Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Palace theatre, LondonThis confusing concoction of cabaret, holiday camp entertainment, panto and pub act fails to showcase its talented illusionists
The first thing to say about Wonderville…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMSunday, August 1, 2021
Young Vic, LondonKwame Kwei-Armah’s adaptation of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem is ambitious and visually stunning, but Ben Okri’s script is too broadbrush
Two towering pyramids dominat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMFriday, July 30, 2021
Turbine theatre, LondonDespite heartfelt intentions and some energetic performances, this production doesn’t do justice to the brilliance of Kevin Elyot’s 1994 script
Kevin Elyot’s 199…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMThursday, July 29, 2021
Old Vic, LondonEmma Rice’s version of the 1987 movie is an outrageously sentimental ode to friendship and oddballs meeting amid Californian tumbleweed
Just as Wim Wenders’ road movie p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMWednesday, July 28, 2021
London PalladiumAlexandra Burke, Jason Donovan and Technicolor coat-wearer Jac Yarrow are among a cast whose performances ooze personality and mischief
While Andrew Lloyd Webber bumpily stee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMTuesday, July 27, 2021
Hampstead theatre, London
Tennessee Williams’s play within a play uses ingenious artifice, as its actor brother and sister perform their way into madness, but locks out the audience
There …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMThursday, July 22, 2021
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonThis rousing Gin Lane musical by April De Angelis and Lucy Rivers has working-class women at its heart
Gin Craze! enacts a lesser-remembered piece of 18th-cent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMWednesday, July 21, 2021
Theatre Royal WindsorThe actor brings brilliant nuance and daring to his part in an age-blind production marred by some eccentric decisions
This Hamlet, starring 82-year-old Ian McKellen as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMMonday, July 19, 2021
What does Mamet’s 1992 play about a college professor accused of sexual harassment say in the wake of #MeToo? Lucy Bailey, director of its West End revival, discusses its power
Director Lu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMSaturday, July 17, 2021
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonEmma Corrin and and Nabhaan Rizwan give excellent performances in Joseph Charlton’s two-hander which has a fizzing hi-tech design
Damien Hirst’s conceptual a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMTuesday, July 13, 2021
Orange Tree theatre, LondonBryony Lavery’s play, revived by director Tinuke Craig, celebrates friendship with truths, humour and good punchlines
A play about serious illness and the search…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMSunday, July 11, 2021
Toynbee Studios, LondonWritten in response to sexual violence in Tahrir Square, this mobile adaptation of Sara Shaarawi’s polemic becomes confusing
Niqabi Ninja is a revenge fantasy origin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42PMOld Vic: In CameraDavid Thewlis and Daniel Mays add rich new shades to the over-familiar 1957 two-hander in this filmed adaptation
It takes theatrical alchemy – and talent – to turn a pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSaturday, July 10, 2021
Royal Ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor had no access to elite ballet schools growing up. But he did have John Travolta and disco to spark a lifelong obsession. Now he wants to make dancer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMFriday, July 9, 2021
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonDirector Ola Ince’s take on Shakespeare’s tragedy is clever, energetic and doesn’t have a single smooch
This is not the first major production of Romeo and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMWednesday, July 7, 2021
Exchange Auditorium, Manchester CentralThe novelist’s article about her father’s death was expanded into a book and has now become a play but it feels limited
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, July 4, 2021
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonFeaturing plague and shootouts in M&S, XR supporter April De Angelis’s dystopic climate drama is a powerful, urgent polemic
During Extinction Rebell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMFriday, July 2, 2021
Vaudeville theatreThe stories of string theorist Marianne and beekeeper Roland are told forwards, backwards and sideways as we explore their theatrical multiverse
How many ways can the same …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMThursday, July 1, 2021
Watermill theatre, NewburyWith Paul Hart’s production blending into the theatre grounds, the pastoral comedy here becomes an effective vehicle to reflect on our relationship with nature
I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMWednesday, June 30, 2021
Coliseum, LondonThis maelstrom of a show based on the 1988 John Waters film has a dizzy energy and a stunning turn from Marisha Wallace
“You have to think big to be big,” declares Tracy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMTuesday, June 29, 2021
Bridge theatre, LondonSimon Russell Beale stars in a visually impressive production of Nina Raine’s play that never quite gets off the ground
It is tempting to compare Bach & Sons with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48PMFriday, June 25, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonThe platonic love between thirtysomething Myah and her elderly landlady moves and empowers in Amanda Wilkin’s one-woman show
“I would rather be anywhere. Anywhere els…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMLyric Hammersmith, LondonTanika Gupta sends Gandhi overseas, Simon Stephens sees devastation in locked-down London and Roy Williams lightens the mood with a local hero story
The monologue be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMThursday, June 24, 2021
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonIn Yasmin Joseph’s play, three girls wind their way through the streets, guided by the spirit of the activist who founded the carnival
J’Ouvert evokes the sp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54PMWednesday, June 23, 2021
National Theatre, LondonLyndsey Turner’s production is a charming albeit emotionally distanced retreat into nostalgia
Dylan Thomas’s drama, broadcast on radio in 1954 , has been recited …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMTuesday, June 22, 2021
Almeida, LondonYomi Ṣode’s startling play about death, mourning and young masculinity is intensified by its weight of emotion and sensational stagecraft
This is a strange and startling …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMSunday, June 20, 2021
The creator of the hit play Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner on the power of comedy and why Instagram is almost like cosplay
Jasmine Lee-Jones, 22, is a writer and actor from London. In…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMFriday, June 18, 2021
Riverside Studios, LondonTrevor Nunn’s production of Samuel Beckett’s classic play is stronger on music-hall comedy than bleakness
When Peggy Ashcroft played Winnie at the National Theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMWednesday, June 16, 2021
Theatre Royal BathUncertainty reigns supreme in a fast and fluid revival of Michael Frayn’s resonant, if sometimes impenetrable, play
Rehearsals for this revival of Michael Frayn’s award…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTuesday, June 15, 2021
Theatre Peckham, LondonIn Shaan Sahota’s audio play, which is touring theatres, a junior doctor tries to navigate the early days of the pandemic
A junior doctor’s first nervous day at wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMThursday, June 10, 2021
The actor had a great lockdown: she learned to cook, took up cello – and fell in love. Now six months pregnant, Dwan’s about to be buried up to her neck in Happy Days. Is she worried?
Li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM 
