Friday, September 21, 2018
Gate theatre, LondonGuilt, anguish and female torment shape a spectacular star turn in this revival of Jean Cocteau’s study of a woman on the brinkJean Cocteau’s 50-minute monologue of a…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:48PMThursday, September 20, 2018
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonOkri holds faithfully to the philosopher-novelist’s voice and vision in a striking staging with Sam Frenchum as Meursault‘Mother died today. Or maybe yes…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:36PMThursday, September 13, 2018
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe doomed sisters release their inner goths in this fantastically witty, mischievous and camp musical update of their tragic livesThe lives of the Brontë sisters…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:36AMWednesday, September 12, 2018
Vinay Patel’s ambitious, highly personal new play, a young couple leave behind from India in search of a better life‘Pick me and I will make us … the greatest adventure you could ever …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:18AMTuesday, September 11, 2018
★★★☆☆/★★★★☆Queen’s theatre, HornchurchAtiha Sen Gupta creates a companion piece for Leigh’s story while a revival proves the original’s timeless powerWho was Abigai…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:36AMSunday, September 9, 2018
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonThis profound and beautiful study of surrealist Leonora Carrington, once the partner of Max Ernst, ingeniously contrasts scenes from her early and late careerThe…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:54AMThursday, September 6, 2018
Theatre Royal, Bath With a starry cast that includes Elizabeth McGovern and Ralf Little, this revival of Yasmina Reza’s menace-filled comedy emphasises the laughs but loses the play’s sa…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:24AMSunday, September 2, 2018
Actor Jade Anouka prepared to play Hotspur by watching videos of boxer Nicola Adams. Adams, in turn, acted in her youth and hopes to again. They met up to talk breaking boundaries, performan…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:42AMMonday, July 30, 2018
Old Red Lion, LondonThis improvised John le Carré parody is only as clever and funny as its liveliest participantsLamplighters is a thriller set in the mould of John le Carré’s cold-war …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:24AMThursday, July 26, 2018
Duke of York’s, LondonThe 79-year-old star shines brightest in play’s darkest moments, in what may be his last big Shakespearean role on stageA tweet pinned to Sir Ian McKellen’s Twitt…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:36PMMonday, July 16, 2018
Park theatre, LondonStephanie Martin’s drama – part comedy of manners and part state-of-the-nation play – is one killer scene short of greatnessAlkaline takes the well-worn drama of th…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:36PMThursday, July 12, 2018
Roundhouse, LondonThe Hot Brown Honey collective join forces with nine young performers to explore prejudice in a blast of hip-hop and burlesqueLast year, the Roundhouse put out an open call…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:32PMMonday, July 9, 2018
Feanedock, National ForestA new arts extravaganza offers campfire stories, breathtaking theatre, laughing yoga and lessons on how to think like a treeStand on a hillock in Feanedock and you …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:04AMTuesday, July 3, 2018
Arcola, LondonThere are storming performances in this play about two British Pakistani Londoners whose friendship is tested after the 2005 terror attacks‘What do you see when you look at m…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:18PMBush theatre, LondonThere is tenderness and humour in Ben Weatherill’s play about a young woman with Down’s syndrome caught between her boyfriend and her motherThe stage is so over-fille…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:24AMThursday, June 28, 2018
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonA superb cast deliver striking performances in a production that is knowingly dissonant, from the costumes to the climaxThe perennial question of this “problem…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:42PMTuesday, June 26, 2018
Watermill theatre, NewburyRave music thumps as Jasper Britton plays the refusenik in an intimate revival of the drama about Albion’s dark heartIt takes courage to revive a play that was de…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:54AMSunday, June 17, 2018
Royal Court, LondonAnna Deavere Smith’s powerful one-woman show highlights the shocking injustices faced by African Americans ‘This is American history, not African American history,” …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:48AMFriday, June 15, 2018
Sheffield Crucible There are strong performances in an adaptation that gets closer to Ken Kesey’s novel than the popular film versionWhen Ken Kesey’s novel was first staged in 1963, he t…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:18PMThursday, June 14, 2018
Arcola, LondonFemi Elufowoju Jr directs an arresting version of Lola Shoneyin’s novel about marital power-play and sexual envy“Sir, you will deposit your sperm inside,” a hospital nurs…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:36AMSunday, June 3, 2018
Chichester Festival theatre Despite its pitch-perfect lead, this version of Enid Bagnold’s class comedy lacks the emotionally charged edginess that gives it biteThe Chalk Garden is Enid Ba…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, May 31, 2018
As her explosive update of the sex-and-class classic Miss Julie hits the stage, playwright Polly Stenham explains why liberal hypocrisy is her new target‘We think we are super ‘woke’,…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:24AMSunday, May 6, 2018
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe mood grows ever darker in James Fritz’s play about a young generation increasingly burdened by their wealthy eldersThe Fall opens with a glee club-style choi…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:54AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Steven Berkoff may be among the most acclaimed playwrights and actors of his generation but he revealed he would much rather have been a tailor, like his father, given a choice between the t…
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