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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22AM[SHARE]Friday, December 18, 2015
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJosie Rourke directs a fine revival of Christopher Hampton's adaptation, where two jealousy-fuelled aristocrats stumble into the confusions of true loveHas there ever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 17, 2015
Old Vic, LondonDavid Greig's anarchic take on the ecological analogy " where greed increases the need for 'thneeds' " is full of verbal wit and social purpose Related: How the Lorax saved Ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Found 111 theatre, LondonThis story of two society brothers turned recluses is an extraordinary real-life American gothic " but the underlying message is quietly troublingThere's a long hist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2015
Bush theatre, LondonAn unremittingly emotional play focuses on a family torn apart by the British empire's practice of shipping UK children abroad to cover labour shortagesTom Holloway's pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AM[SHARE]Imelda Staunton bustled brilliantly through Gypsy and Shaw's Superman soared. But it's a celebrity hangman who tops our theatre critic's pick of this year's best showsMartin McDonagh's play,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AM[SHARE]Imelda Staunton bustled brilliantly through Gypsy and Shaw's Superman soared. But it's a celebrity hangman who tops our theatre critic's pick of this year's best shows Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 10, 2015
Let's have more black Hamlets and white Othellos - not to mention some Queen Lears.Patrick Stewart does Othello in Jude Kelly's "photo-negative" production in Washington. Photograp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46PM[SHARE]Hampstead theatre, LondonTom Stoppard's science-meets-espionage thriller makes for an excellent revival, as public savvy catches up with its testing dual structureAttention must be paid to T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Royal Court Upstairs, LondonTwo starving sisters flee across the border with very different results in this brilliantly designed, superbly disorientating dramaLike Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Marlowe, Canterbury Simon Mendes da Costa's lively comedy has fun exploring the etiquette of modern dating for dithering middle-aged men and sexually assertive divorceesHaving undergone a ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 6, 2015
Wilton's Music Hall, London Roy Hudd plays his first pantomime dame " amid a medley of time-tested jokes and cockney standards " in this witty, warm, unadulterated delightIt comes as a surpr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56AM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2015
Director whose opera and theatre work was enriched by a broad European outlook and interest in new dramaIn an age when mainland European directors are often judged by the extravagance of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:57PM[SHARE]Young Vic, LondonAnna Maxwell Martin is a cool Lady Macbeth to John Heffernan's neurotic hero, but the relentless physical movement overshadows the text's potencyIf directing Shakespeare is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 3, 2015
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonIt may be a poor man's Gypsy and Barbra Streisand has hitherto owned the role, but this production exhibits real class and Smith is a constant joy to watchThi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Royal Court, London Real social issues about older women get lost in sensory overload as Penelope Skinner's promising polemic lapses into melodramaNoma Dumezweni has stepped in at short noti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 1, 2015
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonThe queen's relationship with Sarah Churchill (an icily seductive Natascha McElhone) is central to this fascinating, topical production on the last Stuart queen'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 30, 2015
Garrick, LondonLast year in Chichester I found Philip Prowse's production of Shaw's indestructible play coarse and overstated. If it has improved, it is partly because it fits more snugly in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 29, 2015
Lyttleton Theatre, LondonCaryl Churchill has written a striking memento mori for an age without faith that evokes the idea that we are here for a short time and then are suddenly goneMany pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:14PM[SHARE]Friday, November 27, 2015
Almeida, London A striking production, starring Lydia Leonard, vividly captures what Henry James called 'the hard compulsion' of this terrifying masterpieceThe Almeida is fast becoming the h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 26, 2015
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonIt's easy to be swept along by the humour and heroism in Dominic Dromgoole's poignant, beautifully staged productionDominic Dromgoole's production of Pericles …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Dorfman, LondonIn his blunt new play, set in a genteel private club, Shawn tackles political barbarism via showbiz bitcheryWith airstrikes in Syria being debated in the UK and a massive inve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Arcola, LondonPatrick Marmion's ambitious play about the commune created by RD Laing in the 1960s leaves the audience deeply dividedIt was possible to have double vision while watching Patri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58AM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2015
Trafalgar Studios, LondonAn unexpected family reunion retains its power to shock and haunt in Jamie Lloyd's bold, impeccably acted and psychologically astute revival Fifty years after its Lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:56PM[SHARE]Finborough, LondonRobert Bolt's 1957 play highlights the domestic tensions of a man at loggerheads with his family " and the echoes of Death of a Salesman are deafening Robert Bolt wrote man…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:41AM[SHARE]Friday, November 20, 2015
Sadler's Wells, LondonChina National Peking Opera's female revenge tale blends music, acrobatics and invisible horses in a riot of colour and imagination Related: Somersaults in six-inch hee…
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