Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Available onlineA starry cast muse on first bras, prom dresses, marriage and motherhood in Nora and Delia Ephron's magnificent celebration of clothes " and life
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 17, 2020
Available onlineThe Apple siblings from Richard Nelson's quartet of plays return on a Zoom call to talk about life in lockdown
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For tho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2020
Available onlineThe story of a woman in London trying desperately to connect online with her daughter in Palestine suits these isolated times well
The best arts and entertainment during self…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Despite a knee injury, the actor's lockdown has been productive " she stars in the Donmar's online play about a mother's relationship with her daughter
Hottest front-room seats: best theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2020
From love triangles to the bond between mothers and daughters, performers step into the relationships minefield
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance online
The beady-eyed cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2020
Available onlineAd Infinitum conjure a surreal world from the Covid-19 pandemic, while Bryony Kimmings unravels flamboyantly
Hottest front-room seats: best theatre and dance online
The task …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2020
Artistic director says theatre sector is in 'premier league of risk' caused by Covid-19 and calls on increased government support for freelancers
Rufus Norris has warned that the UK's theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Available onlineTemporary Distortion's stage scarer uses filmic elements to gripping and claustrophobic effect in a story of infidelity and murder
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Available onlineThe labyrinthine corridors of Battersea Arts Centre become a rabbit hole of live acts in this bewitching single-take film
Hottest front-room seats: theatre and dance to wat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 12, 2020
Available onlineGators and Zarabooshka, the first instalments in a new 14-part series of monologues by Philip Ridley, feature anxious characters marooned in confusing times
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2020
The actor and writer, who recently masterminded a viral Shakespeare video, stars in a new drama about life under lockdown and is ready to reveal her one-woman play, Heart
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Available onlineThis touching show about the schoolboy and reality TV stand-out Musharaf Asghar is compellingly performed
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 5, 2020
Available onlineDeirdre Kinahan's touching drama about homosexuality and women's lives celebrates song, dance and the comfort of theatre
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2020
Available onlineAhamefule J Oluo's 2014 show about having an autoimmune disease is a moving hybrid of comedy, theatre and jazz
Since venues closed their doors because of the coronavirus, a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Available onlineBunker theatre's six short films should inspire some fruitful reflection by the theatre industry during coronavirus lockdown
The six short films comprising Where Do We Go Nex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2020
Available onlineMoving between three timelines of women who go against the grain, Philip Franks's haunted-house production cranks up the tension
The Croft is a haunted house story that has a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Watermill, NewburyThis folk musical about a lonely fisherwoman looking for love boldly puts a puppet in the role of the leading man
Just after many UK theatres announced indefinite closures …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2020
National Theatre, LondonRobert Lepage's dazzling epic explores human resilience in the face of global trauma with elegance and imagination
An arresting image in the opening of The Seven Stre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2020
Coronet theatre, London Friel's mashup of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters is an exciting prospect, but this production lacks chemistry
Afterplay initially sounds like drama of the mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2020
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonMike Bartlett's brilliant play follows a couple trying, and failing, to keep family together
'The personal is political" started out as a feminist rallying call in t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Crucible, SheffieldAn arrogant elite, populist fury … Robert Hastie charts the rise and fall of Tom Bateman's hero with a modern-day edge
For all of its ruthless violence and ferocious mil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Royal Court, LondonVicky Featherstone directs EV Crowe's play about a working mother who loses a shoe and her grip on reality
'I'm often frustrated by the rhythms of naturalism," EV Crowe ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2020
Park theatre, LondonSome nifty staging and a strong performance from Tom York as two warring brothers cannot enliven this outdated caper
Gerald Moon's 1983 comic crime caper is set in the ye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2020
Crucible Studio theatre, SheffieldTwo sisters travel back across four decades in Chloë Morris's gritty and unsentimental story of a pained relationship
Difficult sisterhood appears to be …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PM[SHARE]Orange Tree theatre, LondonJosh Azouz's play explores the passion between two men who go to the same synagogue but it lacks tension and tenderness
'This is a mikvah," states a character at t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2020
From cat brains to dismembered tongues, the teams behind theatre's bloodiest shows reveal how they made audiences shriek with horror and delight
Bodies hacked to pieces, brains dribbling out…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2020
Piccadilly theatre, London Danny Mac and Aimie Atkinson star in the schmaltzy and shallow Hollywood tale, told with a few winning songs
A businessman picks up a sex worker to turn her into h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42PM[SHARE]Friday, February 28, 2020
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThomas Middleton's play seems perfect for the #MeToo era, but this over-stylised production misses the mark
Thomas Middleton's revenge drama about patriarchy, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Tales by Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter and Emily Brontë are all being brought to theatres this year. Their creative teams reflect on what they cut and what they added
How does a well-love…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Coronet theatre, LondonNico Holonics is in resoundingly offbeat form as as a stunted child in a solo show that delights in making its audience squirm
'How shall I begin?" asks Nico Holonics …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Dominion, LondonIt's got pageantry, pyramids and dazzling dance moves, but this lavish stage adaptation drowns out the emotional drama
DreamWorks' musical animation The Prince of Egypt was …
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