Sunday, March 13, 2016
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonDavid Threlfall makes a gallant knight in James Fenton’s mighty adaptation, and the bunfights are terrificMiguel de Cervantes died 400 years ago, in 1616, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:20AMSunday, March 6, 2016
Liverpool’s finest on childhood ambition, the perils of being a father, playing the bad guy, and his love for his hometownWhen you decided to leave school at 16 and become an actor, did yo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMWednesday, March 2, 2016
Liverpool’s finest on childhood ambition, the perils of being a father, playing the bad guy, and his love for his hometownWhen you decided to leave school at 16 and become an actor, did yo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56AMSunday, February 14, 2016
Young Vic, LondonPlatitudes eclipse some fine performances in Peter Brook’s postscript to his epic MahabharataBattlefield is unmistakably Peter Brook’s work: as clear as a signature. It …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:09AMHampstead theatre, LondonA great cast fail to connect in Edward Hall’s stagey production of a Pulitzer-winning study of griefIn 2010, Rabbit Hole was made into a slick but touching film, s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:09AMTemporary theatre at the National theatre, LondonSophie Melville is phenomenal as a struggling young woman who finds love… brieflyAt the National’s Temporary theatre, a girl walks on to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:51AMSunday, January 17, 2016
The actor on Oldham Street, Manchester, the magic of Slow Club, a friend’s brilliant memoir, British feature film Radiator and Lemn Sissay’s poetryJulie Hesmondhalgh is best known for he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AMTuesday, January 5, 2016
A new era is dawning at London's Tricycle theatre under Indhu Rubasingham, its first new artistic director in three decades. Her inaugural play – starring Adrian Lester, and written by his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:25PMSunday, December 27, 2015
The comedian and campaigner on great theatre, David Eagleman, the brilliance of Radiohead, TED talks and a thriller you just can’t put downActor, writer and television presenter Ruby Wax h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:17AMSunday, December 13, 2015
Hampstead theatre, LondonTom Stoppard’s rarely performed spy thriller revels in double-agent puzzles and particle physicsWhen Tom Stoppard closes one door, he opens another. Then he goes b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSunday, November 29, 2015
Dorfman theatre, London Shawn’s challenging new play lurches gleefully from cosy cafe reunion to a bad-dream debate about targeted bombingsThere could hardly be a more appropriate moment, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:10AMSunday, November 15, 2015
Lyttelton, LondonRoger Michell directs a fine cast in Harley Granville Barker’s once scandalous playHarley Granville Barker’s Waste was banned in 1907 for its scandalous content. Henry T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMGarrick theatre, LondonKenneth Branagh is tremendous in a magical The Winter’s Tale, though Judi Dench isn’t half bad either…The curtain has not yet gone up, but the tinkling of a musi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSunday, November 8, 2015
The actor on a lost classic by novelist Elizabeth Harrower, Todd Haynes’s Carol, the punk spirit of artist Maria Lassnig and the dirty, energising energy of Captain Beefheart’s Clear Spo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMFriday, October 30, 2015
She can turn her hand to everything from hard-pressed housewife to glamorous diva, but her latest role will challenge even Lesley Manville's formidable talents. Here, she talks to Kate Kella…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31PMWednesday, October 28, 2015
The actor talks about the psychology of Lady Macbeth – and feelings of guilt closer to homeSamantha Spiro suggests, when we meet on a summer afternoon at the Globe theatre, that rehearsal …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMSunday, October 11, 2015
Donmar Warehouse, LondonDominic Cooke’s spirited direction of Christopher Shinn’s play explores victimhood and gay stereotypingThe play opens in a conference room where there is a circle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:20AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Thanks to The Hour, playwright Abi Morgan has enjoyed an incredibly prolific year. Next up, a Thatcher biopic starring Meryl Streep, a Steve McQueen film about sex and a play about GodAbi Mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:35AMSunday, September 20, 2015
The playwright’s invigorating memoir takes aim at reviewers, modern parents and Cambridge, but reserves its harshest and most revealing words for its authorYou can see why David Hare has n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMSunday, September 13, 2015
Shakespeare’s Globe, London By the end of the second play, two bloodbaths down and hoping for a cathartic finish, the viewer is reelingWe have had Robert Icke’s celebrated version of The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01AMYoung Vic, LondonEelco Smits performs much of the show naked – a risk that pays off in a chamber piece about vulnerabilitySimon Stephens’s Song From Far Away is one of the saddest plays …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01AMOld Vic, London Rob Brydon is outstanding as a Welsh teacher at the end of his tetherThe play is the thing that will catch the conscience of…. parents at the school gate. Tamsin Oglesby’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01AMThursday, September 10, 2015
Eve Best is famous for her role as glamorous Dr O'Hara in Nurse Jackie. But she made her name in Jacobean theatre – and she is back in London for moreEve Best has just walked into an unpre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:17PMSunday, August 2, 2015
Lyttelton, LondonA young tutor sets hearts aflutter in Patrick Marber’s witty, elegant and mercifully truncated update of TurgenevTurgenev ruefully admitted that A Month in the Country wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:16AMSunday, June 28, 2015
With catchy music, fantastic design and great performances, the ebullient musical looks sure to be a hit – but it dodges the hard shotsPhoenix, LondonThis was a week in which two girls got…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:15AMPark theatre, LondonNick Darke’s taut and viciously comic three-hander is a comic treatNick Darke died 10 years ago but his comic, grotesque, fearless imagination lives on. And it is Darke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:15AMSunday, June 14, 2015
Park theatre, London An unsensational attempt to analyse how Savile got away with abuse on such a scaleAs the Jimmy Savile story has unfolded, one of the strongest feelings has been outrage …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:57AMSunday, May 31, 2015
Olivier, LondonDirector Simon Godwin conspires to make George Farquhar’s restoration comedy fresh, relevant and unstoppably entertaining Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:40AMTuesday, May 26, 2015
Tom Hiddleston was named best newcomer at the Laurence Olivier Awards in March and delivered acclaimed turns in Ivanov at the Wyndham's theatre and BBC drama Wallander Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37PMMonday, May 25, 2015
A fine cast fails to revive Ira Levin's comedy thriller, while there's mirth and madness at the Globe, writes Kate Kellaway
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PM 
