Thursday, January 19, 2017
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Southwark Playhouse, London A revival of Neil Simon's adaptation of the Billy Wilder classic, with songs by Bacharach and Hal David, is well performed but gratingly anachronisticThis musical…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Arcola, London A cast of 18 bring the Russian writer's drifters and derelicts vividly to life in a production that captures his blend of compassion and crueltyMaxim Gorky's 1902 play is one …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Friday, January 13, 2017
Theatro Technis, LondonTayo Aluko's tribute to Tunji Sowande mixes politics, music and cricket for a tuneful portrait of a legal pioneerTayo Aluko wrote and performed the remarkable Call Mr …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 12, 2017
Trafalgar Studios, LondonStuart Slade's play about a survivors' group recalling a horrific incident is a thoughtful, arresting and blackly funny study of how we cope with tragedyHow would we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Finborough, LondonA Vietnam vet plots to kill the US president in a tense three-hander that trains a spotlight on human rights abuses and ex-soldiers' mental healthDonald Freed's play was la…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Wyndham's, LondonMatthew Spangler's workmanlike adaptation of the bestselling novel about Afghanistan does a decent job but reduces it to a series of chronological eventsIt's an old problem:…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 7, 2017
Royal Court, LondonEcstatically received on the Edinburgh fringe, Fiona Evans's play has been expanded here. First, we get a close-up study of a female teacher-boy pupil relationship during …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33PM[SHARE]Hamilton comes to London, Sherlock villain Andrew Scott adds Hamlet to his CV, Damian Lewis falls in love with a goat, and Ivo van Hove directs Jude Law in a tale of lust, greed and murder M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM[SHARE]Friday, January 6, 2017
As Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire opens in the West End, we celebrate a writer with a strong social conscience who saw the human condition " especially his own " as faintly ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PM[SHARE]Finborough, LondonTony Harrison's collision of high and low art fashions a Greek satyr play into a barbed comment on the lack of imagination in contemporary cultureMy abiding memory of Tony …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Old Vic, LondonBilled as a "Victorian thriller", Patrick Hamilton's Gaslight was written in 1938. But it is that rare thing: a re-creation of an old form which works in its own terms. And it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04AM[SHARE]Friday, December 30, 2016
From the archive: The first night review, published on 16 October 1996, for Yasmina Reza's play at Wyndham's theatre in LondonYasmina Reza's Art, translated from the French by Christopher Ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]How better to make sense of this turbulent year than through the art and literature it has produced? Our critics choose the works that sum up the last 12 monthsIf there is one film that hold…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Royal Court, LondonEnda Walsh has invented a new cast of fairground misfits to stretch Dahl's tale for the stage, but the titular couple are still the funniest thing in this anarchic farceRo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PM[SHARE]Monday, December 26, 2016
In plays by David Storey and Anthony Shaffer, Clarke was something special on stage. If only theatre had made more use of him…' Warren Clarke: a life in clipsWarren Clarke had a rich and d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Old Vic, LondonTim Key and Paul Ritter are equally strong in a tale of shifting power alliances between a trio of men following the purchase of an extortionate paintingLife may sometimes be …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJosie Rourke's update of the Shaw classic sets Arterton's determined spiritual warrior against a boardroom full of male bankers, warmongers and Daily Mail-reading nat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Monday, December 19, 2016
Olivier, LondonThe end crowns all. For much of its length I found this production of Shakespeare's early masterpiece slightly strenuous fun as if its director, Dominic Cooke, on his National…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 18, 2016
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London Christopher Luscombe's double dose of comedies begins elegantly, but when Lisa Dillon and Edward Bennett let fly in Much Ado, it becomes a festive romp3/5 an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2016
Almeida, LondonSharing the roles of Elizabeth and her Scottish cousin, Stevenson and Williams are a pleasure to watch but Robert Icke's production lacks subtlety elsewhereJuliet Stevenson an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2016
London PalladiumPaul O'Grady, Nigel Havers and Amanda Holden are among the stars in an outrageous and deeply knowing pantomimeWith Paul O'Grady and Julian Clary in the leads, pantomime pitch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Dorfman theatre, LondonAlexander Zeldin's devised piece depicts the endurance and needless suffering of two families living in temporary accommodationIn Beyond Caring, Alexander Zeldin creat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Lyttelton, London Ruth Wilson superbly conveys the desolation of Ibsen's ahead-of-her-time aesthete in Ivo van Hove's invigorating modern-dress versionThe extraordinary Ruth Wilson stars in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Monday, December 12, 2016
Wilton's Music Hall, LondonThe veteran comic is the chief delight of a warm-hearted production mixing morality, melodrama and magicIt's been a vintage year for 80-year-olds in the British th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 11, 2016
Park theatre, LondonThis adaptation of CS Lewis's collection of sardonic letters from a senior to a junior devil is excessively and noisily theatricalThe big question is whether CS Lewis's 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]New Diorama, London"Our aim," says Mark Leipacher, director of the young Faction company, "is to create big, bold, bombastic theatre with limited resources." I'm not sure about bombastic; on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2016
Hampstead theatre, LondonMichael Frayn excavates Chekhov's six-hour drama, written when he was 20, for this bittersweet comedy about a schoolteacher torn between romantic rivalsIt is strange…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2016
Menier Chocolate Factory, London The cult 1960s show lives up to its Broadway pedigree and the performances are perfectly pitched in this skilful, intimate staging "This may be the best prod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Young Vic, LondonPlaying a studio mogul at the dawn of the talkies, Enfield makes an assured theatre debut but this production puts visual bravura before verbal precisionHarry Enfield, as we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Glenda Jackson ruled as Lear and Harry Potter left the West End spellbound but a three-hour drama in an empty cinema tops our critic's pick of the year's theatreMore on the best culture of 2…
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