Monday, May 1, 2017
Southwark Playhouse, London A defiant duchess takes on a corrupt clergyman in this vigorous revival of James Shirley's cracking 17th-century playJames Shirley (1596-1666) is one of British t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 30, 2017
Almeida, London Lyndsey Turner's immaculate, neon-lit revival of Crimp's 1993 play lays bare the ways reality is exploited and distorted by the mediaThere's a rich ambiguity to the title of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Friday, April 28, 2017
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThis risible production butchers the language, turns Juliet into a squawking, pampered princess and makes everyone dance to the Village PeopleDaniel Kramer, direct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 27, 2017
Chichester Festival theatreDaniel Evans directs a patchy and slightly chaotic revival of Alan Bennett's comedy about a Britain torn between tradition and progressDaniel Evans made such a suc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Barbican, LondonJude Law stars in Ivo van Hove's classy stage adaptation of Luchino Visconti's 1942 film that just falls short of original's atmospheric detailJude Law is the big draw in thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42PM[SHARE]Vaudeville, LondonPhil Davis and Sinéad Cusack star in Nicolas Kent's verbatim staging of the US Senate's confirmation hearings of four of Donald Trump's political appointeesOne of the most…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 23, 2017
Royal Court, LondonSimon Stephens' experimental new piece about grief and urban alienation is intentionally 'fluid and contradictory' " but also baffling and obscureSimon Stephens is clearly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 22, 2017
The Old Vic, we read, is "going dark" for the summer: a far more expressive phrase than being "shut", since it implies the temporary extinction of light. But it's also a potent reminder that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31PM[SHARE]The broadcaster's play Keeping in Touch, aired on Radio 4, is a reply to the classic 1978 drama about the pair's clandestine seven-year relationship"Truth in drama is forever elusive," said …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2017
Trafalgar Studios, LondonSimon Callow directs a starry young cast in a revival of Christopher Hampton's astonishing 70s play about academic havocChristopher Hampton's comedy of academic life…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 19, 2017
The West End is becoming a Broadway-like shop window for musicals and spectaculars. Hytner and Starr's theatre devoted to new plays is to be welcomedWhat is instantly striking about the init…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Monday, April 17, 2017
Arcola, LondonNeil Bartlett asks what this 1947 allegory of Nazi occupation means today in a striking production as focused on optimism as on despairAlbert Camus' novel La Peste was publishe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 16, 2017
The 2001 staging at Shakespeare's Globe, with Mark Rylance tackling a trio of roles, gave clarity to this convoluted playNot a play for rationalists. Dr Johnson wrote of its "unresisting imb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AM[SHARE]Friday, April 14, 2017
Ustinov studio, BathThe Homeland actor plays a tetchy older author clashing with a younger dramatist in Daniel Kehlmann's compelling study of creative anxietyThis show has the aura of an eve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Wilton's Music Hall, LondonDerived from a mocking tome on how to lie and cheat your way to the top, this musical brings a welcome note of satire amid a daft plot with beguiling songsMusicals…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 13, 2017
Bush, LondonHuman curiosity and the capriciousness of power are central to this story of two footmen forbidden to look on the splendour of the Taj Mahal in 1648 Related: Bush Theatre boss Ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Trafalgar Studios, LondonThis bedroom drama about a man who steers a gauche student towards sex misses its chance to explore the problems of nostalgia for a pre-Aids pastBill Rosenfield, a L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Coliseum, LondonENO's semi-staged production, with a 42-piece orchestra conducted by David Charles Abell, is a memorable reminder of this show's adventurousnessAfter Sweeney Todd with Bryn T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Barbican, LondonI've always thought there's a dodgy brilliance to Carousel. Musically it is far and away the most sophisticated of the Rodgers and Hammerstein operettas, yet lyrically it com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Director and producer whose 60-year career spanned television, theatre and film " from The Jewel in the Crown to Pinter playsIn an age when it is fashionable for directors to be regarded as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Monday, April 10, 2017
Dorfman Theatre, LondonPlaywright explores consciousness, morality and human behaviour in stimulating work that occasionally suffers from information overloadTom Stoppard famously uses drama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54PM[SHARE]Friday, April 7, 2017
Almeida theatre, LondonMike Bartlett has written a speculative play about the future of the monarchy that has the courage to ask serious questionsMike Bartlett has written a speculative play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 6, 2017
Finborough theatre, London Paul Bradley as a hopeless boozehound, Susan Penhaligon as a haughty mother and Rebecca Collingwood as a sparky sister light up TW Robertson's 1867 playIt is 150 y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonLewis plays an architect in love with a goat in Edward Albee's tragedy about uncontrollable sexuality " with Sophie Okonedo equally riveting as his wifeAs we k…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM[SHARE]Orange Tree, Richmond Servants and employers swap places with a great deal of amorous confusion in a sparkling revival of Marivaux's classicIn the past, we've seen Marivaux's classic comedy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM[SHARE]Dorfman, London The audience become judge and jury in Nina Raine's intelligent play about a rape case full of opposing narratives, starring Anna Maxwell Martin and Ben ChaplinAside from John…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonSheena Easton brings poise and star quality to an energetic revival that suffers from its bloodless and out of date source materialIf you like musicals staged…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PM[SHARE]Monday, April 3, 2017
Salisbury PlayhouseA rural Wiltshire community during the first world war is depicted with quiet poetry in Barney Norris's play on childhood friendship and adult expectationBarney Norris is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 30, 2017
From West Side Story to Sweeney Todd, here are nine of my favourite musical moments. There's one space left " for a classic selected by youAll great musicals need a moment of ecstasy that de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Southwark Playhouse, London This show about 42nd Street in the 1980s is imaginatively staged with the ever-magnificent Sharon D Clarke but it's a tough sellThe low-life musical has a long hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Wyndhams theatre, LondonTennant brings a beguiling, fleet-footed charm to Molière's libertine, reinvented as DJ in Patrick Marber's subversive updateDavid Tennant stars as the rutting rake …
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