Sunday, October 6, 2024
Gielgud theatre, LondonRylance is entertainingly Chaplinesque as a dissolute husband in Seán O’Casey’s 1924 tragicomedy, but Succession’s J Smith-Cameron is its heart and soul as the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMBattersea Arts Centre, LondonMixing the personal and political into one consciousness-raising ‘anti-biography’, Khalid Abdalla’s solo show takes in western colonialism, 9/11, British i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02PMWednesday, October 2, 2024
Almeida theatre, LondonWatching John Osborne’s fulminating Jimmy Porter feels curiously cold, while the same cast bring subtleties to Arnold Wesker’s classic
The “angry young man” ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMTuesday, October 1, 2024
Chichester Festival theatreThis drama about Mick Jagger and Keith Jones’s 1967 drugs bust curiously foregrounds their lawyer’s family issues
The public outcry that followed the prison se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMActors Meera Syal and Shobna Gulati, with playwright Tanika Gupta, explain how their National Theatre production springs from the anguish of losing their mothers
Meera Syal and Tanika Gupta�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, September 29, 2024
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonThis frothy farce about an 1890 cabinet minister ‘accepting favours’ never stoops to nudge-winking to make its point – and is all the better for it
If t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMFriday, September 27, 2024
Royal Court Theatre, LondonSophisticated play melds fact with fiction in its dramatisation of a scandalous moment in the life of the author
As debut plays go, Giant has some very old and exp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMThursday, September 26, 2024
Theatre Royal BathAllen gives a capable performance in an arresting production that gives a chilling sense of state control – but the central romance fails to fizz
Seventy-five years after…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMWednesday, September 25, 2024
Orange Tree theatre, LondonDavid Edgar’s play on the anti-communist Hollywood blacklists of the 1950s is clunky in its set-up, but offers a lively take on the personal politics of art and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMTuesday, September 24, 2024
Olivier theatre, LondonThe drama is underpowered until the end but what Lyndsey Turner’s production lacks in feeling it makes up in style
Placard-holding protesters bomb an elegant stage w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMHe has triumphed over controversies, the ‘devastation’ of Covid and 100-hour weeks. As Norris leaves the biggest job in British theatre, he reveals his final season – and his plans to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, September 22, 2024
Young Vic, LondonThis musical has the seeds of a brilliant show for our times with Ramin Karimloo on fine form, but its complex themes are sucked away by sledge-hammer messaging
Elia Kazan�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, September 19, 2024
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonJames Macdonald’s production sacrifices tension for slapstick but ultimately delivers pathos
Samuel Beckett’s 1953 tragicomedy about two woe-begotten men w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMLeeds Playhouse Revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s play follows a family struggling against the odds and delivers a message of hope
When Lorraine Hansberry’s debut play premiered in 1959, i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMFriday, September 13, 2024
Bush theatre, London Waleed Akhtar speeds through a 20-year alliance between two British Pakistanis rather too quickly to unfold its rich implications
Waleed Akhtar’s last, Olivier-winning…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, September 12, 2024
Garrick theatre, LondonToby Marlow and Lucy Moss have created powerhouse tunes about friendship, family and heartache but this story’s romantic woes are often routine
Two writers of musica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06PMLyric Hammersmith, LondonRachel O’Riordan directs a new version of the play about the rehabilitative force of theatre in colonial Sydney
The curtain is a union jack, opening on to uncultiv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMMonday, September 9, 2024
New exhibition, named after ‘theatrical encyclopedia’ Gabrielle Enthoven, showcases British stage history from the Restoration to Fleabag
She was an avid collector of playbills, programm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMSunday, September 8, 2024
Arcola theatre, LondonA trio of friends reconvene in their home town to play together for the first time in two decades
Band reunions seem to be in the air, or one band’s, at least. Here i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMFriday, September 6, 2024
The Yard, LondonWhile its subject matter is powerful, the story of three split selves is too disconnected to follow, with one scene jumping to another and not joining up to form a whole
The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMWednesday, September 4, 2024
Old Vic, LondonPassion and art are dissected in tricksy style in a production that manages to wrongfoot the audience
There are several circularities drawn around what is real and what is par…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMSunday, September 1, 2024
Royal Court Upstairs, LondonInspired by urban legends and Afro-surrealism, Tife Kusoro’s spooky tale of three schoolchildren pursued by unknown forces is an audacious original
A hand curls…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMThursday, August 29, 2024
@sohoplace, LondonThe final part of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ trilogy is a bold, brash reflection on racism and working-class identity but the tone is too screamy for the tension to bui…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMTuesday, August 27, 2024
Why Am I So Single sets dating angst to music; more Hollywood stars hit the West End; and a Brummie dance trilogy reaches its finale Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMFriday, August 23, 2024
The Studio, EdinburghFiction and reality blur in this unruly but utterly engrossing show, which blends documentary and theatre – and will stay with you long after you have left
There seems…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghActor-playwright Libby Rodliffe plays plate-spinning Bea, desperately working several jobs, in a monologue co-written with Isley Lynn
Jobsworth is billed as a r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMThursday, August 22, 2024
Lyceum, Edinburgh In David Ireland’s complex two-hander, co-starring Sean Gilder, a troubled youth is persuaded to join the 12-step programme by a former addict
There are few certainties i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PMPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh A polemical show blends powerful audio recordings of those at the sharp end of the austerity economy with distracting stage business
This drama’s title allud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMWednesday, August 21, 2024
Assembly George Square, Edinburgh Maddie Lynes’ play subtly tracks a sibling relationship across the decades, sliding between flashbacks and the present day
Three Sisters Productions is a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMUnderbelly, Bristo Square, Edinburgh Emma Taylor gives magnetic life to a spectrum of mansplaining and rage but these scenes don’t quite build towards a bigger vision
A fast sequence of sc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMPleasance Dome, Edinburgh Joe Sellman-Leava’s dramatised lecture, with droll asides from Dylan Howells, could hit harder at a greater length
The title is a phrase coined by a strategist fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AM 
