Thursday, March 31, 2022
Gielgud theatre, LondonRafe Spall is a dignified Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin's smooth and confident adaptation, which finds modern-day resonances in the 1960 classic about racial injustice…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 27, 2022
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonThough innovative in delivery, this bizarre experimental production has gratuitous descriptions of sex and violence and fails to satisfy as a performance
Psychod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2022
Park theatre, LondonThe acting, by Imogen Stubbs and Eric Underwood among others, is formidable but Bruce Norris's 2010 play lacks depth
Bruce Norris's 2010 satire was written as a response …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonIvo van Hove's production divests this drama of emotional power and momentum, keeping us at arm's length
Jean Cocteau's 1930 play is a monologue disguised as a s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2022
The Law & Order: SVU star is returning to the stage in a White House satire set in 2024. She talks about the 'black-lash' after Obama's election, brokering a new deal for Broadway divers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PM[SHARE]Monday, March 21, 2022
The Olivier-winning actor is starring in his own play about a horrifying chapter of history and the fight to abolish slavery. He reflects on the resistance to making the story heard
At a piv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2022
Available onlineThis is a gripping drama about the inner struggles and temptation endured by a recovering alcoholic during a dark night of the soul at his father's wake
Marcus Brigstocke's d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2022
Unicorn theatre, LondonBewitching video and ingenious sets combine in a staging that turns the 18th-century adventure into an escape for a troubled student
This radical reimagining of Jonath…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Ambassadors theatre, LondonJade Anouka's character causes an existential earthquake in Marianne Elliott's stylised revival of Mike Bartlett's comedy about sexual identity
The world has at la…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PM[SHARE]The eponymous do of Mike Leigh's 1977 play is reimagined in Abi's House Party, a youth production at the Watford Palace theatre. But what would Bev think?
The drama in Abigail's Party focuse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Monday, March 14, 2022
Park theatre, LondonRon Hutchinson's play picks up intriguing themes about fake news and psychology but fails to explore them in depth
"What if the Titanic never hit an iceberg? What if it s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2022
Barbican, LondonFairytale imagery is mixed with absurdist humour in this prescient political thriller in which Russia has become a dictatorial superstate
Given the political history of the B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PM[SHARE]Friday, March 11, 2022
Royal Exchange, ManchesterStef Smith's reworking of the incendiary play casts three Noras in different eras, but can't give them credible life
There is not one disgruntled wife in this high-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonLooking back at the work of Sondheim, Hamlisch and Legrand, with glorious songs and personal stories, this is a mixed bag of a show
Maria Friedman has staged …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Friday, March 4, 2022
Olivier theatre, LondonA superb new cast show this story of love, war and racial prejudice has earned its place in the National Theatre pantheon
There is arguably a calculated safety in stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2022
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe Game of Thrones star impresses in an uneven production balancing boardroom and battlefield
It is impossible to watch Max Webster's modern-dress staging of Henry V…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Riverside Studios, LondonTim Walker's drama reconstructs the battles between Theresa May and Gina Miller after the Brexit vote, and their misogynist context
Kenneth Clarke's description of T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, LondonA couple bicker through the night in a remote cabin in a well-performed revival of David Mamet's two-hander from 1977
David Mamet's odd if intriguing two-hander fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 27, 2022
Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon TyneA startlingly handsome production of George Orwell's allegorical farmyard tale, with hints of kabuki and film noir, is given ever more meaning and relevance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 24, 2022
Young Vic, LondonPaul Bettany and Jeremy Pope excel as the art world legends in Anthony McCarten's account of a fractious friendship
Anthony McCarten's new play is an odd bromance between tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Studio theatre, SheffieldJohn Rwothomack, performing his own one-man play, depicts a Ugandan boy terrorised into fighting for the Lord's Resistance Army with visceral power
'Will you favour …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]His liberal-baiting plays have caused punch-ups in the aisles and he hasn't finished yet. As The Woods " his incendiary take on sexual politics " returns, the writer cuts loose
'I have no id…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Monday, February 21, 2022
The award-winning writer of Shook grew up on an estate and did not see his world represented on stage. When he acknowledged his shame about his background, he found his voice
In 2019, Samuel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PM[SHARE]Friday, February 18, 2022
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Afrofuturism meets comic-book kitsch in a radiant production whose dramatic impact cannot match its majestic design
The first and last word on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonSian Carter's debut play tells an inter-generational story of hidden mental illness that is richly played, with real pain but also sparks of joy
You are forced to "s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonA seductive production that jumbles chronology and blends memory with fantasy is undeniably slick and captivating to watch
Florian Zeller's brand of psychological th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Friday, February 11, 2022
Almeida, London
Kathryn Hunter and Marcello Magni are perfectly grotesque in this timely revival of Eugène Ionesco's absurdist classic
This may be the perfect time to revive a play about th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 10, 2022
Theatre Royal PlymouthNigel Harman and Hannah Rose Caton star as Dan Brown's adventurers in a show that sometimes feels as if it is on fast-forward
Dan Brown's compulsive, contentious story …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM[SHARE]Friday, February 4, 2022
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAlthough Sean Holmes's production has some nice touches, it fails to plumb the play's existential depths and lacks emotional intensity
George Fouracres, best k…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 3, 2022
He came blazing out of Glasgow like a rocket, scoring hits and acclaim. As he returns to the stage in a hard-rapping, homoerotic Cyrano de Bergerac, the star talks about partygate, snout siz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Old Vic theatre, LondonThe powerhouse duo's effortless chemistry and emotional realism brings Caryl Churchill's cloning tragedy blazing into new life
'They've taken your cells," says a fathe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
