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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]The Playground, London Terry d'Alfonso's study of the painter and his serial infidelities is staged on a circular sandpit at a smart new London theatreGiven the economic climate, it is encou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Orange Tree, RichmondLot Vekemans' play about a separated couple forced to relive a traumatic past makes for uncomfortable but compelling viewingWatching this prize-winning play by the Dutch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Monday, November 6, 2017
Old Vic, LondonKevin Spacey has lately enjoyed an excellent run of form at the Old Vic. It comes to an abrupt halt, however, with this ham-fisted American political thriller by Joe Sutton.Si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, LondonEnergetic Denise and stuck-in-his-ways Harry bond during a series of brief encounters in a community centre, in Stewart Pringle's prize-winning play Oldsters are b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 5, 2017
David Hare's trilogy was an incisive portrait of British society in 1993, but is it still relevant, asks Michael BillingtonIn 1993 David Hare's trilogy about contemporary Britain at the Nat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 4, 2017
With a gag for every occasion, the tattyfilarious comic clocks up 50,000 miles a year performing his epic standup shows. He talks about stage fright, playing Yorick for 'Sir Kenneth All-Bran…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 31, 2017
After 10 years, Spacey is stepping down from the London theatre he called home. There have been some resounding flops but he delivered the goods " and was a delight to watch on stageWhen it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PM[SHARE]Friday, October 27, 2017
Tom Stoppard's fierce, unrelenting opposition to the abuse of human rights makes him the ideal recipient of the Pinter/PEN prizeIn Antonia Fraser's book, Must You Go?, detailing her life wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 26, 2017
The Bridge, LondonLondon's first commercial theatre for 80 years opens with a pugnacious comedy about the early days of the political visionary " and shameless sponger Given the abundance of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Almeida, LondonLynn Nottage's play arrives in London laden with American honours. And rightly so, since it offers a graphic portrait of women as perennial victims of war. More than that, it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM[SHARE]Monday, October 23, 2017
County Hall, LondonLucy Bailey's production of Agatha Christie's ingenious courtroom drama fits perfectly in this debating chamberWe seem to be going back in time. Oscar Wilde's A Woman of N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 22, 2017
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonThe quiet life of an elderly Jewish musician is disrupted by an aristocratic German woman in this exploration of guilt, reparation and rootlessnessWhat does it m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 19, 2017
Donmar Warehouse, LondonNikki Amuka-Bird is superb in a production that transposes the story to the Caribbean in the 1950s and is directed with panache by Kwame Kwei-ArmahIbsen can benefit f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Almeida theatre, LondonVictoria Hamilton is on breathtaking form as a grieving mother in the Doctor Foster writer's richly layered play inspired by Chekhov's The Cherry OrchardGardens often …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Minerva, ChichesterIt would be nice to think that Caryl Churchill's 1982 play, written during the rise of Thatcherism, now looks dated. In fact, it seems terrifyingly topical in its portrait…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Vaudeville, LondonBest brings fierce emotional intensity, Eleanor Bron is a velvet-voiced aristo and Anne Reid delivers Victorian ballads in Dominic Dromgoole's fine revivalA West End Oscar …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]An exhibition of highlights from the NT's archive triggers memories of striking productions and shows how the poster imprints a play on the public's imaginationTheatre posters are by definit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AM[SHARE]Friday, October 13, 2017
National Theatre, London David Eldridge's new play is a poignant real-time examination of relationships with two damaged people reaching out at the end of a partyTwo lonely, damaged people c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 12, 2017
Olivier theatre, London Rory Mullarkey pits the knight of folklore against the tyrannies facing Britain in three eras of history " and finds today's foe is the hardest to pin downThe Nationa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Vaudeville, LondonThe unfairly talented actor recalls a career that has taken him from Olivier's National to British film comedies and Broadway in this exuberant solo showCan it be true? The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]Lyttelton, LondonIn 1746, Carlo Goldoni wrote a classic comedy normally translated as The Servant of Two Masters. Richard Bean has used it for a riotous farce combining the original's struct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]Garrick theatre, London The horror-movie spoof is gleefully reanimated for the stage with even more jokes, superb set-pieces and barnstorming parody songs that stick a pitchfork into good ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Wyndham's, LondonAnne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham are excellent in an immaculately designed production of Simon Stephens' fable about love and physics This production has an impressive pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Monday, October 9, 2017
Royal Court, LondonSharon Duncan-Brewster and Jonjo O'Neill star in Chris Thorpe's play which offers a bleak view of the world as a desolate wasteland This apocalyptic piece by Chris Thorpe …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonReal-life couple Samantha Bond and Alexander Hanson star in this shrewd companion piece to The Truth, as a pair whose marriage is a labyrinth of deceit Floria…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 8, 2017
Jimmy Porter takes on class, religion, politics and the press in Osborne's classic 1956 play " but its real revolution lay in its thrilling linguistic exuberanceIn the summer of 1955 an adve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AM[SHARE]Friday, October 6, 2017
Barbican, LondonA revival of the Japanese director's 1985 production, filled with cherry blossom, poetically explores the obsession for power " and its emptinessThis production by Yukio Nina…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 5, 2017
Young Vic, LondonErin Doherty emerges as one of the year's great discoveries with a stunning performance as the young American desperate to rectify the world's injusticesTime changes things.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Chichester Festival theatre Blanche McIntyre's mordantly comic revival of the 1973 trilogy spotlights the plays' sadnesses along with their orgiastic frenzies Related: Blanche McIntyre: the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]Cottesloe, LondonWith plays such as My Child and Contractions, Mike Bartlett has established a reputation as a theatrical miniaturist. Now he has written a big, epic, expansive play about cl…
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