Wednesday, July 4, 2018
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 3, 2018
London PalladiumThe Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical comes to the West End with fine acting, handsome staging and inescapable overtones of western imperialismThis 1951 R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2018
The choreographer brought her classical training, dramatic eye and vitality to bear on hits such as Cats, Phantom of the Opera and Chitty Chitty Bang BangGillian Lynne, who has died aged 92,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 1, 2018
Jermyn Street theatre, London Boo Killebrew cleverly evokes the havoc of Hurricane Katrina through her doctor father's memories of the disaster and the imperilled characters they recallHow d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Friday, June 29, 2018
Hampstead theatre, LondonA sparkling cast including Harry Enfield star in Jemma Kennedy's unwieldy play about the commercialisation of conceptionJemma Kennedy's play about the IVF industry s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2018
Young Vic, LondonThis adaptation of Alison Bechdel's graphic novel is a beautifully performed mix of memory-play and strip-cartoonOklahoma! this ain't. During his tenure at the Young Vic, ou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Royal Court, LondonCordelia Lynn probes middle-class morals in a drama about a family who house a stranger following an attack on LondonThe mysterious visitor whose presence provokes a moral…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]Royal Court, LondonJez Butterworth's last play, Parlour Song, transported us to a housing estate on the edge of a dark forest. Now he takes us into the woods for a bucolic frolic depicting t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AM[SHARE]It is the hit that transformed British theatre. As Jez Butterworth's epochal drama returns, our critic chooses the 25 best plays since Jerusalem " from exploited boxers to warring kingsFinan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2018
As Johnny 'Rooster' Byron, Rylance transformed himself into a strutting, muscular figure in Jez Butterworth's haunting study of a changing EnglandBig claims are often made for Mark Rylance. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM[SHARE]Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonThis superb production creeps into every corner of the outdoor space, as the battle for children's souls intensifies Britten in the park? A ghost story …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 23, 2018
Old Vic, LondonFor the second time in a week we are confronted by a play set in the summer of 1936 dealing with domestic and social upheaval. Like Peter Flannery's Burnt By The Sun, Brian Fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PM[SHARE]Friday, June 15, 2018
Ambassadors theatre, LondonThe actor-playwright finds rich drama in the interaction of war and weather in a show with a powerful contemporary resonance"How can the weather ever be boring?" a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2018
Minerva, ChichesterWilliam Wycherley's 1675 comedy of manners and morals gets a modern-day update starring Susannah FieldingIs it always necessary to update Restoration comedy? Two months ag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Donmar Warehouse, LondonLia Williams is superb in David Harrower's adaptation of the novel, directed by Polly FindlayI can think of more urgent requirements for the British theatre than yet …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Almeida, LondonNatalie Abrahami directs Sophie Treadwell's unforgettable portrait of a young woman suffocating at home and workNow is obviously a good time to revive Sophie Treadwell's 1928 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2018
Park theatre, LondonTorben Betts's social satire about a beleaguered kitchen goddess builds to a bewildering climax of panic and violenceTorben Betts clearly sees cooking as a source of dram…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 10, 2018
Whether too avant garde, too shocking or simply unlucky, sometimes a great play doesn't find favour with the public. I'd like to see these given another run " how about you?CE Montague, a fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PM[SHARE]Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonWatching Huppert's expert differentiation of the Marquis de Sade's Justine and Juliette in solo recital makes you wish she would bring a conventional play to Lond…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2018
Lyttelton, LondonThe Crown's Vanessa Kirby impresses but this updated version of the class-conscious tragedy is overblownPolly Stenham is not the first dramatist to update Strindberg's Miss …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2018
Josie Rourke describes her successor at London theatre as 'one of the most gifted, original and impressive directors in the country'Michael Longhurst has been appointed as the new artistic d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AM[SHARE]Bridge theatre, LondonElizabeth Strout's novel works outstandingly on stage, thanks to sole performer Linney's nuanced command of the narrativeNovels, depending on the stream of time, rarely…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Orange Tree, RichmondEmily Schwend's play about a mum with two jobs, three kids and a feckless husband pays homage to female enduranceWatching Emily Schwend's prize-winning play about the da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Finborough, LondonDavid Heneker and Warner Brown's musical captures the heady excitement of the burgeoning movie businessPre-talkies Hollywood constantly seduces musical-makers. This forgott…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Lyttelton theatre, LondonExposing the myth of the happy nuclear family has long been a staple of American drama. If Tracy Letts's play, in a magnificent Chicago Steppenwolf production by Ann…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04AM[SHARE]Monday, June 4, 2018
Trafalgar Studios, London This revival of Tracy Letts's violent play about a grotesquely dysfunctional family keeps the audience uncomfortable Even with a big movie star, Orlando Bloom, in t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04PM[SHARE]Jermyn Street theatre, LondonThe novelist's debut play depicts the true story of Lady Anne Tree's determination to bring needlecraft to prisoners The novelist Esther Freud (Hideous Kinky) ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Friday, June 1, 2018
Bush theatre, LondonThree decades since its debut Winsome Pinnock's pioneering portrayal of the lives of black Britons feels shockingly contemporaryIt is more than 30 years since Winsome Pin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2018
Olivier, LondonBrian Friel's play about the infinite mysteries of language is richly realised in a meticulous Ian Rickson production, with excellent performances from a strong castBrian Frie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]Duke of York's, LondonForget all the hype about Polly Stenham, at 21, being the youngest West End debutant since Christopher Hampton.What matters is that her 90-minute play, first seen at th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AM[SHARE]National Theatre, LondonThe ideas get lost in this violent thriller that explores the political legacy of colonialismBe careful what you wish for. Reviewing Polly Stenham's last play, No Qua…
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