Thursday, February 23, 2017
Olivier, LondonSimon Godwin's inventive gender-fluid production of Shakespeare's most perfect comedy has a vital elan and some great performancesThe casting of Tamsin Greig as Malvolia is bo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AM[SHARE]Arcola, London Trevor Griffiths' version of the masterpiece is staged in London for the first time in a modern-dress production implying we too are on the brink of changeThis enterprising th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Phoenix theatre, London The Take That star and Tim Firth have collaborated seamlessly on a show that is far superior to its predecessors on stage and screenIt might be fair to assume that th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PM[SHARE]The Other Palace, LondonThis musical adaptation, based on Joseph Moncure March's racy 1928 poem, is so frenzied it leaves you exhausted Andrew Lloyd Webber acquired what used to be the St Ja…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2017
Arcola, LondonOladipo Agboluaje hits close to home as he shows the darkly comic side of the fight for revolutionary changeDriving home after the play, I caught an item on Radio 4's The World…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2017
Shedding his clothes and seducing the audience, Lars Eidinger's Gloucester is the classic charming narcissist " but why soften the play's political bite at such a crucial time?I have a high …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Crucible, SheffieldDan Gillespie Sells has a lot to offer musical theatre, but this Billy Elliot-style story about a northern teen drag queen lacks dramaA northern working-class lad strikes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2017
Finborough, LondonThis new play heightens our awareness of the city as a sterile Shangri-La, but the arguments would carry greater weight if it was more balancedAlongside all the promotional…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 12, 2017
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, LondonThis superbly performed production of Pearl Cleage's drama gives a fierce sense of the conflict between belonging and the desire to escape Given the big …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 11, 2017
National, LondonEvery 20 years or so we rediscover Harley Granville Barker's astonishing play. Following revivals at the Royal Court in 1965 and the National itself in 1989, we now have Pete…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31AM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2017
Duchess, LondonLenny Henry has won his spurs as a Shakespearean actor in Othello and The Comedy of Errors. Now he takes on the titanic role of Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences which won…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03PM[SHARE]Barbican, London With dazzling virtuosity, this Complicite/Schaubühne staging of Stefan Zweig's novel brilliantly evokes a doomed romance and the imminent horror of warBalzac, about whom St…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2017
Royal Court, LondonLinda Bassett, Kika Markham, June Watson and Deborah Findlay deliver pitch-perfect performances in Churchill's apocalyptic conversation piece Related: Here We Go review " …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonA black dancer meets police prejudice and industry stereotyping as she bids to make it on Broadway in a lively, inventive storyIt has taken 17 years for t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Stage and screen actor known for his role as the assiduous sleuth in the Hitchcock film FrenzyAlec McCowen, who has died aged 91, was an actor of dazzling technical brilliance whose career e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, LondonAlex MacKeith's debut play deals with the nuts and bolts of a test-driven education system and acts as a metaphor for other hard-pressed professionsPlays about sch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Finborough, LondonTitas Halder's strange one-man play, starring Ben Aldridge, looks to the urban fox to illustrate a life in free-fallA fascination with foxes runs through our literature, fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Friday, February 3, 2017
Hampstead theatre, LondonEmilia Fox and Theo James star in Laura Eason's two-hander about an implausible relationship between writers in a Michigan B&BThe title is certainly titillating.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2017
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonGemma Arterton brings beauty, determination and moral goodness to one of the great female rolesA new theatre is often a challenge. Until weathered and worn by …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM[SHARE]Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAnnie Ryan's production does full justice to the sinewy, aphoristic language in Webster's sinister portrait of corruptionWebster's dark Jacobean tragedies sit …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Theatre 503, LondonMichael McLean gets under the skin of his characters' lives in Skelmersdale but his play skimps on the bigger pictureWhat happened to the social utopias of the 1960s, buil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2017
The NT usually manages a balance between revivals and new work. Now, classic plays are disappearing from its stages " and from regional reps tooDavid Hare has made the headlines with a damni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 29, 2017
Hurt, who has died aged 77, was a superb, if too infrequent, stage actor. In plays by Beckett, Pinter and Stoppard, he had an intuitive understanding of outsidersI last saw John Hurt six mon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2017
Arts theatre, LondonRichard Marsh and Katie Bonna's verse romcom is a wry, sweet-natured account of a totally believable relationshipHaving started out as a 10-minute pub poetry duet in 2010…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Dorfman, London Emmet Kirwan stars in his play about rave-addicted Dublin youths, which displays a lust for language but offers little more than a sensory impressionWords, words, words. That…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Young Vic, LondonCarrie Cracknell's production certainly puts a new spin on Ibsen's 1879 classic. As if to remind us that this is a play about domestic revolution, Ian MacNeil's design revol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Charing Cross theatre, LondonThom Southerland gracefully directs this strange musical, but the delightful songs and touching performances merely decorate a story that lacks biteLove is as st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2017
Gate theatre, LondonChristopher Haydon ends his Gate reign on a high note with gripping story of a young African woman's conversion to CatholicismChristopher Haydon's final production at the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 21, 2017
Royal Court, LondonAs someone who bemoans the dearth of political drama, I welcome the arrival of Anders Lustgarten's polemical bombshell. But while the play has bags of vigour and offers a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2017
Orange Tree, LondonA middle-class family accept a stranger for Christmas, but is he what he seems? This radical, transfixing play is about Germany but has universal relevanceThe timing is pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Royal Court theatre, LondonTim Crouch's show explores our obsession with artists' lives, but occasionally lets the form get in the way of its message' Playwright Tim Crouch: 'Avoiding the st…
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