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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Ibsen's play about an architect jealous of rivals and haunted by guilt presents a searing self-portrait for a magnetic actorYou come out of most classic theatre these days discussing the dir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40PM[SHARE]Way Upstream once flooded the National. As the play is revived, Michael Billington takes a look at great theatrical disastersTheatre is a disaster area: a world of precarious illusion in whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AM[SHARE]Lyttelton theatre, LondonThis big, bold piece about 1920s race relations is a play of passion and power, starring a majestic Sharon D Clarke as the bisexual singerAugust Wilson's play has en…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Garrick, LondonLester's magnificent acting makes you nostalgic for a vanished gestural style in this welcome revival of Lolita Chakrabarti's play about racial prejudicePlays about theatre do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:39AM[SHARE]Monday, February 1, 2016
Whether playing charismatic leaders or acting as a fine foil to Olivier, Finlay brought a robust intelligence and grace to his stage rolesLike a lot of northern actors " think of Albert Finn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44AM[SHARE]The Guardian's new series of performance videos catch the intricate thought processes behind Shakespeare's lines How do you make Shakespeare instantly available? One answer is to film star a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 28, 2016
Royal Court, LondonLinda Bassett, Kika Markham, June Watson and Deborah Findlay deliver pitch-perfect performances in Churchill's apocalyptic and compassionate conversation piece Related: He…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Tricycle, LondonMcKee gives a first-rate performance in Florian Zeller's play about a woman floundering between hostility and gaiety as her family falls apartIt is important to remember that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 26, 2016
St James, LondonMona Golabek's original solo show tells of her mother's steadfast desire to be a concert pianist, in spite of the Holocaust, evacuation and warThis solo show with music might…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16AM[SHARE]Royal Court, LondonAnna Jordan's prize-winning play faultlessly captures the mix of violence and virtue at the edge of society with acting of absolute convictionThe good thing about this Bru…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AM[SHARE]Monday, January 25, 2016
Gielgud Theatre, LondonForget all the prurient press speculation about Harry Potter's private parts. The revelation of this revival is that Daniel Radcliffe really can act, proving that his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 23, 2016
Gielgud Theatre, LondonThe first night of Yasmina Reza's new play was disrupted by a power failure. At one point Cameron Mackintosh, the theatre owner, appeared to explain: "I haven't s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26AM[SHARE]Friday, January 22, 2016
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThis expressive revival of Simon Stephen's graphic play about teenage barbarity underplays social factors in favour of grotesque animal horrorSimon Stephens's play, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Lyttelton, LondonConor McPherson has in the past shown a genius for investing the melancholy of modern Irish life with a sinister undertow. Now he has thrown caution to the winds by setting …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:21PM[SHARE]Park theatre, LondonA coma patient's mother and lover perform a primal tug of war for his soul in a deftly acted if somewhat cautious playThe nature of memory has long magnetised dramatists.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Orange Tree, LondonThe impact on one Ugandan family of the country's homophobic legislation is a rich premise explored with visible passion in Chris Urch's playBig issues alone don't make go…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 17, 2016
King's Head, LondonThe conflict between black servants and white employers at the height of the US race struggle is explored in Paul Minx's taut, though narrowly focused playPaul Minx's play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 14, 2016
Rickman, who came to the fore in the RSC's 1980s golden period, was an actor blessed with a voice that could caress language with laidback seductivenessFor all his later fame as the creepy S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PM[SHARE]Battersea Arts Centre, LondonRidiculusmus find comedy in their Beckettian take on treating post-traumatic stress disorder with ecstasyMuch research has evidently gone into this production, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:58AM[SHARE]National, LondonYou can see what Katie Mitchell as director and Martin Crimp as translator are trying to do in this new version of The Seagull: strip away the varnish and escape the linen-su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:34AM[SHARE]Theatre Royal, LondonOnce upon a time musicals drew their inspiration from books, plays or even real life; now they seem to be based on animated movies. But, although Shrek stems from the 20…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe last Macbeth we saw at this venue was a pop-culture Polish production in which the transvestite witches assiduously fellated the hero. No such excesses ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49PM[SHARE]In his latest production, Battlefield, the 90-year-old theatre director focuses on a single episode from the great Indian epic that lies at the heart of his careerI'm lucky. I've twice spent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 12, 2016
The cast of King Charles III recently held an Equity meeting about whether to share the stage with an auction winner. Are such sales all in a good cause, or do they set a worrying precedent?…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56AM[SHARE]Monday, January 11, 2016
Union theatre, LondonBertolt Brecht is often thought to be preachy and simplistic, but these plays prove otherwise, offering a complex montage of life in Nazi Germany Brecht wrote this colle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 10, 2016
Finborough theatre, LondonRed-star-crossed young lovers, estranged by a socially stratified regime, attempt to escape oppression in a traditional-yet-original romanceYou wait years for a pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AM[SHARE]Friday, January 8, 2016
Southwark Playhouse, LondonHigh Society meets What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? in this look back at a socialite mother and daughter's downfallLike Richard Greenberg's The Dazzle, currently i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 7, 2016
Savoy theatre, LondonWith outstanding leads and fizzing choreography from Carlos Acosta, the classic gambling musical is staged with elanIt seems fitting that the Chichester production of Gu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Park theatre, LondonTwo siblings in an isolated farmhouse role-play traumatic episodes from their childhood in this flesh-creeping metaphor for colonial declineThis play certainly delivers w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Comedy Theatre, LondonThere's only one question to which everyone wants the answer: can Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss cut the mustard? The short answer is that they prove as potent a co…
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