Friday, February 20, 2015
Royal Court, LondonThe young leads in Dalia Taha's play about family life in Gaza paint a frightening picture of lost innocence Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 19, 2015
Barbican, LondonRimas Tuminas's production, though witty and full of memorable, inventive imagery, misses some of Pushkin's deft lightness Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2015
Crucible, SheffieldTime lends prescience to this dissection of Labour's election failure " but its revival delivers a warning to all parties about authenticity in a campaign yearThere is a c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Royal Court, LondonZinnie Harris's apocalyptic new play sends its heroine on a downward spiral as Europe goes into financial freefallMaxine Peake was last seen on stage in Manchester as Haml…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Palace, Watford This sweeping study of US history uses a nine-strong ensemble to tell a riveting and richly complicated storyTimberlake Wertenbaker clearly has a taste for the epic. After he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2015
Orange Tree, RichmondSuspense turns to frustration as this well-acted family mystery keeps the audience guessing Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:35AM[SHARE]The playwright claims he now has to dumb down some lines for his literary references to be understood. But that doesn't mean audiences are less clever than they used to beI see Tom Stoppard …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:53AM[SHARE]Friday, February 6, 2015
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonThis revival of a piece about a single mother reveals the largely forgotten Edwardian dramatist St John Hankin as something of a proto-feminist Continue reading.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2015
Barbican, LondonThis striking French production of Pirandello's play shows how a classic can be reimagined without being subverted Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Theatre Royal, BrightonBlanche McIntyre's promising production of the manor-house play needs to work harder to help the audience understand the scientific theories Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 1, 2015
McEwan, who has died aged 82, excelled in an extraordinary range of roles, always displaying impeccable timingMy first sighting of Geraldine McEwan was as Olivia in Peter Hall's 1958 Stratfo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:22AM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2015
Vaudeville, LondonAmelia Bullmore's sprightly play about three uni students and their lifelong alliance brings the best out of Tamzin Outhwaite and her co-stars Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 29, 2015
Trafalgar Studios, London His bravura performance holds together an exuberant 60s period piece whose satire remains chillingly relevantPlays with fat star-parts tend to survive. Even if the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Dorfman Theatre, LondonTom Stoppard tackles momentous ideas about consciousness, morality and human behaviour in stimulating play Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:50PM[SHARE]National Theatre, LondonThe fascinating story of a 17th-century power struggle in the Mughal empire feels like a slightly earnest history lesson Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:58AM[SHARE]Friday, January 23, 2015
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonTom Morton-Smith's massively impressive play explores the moral chain reactions before and after the bombing of Hiroshima"Oppenheimer's stature is not in questio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 22, 2015
Unicorn, LondonThis production of Brecht's political morality tale underlines his instinctive theatricality with heartstopping scenes and one of modern drama's best comic figures Continue re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Established names such as Hare, Bennett and Frayn are absent from director's opening year as he introduces a new team and a promising lineup. The big question concerns his 'reimagined classi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:39AM[SHARE]Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonStar's expert portrayal of a woman on the edge of neurosis is the highlight as this venue continues to grow in stature Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Bush theatre, LondonCaroline Horton's toothless, self-delighting show leaves its object of ridicule serenely untouchedNothing is more frustrating than seeing a satirist, or a footballer, mis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AM[SHARE]Monday, January 19, 2015
Southwark Playhouse, LondonJuliet Gilkes Romero's fiery drama puts Labour in the dock for failing multicultural Britain Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 17, 2015
Tom Stoppard's new play The Hard Problem opens on 21 January. Michael Billington, who first reviewed him in 1966, salutes a playwright who, at his best, achieves a perfect balance of intelle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30AM[SHARE]Friday, January 16, 2015
Young Vic Maria, LondonThe audience become voyeuristic accomplices as two interviewees turn on a rival in Mike Bartlett's gripping account of office politicsMike Bartlett's plays veer betwee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2015
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonFrantic Assembly's shredded version of Shakespeare's tragedy, set among gangs in a Yorkshire pub, is worth seeing for its astonishing opening sequence alone' Frantic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Royal Court, LondonDiana Nneka Atuona's impressive play, about a teenage girl forced into fighting for Charles Taylor's cause, opens our eyes to Liberia's past Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Gate, LondonAditi Brennan Kapil's play about two schoolgirls' adventures with an incarnation of the Hindu god, Vishnu, is baffling and rootless Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:35AM[SHARE]Monday, January 12, 2015
Playhouse, London Tamsin Greig gives a sparky performance as she skitters around Madrid in this knockabout, rueful farce based on Pedro Almodóvar's filmWhy Almodóvar's world is pure th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 11, 2015
Old Vic, LondonThere are serious questions about society and dissent underlying Daniel Kitson and Tim Key's beguiling two-hander about a protester holding a 'tree-squat'Daniel Kitson is the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:14AM[SHARE]Friday, January 9, 2015
Jermyn Street Theatre, LondonJames Hogan's study of the lost and lonely gives Lynne Miller the chance to play two women past the verge of desperationMature female actors rightly complain abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Finborough, LondonJerry Herman's tunes fail to save a justly neglected Broadway musical about a trio on the run during the fall of France Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 24, 2014
John Osborne died 20 years ago today. In this obituary, published in the Guardian in 1994, Michael Billington reflects on the playwright's life and legacyOne of the most famous stories about…
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