Tuesday, September 13, 2016
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2016
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonOliver Ryan and Sandy Grierson share the roles of the doctor and the demon in Maria Aberg's darkly inventive, richly psychological productionIt is fascinating to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10PM[SHARE]Hampstead theatre, LondonBeth Steel's play about the 1980s Latin American debt crisis is staged with a hurtling energy that propels us through the intricacies of international bankingBeth St…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:39AM[SHARE]Regent's Park, LondonFollowing stage versions of works by William Golding, EL Doctorow and Harper Lee, this novel-hungry venue now brings us a new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in time f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London This imagined encounter between Jesus and a crazed Roman emperor is deeply flawed but is given a strong, clear productionYou have to go back to Shaw's Saint J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49PM[SHARE]Friday, September 2, 2016
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonGregory Doran's Arthur Miller production skilfully contrasts a bitter old man with his dapper younger self, as Harriet Walter touchingly reveals…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PM[SHARE]Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonAntony Sher is unbearably moving as the volatile king, in Gregory Doran's stellar production full of standout performancesThis year, we may be e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Royal Shakespeare TheatreIt works. That's one's instant verdict on the transformed Royal Shakespeare Theatre. And it succeeds precisely because it feels new and strangely familiar. The old a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2016
Found 111, LondonNiamh Cusack and Matthew Lewis are part of a quartet of characters whose unfulfilled lives throw them together in Owen McCafferty's play about infidelityOwen McCafferty, in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 30, 2016
He was one of theatre's most daring stars, whose best films bear witness to a talent many never had the chance to see on stage' Picture from the past: Dalà paints Olivier in 1955It's a sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33PM[SHARE]Garrick, LondonBranagh is highly watchable as the music-hall veteran Archie Rice, but John Osborne's portrait of a collapsing culture is undercut in a misjudged productionKenneth Branagh has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PM[SHARE]Cardiff goes all in for Roald Dahl, David Bowie falls to Earth in London, and David Hare's new play takes a tramp through the Connecticut snow. Plus, Glenda Jackson does Lear, and McKellen a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:34PM[SHARE]Friday, August 26, 2016
Park theatre, LondonJB Priestley never reconciled the comic and serious elements in this 1931 play, which gives a glimpse of what Auden dubbed 'a low, dishonest decade'Can drawing-room comed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2016
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonBlanche McIntyre's RSC debut underscores the erotic strangeness of Shakespeare's jointly authored final play " but doesn't solve all its problemsThirty years ago…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Almeida, LondonAdam Brace's ambitious show addresses the paradox of celebrating a country's culture while ignoring its political realitiesYou have to admire the ambition of Adam Brace. In hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:55AM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2016
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-AvonWhat to do with this endlessly problematic play? Directors such as Peter Zadek and David Thacker set it in the stock exchange. But Rupert Goold, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Friday, August 19, 2016
Minerva, ChichesterJohn Galsworthy's play about industrial action at a Welsh tinplating firm, directed by Bertie Carvel in his debut, is more than a century old, and as relevant and vivid as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2016
Finborough, LondonThe award-winning playwright uses YouTube as a medium to explore body anxiety and racial tension in this punchy two-handerBola Agbaje has written a number of very good play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Old Vic, LondonThe team behind Matilda the Musical reunite for a clever, eye-catching show based on the Bill Murray movieMusicals based on hit movies are two-a-penny, but this one comes with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 14, 2016
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThom Southerland directs the European premiere of this musical about an Everyman's dilemma, but it's too detached from the wider story of AmericaIt is a shock to r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2016
This year's crop of Dreams " taking in Blitz spirit and colonial India " shows how Shakespeare's comedy is fertile ground for infinite interpretation. But it is Benjamin Britten's opera vers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2016
Traverse theatre, EdinburghRoss Dunsmore's play is strong on compassion, but it raises questions that it fails to answer about a society that drives people to the brink Related: Edinburgh fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:17AM[SHARE]Traverse, EdinburghRochelle Bright's 'play with songs' starts out as a promising love story but despite vigorous performances and a lively band it never quite bloomsSubtitled "a play with so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AM[SHARE]King's theatre, EdinburghJohn Tiffany's superb production stars Cherry Jones as a woman who clings tenaciously to the memory of her aristocratic past Related: From Black Watch to Harry Potte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 7, 2016
★★★★/★★The Lyceum, EdinburghWe're Peeping Toms for Vanishing Point's riveting but disastrous dinner party, but the company's media critique, The Destroyed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:55PM[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2016
Young Vic, LondonIn a bravura display, Piper lays bare the soul of a woman who is unable to have children " even if Simon Stone's update is less powerful than Lorca's original playThe Austra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 4, 2016
David Hare's versions of Platonov, Ivanov and The Seagull, now at the National Theatre in a superb production by Jonathan Kent, leave you exhilaratedI have spent many all-day sessions in the…
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