Friday, August 24, 2018
Minerva, Chichester History, morality and quantum mechanics collide in Michael Blakemore's storming revival of a modern classicMore information has come to light, since Michael Frayn's play …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Park theatre, LondonA real-life mother and daughter play the lead roles in Tom Latter's capable revival of Jim Cartwright's playThe hook for this revival of Jim Cartwright's famed 1992 play …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AM[SHARE]Monday, August 20, 2018
Finborough theatre, LondonJordan Seavey's provocatively titled new play charts the ups and downs of a relationship while making sharp points about the persistence of homophobia'Is he straigh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04AM[SHARE]Friday, August 17, 2018
Theatre Royal, BathMiller's 50-year-old play emerges as one of his best, as two estranged brothers learn the cost of dividing the family spoilsOn its Broadway debut in 1968, Arthur Miller's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 16, 2018
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe supposed dark lady of the sonnets is transformed into a convincing symbol of exploited women through the agesWhat do we know of Emilia Bassano? That she lived …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonFiona Laird's production provides wheelie-bins, estuary accents, physical comedy and a first-rate Falstaff, but loses the sense of small-town li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Friday, August 10, 2018
Donmar Warehouse, LondonOverly abstract production lifted by first-rate performances in an engrossing tale of decaying culture and rocky relationships As Translations closes at the National,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 9, 2018
Ustinov Studio, BathThe writer gets a mystery visitor in Joanna Murray-Smith's smartly self-referential salute to her riveting crime tales'The most important crime novelist in practice," wro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Southwark Playhouse, LondonWith numbers co-written by the award-winning Hamilton creator, the real gem is the show's scoreBetween creating In the Heights and Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda co-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2018
Vaudeville theatre, LondonMichael Fentiman's coarse production robs Wilde of his decorum, swapping subtleties and satire for screaming and sexThis is one of those occasions when, in the word…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2018
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonRylance is a fascinating and nihilistic Iago and André Holland exudes majestic dignity as Othello in Clare van Kampen's lively and unsettling productionAny produc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2018
Courtyard, Stratford-upon-AvonIt is no exaggeration to say that this King Lear is long-awaited. Critics, in fact, have been waiting impatiently for nine weeks to get a glimpse of a productio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PM[SHARE]Olivier, LondonIfans' performance shows he's ready for the big Shakespeare roles, though Ionesco's absurdist drama is considerably less compellingFor its first foray into the world of Eugèn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Menier Chocolate Factory, London This fast-moving spoof of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical seems torn between admiration and scepticismFor the past 36 years, Gerard Alessandrini has been sp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Friday, July 20, 2018
Minerva, ChichesterCharlotte Jones's drama pitches a non-violent religious community on to the Napoleonic wars' spiritual frontlineCharlotte Jones is an unpredictable dramatist. In her most …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2018
Royal Court, LondonRory Mullarkey's unfocused drama of a Britain collapsing in apocalyptic chaos is not helped by the production's aural and visual overkillI guess this new play by Rory Mull…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2018
The Bridge theatre, LondonPatients' singalongs and Bennett's stinging wit light up a state-of-the-nation play set on a geriatric ward Hospitals make good theatre. Shortly after Alan Bennett …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04PM[SHARE]Mother Clap's Molly HouseNational Theatre, London Rating: ****Mark Ravenhill clearly likes to have it both ways. In this wonderfully exuberant new musical play at the Lyttelton, he celebrat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]National Theatre, London· Picture gallery: images from the productionNothing is more tempting than the apparently impossible. But, although director Nicholas Hytner and his creative team …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Alan Bennett's new play is not just about history - it makes history. Michael Billington hails a masterpieceSchool shapes our ends - almost literally so in the case of the more sexually prom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Old Vic, LondonSally Cookson delivers an exhilarating production of Patrick Ness's story about a lonely boy coping with grief, bullying and a monster in a yew treeSometimes it is good to go …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 14, 2018
Adelphi, LondonDirected by Rupert Goold, this stage version of the film suffers from its caricatures, relentless jokiness and functional score ' Ford fiesta: Made in Dagenham musical opens i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2018
National, London"Only an artist can understand religion." So says the emperor Nero at the end of Howard Brenton's new play about Saint Paul.But, even if Nero's point is debatable, Brenton's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM[SHARE]Lyttelton, LondonThis engrossing play about the banking family provides a history of western capitalism and an acting masterclass from Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles and Adam GodleyWhat an a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2018
Open Air theatre, Regent's Park, LondonOlivia Vinall and Edward Hogg light up a production whose pleasures outweigh its preachinessMax Webster's production of Shakespeare's comedy sets out w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Charing Cross theatre, LondonThere are jaunty tunes and fine performances but this musical about mummification starts to decompose halfway throughThey seem to have a penchant for musicals ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Friday, July 6, 2018
Playhouse theatre, LondonThis vivid recreation of life in the sprawling refugee camp is a priceless piece of theatre that enlarges our understanding while appealing to our emotionsThis is th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2018
Finborough, LondonIn a wan year for new writing, Dawn King's play shines out like a beacon. Winner of the Papatango playwriting competition, it may display the influence of Arthur Miller's T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Noël Coward theatre, LondonThe Poldark star gives an excellent performance in a first-rate revival of Martin McDonagh's brutally funny playPoldark fans turning up to see Aidan Turner in M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PM[SHARE]Royal Court, LondonLaura Wade's new play is highly topical: it is about the sense of entitlement to power of a privileged, wealthy, public school and Oxbridge elite. But while I'm glad to se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM[SHARE]The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonClare Burt passes on the trademark cap to six other actors who all share the role of the pioneering director in Sam Kenyon's engaging musical tributeAs a nomadic…
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