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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2018
Rose theatre, KingstonThe star plays Beatrice opposite John Hopkins as Benedick in a lively production set in a luxury Sicilian spa full of mafiosiThe Rose theatre marks its 10th anniversary…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Aldwych theatre, LondonPhyllida Lloyd's musical is a heady celebration of triumph over adversity, with an astonishing turn by Adrienne WarrenThis terrific show is billed as the "untold" stor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 15, 2018
Royal Court, LondonBonnar and Horrocks are excellent as parents attempting to replace their dead son with another straight from the box in Thomas Eccleshare's quirky dystopian dramaThomas Ec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2018
Duke of Yorks, LondonThis is a rich, funny, touching play about the opera house and the extraordinary marriage of its co-founders, John Christie and Audrey MildmayIt has taken two and a half…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Phoenix theatre, LondonKander and Ebb's show about crime and celebrity is faithfully recreated but is beginning to resemble an animated corpseIf this Kander and Ebb musical feels as if it ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Barbican, London There are shades of Casualty as Cheek By Jowl's briskly ingenious production confines the entire action to a hospitalHow do you give unity to Pericles? It has a rambling nar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:23AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 8, 2018
Old Red Lion, LondonKenneth Emson's fascinating play has its characters speaking in jagged rhyme, but it rests on some questionable assumptions about its settingThis curious 70-minute play b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM[SHARE]Friday, April 6, 2018
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJames Macdonald's revival offers clarity and hilarity, with Haydn Gwynne on brilliant form as an amorous widowThis is the kind of production one had almost given up h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, LondonThere are good moments in Luke Fredericks's revival " but relocating the action to the 1920s is an unnecessary, frustrating fiddleLuke Fredericks prefaces this pro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2018
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonMary Pix's 1700 comedy about a rich widow's wayward social ascent becomes theatrical gold in Jo Davies's scintillating productionMary Pix is hardly a name to con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2018
Finborough, London Two white couples lock horns over their prejudices in Bruce Graham's powerful tale of racial dividesPlays about race often exude a liberal optimism. This pungent, abrasive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2018
Arts theatre, LondonAn over-the-top paean to stage ambition ends up in thrall to the world it tries to parodyCamp, says one of the gay men in Matthew Lopez's new play, The Inheritance, is li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Young Vic, LondonStephen Daldry directs a stellar cast, including Vanessa Redgrave, in a rollercoaster epic about gay men in New YorkThis is quite something: a two-part, seven-hour play by M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PM[SHARE]Monday, March 26, 2018
Silk Street theatre, LondonGuildhall School of Music and Drama students deliver a stirring revival of Odets' forgotten state-of-the-union storySpurned by the New York critics in 1935, Cliffo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PM[SHARE]Bush, LondonArinzé Kene's one-man show rejects the urban jungle cliches in a heartfelt but too playful exploration of the role of the artistAs we know from One Night in Miami and Girl from …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2018
Royal Court, LondonMixing poetry and politics, Yorkshire-based rapper Testament has created a witty, innovative piece that says a lot about British identity and racial historyThis is that ra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2018
Northern Stage, NewcastleWith rousing anthems and purposeful politics, this tale of Thatcher-era shipbuilders launches anew in home watersHaving bombed on Broadway, this musical by Sting abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonChristopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack star in an RSC production that moves at a lick but sometimes lacks subtletyProductions of Macbeth come th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AM[SHARE]He took the shonky British musical and made it a global phenomenon. As the composer celebrates his birthday with a new memoir, our theatre critic looks back at the hits " and flopsI first be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Dorfman, LondonFrancis Turnly's drama drills to the heart of the harsh politics and complex emotions surrounding a series of historic abductions of young Japanese peopleSometimes a play grip…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AM[SHARE]Friday, March 16, 2018
Hampstead theatre, LondonAmy Ng's second play is given a crisp, clear and well-acted production, but it tries to compress a few too many big issuesThere are few topical concerns that don't s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Royal Exchange, ManchesterBlending gothic horror and moral parable, this adaptation is skilfully stitched together by April De Angelis and Matthew XiaThere are said to be more than 55 theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Orange Tree, Richmond Astrophysics and simmering family tensions come to the boil in this superb revival of Charlotte Jones's household dramaCharlotte Jones's prizewinning play, to which I g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09AM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2018
The veteran's linguistic prowess, outlandish appearance and musical smarts could tickle any audience into a state of collective ecstasyThe death of Ken Dodd not only leaves the nation a sadd…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 11, 2018
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonWH Auden and Christopher Isherwood's satire on 1930s nationalism has a topical pungency but can't match the gravity of the subjectThis political satire by WH Aud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 9, 2018
The Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon The front row are given protection for the second half of Maria Aberg's RSC staging of Webster's Jacobean tragedy " a brutal tale of female defianceThe RSC laun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2018
Almeida, LondonPatsy Ferran proves she is one of Britain's most exciting actors in a major and wrongly neglected work by the great playwrightAs it is so rarely seen, this early play by Tenne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Olivier theatre, LondonRory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff star in a vigorous production that shows scant regard for the rhythms of the languageYou have to admire Rufus Norris's chutzpah. For o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Playhouse, LondonMartin Shaw and Maureen Lipman star in an entertaining 1960 drama set during a Democratic party conventionIt has taken Gore Vidal's highly entertaining drama about US presid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 5, 2018
Finborough, LondonA Palestinian couple return to their former home to be confronted by its new Israeli owner in this unsentimental, gently political family dramaCommissioned by New York's Pu…
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