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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 4, 2016
Olivier, London Sally Cookson's inventive playfulness reinforces the hero's devotion to fun and games but remains true to the melancholy spirit of JM Barrie's playJM Barrie's play is an obli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Friday, December 2, 2016
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonAnders Lustgarten's play pits the biblical morality of an Italian masterpiece against the cruelty of current housing policies with ingenuity and humourAnders…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2016
Trafalgar Studios, LondonHarris impresses as a whiskey-soaked old wreck in Shepard's gothic story of loveless inertia and poisonous guilt in a dysfunctional familyIt is good to see Hollywood…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Garrick, LondonGraham captures the daily machinations of politics, and raises questions about our current parliamentary system, in this account of Labour's 1970s strugglesIt has taken four y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Orange Tree, Richmond Maugham's 1933 play " about a man whose charitable giving horrifies his family " beautifully skewers the self-interestedness of society then and nowSomerset Maugham is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Monday, November 28, 2016
Finborough, London Oscar Toeman directs Rodney Ackland's most autobiographical work, which painfully records the reckless optimism that accompanies any theatrical ventureTime has lent a pati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Friday, November 25, 2016
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonRylance plays a goofball novice on an ice-fishing trip in a play that feels derivative and slides into absurdismMark Rylance and Louis Jenkins have fashioned a p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PM[SHARE]Royal Court, LondonFrancesca Annis, Ron Cook and Deborah Findlay give fine performances in a post-apocalyptic play that is genuinely disturbingLucy Kirkwood astonished us in 2013 with the ep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2016
A refurbished version of the 1963 Tommy Steele vehicle has opened in the West End and joins a string of stellar homegrown hitsIt is an odd, but intriguing, fact that Oh! What a Lovely War an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2016
Following the hip-hop musical's special message to the US vice-president elect, here's a selection of great American shows that could enlighten him and his bossEveryone knows what happened w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2016
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonFears that digital technology would upstage the actors are scotched in this RSC production starring Simon Russell BealeSimon Russell Beale's ret…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2016
Royal Court, LondonIn EV Crowe's teasing tale, the suspicion and rebellion among rural women in 1700s England lead to troubling questions about the modern worldEV Crowe tends to write about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Union theatre, LondonThe story of Women's Institute members fighting to decriminalise sex work did not deserve the Carry On treatmentThere is a good show to be written about the 10-year camp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Gate, LondonJonas Hassen Khemiri's disturbing, topical exploration of what it's like to be a foreigner in the aftermath of a terrorist attack is stalled by a series of flashbacksWhat must it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2016
New London TheatreWhen Lloyd Webber and Julian Fellowes let down their hair, the results are hardly anti-establishment. But the kids are genuinely talented and this is good-natured entertain…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 12, 2016
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonClaire van Kampen mixes story and song superbly in a tale about the celebrated castratoPlays about mad kings are always popular. After Alan Bennett's portrait …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AM[SHARE]Chichester festival theatreEverything slots perfectly into place in this glorious evocation of American vaudeville's tackinessIf proof were needed of the power of the traditional Broadway mu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Southwark Playhouse, LondonMatt Grinter's play vividly captures the pressure to conform as a girl in an isolated fishing community tries to prevent a devastating mythical ritual The Papatang…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2016
King's Cross theatre, LondonDavid Bowie and Enda Walsh's sequel to The Man Who Fell to Earth is staged with visual sophistication by Ivo van Hove but it's rarely emotionally engagingHelp fun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PM[SHARE]Jermyn Street theatre, LondonTwo short plays by the Swedish dramatist show that his female characters can be just as varied and vivid as the menThe title sounds like a provocation, given Str…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2016
Park theatre, LondonJonathan Maitland's new work about an ambitious runner and her coach shows that there is no such thing as a level playing field in sportJonathan Maitland, as a journalist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 5, 2016
Minerva, ChichesterThis return to star-driven Shakespeare has in Frank Langella a commanding Lear still driven by a craving for loveWe are used to director's Shakespeare. This production, wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2016
Theatre Royal, BathDavid Haig, like the late Nigel Hawthorne, follows an acclaimed performance in Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III by playing Shakespeare's deranged monarch. But, alt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12PM[SHARE]Old Vic, LondonJackson ends a 25-year absence with a ferocious, unflinching performance that transcends gender and puts her among the best LearsHelp fund our journalism by becoming a Guardia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2016
Vaudeville, LondonKatherine Parkinson is hilarious in Terry Johnson's revival of his 1994 drama about a group of emotionally deficient comedy obsessivesImages of Frankie Howerd, Tommy Cooper…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Donmar Warehouse, LondonWhat are the hottest tickets in London theatre? Patrick Stewart's Macbeth, Ian McKellen's Lear and what will now be known as Chiwetel Ejiofor's Othello. For director …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48PM[SHARE]Birmingham RepMcDiarmid delivers the paradoxical politician's 'rivers of blood' speech in Chris Hannan's new play which switches between the 1960s and the 90sThe Rep seems the right place fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Donmar Warehouse, LondonPatrick Marber is not the first person to give Molière's comedy a makeover. Only two years ago Neil Bartlett transposed the action to a belle-époque hotel. But, whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PM[SHARE]Wyndham's Theatre, LondonArt is not a competition. Since, however, this is the second Much Ado in five days, comparisons are inevitable. And, while Jeremy Herrin's version at Shakespeare's G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31PM[SHARE]The Boston Globe's initiative to fund a classical music critic by nonprofit groups raises troubling questions for arts critics on both sides of the AtlanticAll critics cherish their independ…
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