Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Southwark Playhouse, LondonOliver Cotton's explosive new play explores wealth and morality as a luxurious dinner party is interrupted by an intruderOliver Cotton is not afraid to tackle big …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Park theatre, LondonIn his final play, which takes place over three summers, Elyot explores passions and pressures before and after the decriminalisation of homosexuality Related: Kevin Elyo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Monday, July 17, 2017
Young Vic Studio, London Rating: **Sam Shepard was once regarded as the quintessential American playwright. But, on the evidence of the recent revival of the rambling A Lie of the Mind and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06PM[SHARE]Friday, July 14, 2017
Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonCharles Dickens' 1859 novel simply does not lend itself to a modern-day reinterpretation featuring border police and demonstrationsIt is part of the van…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Royal Court, LondonThis family drama confronts a host of dilemmas but is at its best when it allows a fine cast to express the characters' strained relationshipsVivienne Franzmann has in the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonHelen Edmundson's account of the power struggle between the pious monarch and her ambitious friend Sarah Churchill is a rousing hymn to female agencyRomola Gar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Monday, July 10, 2017
It's true that plays often defy instant analysis but Mamet's attempt to prevent post-show discussions perpetuates the notion of theatre as a sanctified templeIt would be easy to mock David M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 9, 2017
Home, ManchesterThe Homeland star impresses in Thomas Ostermeier's engrossing staging of a memoir about political change and the left's disregard of the working classThe title suggests a Joa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 8, 2017
Audiences struggled to relate to the 50-year-old Profumo scandal. Lloyd Webber needs to focus on passionate love' Matt Trueman: Stephen Ward to close after four months' Xan Brooks: Stephen W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 6, 2017
This thrilling play about three sons who go home to their dads " and their childhoods " shows verbatim theatre's power to heed the forgottenThe scene: a wine-bar close to the Royal Exchange,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonA terrific cast give a masterclass in power and paranoia in this tremendous modern-day revival of Shakespeare's tale of revengeBlanche McIntyre'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Donmar Warehouse, London Singing MPs grill charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh and chair Alan Yentob in a show that's as melodramatic as Tosca " though not as tunefulIs there anything the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Monday, July 3, 2017
Finborough theatre, LondonThis tale of an idealistic teacher in a Scottish mining village wears its enjoyably scathing politics on its sleeveAs an outpost for Scottish drama, the Finborough …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Friday, June 30, 2017
Hampstead theatre, LondonIn Andrew Keatley's powerful play, a life is destroyed by a pupil's allegation of sexual assault, and shameful secrets are exposed'Is the accuser always holy now?" a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 29, 2017
London Palladium Toad, Badger, Mole and Rat are joined by new female characters in a fast-moving musical which ranges in style from Gilbert and Sullivan to raucous rockKenneth Grahame's 1908…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Wyndham's, LondonSix-time Tony award-winner McDonald captures the style and spirit of the legendary jazz singer, but Lanie Robertson's play wallows in her declineOne legend gets to play anot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PM[SHARE]Monday, June 26, 2017
Storyhouse, ChesterIn Loveday Ingram's swaggering production, Caesar bids to 'make Rome great again' then poses for selfies at a rock festivalHedging his bets, Henry James described Chester …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 22, 2017
A new show, Terror, restores drama to its classical function by asking us to make a moral decision. But it doesn't go nearly far enoughDrama invites judgment. One of the oldest plays in the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PM[SHARE]"Sawyer, you're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star." So Ruby Keeler was famously told by Warner Baxter in the movie of 42nd Street. And that classic line about understu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Hampstead theatre, LondonThere are shades of Neil LaBute's In the Company of Men in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' merciless modern satire, set in the offices of a Manhattan magazineNothing can qui…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 17, 2017
Courtyard, Stratford-upon-AvonAs a director Lucy Bailey is clearly at home in ancient Rome: she gave us a blackly sardonic Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe; now she comes up with a vi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM[SHARE]Friday, June 16, 2017
The Kids Company inquiry becomes a musical, Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams star as sisters, Sienna Miller and Jack O'Connell hit the roof and rhinoceroses rampage through Edinburgh' Summe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 15, 2017
Minerva, ChichesterO'Brien has revised her 2011 stage adaptation of her evocative novel about two friends who move from rural Ireland to DublinRitually burned in the grounds of her local par…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Cottesloe, LondonHaving written plays about the Suez crisis and Thatcher's childhood, James Graham now turns his attention to the Labour government's precarious ability to survive a hung par…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PM[SHARE]Jermyn Street theatre, LondonAnthony Biggs directs the British premiere of Maxim Gorky's chaotic and overloaded 1907 play with a bullying Russian patriarch at its centre Written in 1907 in t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Monday, June 12, 2017
Two US companies have pulled their sponsorship from a New York production of Julius Caesar because it depicts a Trump-like character " grisly ending and all. But the bard has other character…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AM[SHARE]Royal Court, LondonAlice Birch's radically experimental play, directed by Katie Mitchell, tests the theory that trauma can pass across three generations of womenWhat determines our character…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 11, 2017
Chichester Festival theatreHarden is excellent in a sprawling yet skilful production of Tennessee Williams's Gulf Coast melodramaThis is a strange play to find on the sprawling Chichester st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonOwen Horsley's inventive production sheds little light on what it means to be gay today, but highlights Wilde's passionate, transgressive textEveryone currently …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 8, 2017
Dorfman theatre, LondonInua Ellams's invigorating and richly enjoyable drama, set in six hairdressers in two continents, offers sharp debate on family, politics, race and sportBijan Sheibani…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Olivier, LondonAnne-Marie Duff shines in a rich, strange and often baffling drama that shows the privatisation of land as a pivotal moment in our nation's history'We are not here for reasons…
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