Sunday, April 2, 2017
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonSimon exudes feline grace and infinite variety in Iqbal Khan’s excellent if unadventurous productionIt is impossible to predict how Josette Si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMDominion theatre, LondonFabulous choreography – and an extra helping of Gershwin – light up Christopher Wheeldon’s airy musicalAn American in Paris is a lightfooted antidote to gloom, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMWyndham’s, LondonTennant is dissolution personified in Patrick Marber’s brilliant update of his 2006 take on MolièreIf Don Juan doesn’t know when to stop, I don’t know where to begi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSunday, March 26, 2017
Barbican, LondonCoriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra all together, in Dutch, fly by in Van Hove’s extraordinary critique of the way we consume newsIvo van Hove has, with his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonBest shines as a flirtatious widow in Trevor Nunn’s update of a Terence Rattigan rewriteLove in Idleness is second division Rattigan, a 1944 rewriting of Le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMHampstead, LondonThe funny and foul-mouthed Sara Kestelman steals the show in Ryan Craig’s lively portrait of a Jewish familyFilthy Business, by Ryan Craig, was inspired by memories of his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMRoyal Court, LondonRobert Evans all but disappears in Simon McBurney’s adaptation of the Hollywood producer’s rollercoaster memoirRobert Evans, the Hollywood producer, maintains that wha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSunday, January 15, 2017
Wyndham’s; Platform theatre, Central Saint Martins, London A West End adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel doesn’t quite soar, but we know a man on a trampoline who doesKhaled Hossein…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMSunday, December 25, 2016
Musician, satirist, writer of Matilda... Tim Minchin talks about his Aussie roots, why he never Googles himself and how, as a rationalist and Richard Dawkins fan, he still has a romantic sid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMSunday, November 6, 2016
Theatre is the art form of the future, declares avant-garde director Ivo van Hove, as he brings his production of David Bowie’s ‘play with music’ Lazarus to LondonIvo van Hove is every…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSaturday, November 5, 2016
Finborough, LondonIt could not be easier – or harder – to do what Rebecca Peyton does. All she has on stage is a chair, a glass of water and herself. But her subject is her sister, Kate …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSunday, October 9, 2016
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonTom Hollander is sensational in this exuberant Stoppard revivalOn the way home from Patrick Marber’s scintillating production of Travesties, I tried to make…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:14AMPark theatre, LondonA birthday party goes wrong for a group of gay 60s New Yorkers in this fine revivalFirst performed in 1968, The Boys in the Band, by Mart Crowley, is being revived for th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:08AMOld Vic, LondonLisa Dwan’s adaptation of Beckett’s 13 short prose pieces is a feat of memory, dedication and courageThere is no mystery about why Samuel Beckett’s No’s Knife at the O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:08AMSunday, September 11, 2016
The actor and director on addiction and success, Trump’s bankruptcies, and the film he wrote that no one will see for 100 yearsJohn Malkovich has acted in 98 films and is about to make his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:14AMSunday, August 14, 2016
Tennessee Williams devastates afresh, refugees face a treacherous journey and papier-mache masks thrill in a wild and windy festival cityThe Edinburgh fringe is like a game of Scottish whisp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:10AMSunday, July 24, 2016
As an actor for Kubrick and Visconti and a model feted by Yves Saint Laurent, she charmed the 70s. Now she’s making her Shakespearean debutAs a model in the early 70s, Marisa Berenson was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:49AMSunday, July 17, 2016
Barbican, LondonCompelling performances and a dazzling set combine to give Lepage’s 1991 show new life Related: Robert Lepage: ‘It’s about love addiction. I was going through heartbrea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:22AMRoyal Court, London… but Jonjo O’Neill steals the show in Anthony Neilson’s hilarious new play exploring the world of film-making obsessivesIf ever there were a show where one wishes o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:22AMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonThis musical mashup of fairy tales makes for a playful and thoughtful eveningAn off-Broadway production of Into the Woods (1986) has arrived at the Menier Cho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:11AMArcola, LondonGreg Hicks dazzles in Nancy Harris’s brilliant reworking of Tolstoy’s tale of a man convinced his wife is having an affairTolstoy felt demeaned by the desire he felt for hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:11AMSunday, May 8, 2016
The dancer and choreographer on Kate Tempest’s poetry, Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary, and astonishing jazz pianist Brad MehldauAkram Khan was born in Wimbledon, south-west Lon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AMMonday, April 25, 2016
The melancholic half of The Mighty Boosh reveals why he's terrified of his first stage role as the mayor in Gogol's The Government InspectorJulian Barratt is looking Russian. He has grown a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:22AMSunday, April 24, 2016
The choreographer on his obsession with brutalist architecture, Chicago’s footwork music and the work of playwright Sarah KaneWayne McGregor was born in Stockport and is a leading British …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31AMSaturday, March 26, 2016
Kate Kellaway meets the two James Cartwrights reviving the career of Little VoiceJim Cartwright, the playwright, and his son, James, are enjoying theatre's equivalent to the family firm. Jam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:25PMSunday, March 20, 2016
Crucible, Sheffield Cue great jokes, assured direction and the outrageously funny Richard Addy in this delightful snooker comedyI’m not an obvious target audience for The Nap. Snooker is n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:14AMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonFrench playwright Florian Zeller completes a dazzling hat-trick with this confounding and unsettling tale of infidelityFlorian Zeller – the high-profile Fre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:14AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonSimon Dormandy directs Giedroyc as a guilt-ridden mother whose adopted son appears to go off the rails Luce is about expectation. At the most obvious level, it is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:14AMSunday, March 13, 2016
Shaftesbury theatre, London Only Eshan Gopal’s amazing turn as a mini-Michael Jackson is worth the price of admission in this charmless homage to Berry Gordy’s celebrated labelI was look…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:20AMRoyal Court Upstairs, LondonThe complexities of post-apartheid South Africa are powerfully portrayed in Mongiwekhaya’s fine thrillerI See You is a disturbingly plausible new thriller by Mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:20AMThe 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 04:20AM 
