Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonThis play for voices offers a compassionate portrait of mothers, wives and daughters in the capital city Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:38AM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2015
Brighton Dome Corn ExchangeRichard Nelson's extraordinary quartet of plays precisely charts the shifting moods within one family " and the national psyche Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AM[SHARE]In Alan Ayckbourn's 1987 National Theatre revival, Gambon demonstrated his massive physical presence, and Brando-like gift for suggesting the sensitivity withinMichael Gambon has talked open…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:59AM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2015
Dominic Dromgoole's successor is known for her inventive and irreverent Kneehigh shows " her key challenge is maintaining the audience balance of active engagement and silent appreciationEmm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM[SHARE]Shakespeare's Globe, LondonIn Pryce's deeply considered performance, which dominates Jonathan Mumby's moving production, the moneylender is both tyrant and victim. Jonathan Pryce, making his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2015
Chichester Festival theatreAlan Ayckbourn's 1981 cabin-cruiser play remains a problematic moral allegory, but this is a well-acted, technically brilliant revivalThere is an obvious reason wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Olivier theatre, LondonDirector Rufus Norris gets off to a striking start at the National with Carol Ann Duffy's stunning update of the medieval morality playIt may, at first, seem strange t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThe young cast strut, smoulder and hoof their hearts out, but this adaptation of Alan Parker's 1975 film has nothing new to say about the gangster-movie traditionThi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2015
Wyndham's, LondonDaniel Evans's production is meticulous is its psychological and physical detail, and there are fine performances from Lewis, John Goodman and Tom SturridgeA sign in the foy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM[SHARE]At Stratford in 1961 the star set a gold standard for the role of Rosalind. Her whole interpretation was about the poleaxing effect of passionVanessa Redgrave is one of the most thrillingly …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 26, 2015
Finborough, LondonNeil McPherson's documentary drama is a powerful reminder of the 1915 massacre of Armenian civilians and the tragedies that ensued Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2015
Lyttelton, LondonChurchill's civil-war drama has become an epic folk play under Lyndsey Turner's directionThe new regime at the National begins with a welcome revival of Caryl Churchill's ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
Arcola, LondonGreg Hicks is hilarious as a demonic newspaper editor in Mark Jagasia's scorching satire on the anti-immigration rhetoric infecting parts of Fleet Street Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:51AM[SHARE]From the archive: The first night review, published on 23 September 1998, for The Blue Room, David Hare's version of Schnitzler's erotic masterpiece La Ronde at the Donmar Warehouse Continue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Young Vic, LondonThe American playwright's nostalgic look at middle-class life gets a visually seductive revivalEugene O'Neill wrote expressionist plays such as The Hairy Ape and Dynamo. He …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2015
This first major production of Ford's play since the 1630s makes conspicuous the work's debt to Shakespeare, but finally looks forward to Restoration comedy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38AM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2015
Royal Court, LondonMichael Wynne's ingenious verbatim drama is zealously researched but lacks polemical punchHow do you dramatise a subject like the NHS? In this 90-minute play, Michael Wynn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM[SHARE]In Peter Hall's 1987 National Theatre production, Dench took Shakespeare's character and re-created it from her own personality and imaginationIn the case of Judi Dench, one is confronted by…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2015
Simon Stephens's extraordinary and haunting new play peoples the Carmen story with vivid, isolated characters from our modern urban world Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Friday, April 17, 2015
Soho theatre, LondonOwen McCafferty's play is an oversimplified morality tale, but the acting is first-rate and it packs a lot into 80 minutes Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2015
Savoy theatre, LondonEverything's coming up roses for this Chichester transfer of the Sondheim show about a starstruck mum who steers her children into showbizJonathan Kent's production of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, LondonThe immersive theatre stalwarts load this family show with nautical atmosphere and gizmos, but there's too little dangerPunchdrunk are famous for a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59PM[SHARE]Royal Court, LondonEnda Walsh has invented a new cast of fairground misfits to stretch Dahl's tale for the stage, but the titular couple are still the funniest thing in this anarchic farce C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:34AM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2015
As Johnny 'Rooster' Byron, Rylance transformed himself into a strutting, muscular figure in Jez Butterworth's haunting study of a changing England Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 12, 2015
Soho theatre, LondonAnders Lustgarten's drama boldly contrasts the lives of a fisherman retrieving the bodies of refugees drowned at sea and a Chinese-British woman who collects debts for a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35AM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2015
Tricycle, LondonAs an 81-year-old artist announces that she plans to kill herself, April de Angelis asks: is old age a curse from which we are entitled to escape? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonNigel Barrett makes for a virile, athletic protagonist in this deeply moving, stripped-down version of Rostand's classic Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AM[SHARE]Monday, April 6, 2015
Park theatre, LondonJonathan Maitland's take on Geoffrey Howe's ferocious resignation speech shows the enmity inside Thatcher's government Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM[SHARE]In our new series, Michael Billington picks 10 theatrical performances that have etched themselves on his memory. The list begins with Olivier as John Osborne's Archie RiceEvery time I invok…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2015
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonGregory Doran's Arthur Miller production skilfully contrasts a bitter old man with his dapper younger self, as Harriet Walter touchingly reveals…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Coliseum, LondonStephen Sondheim's bloodstained musical about the demon barber gets an adventurous outing at ENO First seen in New York in 2014, this semi-staged version of Stephen Sondheim'…
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