Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Menier Chocolate Factory, London Political and artistic revolutions collide in a sprightly revival, directed by Patrick Marber, highlighting the emotion as well as the erudition of this bril…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Old Vic, LondonDwan's vocal range is astonishing in her adaptation of Beckett's Texts for Nothing, but the ingenious staging still struggles to give physical life to mysterious proseLisa Dwa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 2, 2016
Finborough, LondonElmer Rice's 1923 satire about a browbeaten wage slave gets added musical spice in this savagely comic adaptationEuropean expressionism had a big impact on American theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31AM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2016
The French playwright's comedy has been packing audiences in worldwide for 20 years. What is the secret of its success?Twenty years ago Yasmina Reza's Art opened at the Comédie des Champs-E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2016
The play that burned down the Globe theatre in 1613, after a stage cannon ignited the thatch, is a potent farewell to this seriesIt seems strange to end this series of favourite Shakespeare …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PM[SHARE]Wilton's Music Hall, LondonThere are some striking performances in this musical about an explorer stuck underground, but too many of the lyrics are incomprehensibleA musical about a hero tra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Young Vic, LondonThe director's new work based on the ancient text is one of aesthetic beauty and great skill, if less convincing as a parable of our times Three decades ago, Peter Brook's p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonCooper commands the stage as the Restoration rebel John Rochester in Stephen Jeffreys' portrait of debauchery and self-destructionDominic Cooper follows in the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 25, 2016
Shakespeare's Globe, London EastEnders actor Maddy Hill brings gutsy toughness as the heroine of this refocused Shakespeare adaptation, but Matthew Dunster's violent setting seems at odds wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AM[SHARE]Garrick, London This 1950s courtroom drama is an efficient piece of entertainment but is beginning to show its ageReginald Rose's script has had an incredibly long life. It first surfaced on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:28AM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2016
Royal Court, LondonPerformed by an excellent cast, Suzan Lori-Parks's trilogy about the US civil war is riddled with Homeric allusions and seamlessly incorporates songs into the action Relat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AM[SHARE]Prince Edward theatre, LondonThe opposing forces of communism and capitalism carry strange visual echoes in this production by Laurence ConnorSo how does Boublil and Schönberg's musical sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 2016
Rose, KingstonJohn Malkovich's immaculately staged version of Zach Helm's clever play about drug dependency and genius doesn't quite escape its sentimental conclusion John Malkovich is renow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Theatre Royal HaymarketIt's a sign of how much our theatre has changed that Beckett's masterpiece, once seen as a subversion of West End theatre, now occupies one of its iconic temples. But …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56PM[SHARE]Wyndham's theatre, LondonSean Mathias's production shows the comedy and bleakness in the story of a pub potman invited to a writer's luxurious homeWhen Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart joine…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:44PM[SHARE]Tara theatre, LondonTara's new theatre is an enticing venue for this adaptation of a medieval tale, with topical lessons, about lovers manipulated by religious ideology This vital multicultu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2016
Theatre Royal, BathClare Higgins and Tim Pigott-Smith trade blows with relish, but Adrian Noble's revival brings little fresh insight to Albee's classicWhen Peter Hall ran the Bath summer se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 18, 2016
Lyric HammersmithThis strongly cast British/Australian collaboration is a pleasure to watch but glibly assumes the strains of domestic life are the same the world overThe fraught family has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:23AM[SHARE]The film, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, led Edward Albee's play to be remembered as a boozy marital slugfest. But it is as much about America itselfEdward Albee occasionally …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:57AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 17, 2016
A new tranche of Harold Pinter's letters, written to lifelong friends, has been made public. We take a first glimpseHarold Pinter was a born letter writer. In later years his commu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM[SHARE]Apollo, LondonTruth versus illusion is the great theme of American drama: think of O'Neill, Miller and Williams. And, since it lies at the core of Edward Albee's ritualistic 1962 drama, it i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2016
Almeida, LondonTragedy, we are often told, is dead: an impossibility in an age that believes all problems are socially remediable. But Edward Albee has boldly defied convention by writing an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20PM[SHARE]The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonA cavalier meets his match among strong women in Loveday Ingram's carnivalesque production of Aphra Behn's 17th-century comedyAphra Behn is acclaimed as the firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Donmar, LondonTennessee Williams's play is so inexhaustible that it is always worth seeing. With Rachel Weisz playing Blanche DuBois there is also no doubt this production will be a popular …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Young Vic, LondonAlthough this modern update of Tennessee Williams's play isn't always plausible, this is a powerful production'Anderson is utterly compelling' " Susannah Clapp's reviewAmeri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27PM[SHARE]Royal Exchange, ManchesterMaxine Peake excels as Blanche Dubois in a nightmarish production of the Tennessee Williams classicMaxine Peake is not automatic casting for the role of Blanche Dub…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08PM[SHARE]Orange Tree, RichmondZoe Cooper's skilful and touching account of an unlikely teenage friendship brings to mind The Catcher in the Rye Zoe Cooper's play, co-produced with Farnham Maltings an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AM[SHARE]National Theatre, LondonYou can see Tennessee Williams's Blanche DuBois in one of two ways: as an embodiment of the poetic spirit destroyed by crude reality or as a southern snob tragically …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:22AM[SHARE]Jermyn Street theatre, London Before writing children's classics, Milne was a popular dramatist. His 1922 comedy about eloping lovers gets an excellent revival by Nichola McAuliffeLondon's s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2016
Aldeburgh, SuffolkTwo short new plays skilfully compress stories of cultural power in Boko Haram-ravaged Nigeria, and an agile and eloquent mountaineering romanceNow celebrating its 10th yea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:56AM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2016
Young Vic, LondonHunter is a strutting minister one minute and the emperor's pillow-bearer the next in this shrewd and resonant account of Haile Selassie's fall from graceThis is not the fir…
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