Posted on 10 July 2013

Getting To Know You: Hannah Gibbs, Wardrobe Mistress

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We chat to Hannah Gibbs to find out what a day in the life of a Wardrobe Mistress involves, from sweaty costumes and sewing to live streaming and John Sessions’ broken fly.

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Posted on 3 July 2013

What the press said about the autumn season

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The Evening Standard by Louise Jury

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Posted on 27 June 2013

Race: Backstage tour video

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Hampstead Theatre’s Company Stage Manager, Robyn Hardy, gives us a backstage tour of David Mamet’s Race.

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Posted on 19 June 2013

Responsible Other: Assistant Director's Rehearsal Diary - Week Three

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Responsible Other’s Assistant Director, Simon Ryninks, gives an insight into the second week of rehearsals including scripts, forgetting lines and appearing in The Telegraph.

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Posted on 11 June 2013

SURVEY: Under 26? We need your feedback!

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We want people to enjoy their time with us at Hampstead Theatre.

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Posted on 7 June 2013

Responsible Other: Assistant Director's Rehearsal Diary - Week Two

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Responsible Other’s Assistant Director, Simon Ryninks, gives an insight into the second week of rehearsals including staging and learning more about Lupus.

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Posted on 4 June 2013

A Cup of Tea with... A Human Being Died That Night actor Noma Dumezweni

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We chat to actor Noma Dumezweni about her favourite London haunts, researching for her role and meeting Al Pacino. Noma is playing Pumla in A Human Being Died That Night which runs Downstairs until 15 June 2013.

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Posted on 3 June 2013

Hampstead Downstairs: Tomorrow's Theatre Today

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‘The Theatre Downstairs at Hampstead is one of the most exciting interventions into the new writing theatrical landscape in London for the past five years’ says Simon Stephens, writer of Punk Rock and On the Shore of the Wide World.

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Posted on 3 June 2013

Responsible Other: Assistant Director's Rehearsal Diary - Week One

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Responsible Other’s Assistant Director, Simon Ryninks, gives an insight into the first week of rehearsals including social media lessons and filming a trailer.

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Posted on 31 May 2013

A Cup of Tea With... A Human Being Died That Night actor Matthew Marsh

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We chat to actor Matthew Marsh about returning to Hampstead, playing a notorious character and embarrassing moments on stage.

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Posted on 24 May 2013

Responsible Other: Who are Made By Brick?

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Watch Made By Brick’s film to find out a little more about Who they are and Melanie Spencer’s new play Responsible Other which they will be bringing to Hampstead Downstairs 20 June – 20 July.

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Posted on 20 May 2013

Edward Hall introduces Race

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I read David Mamet’s Race soon after joining Hampstead – it had just opened on Broadway – and immediately knew I wanted to produce it here.

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Posted on 15 May 2013

Race cast: Careers in pictures

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From The Wire and Doctor Who to Othello and A Streetcar Named Desire, the cast of Race have enjoyed an incredibly varied and successful career.

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Posted on 3 May 2013

Behind the scenes with Joanna Howells for #aiww

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By Features Editor, Susie Benson

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Posted on 25 April 2013

A Human Being Died That Night: A writer's introduction

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How does it feel to be returning to Hampstead Theatre?

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Posted on 20 April 2013

The live-streaming of #aiww has now closed

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THE LIVE-STREAMING HAS NOW CLOSED.

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Posted on 20 April 2013

Thousands tune in for live-streaming of #aiww

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Thousands of people tuned in across 84 countries from Friday 19 April to watch the live and free streaming of the critically acclaimed #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei.

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Posted on 11 April 2013

David Mamet: A career in pictures

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Pulitzer Prize winner, and writer of RACE coming to Hampstead June 2013, David Mamet has contributed an incredible amount to the industry over the last 40 years, including plays, screen adaptations and novels.

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Posted on 8 April 2013

Edward Hall introduces #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

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In June last year Barnaby Martin wrote to Greg and me with his extraordinary story of the time he had spent with Ai Weiwei.

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Posted on 5 April 2013

Weiwei-isms: A selection of quotations from Ai

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They all ask: Why?

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Posted on 5 April 2013

Ai Weiwei: His Art in pictures

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From Beijing’s Olympic Stadium, the ‘Bird’s Nest’, to millions of ceramic Sunflower Seeds in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, Ai Weiwei’s Art is incredibly powerful and poignant.

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Posted on 2 April 2013

Ai Weiwei discusses Brenton's new play with The Sunday Times

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‘We are here to let people know what a bad man you are’The Sunday Times published 31 March By Leo Lewis

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Posted on 28 March 2013

#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei in rehearsals

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On 3 April 2011, as he was boarding a flight to Taipei, the Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Airport.

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Posted on 15 March 2013

BBC Radio 4: Was Gertrude Stein Any Good?

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Directed by Katie Mitchell, Say It With Flowers explores a number of Gertrude Stein’s work.

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Posted on 15 March 2013

Ai Weiwei: I think the most important medium of our time is Twitter

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Ai Weiwei: I think the most important medium of our time is Twitter (Never Sorry, 2012)

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Posted on 14 March 2013

Say It With Flowers: A history of Gertrude Stein

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Say It With Flowers brings together a number of American modernist Gertrude Stein’s extraordinary work.

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Posted on 14 March 2013

A Human Being Died That Night: Eugene de Kock

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Based on Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela’s interviews with Eugene de Kock, A Human Being Died That Night explores how a fundamentally moral person can become a mass murderer.

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Posted on 6 March 2013

A Cup of Tea with... Hello/Goodbye's Andy Rush

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We caught up with Andy Rush between rehearsals before the show opened to talk about Charlie Chaplin, juggling and letting out his ‘inner geek’.

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Posted on 4 March 2013

'Never an ensemble to do anything by halves': Propeller are BACK

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‘Propeller is all about how we approach a show, how we treat our audience, how we bring life to the words and stories we put across, how the camaraderie of the company spreads to the people who are watching…’ Edward Hall, Artistic Director of Propeller and Hampstead Theatre

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Posted on 21 February 2013

Edward Hall introduces Longing

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We’ve been planning this production of Longing for over two years.

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Posted on 18 February 2013

The story behind #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

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Photo: Benedict Wong as Ai Weiwei for #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

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Posted on 8 February 2013

A Cup of Tea with... I Know How I Feel About Eve's Michele Austin

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We chat to actor Michele Austin about The Bill, Mike Leigh and the thrill of the studio stage.

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Posted on 1 February 2013

Di and Viv and Rose: The soundtrack

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‘There are moments here that made me cry with laughter, nor least when all three girls dance wildly in their sitting-room to Prince’s Let’s Go Crazy pumped up to max on their sound system.’ – Charles Spencer, The Telegraph

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Posted on 1 February 2013

Longing: Behind the scenes

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Enjoy these behind-the-scene pictures from the Longing publicity photoshoot featuring Tamsin Greig and Iain Glen and see the finished product.

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