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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2018
Old Vic, LondonPenelope Wilton leads a top-notch cast in this gothic family drama that only fleetingly captures the brilliance of the filmYou can see the temptation to turn Ingmar Bergman's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Gate, LondonThe exuberant pessimism of Falk Richter's play might be hard to swallow, but Jude Christian's production is an extraordinary mix of the political, the personal and the pantomimic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AM[SHARE]Friday, February 23, 2018
Barbican, LondonThe myth about a group of schoolgirls who go missing on Valentine's Day is hauntingly realised by a versatile cast and impressive special effectsI initially assumed, like mos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 22, 2018
York Theatre RoyalBryony Lavery's adaptation underplays the classic novel's religious theme and focuses on the pleasure-seeking IdaBy a strange quirk of fate, Bryony Lavery's adaptation of G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London The performances match the intensity of the writing in Bryony Lavery's drama, which asks if some people are born evilFirst seen 20 years ago, Bryony Lavery's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00PM[SHARE]Friday, February 16, 2018
NST City, SouthamptonThe Luftwaffe's destruction of a Spitfire factory sparks vivid tensions between local people and the state in this Southampton-set playAn expansive new arts complex in t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2018
Royal Court, LondonMulligan is a joy to watch as she brings her expressive powers to bear in Dennis Kelly's flawed but compelling one-handerCarey Mulligan has had quite a week. First she sho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Donmar Warehouse, LondonRobert Hastie's excellent revival of Gill's 2001 play about class, sex and divided loyalties brings out its poetryThe intersection of class and sex has long fascinate…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AM[SHARE]Friday, February 9, 2018
Barbican, LondonSidi Larbi Cherkaoui's visually spectacular adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's manga is philosophical about our relationships with robots, but lacks a human heartIn 1920, Karel Ä…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 8, 2018
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonRelocating Dryden's tale of love and dynasty in 17th-century India to an English mill, Rutter's final show for Northern Broadsides is at its best when it doesn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Wyndham's, LondonRichard Eyre's production arrives in the West End, bringing out the dizzying contradictions in Eugene O'Neill's masterpieceTime works wonders. When Richard Eyre's production…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59PM[SHARE]Lan, who ran the theatre for 18 years, reached out to bold, dynamic directors from across the globe " and they repaid him with spectacular showsI often recall a remark made by David Lan, who…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AM[SHARE]Finborough, LondonHJ Byron's 1868 play sparkles with wit, while Henry Darke delivers a timely message about Cornwall's housing crisis The Finborough Arms in Earl's Court is 150 years old. To…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:14AM[SHARE]Friday, February 2, 2018
★★★☆☆/★★★★☆Hampstead theatre, LondonHayley Atwell plays a ruthless capitalist while Georgia Christou shows promise with tale of a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 31, 2018
The playwright juggles satire and farce in a knockabout celebration of Hull's tenure as UK city of cultureSatire is one thing, farce another, and the two forms prove hard to reconcile in thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Bridge theatre, LondonBen Whishaw and David Morrissey star in Nicholas Hytner's promenade production, which shows putative dictators can be populistsLike Shakespeare's Mark Antony, Nicholas …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, January 29, 2018
The Questors, LondonA deliberately unromantic view of the second world war as experienced by one family provides an antidote to current idealised versions on screenThis play by the late, muc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:23AM[SHARE]Friday, January 26, 2018
Hoxton Hall, London Lil Warren's scattershot musical about a turf war between all-female tribes in the capital has echoes of Sarah Waters' Tipping the VelvetThis handsomely restored venue ki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 25, 2018
Dorfman, LondonBaker's play, set in a boarding house close to a battlefield, is a piece of American gothic that taps into universal emotionsAnnie Baker is one of the most singular talents in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 18, 2018
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonToby Jones, Zoë Wanamaker, Stephen Mangan and Pearl Mackie do rich justice to the playwright's strange and captivating psychodrama"The first test of any work …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM[SHARE]Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonTim Cowbury's play avoids the usual harrowing style associated with its subject and is swift, clear and well-actedThere is a growing body of theatre about the ang…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Gate, LondonNina Bowers delivers a nimble account of testimonies gathered in the wake of the unrest sparked by King's televised beatingI recently suggested that, while one-person shows could…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 14, 2018
Southwark Playhouse, London A pharmaceuticals team juggle views on the global health threat posed by antibiotic resistance with pep, though Glenn Waldron's prognosis is gloomyWhat poses the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AM[SHARE]Friday, January 12, 2018
The fashion for solo shows is easily explained " they're cheap, infinitely adaptable and highlight great acting " but does truly profound drama need multiple voices?In the space of a week, I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 11, 2018
Royal Court theatre, LondonAndrea Dunbar's unflinching portrait of a world of limited horizons still seems chillingly resonantThis production has had an eventful history. It was yanked out o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Royal Court, LondonPatsy Ferran is a puckish delight as an emotionally abandoned daughter in Anoushka Warden's candid account of teenage wounded furyEyebrows might be raised at the Royal Cou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Finborough theatre, LondonSet in the seaside town that registered one of the highest Brexit votes in the UK, Sue Healy's ebullient play has some lively performancesThe English seaside town, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:26AM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2018
Arcola theatre, LondonSam Potter's sharp play, about a woman who finds out her daughter is not hers, raises big questions and is performed superbly by Sophie Khan LevyThere is a long history…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 5, 2018
Finborough, LondonChristopher Chen's sombre piece explores how the writing of her bestseller The Rape of Nanking, about a mass killing in 1937, affected Iris ChangIt is a critical cliche to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 4, 2018
Terry's first season at the theatre promises to dismantle hierarchies but how easy is it to stage Hamlet without one director in charge?Michelle Terry's first season as artistic director of …
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