Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Adelphi, LondonTransfers can be tricky. But Richard Bean's updated version of Goldoni's comic classic seems, if anything, even funnier than it did at the National. The text has been shortene…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2016
A political radical, as an actor he excelled at playing tortured establishment figuresCorin Redgrave, who has died aged 70, was both a formidable actor and a strenuous political activis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 12, 2016
Barbican, LondonHuppert is a treat but even she struggles to make sense of a production that is at times close to insufferable Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2016
Chichester Festival theatreFiennes gives an accomplished performance in an elegantly mounted production of Terence Rattigan's uneven playWe associate Terence Rattigan with domestic drama. He…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2016
Gielgud, LondonPeter Morgan struck box-office gold with his movie The Queen. He's likely to do so again with this play based on the private weekly audience given by the monarch to the prime …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21PM[SHARE]Lyttelton, LondonTerence Rattigan's powerful portrait of emotional turmoil in postwar Britain is beautifully played " if only the sound effects weren't so disruptiveTerence Rattigan's best p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Productions of new plays by Tracy Letts and Rebecca Gilman confirm the Windy City is a hotbed of exciting new dramaNew York gets all the attention but in my experience Chicago is just as vib…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Barbican, LondonCumberbatch has a gift for suggesting Hamlet's essential decency, but visual conceits take the place of textual investigation in this frustrating stagingAfter all the hype an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AM[SHARE]The West End's preview practice dates back nearly 50 years. As it stands, the outdated system works against the public interestWhen does Harry Potter and the Cursed Child actually open? The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AM[SHARE]Charing Cross theatre, LondonThom Southerland opens his Charing Cross tenure with his brilliantly staged revival set aboard the doomed linerThe disaster-musical seems an unlikely genre, but …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AM[SHARE]Apollo, LondonThis evocative chamber piece, based on LP Hartley's 1953 coming-of-age novel, is done with taste and style but never quite soars Is LP Hartley's 1953 novel a good subject for a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Tug of War, a gripping take on the history plays with protest songs from Leonard Cohen and Nina Simone, is rocking Chicago. The woman behind it says torture and invasion never felt more rele…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2016
Chichester Festival TheatrePeter Shaffer's spectacle of Mozart's mediocre rival distorts historical reality but remains compelling and stylishly presentedFew living dramatists write big star…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PM[SHARE]The American playwright's masterpiece, an explosive story of sexual repression, has suffered at the hands of directors and censorsGiven that it is Tennessee Williams's best play, it is surpr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55PM[SHARE]Minerva theatre, Chichester Strindberg's Miss Julie is well directed, but it's Shaffer's dark comedy that illuminates in this contrasting double billAugust Strindberg's tragedy Miss Julie an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 5, 2016
Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonA refreshingly authentic Jacobean setting by the RSC allows Ben Jonson's comedy of greed to play to its vicious strengths Polly Findlay has taken a bold and, by toda…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Battersea Arts Centre, LondonHow the Labour government drove itself to invade Iraq in 2003 is laid bare in this sharp distillation of Chilcot inquiry evidence " given added fire by damning t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2016
Dorfman, LondonAn English couple are manipulated by a domineering CIA man and his alcoholic wife in a fine play that explores the effects of American inverventionismAlexi Kaye Campbell's fas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Trafalgar Studios, LondonEisenberg's bullying, sexist and racist rich kid has the comic rhythm of Woody Allen and is compelling to watch, even if we don't care about him Related: Jesse Eisen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonA couple must murder their way to a perfect property in this morality play about a materialistic world where enough is never enoughThere is no doubt as to the hot theatri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:41PM[SHARE]Friday, May 27, 2016
Olivier, LondonRory Kinnear brings a rasping clarity to Macheath in a production by Rufus Norris that does full justice to Kurt Weill's plangent, sawn-off melodiesWhat does this famous piece…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2016
Garrick theatre, LondonLily James's Juliet has a boozy balcony scene, Richard Madden's Romeo seems genuinely inflamed by love and Derek Jacobi is a lounge-lizard MercutioThere are many ways …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Royal Court, LondonStef Smith's powerfully alarmist play imagines the impact of a city's animal infestation on its citizensDystopia is a popular territory for young dramatists. Its latest in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:41AM[SHARE]Arts theatre, LondonGeorge Osborne becomes a sex slave in a lethal piece by David Hare alongside short political plays by Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Alistair Beaton and Stella FeehilyA…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Finborough theatre, LondonThis rarely revived piece about a Victorian blasphemy trial reveals the playwright's complex feelings about ChristianityWritten for a 1960 television production sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:50AM[SHARE]Royal Exchange, ManchesterAspects of Caryl Churchill's 1994 collaborative fantasy remain obscure, but magnetic Peake and a 12-strong ensemble offer an intensely theatrical experiencePlays ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26AM[SHARE]Monday, May 23, 2016
BBC2 The show perked up when it got round to the plays but tried to cram too much into one eveningIt is always worrying when an entertainment promises "something for everybody". That usually…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:52PM[SHARE]A doctor and a private-hire driver are just a couple of the amateur actors starring along RSC members in a touring production of the Dream. The experiment is a success but it shouldn't set a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 21, 2016
Cumberbatch's turn as Shakespeare's scheming king is remarkable in a finale that also features fine performances from Judi Dench and Keeley HawesRichard III brings the BBC's Hollow Crown cyc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55PM[SHARE]Royal Court, LondonI spy a danger for the theatre in a new form of chic exclusivity. Because everyone wants to see Jez Butterworth's first new play since Jerusalem and because space is limit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50AM[SHARE]Friday, May 20, 2016
Young Vic, London With tremendous performances from Daniel Kaluuya, David Haig and Luke Norris, Penhall's drama packs even more of a punch 16 years after its debutJunior doctors are in the n…
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