Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Boulevard theatre, LondonGary Beadle and Jasper Britton are excellent in this static and plotless existential treatise, but still can't transcend its dramatic limitations
There is a flagrant…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Belgrade theatre, CoventryThe story of Sarah Bonetta Davies, given to Queen Victoria, is contrasted with a modern black British woman in Janice Okoh's play
The historian David Olusoga has sp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 19, 2020
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonDavid Threlfall, James Hayes, Niall Buggy and Lisa Dwan star in Trevor Nunn's atmospheric productions of Krapp's Last Tape, Eh Joe and The Old Tune
Harold Pinter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2020
Pleasance theatre, London Julie Tsang's modern gothic fairytale is full of ideas and has some creepy moments but it never quite delivers
Fix opens with all the thrilling promise of a modern …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2020
He gave up football after being racially abused on the terraces. Now the barrier-breaking writer, actor and director has turned his scars into a play about a bigoted white family
As a child,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Royal Exchange, ManchesterCharlene James's 2016 play about female genital mutilation combines a powerful social message with bursts of humour
It's a "messed-up tradition" says one of the ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2020
New Diorama, LondonSuperb performances by Annabel Baldwin and Rachel Hosker capture the intimacy and grief of this fearlessly revisionist retelling of Sophocles' drama
This startling retelli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Friday, January 10, 2020
Finborough theatre, LondonAthena Stevens creates comedy and occasional danger from a real-life incident in this tricksy drama
'Part of being a creative person who happens to have a disabilit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Hampstead theatre, LondonAlexandra Wood's spirited story of modern womanhood reminds us that the blood-bond of sisterhood has hard edges
For 40 years, the photographer Nicholas Nixon took a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2020
Film reviewers sank their claws into Cats, but is it really so awful? Our stage reviewers steeled themselves for the caterwauling ... but ended up quite enjoying it
It can be very pleasurab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 2, 2020
Tom Stoppard gets personal, Cush Jumbo does Hamlet, Hollywood names bring everything from tragedy to comedy … plus dance confronts shame and there's standup open heart surgery Continue rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM[SHARE]Friday, December 13, 2019
Belgrade theatre, CoventryCharacters including The Great Gatsby's Daisy round on a Greek god in this bewildering Christmas show
The setting is a cabaret-style jazz club with saxophonist, dru…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2019
National Theatre, LondonGaiman's novel turns into a dynamic and quirky stage spectacular, though at the expense of the more nuanced relationships
There are some hair-raising monsters in The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Almeida, LondonLydia Wilson is riveting as the strong-willed duchess in Rebecca Frecknall's arresting update
When The Duchess of Malfi was revived in 1945 after falling out of fashion for ce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2019
Bunker, LondonMatilda Ibini's autobiographical coming-of-age play mixes serious scenes with underpowered comedy sketches
Little Miss Burden begins as a Jackanory-style story, narrated by two…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PM[SHARE]This year, the tried-and-tested tale at London's Old Vic is up against subversive surprises at Wilton's Music Hall, where Scrooge's sister takes the lead
Charles Dickens knew he had struck g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Royal Court, LondonSaturating the senses with sound, light and sign language, this imaginative experience explores whether the web can free us from our 'glitching' bodies
In Midnight Movie, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2019
She needed police protection after her play about a rape in a Sikh temple was axed mid-run. The playwright talks about the extraordinary upbringing that drives her
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti was a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2019
Park theatre, LondonAnna Akhmatova is forced to choose between artistic integrity and saving her son in Olivia Olsen's play
In 1935, Anna Akhmatova began writing Requiem in Soviet Russia. He…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Friday, November 8, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonSamuel Bailey's moving play is carried along by its characters' wisecracking " and reveals the anguish hidden underneath
The bored young men in Shook yearn to be e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Her musical Poet in da Corner brought raving to the Royal Court. Now the writer and performer is exploring first love. She talks Mormonism, trauma and teen dreams
Debris Stevenson's first pu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonVR headsets and a gender switch give National Youth Theatre's exuberant production a modern twist, but the storytelling feels gimmicky
'The human era is coming to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonIn his debut play, starring Alan Davies, David Baddiel gambles on a mash-up of physics and midlife crisis
Alan Davies emerges on stage to address the room, or so it seems…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM[SHARE]Monday, October 28, 2019
Her dramas confront the growing horrors facing women in India today. Now she's reworked Ibsen's Ghosts, taking out the syphilis and putting in the Delhi bus gang rape of 2012
Anupama Chandra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 27, 2019
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe painter resembles a drunken YBA in a flawed but timely show that veers from camp humour to political intrigue
'This is not just a play, it's an extravaganza," sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2019
Vaults, LondonShepard picks apart the frailties of two men tormented by unspoken emotions, from marital meltdown and armchair priapism to the existential crisis of mortality
The men in Sam S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 20, 2019
Old Vic, LondonDuncan Macmillan's two-hander is a frenetic portrait of flawed love in a flawed world, exposing the neuroses of a modern couple who struggle to put their principles aside
'The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2019
Hackney Showroom, LondonZawe Ashton aims high with an intricate dissection of race and gender but a smart ending can't save this muddled show
Zawe Ashton has described her play as both an "i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Theatre 503, LondonDanusia Samal's complex drama explores the double life of a young Muslim millennial heading for marriage
Zara is a British-Arab millennial who feels the strain of her doub…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 13, 2019
A drama competition for 200 naked people in a giant sauna? Our writer gets a sweaty taste of 'aufgass' in the Netherlands
I am standing behind a partition rope, waiting for the theatre to op…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonThis fearless production uses intelligent humour to expose racial typecasting in the entertainment industry
How diverse is theatre? Are there more roles for BAME actors …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
