Sunday, December 4, 2022
Park theatre, LondonOliver Yellop's East Berlin drama, half of a double bill, captures the claustrophobia of digging under the Wall, but never quite breaks free
Two cousins are desperately t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2022
Lyttelton theatre, LondonGiles Terera stars in a thrilling production with a radical climax that explores the domestic violence in Shakespeare's play
In 1964, the National Theatre Company st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Noël Coward theatre, LondonThe 1968 debate between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr is depicted with verve and feels uncomfortably up-to-date
Could a grainy broadcast debate between tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Monday, November 28, 2022
As You Like It comes to London's new venue @sohoplace this winter. The play's director and the theatre's owner discuss arts cuts, the industry's gender balance and the pandemic
Arifa Akbar: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AM[SHARE]Friday, November 25, 2022
Royal Court, LondonA British Iraqi and her father re-enact his wartime memories under the direction of three ghoulish clowns in a daring if uneven debut
There are searing moments in this tal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32PM[SHARE]Marylebone theatre, LondonThere's only one sleuth in Victorian London who can get to the bottom of the suspicious death of Ebenezer Scrooge, in this winning crossover mystery
This is Sherloc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Wyndham's theatre, LondonLaura Dos Santos and Lucy May Barker are excellent as the frenemies in a queasy verbatim drama
From the moment Coleen Rooney dropped her Instagram post ("It's … Re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Available onlineTwo actors share the role of Maya, telling stories of her absent sibling and the illusive title character which are unresolved but compelling
This is a bracingly odd 30-minu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2022
Southwark Playhouse, LondonClive Judd's Papatango-winning play about a West Midlands family haunted by the past is unorthodox and invigorating
It is hard to categorise this unorthodox and i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2022
Theatre Royal BathGeorge Bernard Shaw's discomfiting play finds a commanding lead in Quentin, playing alongside her real-life daughter Rose
It is clear to see why George Bernard Shaw's 1893 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonThere's tension in Terry Johnson's tale of four couples meeting for sex and nibbles but the unruly debate isn't deep enough
At first, The Sex Party looks like…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2022
Omnibus theatre, LondonAnna Coombs strips out two-thirds of the characters to deliver an intimate and intense adaptation of Shakespeare's play
There is no sign of courtly pomp or ceremony i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42PM[SHARE]Friday, November 11, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonJoe White's romantic tragedy is a brave and original depiction of the hedonistic excess and inner battles of a co-dependent couple struggling with alcoholism
The cou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2022
White Bear theatre, LondonInspired by real-life accounts, Jules Chan's play returns the audience to the early months of the pandemic but doesn't create enough drama
This part-verbatim drama …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PM[SHARE]In the first of a series of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England's new funding decisions, we consider the view from the Watermill theatre, Welsh National Opera and Paine…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Southwark Playhouse, LondonExploring the agent's life after she fell into Nazi hands, this beguilingly played story reflects on bravery and culpability
Not enough is known of Noor Inayat Kha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 6, 2022
The Pit, Barbican, London With live music, video and spoken word testimony, a dramatic rap subculture energetically seizes the chance to present its own complicated story on stage
Seven bala…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2022
Royal Court theatre, LondonMartin Crimp's show uses AI and deep-fake technology to question the definition of drama " and what it is to be human
There are circles within circles of inquiries…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2022
North Wall Arts Centre, OxfordDeborah Pugh delivers a brilliantly intense take on the ancient tales, foregrounding the heroism of women
'This is the story of my severed head." As first lines…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PM[SHARE]Available onlineEffectively filmed for streaming audiences in a sharply told adaptation, this adventure stars Luke Barton as the bumptious master detective
"If this is to be our final advent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonRona Munro's engaging debate drama has some thrilling exchanges as three characters argue the case for and against Mary Queen of Scots
The Mary of the title refers t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2022
Wilton's Music Hall, LondonSet in the New Mexico desert, David Farr's unusual play dips into virtual reality in order to raise questions of love, life and what constitutes the human essence
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2022
Seven Dials Playhouse, LondonA distressed woman unravels after her father's suicide in a play that strikes the wrong balance between humour and sorrow
Daddy Issues sets itself a tall order: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2022
They have suffered vicious abuse and ugly trolling, but the team behind the Globe's Shakespeare and Race festival tell our writer why their work feels more urgent than ever
When Farah Karim-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AM[SHARE]Almeida, London Songs belt out deliriously in this romp through rise and fall of the Bakker televangelists and latterday gay icons " so thick and fast the James Graham script and Jake Shears…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Park theatre, LondonExcellent performances enhance this story of three young boys hurtling towards gang culture
King Hamlin begins with a teenager's funeral. We learn of the boy's stabbing a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2022
Park theatre, LondonThis adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's novel about a gay man grieving for his lover lacks the depth of Tom Ford's movie version
Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2022
Bristol Old VicWith inky backdrops, jagged sound and frenzied violence, John Haidar's production stars Billy Howle as a prince emanating unhinged anger
The opening scene suggests that this p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Barbican, LondonThe Royal Shakespeare Company's production has astonishing puppetry, magical music and huge emotional impact
How to adapt an iconic film made by the creative giants at Studio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Minerva theatre, ChichesterIn spite of a nifty set and new songs, this story of an oil-man trying to buy a Highlands village never quite comes alive
This adaptation of Bill Forsyth's 1983 fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2022
The Hope theatre, LondonThe characters might be the Brontës themselves or they might be from novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, mashed-up with wandering strays from a zombie …
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