Friday, September 8, 2017
Royal Exchange, ManchesterFamilies lie at the heart of drama. And Simon Stephens' new play, co-commissioned by the National Theatre and the Royal Exchange, offers a sensitive study of three …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 7, 2017
Belgrade theatre, Coventry A dazzling ensemble play dogs and chickens, as well as brutal soldiers and their prisoners, in this account of the horrors of the gulagHelena Kaut-Howson is one of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 6, 2017
National Theatre, LondonImelda Staunton is unforgettable in Dominic Cooke's ingenious revival of a musical that perfectly fuses splendour and poetic sadnessAlthough it has legions of admirer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Olivier, LondonHelen McCrory excels in this modern-dress take on Euripides that is alive with complexity and psychological astutenessAfter her success with Ibsen's A Doll's House, Carrie Cra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18PM[SHARE]Monday, September 4, 2017
Birmingham RepStuffed with gags and overflowing with an easygoing, laid-back liberalism, this comedy about a vinyl-shop owner fighting developers has the feel of a stonking hitIf there is a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48PM[SHARE]Friday, September 1, 2017
Donmar Warehouse, LondonHollywood star shines in limited run production directed by Kenneth Branagh and designed to raise funds for RadaFew shows are seemingly more exclusive than this. Tom …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]Monday, August 28, 2017
Finborough, LondonGeoffrey Beevers' production of little-known play about the moral fissures within an upper middle-class family is a razor-sharp take on a quietly subversive workAs a reform…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 24, 2017
Park theatre, LondonFrom the necrophilia to the suggestion Christ was framed, the playwright's most dangerous work " performed without the censor's cuts for the first time " shows Orton wasn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Donmar Warehouse, LondonDavid Harrower's 1995 play, with its deceptively simple premise of a woman finding articulacy, offers insight into the power of language to shape our humanity If one …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 20, 2017
Minerva, ChichesterInjustice, inequality, power and passion drive the plot of this remarkable play which still rings horribly true a century after it was writtenGitha Sowerby's remarkable 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PM[SHARE]Whishaw is quietly charismatic in this play with lofty philosophical ambitions but which ignores the social and political history behind today's violenceBen Whishaw is a highly sympathetic a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 17, 2017
Shakespeare's Globe, London On a stripped-back stage, Nancy Meckler's production locates Lear in a world of deprivation, broken family relationships and bubbling anger'No disco-dancing yet,"…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Dorfman, London Rob Drummond presents us with questions such as whether violence is a legitimate weapon of political protest but there's not enough room for real debateVoting is becoming the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 13, 2017
King's theatre, EdinburghAlan Ayckbourn's Handmaid's Tale-esque projection of a plague-ravaged future contains many nice ironies and performances, but strains patience over its six hours Ala…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2017
Ustinov Studio, BathHenry Goodman is utterly convincing in Alan Franks' one-man play about Lucian Freud, with stories of his models, from the Krays to the QueenA solo play about a painter so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Traverse, EdinburghDomestic friction and a guilty history set the scene for powerful performances in Douglas Maxwell's new playSubtlety is not the prime asset of Douglas Maxwell's new play. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Albert Finney sobbed like an animal, Harold Pinter ramped up the terror and John Hurt even resembled Beckett himself. Now, at the Edinburgh festival, Barry McGovern takes on the role that ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2017
The Scottish playwright's take on an Ionesco classic comes with added festival gags, while her drama Meet Me at Dawn looks at the difficulty of letting goThree works by the Scottish dramatis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 6, 2017
Church Hill theatre, Edinburgh Two boys endure stormy seas and slave labour as they journey from Kabul to London this highly imaginative productionHow do you begin to recreate the refugee ex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2017
Trafalgar Studios, LondonThe West Wing and Grease star takes the lead in this revival of Alexi Kaye Campbell's play, but is let down by unresolved contradictionsStockard Channing, star of Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Garrick, LondonNeal Foster has created a gentle, genial show based on the bestselling book about a boy and his gran joining forces for a heist at the Tower of LondonDavid Walliams bounced on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]A theatrical adaptation of the Hitchcock classic finds clever ways to rework film techniques " and is the latest example of how the screen is influencing the stageHollywood in its infancy ra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 30, 2017
Royal Court, LondonLemn Sissay stars in a revival of Jim Cartwright's 1986 account of a community scarred by unemployment that couldn't be more relevant or rousingJim Cartwright's play was f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Friday, July 28, 2017
Finborough theatre, LondonCicely Hamilton's feminist play from 1911, exposing the plight of women forced to use marriage to gain their independence, is full of attackCicely Hamilton (1872-19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 27, 2017
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonWith the help of a vibrant ensemble, Luke Sheppard tells the earnest diarist's much-loved story with wit, craft and crackling Cuban dance numbersSurprisingly,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Old Vic, LondonA superb cast use Bob's back catalogue to glorious effect in Conor McPherson's astonishing cross-section of hope and stoic suffering in Depression-era MinnesotaThis is the sec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Dorfman, LondonOlivias Williams and Colman give a spellbinding account of sibling strife in this wonderfully ambitious play set during the Higgs boson breakthroughLucy Kirkwood has proved, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Novello, LondonWhat difference does it make that Tennessee Williams's play is performed by a black cast in Debbie Allen's Broadway production? It undoubtedly gives the work a new dynamic. Bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Apollo, LondonBenedict Andrews's radical update of the classic delivers emotional intensity shot through with humour " and a blistering performance by Jack O'ConnellThis is a classic example…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Monday, July 24, 2017
The Globe's new artistic director may have little directing experience. But as an actor, she had a huge range, a fierce intelligence and a profound understanding of Shakespeare's languageFor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 23, 2017
Minerva Theatre, ChichesterDeborah Bruce's play follows the fallout of a friendship between a young boy and an autistic, eccentric hoarder as police, press and property hunters prey on themO…
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