Garrick theatre, London Filial tangles, played with the actor’s real-life daughter Bessie Carter, bring George Bernard Shaw’s once-banned drama to life This is not the first production o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonDirector Ola Ince brings absurdist comedy to Arthur Miller’s classic drama of Salem witch-hunting, now told partly through song There is never a time when Arth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMJermyn Street theatre, LondonIbrahima Balde’s desperate journey to find his brother should make for essential theatre, but this production lacks the emotional intensity of the book Ibrahim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMPleasance theatre, LondonJamie Sykes’ queasily entertaining play dramatises the contemptible views found in ‘incel’ forums – but also elicits sympathy for its characters, whose loath…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMMinerva theatre, Chichester Mark Addy plays the Bunyanesque everyman whose trip to the postbox becomes a spiritual journey set to glorious foot-stomping songs The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMBush theatre, London Laith Elzubaidi’s autobiographical one-man play explores the lingering pain of his family’s flight from Iraq with a standup’s humour In the w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMLyttelton, LondonThis energetic look at the charmed lives of the 1% features some signature sparks, but the class satire is not potent enough in the composer’s swansong Stephen Sondheim’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMGlobe theatre, LondonDirector Sean Holmes’s high concept production shows that the frontier works surprisingly well as Shakespeare’s fractious Verona The warring Houses of Montague and C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMRoyal Court theatre, London Singaporean Joel Tan’s play revolves around the fate of an ancient statue, in disparate scenes of thrilling complexity played by a zesty cast Controversies ove…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMSwan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonEchoes of Gaza and Guantanamo ripple through the violence of Shakespeare’s paradoxically poetic play, immaculately staged by the RSC It is not just heads t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMWyndham’s theatre, LondonIbsen is moved to the Hamptons in Lila Raicek’s play, co-starring Kate Fleetwood and Elizabeth Debicki, about the destruction wreaked by adultery Henrik Ibsen’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PMWith star names, a Hamlet in shades, orgiastic murder and a miners’ strike musical, Indhu Rubasingham promises something for all. But can she attract newcomers while keeping diehards happy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMBooker-nominated writer Deborah Levy is thrilling audiences with her play about a psychoanalyst dealing with a very unusual patient, seized with anxiety about modern life. She explains how i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMYork Theatre RoyalOldman gives an emotional encounter with his past selves as he single-handedly directs, set-designs and performs Samuel Beckett’s existential monologue Gary Oldman’s de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMOld Vic, London Terrific performances from Chris O’Dowd and Rosie Sheehy lead a populous family drama hinging on a broken-down country farmhouse Conor McPherson’s family dysfunctional dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMColiseum, London F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic jazz age novel ought to be the perfect basis for a musical, but no amount of Charlestons from a fine cast can put the fizz into this There is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32PMTo survive in acting, she thought she had to nail received pronunciation. Then she remembered Port Talbot’s extraordinary lineage, reverted to her native accent – and everything changed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMCan you imagine starring in Mamma Mia! for 10 years? Or The Lion King for 17? Or Blood Brothers for 26? Theatre’s epic endurance performers reveal how they keep the magic alive night after…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMBush theatre, LondonMohamed-Zain Dada’s play set at a speed awareness course bristles with humour and snarls with home truths about the bigotry experienced by British Asians Representation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMKiln theatre, LondonAmy Ng’s ‘untold true story’ of two friends, who become China’s foremost theatre director and Mao Zedong’s wife, is a story of survival and a play of ideas It b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMSouthwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonWhile the story of broken dreams and desperation can’t make the leap to an all-singing all-dancing setting, there are great moments among the bleakness …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMThe celebrated actor has long struggled with the murder and dismemberment at the heart of Titus Andronicus. Now, at 64, he is finally tackling a play that ‘teeters on the edge of acceptabi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMNew Diorama, LondonWriter-director Alan Fielden and his talented performers explore people smuggling, ancient imperialism and the sound of globalisation It starts off with single words being…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMWilton’s Music Hall, LondonEvery character is distinct in this bewitching solo performance by Mark Lockyer, a masterclass in pacing and emotional clarity Shakespearean performance has been…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMTheatre Royal WindsorWhile it might have been revealing to 1970s audiences, this domestic drama featuring cliche characters and a wavering tone fails to pack the same punch Watching Alan Ayc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMAlmeida, LondonDespite some delightful clowning, Omar Elerian’s version of this timely tale of conformity has too many ideas and lacks focus Omar Elerian clearly has an aptitude, and appet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMKing’s Head theatre, LondonA dysfunctional brood gather at a wedding-cum-funeral in actor-writer Rosie Day’s dark comedy A wedding is repurposed into a funeral in writer-actor Rosie Day�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMTheatre Royal BathDespite its cleverly conceived monochrome set and some compelling songs, this series of stories from the master of suspense is a letdown Alfred Hitchcock had confirmed his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMYork Theatre RoyalFun, intelligent and powered by Rice’s joyful whimsy, this playful take on the spy movie is a crowd-pleaser Mistaken identity fires Alfred Hitchcock’s Kafkaesque 1959 s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMWas the second wife of Henry VIII really guilty of the crimes she was beheaded for? Pickett’s award-winning new play takes a sideways look at her downfall – by imagining its impact on ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMOrange Tree theatre, LondonCamaraderie, comedy and a love of the trade shine through in April De Angelis’s group portrait of Nell Gwyn and the other female actors who were the first to be …
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