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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AM[SHARE]Friday, July 29, 2016
St James theatre, LondonA snapper falls under the spell of a Mephistophelian PR man in Mike Dyer's energetic story, which takes a turn for the absurd despite some decent songsThe Faust legen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2016
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London The pop singer brings verve and musicality to the glamorous enigma, with admirably conflicted support from Matt Barber " it's Truman Capote's story itself tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:27PM[SHARE]Lyttelton, LondonThe women are exceptionally strong in this production of O'Casey's great Easter Rising drama, which draws out the complex humanity of its charactersI found it took time to g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16AM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2016
Palace theatre, LondonIt's convoluted, but the latest expansion of the Potter universe is thrillingly staged, with time travel and age-old quests given a dash of post-Freudian guilt"Keep the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Ireland's international festival has shown the merits of merging different art forms while reawakening enthusiasm for a much-reprised Beckett classicThey were dancing in the streets last wee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Leisureland, Salthill, GalwayThe playwright embraces a new form of category-defying theatre in a story of love and oppression that echoes Orwell's 1984No Galway international arts festival s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 17, 2016
Minerva, ChichesterAnne Reid and James Bolam star in Beaton's dark comedy about fracking that becomes an outright plea for direct actionAlistair Beaton's forte is topical satire. His most re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2016
Park theatre, London Anne Archer plays the actor and activist in a drama that revisits the consequences of Fonda's visit to North Vietnam in 1972Terry Jastrow's play speculates on what happe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2016
Southwark Playhouse, LondonRay Rackham's musical brings us three Garlands at different periods of her life and deals with the causes and the symptoms of the star's declineI once said that I'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Producer Cameron Mackintosh turned the West End musical into a global franchise. And he's not finished yet. New shows are opening round the world, new theatres are being purchased ... the em…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55PM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonFiasco's inventive, vigorous version of Stephen Sondheim's modern fairytale doesn't entirely mask the problems of James Lapin's convoluted bookFiasco Theater'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Arcola, LondonHicks confirms his gift for exploring unbalanced minds in this riveting adaptation of the Russian author's novella, directed by John TerryWhen Nancy Harris's adaptation of Tols…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2016
Royal Court, London Matt Smith gives a fine performance but this movie industry satire is unbalanced by one character's eruptionThere is a long history of theatrical satires on the movie bus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2016
Barbican, LondonRobert Lepage's wry and haunting 1991 piece about various brands of addiction was inspired by two great artists, and it lives up to their brillianceRobert Lepage has revisite…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2016
Young Vic, LondonThe ordeal of 13 Syrian women is powerfully re-created through horrific personal testimony and heartbreaking nostalgiaIt seems faintly obscene to slap star ratings on a show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Barbican, LondonCardboard Citizens' remarkable version of the TV drama was followed by a fiery discussion in which Loach condemned the government's 'conscious cruelty'Can art change anything…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Theatre Room, LondonThis two-woman update of Life Is a Dream is brilliantly performed and looks at the Spanish play from a fresh perspectiveThis two-woman version of Calderón's Spanish cl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]In exposing our leaders' fallibility, it's natural to invoke Shakespeare but that crowns them with borrowed grandeur. A better reference point would be Dryden's brand of mock-heroic satireAt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 30, 2016
Bush Hall, London Melissa Bubnic's song-filled attack on the City of London is played with great brio by an all-female cast but stops short of landing a knockout blowMelissa Bubnic's play, j…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Donmar, London A lost world of showbiz exiles is evoked through powerful monologues, hauntingly delivered by Stephen Dillane, Gina McKee and Ron Cook Brian Friel's magical play can be seen i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:22AM[SHARE]Almeida, LondonThe fierce intelligence of the Almeida, Headlong and Nottingham Playhouse's spin on George Orwell shines through - but the play contributes to a worrying theatrical trendIt is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2016
From Hamlet's 'To be or not to be' to Macbeth's 'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow', Shakespeare's lines present an infinity of choicesEarlier this month, I took part in a fascinating discu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:39AM[SHARE]Friday, June 24, 2016
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonRay Fearon and Tara Fitzgerald give feverish performances but this production has an aura of perverse oddity " why do the Macbeths have a child?Iqbal Khan's produc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2016
Open Air theatre, Regent's Park, LondonMichelle Terry is riveting as Shakespeare's wartime king in a production that emphasises how roleplaying is integral to monarchyAside from Hamlet, I ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Hampstead theatre, LondonEdward Snowden-a-like Andrew is visited by two shadowy WikiLeaks employees in Mike Bartlett's intelligent new play, exploring the 2013 revelationsMike Bartlett's pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:57AM[SHARE]Royal Court, LondonMega-fame and limitless cash can turn a man into a monster, and Simon Stephens's new play excellently evokes its hero's spiritually shrunken worldNo one will be surprised …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Almeida, LondonDavid Cromer's cooly observant narrator leads a radically reworked version of Thornton Wilder's classic that taps into collective folk memoryWe are used to seeing old plays gi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25PM[SHARE]New Wolsey, IpswichThe verse is handled with microscopic precision as Nunn relocates Shakespeare's comedy to a world of diplomats and cocktails where Theseus becomes a white-suited Mountbatt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:14PM[SHARE]Finborough, LondonNeil McPherson pays tribute to Charles Hamilton Sorley in a beautifully orchestrated production with songs by Schubert and George ButterworthRobert Graves considered Charle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 19, 2016
Southwark Playhouse, LondonAn updating of Gorky's play loses the moral ambiguity surrounding its female protagonist and makes little sense uprooted from its historial contextMaxim Gorky's pl…
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