Monday, September 13, 2021
Adelphi theatre, LondonThis is a splashy theatre-film mashup, with gravity-defying effects, cute quirks and offbeat gags
How does a car speed at 88mph on stage? That must have been the bigge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PM[SHARE]Birmingham RepAyub Khan Din's comedy still resonates in its depiction of a hostile environment " Salford in the 70s " while its sharp wit and warm characterisations are exhilarating
Twenty-f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AM[SHARE]Friday, September 10, 2021
Minerva theatre, ChichesterThis tale of a claustrophobic mother-daughter relationship takes contrived turns, but the starkly moving performances remain compelling
Much has changed in Ireland…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PM[SHARE]Bloomsbury theatre, LondonBarry Reckord's sexually charged play about freedom and rebellion is drowned out by chaotic comedy
The Jamaican playwright Barry Reckord broke several boundaries in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonBeyond the visual thrills and powerful ballads, this adaptation brings an unexpected depth to the relationship between two tortured sisters
This musical extr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PM[SHARE]Monday, September 6, 2021
The resurgence of Black Lives Matter has given fresh potency to the theatre company's production " an earthquake of sound and dance
We have been encouraged to bring our "rags and flags" to T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM[SHARE]Friday, September 3, 2021
Dorfman theatre, LondonA tidal wave of plotlines, ideas and characters embraces past and present in a production where playfulness meets cruelty
Winsome Pinnock's leviathan of a play opens w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 29, 2021
Old College Quad, EdinburghThis lightweight cabaret-style set sells its subject short, even if Cumming can belt out a power ballad convincingly
The promise is that Alan Cumming will talk abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM[SHARE]Friday, August 27, 2021
Almeida theatre, LondonAdrian Edmondson plays a psychopath in Josh Azouz's nuanced tragicomedy about Jewish-Arab relations in 1942
A man is buried up to his neck with only a geometrical dese…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 26, 2021
Cush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Available onlineIn her audio play, Frances Poet nimbly entwines Sophia Jex-Blake's groundbreaking battles with the story of her biographer
Sophia is the story of Scotland's first female doct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]Inspired by a Guardian article, the theatre's surreal and spellbinding show AI is a collaboration between humans and the system GPT-3
Last autumn, a deep-learning computer programme wrote an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 12, 2021
Olivier theatre, LondonLesley Sharp stars in a tragedy that interrogates notions of military machismo and the performance of masculinity
Kae Tempest's reworked Sophoclean tragedy is the stor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Prince of Wales theatre, LondonThe sharp Channel 4 comedy becomes a lumbering stage show sending up King Charles and a band of boo-worthy buffoons
For fans of the TV series, watching The Win…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Globe Theatre, LondonImaginative directorial tweaks and an expert cast bring out the full effects of a text stuffed with double-meanings, gender-swapped disguises and dextrous language
Post-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PM[SHARE]Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonTimothy Sheader's production relocates the musical from New England to the north of England and dismantles the fatal romance at its heart
It is no surpr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Monday, August 9, 2021
Her career has taken her from pop success to Strictly and the stage. She discusses the pain of racist comments, the joy of duetting with Beyoncé " and the enduring influence of her late mot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Palace theatre, LondonThis confusing concoction of cabaret, holiday camp entertainment, panto and pub act fails to showcase its talented illusionists
The first thing to say about Wonderville…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 1, 2021
Young Vic, LondonKwame Kwei-Armah's adaptation of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem is ambitious and visually stunning, but Ben Okri's script is too broadbrush
Two towering pyramids dominate th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Friday, July 30, 2021
Turbine theatre, LondonDespite heartfelt intentions and some energetic performances, this production doesn't do justice to the brilliance of Kevin Elyot's 1994 script
Kevin Elyot's 1994 play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 29, 2021
Old Vic, LondonEmma Rice's version of the 1987 movie is an outrageously sentimental ode to friendship and oddballs meeting amid Californian tumbleweed
Just as Wim Wenders' road movie put P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 28, 2021
London PalladiumAlexandra Burke, Jason Donovan and Technicolor coat-wearer Jac Yarrow are among a cast whose performances ooze personality and mischief
While Andrew Lloyd Webber bumpily stee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Hampstead theatre, London
Tennessee Williams's play within a play uses ingenious artifice, as its actor brother and sister perform their way into madness, but locks out the audience
There is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 22, 2021
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonThis rousing Gin Lane musical by April De Angelis and Lucy Rivers has working-class women at its heart
Gin Craze! enacts a lesser-remembered piece of 18th-cent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Theatre Royal WindsorThe actor brings brilliant nuance and daring to his part in an age-blind production marred by some eccentric decisions
This Hamlet, starring 82-year-old Ian McKellen as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PM[SHARE]Monday, July 19, 2021
What does Mamet's 1992 play about a college professor accused of sexual harassment say in the wake of #MeToo? Lucy Bailey, director of its West End revival, discusses its power
Director Lucy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 17, 2021
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonEmma Corrin and and Nabhaan Rizwan give excellent performances in Joseph Charlton's two-hander which has a fizzing hi-tech design
Damien Hirst's conceptual art i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Orange Tree theatre, LondonBryony Lavery's play, revived by director Tinuke Craig, celebrates friendship with truths, humour and good punchlines
A play about serious illness and the search f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 11, 2021
Toynbee Studios, LondonWritten in response to sexual violence in Tahrir Square, this mobile adaptation of Sara Shaarawi's polemic becomes confusing
Niqabi Ninja is a revenge fantasy original…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42PM[SHARE]Old Vic: In CameraDavid Thewlis and Daniel Mays add rich new shades to the over-familiar 1957 two-hander in this filmed adaptation
It takes theatrical alchemy " and talent " to turn a play a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 10, 2021
Royal Ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor had no access to elite ballet schools growing up. But he did have John Travolta and disco to spark a lifelong obsession. Now he wants to make dancer…
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