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'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Finborough, LondonTom Taylor's protagonist packs a punch in this sometimes heavy-handed comic melodrama that Abraham Lincoln was watching on the night he was assassinated"And how did you enj…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2015
Jimmy Porter takes on class, religion, politics and the press in Osborne's classic 1956 play " but its real revolution lay in its thrilling linguistic exuberanceIn the summer of 1955 an adve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38AM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2015
Swan, StratfordJasper Britton gives a robust performance as Marlowe's murderous merchant, but Justin Audibert's production will improve when it fully embraces the play's savagery Continue re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2015
St James theatre, LondonWilliam Gaminara's farce is inventive and funny and clever, and the cast excel as Prince William, David Cameron and David Beckham steer England's 2018 World Cup bid t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
National Theatre, LondonPersonal crises plunge order into chaos in Sam Holcroft's intelligent and superbly cast yuletide comedy directed by Marianne ElliottSam Holcroft has already made a sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 22, 2015
Print Room, LondonThis portrayal of two men who struggle to express their feelings for each other has moments of great beauty but is all too restrained Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2015
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonThis US show about an out-of-work actor employed to service Streisand's subterranean mall takes its star-obsession several notches too far Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2015
70-year career of a director with a touch of the showman who has always sought to bring reality to the stage Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PM[SHARE]Bush theatre, LondonThis knockout drama " based on the life and times of the first African-American heavyweight champ, Jack Johnson " hits hard but has balletic graceMarco Ramirez is not the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThis revival of Michael Hastings's 1973 play immaculately captures the rhythms and tensions inside a tailor's workshop in the 1950sWork is not only a four-letter w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Arcola theatre, LondonThe arms trade and the Turkish government are targeted in this piece about the bombing of 34 unarmed Kurds, mistaken by a US drone for terrorists Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:56AM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2015
Théâtre du Châtelet, ParisA stylish and intelligent re-imagining of the classic MGM movie by a mainly British team drives audiences wildWho would have thought it? The French have fall…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2015
Orange Tree, RichmondMustapha Matura's sharp 1974 satire is richly informative and offers a potent metaphor for the post-colonial process. It's also very funny Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2015
JW3, LondonIn this remake of a classic routine by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, a very old man recalls brushes with Jesus, Shakespeare and Helen of Troy's sister Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2015
Soho theatre, LondonA couple must murder their way to a perfect property in this morality play about a materialistic world where enough is never enough Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2015
As Nicholas Hytner leaves the spotlight at the National Theatre, Michael Billington presents a subjective selection, in chronological order, of the 10 best shows during his tenure as its dir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:08PM[SHARE]Did he duck the big issues? Did he capture the diversity of today's Britain? And were his choices a bit blokey? As Nicholas Hytner's 12-year reign as director of the National Theatre ends, M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2015
Startling omissions include Ben Miles as Thomas Cromwell and Enda Walsh's Ballyturk. Even Dirty Rotten Scoundrel Robert Lindsay can't charm his way on to the shortlistThere are some things o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 8, 2015
Langham hotel, LondonBen Ellis's ingenious three-parter, tracing the history of this luxury London abode, tracks power found and lost at a luxury hotel Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2015
Teaming Juliette Binoche with A View From The Bridge director Ivo van Hove, along with Anne Carson's fine translation, creates a prestige show Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:39PM[SHARE]Viaduct theatre, HalifaxIn the director's wonderfully lucid period production for Northern Broadsides, starring Barrie Rutter, Shakespeare's tragedy becomes an intimate domestic drama Contin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Almeida, LondonThis experimental piece about tourists who pay to fell a young couple with tranquilising shots is certainly disturbing " but what's the aim?There is an element of voyeurism in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Gate, LondonAndrew Whaley's play is well directed by Elayce Ismail but demands a familiarity with the country's history that obscures its allegorical meaning Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2015
Young Vic, LondonA relentlessly bleak look at a suicide pact made between four women in a small Irish town leaves us no wiser about their motivations Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 26, 2015
Tricycle, LondonThe debut play from actor John Hollingworth uses a divided Bradford family and a Tory party conference to confront the problems facing Muslims in Britain Continue reading...
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