Monday, November 2, 2020
OnlineBeginning at the end, Jonathan Coe’s novel about the scheming Winshaws is turned into an audacious investigative whodunnit
Jonathan Coe’s satirical novel about the venality of the …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, November 1, 2020
Nottingham Playhouse; ZoomThe actor was joined by Adrian Scarborough for a seasonal dose of phone calls from the other side and undead criminality
‘The oldest and strongest emotion of mank…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:12AMFriday, October 30, 2020
Rose theatre, KingstonWilly Russell’s play works well in a socially-distanced staging, and the questions it asks about the value of arts and education feel more pertinent than ever
This 40…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:36AMThursday, October 29, 2020
She went from rave diva with Nomad to winning her third Olivier award on Sunday for Death of a Salesman. Yet the London actor isn’t immune to the storms battering theatre
Sharon D Clarke w…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, October 25, 2020
Watermill theatre, NewburyThis powerful, affecting drama ranges over the pioneering aviator’s adventurous career and her final terrible moments
Amy Johnson is, in many ways, still the epit…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:12AMNottingham PlayhouseIn James Graham’s Covid romcom, a couple who have just met decide to quarantine together, while in a parallel narrative they face isolation alone
The playwright James G…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:12AMFriday, October 23, 2020
Immersive LDN A revitalised, socially distanced version of the F Scott Fitzgerald novel keeps the jazz age alive with song, dance and spectacle
Last year, in the “before”, The Great Gat…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:42AMTuesday, October 20, 2020
This funny, tragic and deeply unsettling one-woman tour de force shows who the US constitution serves – and who it lets down. The statistics alone are horrifying
Heidi Schreck tells us she…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:36AMFriday, October 2, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonTamsin Greig and Maxine Peake play long-suffering women, gravely put-upon by the men in their lives, in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads
The first monologue in this doubl…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:54AMWednesday, September 30, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonThere are fine performances by Imelda Staunton and Lucian Msamati in this pair of Talking Heads
The latest two live instalments of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:03AMFriday, September 25, 2020
Tristan Bates theatre, London, and online In her lockdown romance, playwright Gemma Lawrence explores desire, isolation and homophobia
A remote love story seems so fitting for our times. Th…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:06PMThursday, September 24, 2020
New general secretary Paul Fleming says that amid this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, the union received spike in reported cases of racist behaviour
Equity, the UK trade union for c…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:18AMMonday, September 21, 2020
The explosion of digital productions of all sizes has shown great creativity and made hit shows more accessible – but is it all financially sustainable?
In the past six months, theatre has…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:24AMSunday, September 20, 2020
Soho theatre, LondonThis larky Zoom-era adaptation of the director’s film about white-collar leadership is full of improv-style gusto
In 2006, a year after the US launched a version of Ric…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:03AMWednesday, September 16, 2020
As she publishes a moving memoir, the Corrie, Dinnerladies and West End star talks about her three-decade battle with typecasting – and almost dying of Covid-19
Shobna Gulati is speaking …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:24AMSunday, September 13, 2020
Greenwich + Docklands international festival A basketball court becomes a stage to deliver short plays of protest over racial injustice, completing a fine festival embedded in its London com…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:42AMFriday, September 11, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonRochenda Sandall is sensational as a woman suspicious of her husband’s behaviour, while Kristin Scott Thomas’s genteel dowager revels in nostalgia
This pair of mono…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, September 9, 2020
Bridge theatre, London Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads monologues were TV gold during lockdown. Seeing Monica Dolan and Lesley Manville perform them live is even better
The quietly desperate …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:02AMTuesday, September 8, 2020
After her villainous role in the explosive police drama, the star is playing an isolated woman in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads and an activist in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe
Rochenda Sanda…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:24AMFriday, September 4, 2020
Various locations, London In this immersive, socially distanced show which the audience follows on foot, an unhappy woman meets her leather-jacket-wearing guardian angel
We have been instruc…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:06PMWednesday, September 2, 2020
Nora Ephron’s romcom was brilliantly written and perfectly cast with an elegant score. Our chief theatre critic, who loves the film, writes a letter after seeing its stage adaptation
Dear …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:42AMSunday, August 30, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonIn the return of live indoor theatre, Ralph Fiennes delivers the playwright’s fury at the government’s response to the virus – and his despair when he catches it …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:03AMMonday, August 24, 2020
The first new indoor musical since theatres closed in March is a version of the Meg Ryan romcom starring Kimberley Walsh. Will it persuade West End producers that the show can go on despite …
Linked From The Guardian at 03:24PMThursday, August 20, 2020
Available onlineNeighbours clash over racism and sexism in the Abbey theatre’s virtual production of Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s highly topical drama
The six members of a Dublin residents’ as…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:48PMTuesday, August 11, 2020
The drama first staged after the EU referendum has taken on new relevance and is being broadcast by the BBC. Its creator reflects on the ‘emotional weight’ of Britishness
Mike Bartlett…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:36AMSunday, August 2, 2020
Many black theatre-makers say they feel unwelcome in major venues. Are some performances for black-only audiences the answer? And how can a play spur white audiences to confront their own bi…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:36AMWednesday, July 29, 2020
Hallowed quiet gives way to personal laments in an interactive re-creation of house-front chatter
Lockdown culture: the best theatre and dance online
‘Some of our best conversations are in…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:24PMThursday, July 23, 2020
I bristle at the idea that plays are ‘not the real thing’ unless they are live – I fell in love with Shakespeare and Beckett through televised performances
Every theatregoer I know is …
Linked From The Guardian at 04:12AMMonday, July 20, 2020
Available onlineFloods plunge Britain into a state of emergency in an engrossing audio play performed by 14- to 18-year-olds
Ben Weatherill’s audio play is set in the year 2025 when a flo…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:24AMMonday, July 6, 2020
Available onlineThe chef’s mouth-watering memoir is now a ‘part radio play, part animated film’ in which even a biscuit is a trigger for grief
Nigel Slater’s feted memoir has been re…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:54PMSunday, July 5, 2020
The Booker-winning writer has returned to the stage, penning a drama defending the NHS. She talks about ‘bittersweet’ success – and getting caught up in attacks on Nicola Sturgeon
Bern…
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