Friday, April 15, 2022
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonMike Bartlett’s rambunctious capers with types including Lady Susan Climber and Matt Eton MP are great fun if not exactly stinging satire
In Mike Bartlett’s ramb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMThursday, April 14, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonClaire Latham is utterly arresting as a traumatised woman, surrounded by violence, who transforms into a wolf
This monologue, by a woman from the deep south of the U…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMWednesday, April 13, 2022
Theatre503, LondonA mother-daughter confrontation at a motivational speaker’s coaching session raises urgent questions about mental health
A play about a self-help circle can usually guara…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMMonday, April 11, 2022
Cabaret and Life of Pi were deservedly recognised on a night that could have spread the love more widely and often favoured comforting shows
Full list of winners
It began with the host Jason…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMSunday, April 10, 2022
Old Vic theatre, LondonMike Bartlett’s script turns US politics into Shakepearean comedy but falls oddly flat despite magnetising performances
Donald Trump’s inner circle has, in Mike Ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMThursday, April 7, 2022
Almeida, LondonA white billionaire art collector’s relationship with a young Black artist forms the heart of this bold, brawny play about race, patronage and exploitation
Ever since Suns…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMWednesday, April 6, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonThere is some fine acting as the wife and children of Robert Lindsay’s patriarchal professor bicker and bond over inheritances and legacies, but it is all a little…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMTuesday, April 5, 2022
Birmingham RepWe see the shock of Windrush-era racism from a child’s perspective, but miss the details of how she rose nontheless to become the face of children’s TV
It is fitting that a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, March 31, 2022
Gielgud theatre, LondonRafe Spall is a dignified Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s smooth and confident adaptation, which finds modern-day resonances in the 1960 classic about racial injusti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMSunday, March 27, 2022
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonThough innovative in delivery, this bizarre experimental production has gratuitous descriptions of sex and violence and fails to satisfy as a performance
Psychod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24PMThursday, March 24, 2022
Park theatre, LondonThe acting, by Imogen Stubbs and Eric Underwood among others, is formidable but Bruce Norris’s 2010 play lacks depth
Bruce Norris’s 2010 satire was written as a respo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMWednesday, March 23, 2022
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonIvo van Hove’s production divests this drama of emotional power and momentum, keeping us at arm’s length
Jean Cocteau’s 1930 play is a monologue disguised …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMTuesday, March 22, 2022
The Law & Order: SVU star is returning to the stage in a White House satire set in 2024. She talks about the ‘black-lash’ after Obama’s election, brokering a new deal for Broadway …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMMonday, March 21, 2022
The Olivier-winning actor is starring in his own play about a horrifying chapter of history and the fight to abolish slavery. He reflects on the resistance to making the story heard
At a piv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMFriday, March 18, 2022
Available onlineThis is a gripping drama about the inner struggles and temptation endured by a recovering alcoholic during a dark night of the soul at his father’s wake
Marcus Brigstocke�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMThursday, March 17, 2022
Unicorn theatre, LondonBewitching video and ingenious sets combine in a staging that turns the 18th-century adventure into an escape for a troubled student
This radical reimagining of Jonath…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMTuesday, March 15, 2022
Ambassadors theatre, LondonJade Anouka’s character causes an existential earthquake in Marianne Elliott’s stylised revival of Mike Bartlett’s comedy about sexual identity
The world has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMThe eponymous do of Mike Leigh’s 1977 play is reimagined in Abi’s House Party, a youth production at the Watford Palace theatre. But what would Bev think?
The drama in Abigail’s Party …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMMonday, March 14, 2022
Park theatre, LondonRon Hutchinson’s play picks up intriguing themes about fake news and psychology but fails to explore them in depth
“What if the Titanic never hit an iceberg? What if …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMSunday, March 13, 2022
Barbican, LondonFairytale imagery is mixed with absurdist humour in this prescient political thriller in which Russia has become a dictatorial superstate
Given the political history of the B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMFriday, March 11, 2022
Royal Exchange, ManchesterStef Smith’s reworking of the incendiary play casts three Noras in different eras, but can’t give them credible life
There is not one disgruntled wife in this h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMWednesday, March 9, 2022
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonLooking back at the work of Sondheim, Hamlisch and Legrand, with glorious songs and personal stories, this is a mixed bag of a show
Maria Friedman has staged …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMFriday, March 4, 2022
Olivier theatre, LondonA superb new cast show this story of love, war and racial prejudice has earned its place in the National Theatre pantheon
There is arguably a calculated safety in stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThursday, March 3, 2022
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe Game of Thrones star impresses in an uneven production balancing boardroom and battlefield
It is impossible to watch Max Webster’s modern-dress staging of Henry…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMTuesday, March 1, 2022
Riverside Studios, LondonTim Walker’s drama reconstructs the battles between Theresa May and Gina Miller after the Brexit vote, and their misogynist context
Kenneth Clarke’s description …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonA couple bicker through the night in a remote cabin in a well-performed revival of David Mamet’s two-hander from 1977
David Mamet’s odd if intriguing two-hande…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33PMSunday, February 27, 2022
Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon TyneA startlingly handsome production of George Orwell’s allegorical farmyard tale, with hints of kabuki and film noir, is given ever more meaning and relevan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMThursday, February 24, 2022
Young Vic, LondonPaul Bettany and Jeremy Pope excel as the art world legends in Anthony McCarten’s account of a fractious friendship
Anthony McCarten’s new play is an odd bromance betwee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54PMWednesday, February 23, 2022
Studio theatre, SheffieldJohn Rwothomack, performing his own one-man play, depicts a Ugandan boy terrorised into fighting for the Lord’s Resistance Army with visceral power
‘Will you fav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMHis liberal-baiting plays have caused punch-ups in the aisles and he hasn’t finished yet. As The Woods – his incendiary take on sexual politics – returns, the writer cuts loose
‘I ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMMonday, February 21, 2022
The award-winning writer of Shook grew up on an estate and did not see his world represented on stage. When he acknowledged his shame about his background, he found his voice
In 2019, Samuel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PM 
