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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2016
Tricycle theatre, LondonThe arguments about global economics in Akhtar's follow-up to the Pulitzer-winning Disgraced are so dramatic that it's a shame when the plot kicks inOscar Wilde's Mis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AM[SHARE]Theatre Royal, Haymarket, LondonAlan Ayckbourn's vintage comedy about adultery and male bullying is shockingly up to dateTheatrical snobs still patronise Alan Ayckbourn. Alan Strachan's clev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonNothing is out of bounds in Baddiel's new standup, which exposes his father's dementia and his mother's hyperactive sex life to the same affectionate scrutiny…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AM[SHARE]Orange Tree, RichmondThe performances are full of Shavian vitality in this invigorating modern-day revival mocking the disparity between high ideals and personal practice George Bernard Shaw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2016
Donmar Warehouse, London David Leveaux's fine revival featuring an expertly balanced cast shows this 1997 play is much more than the product of its timeDoes it still resonate? That is the ob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46PM[SHARE]Japanese theatre director who harmonised the traditions of east and west in his productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen and EuripidesYukio Ninagawa, who has died aged 80, was a great Japanese thea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 14, 2016
Part two of the BBC's Wars of the Roses series was a visual treat led by a brooding Benedict Cumberbatch, but poignancy was among the script's many casualtiesLast week's opening episode of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:50PM[SHARE]Duke of York's, London The Game of Thrones actor gives us a sense of the scholar's flailing despair but Jamie Lloyd's excessive version of the tragedy comes with a trite messageChristopher M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:39PM[SHARE]Friday, May 13, 2016
London PalladiumA strong cast led by the former Pussycat Doll bring impressive verve to the song and dance spectacular, but the question remains whether the jukebox musical is Andrew Lloyd W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AM[SHARE]Arts Educational, LondonA 1920 private adoption home farms poor children out to rich couples in this fluent production by Kate Sason and a talented student castAs we know from Nell Gwynn and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AM[SHARE]In Cyprus Avenue, I watched aghast as a Protestant attacked his own baby. But I left with a new understanding of sectarianism. So why did the litany of horrors in Sarah Kane's Cleansed just …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2016
Young Vic, LondonArthur Miller's 1955 Brooklyn drama is stripped right back to showcase rich behavioural accuracy and high-quality performances' Monroe and Miller's sensational year " in pic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PM[SHARE]Jury's Inn, BrightonPatrick Sandford's candid play about the abuse he suffered as a nine-year-old at the hands of a teacher shines much needed light on dark placesThe Brighton festival has s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AM[SHARE]Brighton festivalThis disturbing piece of immersive theatre shines a light on the morality of police surveillance as audience members get to play undercover agentsAt what point, if any, is p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Lyttelton, LondonSuhayla El-Bushra brings Nikolai Erdman's 1928 social comedy into the modern day, but leaves its eccentricity and subversion behindThe National Theatre these days seems susp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16PM[SHARE]Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonSet in a post-Brexit dystopia, Melly Still's production is odd, excessive and over-stuffed with ideas but it's unafraid of emotion and boasts fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Branagh channels Olivier, Isabelle Huppert lusts after her stepson and Ralph Fiennes gets the royal hump. Meanwhile there's magic in the air as Harry Potter grows up " and Groundhog Day is r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Arcola, LondonMay Sumbwanyambe's promising play, set in 1998, pits a white farm-owning family against a government agent sent to acquire their landThe Papatango new writing prize has uncover…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 7, 2016
The Henry VI plays are condensed into two servings of power battles, sex and witchcraft with fine performances from Hugh Bonneville and Sophie OkonedoShakespeare's early histories used to be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:56PM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2016
Hampstead theatre, LondonWhy did TE Lawrence turn his back on fame after assisting the Arab uprising? Brenton's solidly acted play explores the mystery of a troubled figureThe centenary of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Chichester festival theatreBonneville precisely captures the recklessness and egotism of Dr Stockmann in a vigorous production of Ibsen's frighteningly topical playThis is the fifth major re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:34PM[SHARE]Mill Studio, Yvonne Arnaud, GuildfordPrivate passion coincides with the public chaos of 1947 in this tale of an affair featuring a first-rate castHoward Brenton's Drawing the Line dramatised…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2016
Ibsen was sane, progressive and formal. Strindberg was neurotic, reactionary and fragmented. The two were arch enemies - but together they laid the foundations for modern drama, says Michael…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:14PM[SHARE]Branagh channels Olivier, Isabelle Huppert lusts after her stepson and Ralph Fiennes gets the royal hump. Meanwhile there's magic in the air as Harry Potter grows up " and Groundhog Day is r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 1, 2016
Finborough, LondonAthena Stevens' drama about a girl with cerebral palsy and a teacher overstates the message that disability is no bar to ambition, but it's laudable propagandaThis play cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2016
The Space, LondonGotthold Ephraim Lessing's European drama, given an admirable revival at this fringe theatre, is an assured attack on unfettered princely powerThis 1772 tragedy by Gotthold …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2016
Donmar Warehouse, London Payne's utterly relatable characters make this play about scientific progress an exploration of the very human concepts of love, identity, faith and lossNick Payne's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Minerva, ChichesterPatricia Hodge is superb as a madcap aunt, whisking her buttoned-up nephew on a world tour, in a perfectly pleasant show that lacks the novel's ambiguitiesGraham Greene's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Through intelligent handling of its racial themes, Daniel Evans's revival has steered this much-loved 1927 show smoothly into the modern ageWhat is it about Show Boat? Why is it that a music…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AM[SHARE]Duke of York's, London The Game of Thrones actor gives us a sense of the scholar's flailing despair but Jamie Lloyd's excessive version of the tragedy comes with a trite messageChristopher M…
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