Skip to content
Hackney Citizen
  • Sign up to our free newsletter
  • E-Edition
  • Get in touch
  • About us
  • Advertise with us
  • Community standards

Posts Tagged ‘theatre’

The Yard: Live Drafts – Climate Works, stage review: ‘Electric ideas to help save our world’

By Marion Weaver | Thursday 5 August 2021 at 14:57

Four work-in-progress plays offer ‘hope and inspiration’ in the battle against climate change

Read More

Stage show based on NHS nurse’s bestselling memoir announces Hackney dates

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 16 April 2021 at 14:51

The Language of Kindness, an adaptation of Christie Watson’s book, will be at Shoreditch Town Hall in June

Read More

Womxn’s theatre podcast that began life in Hackney wins international award

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 25 November 2020 at 17:17

Fizzy Sherbet, which only launched in August, recognised at the Sarahs, which celebrate the best in audio fiction

Read More

The Yard Theatre announces new programme for artists following £250k survival grant

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 17 November 2020 at 12:24

The Wick venue is inviting applications to Live Lab, a paid course designed to teach artists from all disciplines how to direct a stage show

Read More

Leyla Nazli: ‘We can’t wait to bring people back together, safely’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 9 November 2020 at 11:31

The Arcola Theatre’s deputy artistic director on a ‘devastating’ year, plans for an outdoor venue, and an upcoming festival aimed at ‘rebuilding community bonds’

Read More

Local venues welcome ‘vital’ grants from government’s Culture Recovery Fund

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 14 October 2020 at 08:04

Arcola Theatre, Hackney Empire and Vortex Jazz Club among those to receive cash in first round of awards

Read More

National Theatre’s school and youth programmes to start up again this autumn

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 10 September 2020 at 14:19

The institution reaffirms its desire to keep young people at the ‘forefront of its mission’ as it begins its recovery from lockdown

Read More

Womxn’s theatre collective launches podcast to showcase global playwriting talent

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 5 August 2020 at 14:06

Fizzy Sherbet, which began as a series of readings at Hackney Attic, wants to ‘amplify womxn’s voices’ at a difficult time for the theatre industry

Read More

Coriolanus, National Theatre Live on YouTube, stage review: ‘Famous actors, punchy action and political turmoil’

By Gabriel Wilding | Monday 8 June 2020 at 13:58

Despite an impressive cast, this production, which is available to watch right now, lacks ‘grandness’

Read More

Local artists create online crime mystery in aid of Hackney Giving

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 1 June 2020 at 19:18

Creative studio Swamp Motel’s virtual whodunnit has been delighting guests during lockdown

Read More

TOM, Wilkie Branson, Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage, dance review: ‘Emotional, complex and unique’

By Gabriel Wilding | Monday 1 June 2020 at 13:42

Part of Sadler’s Wells Theatre’s online archive, this creative piece, put together by digitising 250,000 photographs, offers a ‘message of hope for the arts’

Read More

Treasure Island, National Theatre Live, stage review: ‘All the childhood terror of the book’

By Gabriel Wilding | Wednesday 29 April 2020 at 19:15

This ‘masterful’ 2014 adaptation of the famous novel is ‘escapism, pure and simple’

Read More

Twelfth Night, National Theatre Live on YouTube, stage review: ‘Dancing with humour, energy and life’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 24 April 2020 at 21:22

Lockdown culture continues with this ‘stylish’ retelling of Shakespeare’s famous comedy, available to watch right now

Read More

Culture in quarantine: Where to get your fix from home

By Alice Jones | Friday 17 April 2020 at 12:39

With venues upping their online game during lockdown, Alice Jones runs you through some of the best art, music, theatre and literature on offer

Read More

Coronavirus: Arcola Theatre suspends all performances and appeals for donations

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 16 March 2020 at 10:09
Nominated: the Arcola Theatre have a chance to win big at The Stage awards. Photograph: Arcola Theatre

The venue in Dalston warns its future is at risk but says it is ‘determined to survive’

Read More

No Show, Yard Theatre, stage review: ‘Slices of satire and silliness’

By Phoebe Cooke | Friday 28 February 2020 at 20:52

Christopher Green’s meta play ‘successfully explores the agony of the artist who must bare themselves to a room full of strangers’

Read More

Pina Bausch’s Bluebeard, Sadler’s Wells, dance review: ‘Clever, funny and harrowing’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 21 February 2020 at 13:32

German company Tanztheater bring the late Bausch’s show to the UK for the first time – and do justice to her legacy

Read More

Panto returns to Hoxton Hall after venue agrees deal with leading theatre company

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 20 February 2020 at 15:19

After a break last year, the popular Victorian music hall is bringing the Christmas tradition back with a production of Sleeping Beauty

Read More

Albion, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘A beautiful parable for modern times’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 14 February 2020 at 15:14

Rupert Goold’s reprisal of Mike Bartlett’s family drama ‘does not have a single chink in its armour’

Read More

Gut, Barbican, stage review: ‘Thrilling, inquisitive and well-acted’

By Gabriel Wilding | Tuesday 11 February 2020 at 14:57

Frances Poet’s ‘razor-sharp’ family drama, performed by Guildhall graduates, avoids ‘black and white simplicity’

Read More
« Newer Posts
Older Posts »
Hackney Citizen does not take responsibility for any comments posted on this site. Hackney Citizen is operated by Citizen News & Media Limited - Terms and Conditions. Citizen News & Media Ltd. Registered in England and Wales. No.06426082. Registered Office: Citizen News & Media Limited, 9 Perseverance Works, 38 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DD. The Hackney Citizen® is a registered trademark © 2025 Citizen News & Media Limited.
© 2024 Citizen News & Media Limited