September 2012 at 15:51

Disabled-led company Graeae’s profile is on the rise after a string of successful productions in 2012, with more to come

Trailblazers – Queens of TV Comedy at Hackney Empire

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 11 August 2012 at 09:50

A celebration of female comedy stars of UK television who managed to earn their own shows

Grimeborn 2012 – an alternative festival of opera

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 9 August 2012 at 21:57

This year, the Arcola’s unconventional musical theatre and opera festival will be held in the Tent

Fair grounds for a musical – Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 9 August 2012 at 21:14

The Hackney Citizen discovers a Rodgers and Hammerstein show at the Barbican

FireWater – preview

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 20 July 2012 at 16:01

Sunday 22 July 2012, Rosemary Branch Theatre

Desdemona – an untold story

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 12 July 2012 at 09:43

Mali’s Rokia Traoré adds her unique talents to a new production at the Barbican, giving voice to one of Shakespeare’s neglected characters

Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! – review

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 9 July 2012 at 15:33

Arcola Tent, Dalston. Until Sunday 22 July 2012

Stephen K Amos to compère GayExtravaganza at Hackney Empire

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 5 July 2012 at 23:51

Have a gay ol’ time as the Hackney Empire celebrates the best of LGBT comedy