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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AM[SHARE]Monday, January 1, 2018
Brace yourself for The Birthday Party, an EasyJet love story, Sting's shipyard musical and Ben Whishaw as BrutusToby Jones, Zoë Wanamaker and Stephen Mangan star in a revival of a Pinter …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:05AM[SHARE]Friday, December 29, 2017
The destructive nature of unchecked power-lust and political ambition in Shakespeare's play speaks to us urgently still today"A drum! A drum! Macbeth doth come." So say Shakespeare's Weird S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 21, 2017
Victoria Palace, LondonLin-Manuel Miranda's rollercoaster of a show boasts outstanding performances and charts the life of the US founding father with political passion and nimble witA Holly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PM[SHARE]Honoured at a ceremony in Rome, the stars gave a supreme version of Ashes to Ashes " after a rather frosty reading of Albert Camus's love letters to MarÃa CasaresThere was no lack of dram…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PM[SHARE]Windsor CastleMarley's ghost narrates a nightmarish account of Scrooge's transformation in the castle's sumptuous state apartmentsWindsor Castle's state apartments, at first sight, make a bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Friday, December 15, 2017
Imelda Staunton simmered, Sondheim's showgirls sizzled, Bryan Cranston gave us a cathode-ray Lear, and Jez Butterworth found love in the time of hunger-strikes' More of the best culture from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PM[SHARE]Donmar Warehouse, LondonAmy Herzog's tale of uprooted Americans sinks into melodrama but is elevated by a central pair who reveal all the nuances of a marriage in crisisAmericans in Paris ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 14, 2017
Lyttelton, London The puppetry is ingenious and the songs are a joy as Dennis Kelly and John Tiffany carve a morality play out of Carlo Collodi's original storyThe challenge in staging this …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Almeida, London Anne Washburn has adapted the TV show for an inventive production featuring tales of vanishing children, amnesiac teachers and alien interlopersAnne Washburn is clearly haunt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Orange Tree, Richmond Shaw's 1909 play about class and feminism moves skilfully from disquisitory drama to anarchic comedy in this intellectually stimulating production This indispensable th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, December 11, 2017
Park theatre, LondonPaulette Randall imaginatively revives Denise Deegan's parody with a lively cast but this two-and-a-half-hour spoof is relentless in its gaietyDenise Deegan's parody of p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Wilton's Music Hall, London Matthew Kelly plays good and evil spirits in a magical, visually arresting adaptation of John Masefield's classic children's book Related: Long before Harry Potte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Friday, December 8, 2017
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonMike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Harris's trilogy is an exhilarating and timely political drama about a democracy descending into tyrannyRome wasn't built i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 7, 2017
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe uneasy relationship between convicted traitor George Blake and the anarchic Irishman who helped him escape Wormwood Scrubs is exposed yet still enigmatic in Simo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PM[SHARE]There are problems in paradise in Richard Bean's ingenious look at a failed attempt to create an island utopiaRichard Bean has hit upon a good subject: Fletcher Christian's attempt to create…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon David Edgar's lively adaptation for the RSC foregrounds the tale's reforming message and features Phil Davis as a grotesquely good ScroogeThe g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Rare revivals of plays by Israel Zangwill, Jerome K Jerome and JM Barrie give lie to the idea that only a precious few classics deserve revisitingOne of the hoariest critical cliches is that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Friday, December 1, 2017
Royal Court, LondonLiwaa Yazji's play is named after the animals that Syrian villagers were given as an inadequate, absurd compensation for the loss of family membersThe last time we saw a g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 30, 2017
Ustinov Studio, BathGreg Hicks plays an ailing father who cruelly mocks his wife, children and brother in Will Eno's acid examination of family lifeJust when you thought the American family …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Old Vic, London Jack Thorne's superb retelling mines the ghosts of Scrooge's past in a timely production brimming with love and affectionTwo months after Dickens's story first appeared at Ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Theatre in the Park, ChichesterChichester has acquired a 25-metre-high big top to stand in for the temporarily closed Festival theatre. It would seem appropriate that it opens with a revival…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 23, 2017
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAnders Lustgarten plays fast and loose with history in his tale of the espionage network surrounding Elizabeth I, but the result is vivid and pungentHistory pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Royal Court, LondonThere are echoes of Sarah Kane in Natal'ya Vorozhbit's powerful play exploring the collateral damage suffered by women during Ukraine's conflictTheatre can sometimes jolt …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Octagon, BoltonStella Feehily's passionate, urgently topical play captures the mix of care and chaos in wards up and down the countrySince the NHS is never out of the headlines and directly …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 16, 2017
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonHoward Brenton's new adaptation of the Swedish master's tragedy is given a classy staging that strikes the right note of intimate realismWe endlessly revive Stri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AM[SHARE]Monday, November 13, 2017
National Theatre, LondonThe Breaking Bad star is magnetic as a raging anchorman in writer Lee Hall and director Ivo van Hove's extraordinary version of the prophetic satireI am normally wary…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 12, 2017
Minerva, ChichesterIn resurrecting the case of a trio convicted of trying to defraud Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, James Graham reminds us we live in a quiz-obsessed cultureTheatre has oft…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Friday, November 10, 2017
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThis take on the classic comedy plays too heavily on its Victorian setting but delivers rapturous speeches, splendid sets and some clever ideasC…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 9, 2017
Playhouse, London A tip-top cast play David Mamet's desperate salesmen turned robbers in his scorching condemnation of the dangers of male ego-driven capitalismHow well does David Mamet's pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 8, 2017
The Other Palace, LondonGrammer's turn as a dad with a penchant for tall tales is the best part of this middling paean to narcissistic fantasy, based on Tim Burton's movieAnyone drawn to thi…
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