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Lane, LondonSheena Easton brings poise and star quality to an energetic revival that suffers from its bloodless and out of date source materialIf you like musicals staged…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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PM[SHARE]Arts theatre, LondonHislop and Nick Newman's play explores the extraordinary real-life story of how a Punch-style publication was set up by troops during the first world warIan Hislop and Ni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Monday, March 27, 2017
Storey, who has died at the age of 83, had a natural understanding of theatre and strived to resolve the tensions of his life through his playsDavid Storey, who has died aged 83, was a drama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PM[SHARE]Friday, March 24, 2017
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonJosette Simon seems born to play Cleopatra, but the dissection of tyranny in Julius Caesar makes it the thrilling highlight of this Roman double…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 23, 2017
Royal Court, LondonSimon McBurney's adaptation of the Hollywood tycoon's memoir is technically brilliant and often breathtaking but it adds little to his familiar storyRobert Evans's Hollywo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Dominion, LondonChristopher Wheeldon's superb show is a riot of colour and movement, with irresistible dance routines and a wealth of Gerhswin classicsA magical transformation has taken plac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, London Eve Best and Helen George star in a production that merges the playwright's Love in Idleness with its former iteration, Less Than KindBetween August and Dece…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Monday, March 20, 2017
To mark the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth we're choosing our favourite versions of his plays. Here's a handful of the finest Hamlets' 45 Hamlets for Shakespeare's 450th birthday "…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Jermyn Street theatre, London Funny things happen on the way to Hades in this version of Aristophanes' civic-minded comedy about the function of artIt is disconcerting to find the creator ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 18, 2017
With its male rivalry and edgy dialogue about London buses, Pinter's 1950s novel The Dwarfs holds the key to all his later plays, says Michael BillingtonApart from their public prominence an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AM[SHARE]Friday, March 17, 2017
Hampstead theatre, LondonSara Kestelman excels as an uncliched Jewish matriarch in Ryan Craig's punchily acted new play about an East End family firmIf plays survive by creating meaty roles …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 16, 2017
Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein's 1983 musical has been revived once more. The show struck an important, rarely acknowledged blow for equalityWhen it opened in New York in 1983, La Cage au…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonAdults play confused adolescents in Matthew Whittet's playground drama, adding an extra layer of hope and sadness to their characters Related: Seventeen going on 70:…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Rose theatre, KingstonApril De Angelis's inventive and fluid five-and-a-half-hour production spans 50 years in its characters' lives, and makes clear the books' feminist messageI am normally…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 12, 2017
Garrick theatre, London The audience is clobbered into submission by an anything-for-a-laugh Molière adaptation that casts Lee Mack " in his theatre debut " as the sane oneI guess, since we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]National Theatre, London Britannia is shown to be fractious and divided in this bold but fragmented piece " built from interviews with UK voters " that does not tell us anything newTom Stopp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 11, 2017
It's wrong to characterise 1930s theatre as escapist or frivolous. In Europe and America, many plays were alerting audiences to the dangers of fascism " led by the German fugitive Bertolt Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 9, 2017
Harold Pinter theatre, London Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill are both superb as they trade insults and toy vindictively with their guests in a first-rate revival of an astonishing playThis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PM[SHARE]Donmar Warehouse, LondonRoger Allam is astonishing as Roy Jenkins in this drama about how the 'gang of four' left Labour to form the SDPSteve Waters likes to peep behind closed doors. In Tem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJames Graham's new play under the direction of Josie Rourke is rich and adrenaline-fuelled but lacks a real intellectual tussle' Ewan MacAskill: Fear, then relief, at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Old Vic, LondonActor perfectly matched in nimble high-wire act that is still spritely " but gains heft from its awareness of death The play's the thing. Fifty years after its professional pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PM[SHARE]Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, LondonMeera Syal stars in debbie tucker green's play about intimate relationships which is given a perverse staging that leaves you with a crick in the neckAs t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Monday, March 6, 2017
Chichester Festival TheatreTrevor Nunn's fine production of Tom Stoppard's 1966 play begins with a striking image: the two heroes seen against the stark background of a leafless tree. The Be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM[SHARE]Audiences have been asked not to consume food at a new show. Theatre is a collective act of concentration " it's spoiled by constant chomping and slurpingHallelujah! Imelda Staunton has had …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 4, 2017
Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonThe ghost of a wronged widow hovers over a modern industrial town in the RSC's intriguing update of a 13th-century playThis is a genuine curiosity. As part of its mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 2, 2017
Hull Truck theatre, HullStaged for Hull's year as UK City of Culture, this One Man, Two Guvnors-style farce is a merry take on local historyThe road to Hull, they say, is paved with good int…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Richmond theatre, LondonSally Cookson directs a fine ensemble in a witty and inventive high-wire production with a modern edgeThe last attempt to stage Fellini's Oscar-winning 1954 movie had…
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