Saturday, March 19, 2016
National, LondonThe National Theatre used to bring us Broadway's golden oldies. Now it imports something original: a remarkable musical, with book and lyrics by Tony Kushner and music by Jea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2016
Garrick, LondonDoors are slammed and trousers dropped in this bawdy hitman caper which teases out the comic skill of its leadsFarce is purely a matter of taste. I met someone the other day w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:22PM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, London Florian Zeller's follow-up to The Father and The Mother raises provocative questions that have long haunted French dramaAt what point does an act of homage t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Crucible, Sheffield Jack O'Connell keeps his cool as a rising snooker star " even while playing a competitive match " in Bean's comedy about sport, class and corruptionI've rarely seen a pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2016
Southwark Playhouse, LondonIs her adopted war orphan son a terrorist, or just a boy pushing boundaries? JC Lee's play makes tantalising capital out of guilty feelings and a climate of suspic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:39AM[SHARE]Cottesloe Theatre, LondonHow do you follow a big hit? Just as Jez Butterworth succeeded Jerusalem with the more modest The River, so Lucy Prebble follows her spectacular Enron with an intima…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:38AM[SHARE]Friday, March 11, 2016
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsAndrew Lancel captures Brian Clough's charm and cheek in this story of his stint as Leeds manager, but Red Ladder's show is probably for football fans onlyFoot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Derby theatreOsborne's unflinching study of a failing marriage still grips " and is intelligently paired with a mono-drama about Jimmy Porter's modern female counterpartYou may go expecting …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Shaftesbury theatre, London The show's 50 songs are put across with plenty of pizzazz but this account of the music mogul's rags-to-riches story leaves the key questions unanswered Given tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:43PM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2016
Orange Tree, Richmond There are beautifully understated performances in this revival of Robert Holman's quiet play about life in 70s TeessideTime has lent an extra layer of poignancy to Robe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:14PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 6, 2016
Finborough, LondonThe family relationship in Alexandra Wood's two-hander is believable, less so the backdrop of the growing gulf between the world's rich and poorAlexandra Wood's 80-minute t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Friday, March 4, 2016
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonIn the RSC's affectionate adaptation of the epic novel, the shaggy Threlfall is accompanied by Rufus Hound as a perfect Sancho PanzaAs the 400th anniversary of C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Park Theatre, LondonFeaturing two strong central performances, this story of Philippe Pétain and Charles de Gaulle's relationship is fascinating but covers too much groundJonathan Lynn has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Trafalgar Studios, LondonAduba, Zawe Ashton and Laura Carmichael star in Jamie Lloyd's highly impressive, deeply political productionWe largely ignore the work of Jean Genet, the celebrated …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe outgoing Globe director's moving and intelligent take on Shakespeare's play has an excellent Prospero in Tim McMullanIt may be a myth that this is Shakespe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 24, 2016
How the true story of a murderous barber inspired the first modern dramaWhich version of Woyzeck do you prefer? Play or opera? Büchner or Berg? A bleeding dramatic torso or a tightly struct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:27AM[SHARE]Dorfman, LondonLove is tested to its limits in a series of cruel experiments, in which the cumulative effect is numbing rather than redemptiveEven by her own standards, Sarah Kane's 1998 pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AM[SHARE]Duke of York's, LondonWith even a Tory attacking the "arrogant, posh boys" who run her party, now seems a good time to revive Laura Wade's 2010 play.It has undergone a good deal of revision …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe shape-shifting actor brings poetic wit to her swashbuckling hero, though this all-female staging of Glyn Maxwell's adaptation makes no sharp pointsReduced Edmo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AM[SHARE]Friday, February 19, 2016
Watford Palace theatreDiane Samuels' play, set in an East End tailor's, about four characters in search of an identity, produces some fascinating arguments around feminismDiane Samuels, famo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Barbican, LondonInspired by US photographer Loren McIntyre's experiences with Brazilian rainforest tribes, this transporting Complicite show is a triumph of sound designSimon McBurney is an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Vaudeville, LondonRobert Askins's Broadway hit about a Bible belt teenager in thrall to a foul-mouthed puppet is merely crudeAmerican religious fervour inevitably breeds a reaction. Although…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 14, 2016
Almeida, London Its setting in rural England is problematic, but Robert Icke's modernised version of Chekhov's masterpiece is rich in psychological detailRobert Icke seems on a personal miss…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:22AM[SHARE]Friday, February 12, 2016
Apollo, LondonJessica Swale's play about the orange-seller turned actor cannily mixes Carry On gags with an explicitly feminist messageIt is tricky to transfer a play from the noisily intera…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07PM[SHARE]The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonOliver Ryan and Sandy Grierson share the roles of the doctor and the demon in Maria Aberg's darkly inventive, richly psychological productionIt is fascinating to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 11, 2016
Playhouse, LondonThe actor best known as Chandler Bing returns to the London stage with a self-written confessional drama that feels like an extended sitcomMatthew Perry is a likable actor w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Nottingham PlayhouseKefi Chadwick's play about an undercover police officer infiltrating a protest group is a powerful exploration of the corrosiveness of informingThe case of police spies f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Gate, LondonNina Segal turns a baby's nursery into an arena where an anxious couple explore private nightmares and global catastrophesIn Sarah Kane's Blasted, a Leeds hotel room opens up to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 7, 2016
Young Vic, LondonThe director's new work based on the ancient text is one of aesthetic beauty and great skill, if less convincing as a parable of our times Three decades ago, Peter Brook's p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:08AM[SHARE]Friday, February 5, 2016
Hampstead theatre, LondonClaire Skinner and Tom Goodman-Hill play a couple struggling to cope with their son's death in a play handled with finesse by director Edward HallThis 2006 play by D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 4, 2016
Gaskill, who was Royal Court artistic director at a time that was rich, bloody and embattled, helped to hasten the demise of stage censorship in BritainWilliam ("Bill" to everyone in the the…
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