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]Belgrade theatre, CoventryPlacing Mary Shelley alongside the characters she created undermines the extraordinary power of her classic story
The real-life tale behind the creation of Frankens…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2019
Yvonne Arnaud theatre, Guildford Set during and after the blitz, the lives of five characters and the scars left behind are movingly explored
Sarah Waters writes historical novels that seem …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2019
Young Vic, LondonYaël Farber's visceral production, relocating the action to rural Ireland, retains all the potency of Lorca's play about tribal vengeance
How to stage Lorca's Blood Weddi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Park theatre, LondonOberman stars as the mother of a teenage rapist in this revival of Evan Placey's rich exploration of family conflict
Matthew Kapowitz is a Canadian teenager under house a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2019
Orange Tree, LondonMaya Arad Yasur's complex play about the consequences of war is obscured by a series of comic games
Amsterdam is billed as an "audacious thriller" and the mystery at its h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2019
Finborough, LondonAfter a boy runs away, a Maori social worker is sent to investigate the parents in Emma Kinane's engaging if overlong New Zealand drama
A young Maori social worker is sent …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 27, 2019
The Weinstein scandal has inspired several new plays ranging from sharp satire to crass comedy. As the mogul heads to trial, we gauge theatre's response
Katie Arnstein tells a story of a day…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2019
Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonAndrew Lloyd Webber's epic gets a rock-concert revival that features pom-poms and twerking but lacks central chemistry
It is no surprise that Evita is D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2019
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonMalcolm Rennie is stunning as Harry McNish, a carpenter on Shackleton's ill-fated voyage, whose key part in the famous story has been overlooked
The lights go up…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Theatre Royal, BathA dark, growly Everett pushes the humour in David Hare's absurdist adaptation of the classic drama of mid-life malaise
Last year, Rupert Everett gave a heart-wrenching per…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM[SHARE]He lit up the screen in the 80s " but things did not go as planned. As he takes on Chekhov, Everett speaks about stardom, midlife crises and penis padding
Rupert Everett is directing his fir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 28, 2019
Troubadour White City theatre, LondonSally Cookson's stunning production brims with naughtiness, bloodlust and menace " recalling JM Barrie's original intentions for the story
Peter Pan open…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2019
The Passenger Shed, BristolWith a diverse cast bringing an affectionate subversiveness to Enid Blyton's postwar school tales, Rice's musical is huge fun and surprisingly contemporary
Emma Ri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2019
Watermill, NewburyMarietta Kirkbride's play about a village torn over forgiving a sex offender convincingly channels older voices
The #MeToo movement has inspired a number of plays giving v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PM[SHARE]Friday, July 12, 2019
Finborough, LondonGabriela Garcia and Devon Anderson shine as a prisoner and her guard in a story where the lines are blurred
Tegan McLeod's drama about American citizenship, illegal immigr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Royal Court, LondonJasmine Lee-Jones's play follows an online battle about the Instagram star and tackles racism, misogyny and colourism
The lights are still dead when this play opens. A wra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonA young man plans to privatise the estate where he grew up in Gabriel Bisset-Smith's quick-witted drama about identity and belonging
Mary is mixed-race; her son Lysander …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 4, 2019
Ovalhouse, LondonThe second instalment of Koko Brown's colour trilogy is a darkly humorous piece about depression
White, the first part of Koko Brown's "colour" trilogy, was about growing up…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 27, 2019
Hoxton Hall, London Donna Berlin is intense as an astronaut in Oneness Sankara's play about the emotional cost of female ambition
'I would like to tell you a story about being the first," Am…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2019
William Baldwin concealed his 16th-century book Beware the Cat because of its satirical swipes at the Catholic church. Now, it's celebrated on stage
What was the first novel in the English l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2019
Theatre Royal BathSaunders is a fizzy delight as the medium in Richard Eyre's revival of the Noël Coward comedy about a couple haunted by the ghost of the husband's first wife
Noël Cow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2019
Pleasance, LondonDavid Finnigan's bold play about protesters who take an environment minister hostage is stalled by metatheatrics
In London's Parliament Square last October, teenage activist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Arcola, LondonFemi Elufowoju Jr's engaging production puts an African American family at its centre but misses some of the play's quietly heart-wringing moments
Playwright August Wilson bel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2019
NST City, SouthamptonUpdated to include Brexit, Peter Morgan's 2013 drama about the Queen's off-the-record conversations with her prime ministers seems underpowered
Peter Morgan's play about…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2019
Finborough theatre, LondonJulia Pascal's dynamic production sees Medea reborn as a former fighter against Isis who finds Jason in the British capital
Euripides' Medea is not just a bloodthir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 23, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonNyla Levy's play about London schoolfriends, divided when one goes to Syria, is savvy, streetwise and energetic
What makes a 15-year-old from Mitcham, south London, leave…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Arcola theatre, LondonThere are entertaining performances in Bim Adewunmi's lively debut play about a British-Nigerian family with a dinner guest
The dinner party has served as the setting f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Hampstead theatre, LondonZingy repartee and energetic performances fail to enliven Roy Williams' tale about a criminal gang's unresolved grievances
The Firm opens in high mood as four middle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Ovalhouse, LondonNothing feels gratuitous in Bella Heesom's bold and poetic play about female sexuality which ends in catharsis not climax
More than 20 years ago, Eve Ensler dared to say the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2019
Birmingham RepThis staging of the bestseller loses the story's gut-wrenching power in a sea of lighthearted flourish
Khaled Hosseini's bestselling book The Kite Runner is about fathers, sons…
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