Thursday, May 31, 2018
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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Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonChristopher Hampton's erratic California-set adaptation features strong performances by Audrey Fleurot and Paul Anderson, but its lack of coherence is not just…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Arcola, LondonJack Gamble directs a first-rate revival of DH Lawrence's even-handed account of a conflicted marriageThree years ago, the National Theatre pointlessly conflated DH Lawrence's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 27, 2018
Playground theatre, LondonGregory Evans' staging of the 1986 'homes for votes' saga is enlightening and enjoyably foul-mouthed " but ducks key political questionsTwo of my favourite postwar …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Friday, May 25, 2018
Grand theatre, LeedsOpera North present a deft revival of the 1949 Cole Porter show mixing The Taming of the Shrew with showbiz shenanigansWhat is the best musical based on a Shakespeare pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Menier Chocolate Factory, London Four applicants undergo a gruelling selection process while tricks are played on the audience in Jordi Galceran's dramaSince its Barcelona premiere in 2003, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AM[SHARE]Monday, May 21, 2018
Trafalgar Studios 2, LondonThe comedian's debut play gives a double portrait of mother-daughter relationships on the eve of a weddingIt comes as a shock to walk into the theatre and be confr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM[SHARE]Friday, May 18, 2018
Noel Coward, LondonHoward Davies has a gift for revitalising Coward's comedies. Having put the sexuality back into Private Lives, he now visually redefines Hay Fever and pulls off the daring…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PM[SHARE]Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe new artistic director's ensemble give fine performances but this pairing raises questions about staging ShakespeareIn this pairing of two plays performed by th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 17, 2018
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsJoe Murphy directs an adaptation of the 2015 thriller with Jill Halfpenny playing an amateur sleuth drawn to the case of a missing womanSurveying an elliptical…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Birmingham RepCalixto Bieito's intense theatrical collage brings together four first-rate actors and the miraculous Heath QuartetCalixto Bieito, as anyone who has seen his productions of Cal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Wyndham's, LondonMichael Grandage directs a well-judged revival of John Logan's play about the artist and his assistant 'Make something new," the painter Mark Rothko urges his young assistan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42PM[SHARE]Ustinov Studio, BathIonesco's imperfect study of a power-crazed monarch facing death is helped by a powerful performance from Alun ArmstrongIn early plays such as The Bald Prima Donna and Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 10, 2018
Her Majesty's, LondonWe have had some pretty grim experiences in musical theatre in recent years. We have seen people turned into roller-skating ciphers, dwarfed by laser-beams and sententio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33PM[SHARE]Hampstead theatre, LondonRajiv Joseph's ambitious three-hour drama features an outstanding performance from David BirrellIt is tough luck on Rajiv Joseph that his play, first seen in Houston…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London Sergey Kuryshev shines as a nuclear scientist stuck in a moral maze in this vivid staging of Vasily Grossman's sprawling novelConsciously modelled on War and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Bridge theatre, LondonClaire Skinner is outstanding as a bereaved mother trying to save her farm in Barney Norris's poignant new play, but the venue overwhelms the drama's delicacy All the q…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PM[SHARE]Monday, May 7, 2018
Park theatre, LondonThe president's war on illegal immigrants is taken to its logical conclusion " a heartening sign that dramatists are responding with something stronger than lampoonsHow d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AM[SHARE]National, LondonThis is an odd evening: one in which Brian Cox gives us a dramatised reading of Vladimir Nabokov's novel in a potted, two-hour version by Richard Nelson. It prompts two quest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 6, 2018
Donmar Warehouse, LondonPlays about painters are fraught with difficulty. Either the hero preaches about art without practising it, or the Bohemian lifestyle supersedes the work. But John Lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2018
Vaudeville, LondonEdward and Freddie Fox, as a father and son, are the star turn in this stylish revival of Wilde's send-up of a money-mad societyRailing against fashionable society's overpo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 3, 2018
Old Vic, London A row over intellectual property is at the heart of a fascinating and topical drama starring Ben Chaplin and Seána KerslakeJoe Penhall is very good at showing how a crisis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThere are strong performances in Eric Whyman's swift production but it doesn't solve the problems of the playIn 1845, the American Charlotte Cus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Dorfman, LondonNatasha Gordon's impressive debut about living between two cultures gains extra resonance in the light of the Windrush scandalThere's a key moment in Natasha Gordon's highly i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Friday, April 27, 2018
Roger Michell's film Nothing Like a Dame brings four legends together " and evokes decades of brilliant performancesSometimes the best ideas are the simplest. The wheeze of bringing together…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Chichester festival theatrePlayed as a broad farce, Sean Foley's revival starring Rufus Hound ignores Noël Coward's faultless verbal stylingsRufus Hound, whose recent roles include Mr Toa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2018
Lyttelton, LondonJoe Hill-Gibbins gives Rodney Ackland's drama the full expressionist works in a production full of visual bravuraAt the curtain call for this revival of Rodney Ackland's 195…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Almeida, LondonElla Hickson's riveting play about a writer exploring the sexual revolution boasts a shining performance from Romola GaraiElla Hickson struck gold with her last play, Oil (201…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Piccadilly, LondonWill Young entertains in a sequined catsuit but this laborious version of the charming film is a step in the wrong directionI don't know if it's been spotted already, but B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PM[SHARE]National, LondonThe easy word to describe Brian Friel's Aristocrats is "Chekhovian". The decay of a great Georgian house, the decline of a once-powerful Catholic family, the eventual expulsi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Friday, April 20, 2018
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonThis shattering revival draws out the playwright's sexual candour and grim humour " and deserves a far longer runIt is the fashion these days to strip Ibsen …
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