Thursday, May 28, 2015
Donmar Warehouse, LondonSimon Russell Beale plays the dean of St Paul's with exquisite finesse, in a play that asks big questions about the role of the church in the modern world Continue re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Olivier theatre, London George Farquhar's comedy plays its Restoration feminist cards with a generous heart in an exhilarating Simon Godwin production Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Alan Seymour's probing 1960 drama about the generational and class conflicts that rear up within one family on Anzac Day gets an excellent and timely revival Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2015
The old, three-tiered auditorium reflected the class structures of its age; the new one will, one trusts, be a more democratic space
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PM[SHARE]The old, three-tiered auditorium reflected the class structures of its age; the new one will, one trusts, be a more democratic space
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PM[SHARE]Globetrotting directors can produce good work on the move, but it's chiefly those running buildings who enact a vision for theatre
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PM[SHARE]The National Theatre is to rename its smallest space after philanthropist Lloyd Dorfman. Wouldn't it be more fitting to celebrate an artist instead?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PM[SHARE]A number of productions are dragging British theatre away from the grip of realism - with sensational results
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PM[SHARE]High ticket prices are fuelling this rise in box-office takings, and London theatre can't just rely on spin-offs and musicals
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PM[SHARE]Forget Boris Karloff with a bolt through his neck. Forget even Peter Boyle as the new, improved monster singing Puttin' On The Ritz in the Mel Brooks pastiche. What you get in Danny Boyle's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PM[SHARE]'Keep off the stage when you're on duty'"Imprisoned in every fat man,"
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Victorian theatre of spectacle is alive and well, and residing at the London Palladium. But although this adaptation of the Frank Baum book and the 1939 movie, with additional songs by A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PM[SHARE]Allam stole the best actor crown and Smith was queen of musicals, but new plays were thin on the ground. And funding cuts were the ghost at the feast
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PM[SHARE]Open Air theatre, Regent's Park, LondonTimothy Sheader and Liam Steel's clever new production, set in a military hospital, soars with ingenuity but doesn't reach the magic height of JM Barri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:29AM[SHARE]With its mix of sensuality and intelligence, her portrayal of Hester Collyer at London's Almeida in 1993 towers above all othersWhy is Penelope Wilton not more acclaimed? She did, admittedly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 24, 2015
Nuffield, Southampton Far from simply retreading familiar ground, this brilliantly designed adaptation highlights the Coens' debt to 1920s American theatre Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:47AM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2015
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonNothing much adds up in Polly Findlay's production, which fails to anchor Shakespeare's play in a specific location Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2015
St James theatre, LondonAn excellent lead performance by Stephen Wight cannot save this woozy, over-reverential reimagining of a creative iconoclast Related: Alexander McQueen's Savage Beaut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Druid theatre, GalwayGarry Hynes's long-haul, gender-blind production of Richard II, Henry IV parts one and two and Henry V offers a staggering study of the instability of power Continue rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35AM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2015
King's Head, LondonThe romantic optimism of 60s pop suffuses Richard Cameron's painfully honest record of fractured lives in a ravaged village Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Sporting floppy hair and a cravat, Redgrave captured the key fact about many Chekhov characters: that it is possible to be comic outside and tragic insideLaurence Olivier wasn't exactly famo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2015
In a BBC World Service broadcast in 1979, Dennis Potter " who would have turned 80 this weekend " talked to Michael Billington about the relationship between good and evil in his play Brimst…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2015
The Old Vic, LondonMaria Friedman directs with style, and Kate Fleetwood is among the lively cast, but Cole Porter's musical mish-mash has a patronising attitudeI can't imagine this Cole Por…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM[SHARE]After 10 years, Spacey is stepping down from the London theatre he called home. There have been some resounding flops but he delivered the goods " and was a delight to watch on stageWhen it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonIt's Back to the Future, with sex and violence. Wronged women get the upper hand on destiny in a hotel suite that hides a tycoon's lethal secret"Let's do the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2015
London PalladiumOffering endless exhortations to follow your heart, swirling movement and a chorus of blokes in skimpy shorts, this lavish spectacle is in search of a story Continue reading.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:10AM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2015
Atkins's turn as Mrs Rooney in the 2012 revival of Samuel Beckett's play showed off all her skills, subtlely and emotional directnessI was recently sent a DVD of the BBC's 1960s Shakespeare …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2015
Hampstead theatre, LondonTheatre's quaint rituals are satirised in this set of 23 short scenes that prove the playwright is an acute observer of absurdities Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJudi Dench, a wonderfully twitchy Mark Gatiss, Catherine Tate and other famous faces make appearances at the polling station in Graham's entertaining ballet-box drama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Apollo theatre, LondonPeter Morgan's play about the monarch and her prime ministers is essentially a series of sketches " and has less to say than King Charles IIIWith Helen Mirren enthroned…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PM[SHARE]Print Room at the Coronet, LondonThis play for voices offers a compassionate portrait of mothers, wives and daughters in the capital city Continue reading...
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