Friday, February 25, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonRuby Thomas peels back the emotional layers in a group-therapy drama that fizzes towards a devastating finale
A family of four and a therapist tiptoe around one anot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMTuesday, February 8, 2022
Sieges, riots, serial killings, sex work … Alecky Blythe has put them all on stage. She reveals all about her latest project – an epic look at the comic ups and touching downs of teenage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMFriday, November 5, 2021
Duke of York’s theatre, LondonShapeshifting creatures take centre stage in Katy Rudd’s production that terrifyingly evokes childhood nightmares and family trauma
Neil Gaiman’s short, l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMTuesday, November 2, 2021
The former League of Gentlemen star on his love of low-budget British spinechillers, his loathing of Brexit and a slew of projects opening this winter
Mark Gatiss scans the breakfast menu at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMMonday, October 11, 2021
It started with lockdown and a broken angel, but Coventry’s year as city of culture is highlighting its reputation for resilience
Shortly before midnight on 23 January 2020, security came…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMWednesday, October 6, 2021
Gielgud theatre, LondonThe climactic play based on Hilary Mantel’s magisterial trilogy has wit and grace but no great dramatic release
It’s a truism all too well known to Thomas Cromwell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06PMTuesday, October 5, 2021
Four years ago, she was involved in a horrific accident. Little did she know it would leave her uniquely prepared to play a noblewoman hit by a falling elephant in the RSC’s new Christmas …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMFriday, September 10, 2021
Bush, LondonHumiliation meets humour as Mika Onyx Johnson tells of his hard-won transformation through rap, storytelling and dance
From the moment Mika Onyx Johnson bounces on to the stage, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMMonday, August 23, 2021
Kitchen discos and archive performances kept us going – but being stuck at home made me pine for a full house
In the early months of the pandemic, as the survival instinct of the live arts…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMWednesday, July 7, 2021
Nottingham PlayhouseJenna Russell captures the tragedy in this rags-to-rags story but the power of the songs can’t hide the play’s weaknesses
From the moment Jane Lapotaire stepped out a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, July 4, 2021
Later this month, in one of the most ambitious live artworks ever staged, a giant puppet will trek from the Syria-Turkey border to Manchester, in a moving-theatre show of solidarity with as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMSunday, June 20, 2021
Eight big-name actors are rebooting the award-winning love story Constellations in London’s West End. The first couple discuss their parallel careers - and their hotly disputed encounter a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMThursday, June 10, 2021
Pleasance, LondonThe playwright only wanted men to perform Waiting for Godot – Silent Faces ask why half the world’s population is excluded in a funny, pop-culture show
If you see it thr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMTuesday, April 27, 2021
Joseph’s soca-saturated play about three young women losing themselves to the best and worst at Notting Hill carnival parades into the West End and on to our screens
In the summer of 2019 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMThursday, February 25, 2021
It was meant to provide theatres with a lifeline during Covid. But livestreaming is now giving them extraordinary reach. Can it be sustained – and could it turn out to be a new existential…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTuesday, February 23, 2021
Falstaff, Mistress Quickly and the fairy rulers of A Midsummer Night’s Dream helped the author through a traumatic childhood and feature in her memoir No Boys Play Here
Sally Bayley was ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMSunday, February 21, 2021
Writers and artists including Róisín Murphy, Tiffany Calver and Sigala on the art that transports them to the dancefloor during lockdown
There have been many notable nightclubs in film his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMFriday, December 18, 2020
Available onlineThe Old Vic’s Zoom-broadcast version of the Dickens classic is full of heart – and pulls back the curtain on Covid-era theatre
Three years ago, Matthew Warchus’s produc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTuesday, October 6, 2020
Barbican Art Gallery, LondonThe Scottish dance iconoclast married extraordinary technique with boundless imagination – and his work is as provocative as ever
It’s one of time’s more ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, October 4, 2020
After years of struggling on Broadway, the writer, actor and director takes aim at New York’s theatre establishment in her hit film The Forty-Year-Old Version
There’s a moment in The For…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMSunday, June 14, 2020
Tom Stoppard’s new play was enjoying a sold-out run when venues closed. Its producer, Sonia Friedman, recalls how the crisis unfolded
Leopoldstadt in limbo: Tom Stoppard, Patrick Marber an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMTuesday, May 26, 2020
Hay Festival DigitalWith inimitable style Smith excavates a common pun and, illustrated by film clips, explores the transformative power of a single word
The best arts and entertainment dur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMSunday, May 24, 2020
Since his electrifying breakthrough as a hip-hopping Hamlet, the actor hasn’t stopped. He talks about overcoming challenges and his role in the provocative new BBC series from the creator …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMMonday, December 9, 2019
Bush theatre, LondonRagevan Vasan and Emily Stott star as a couple pulled apart by their backgrounds in this play by slam poet Zia Ahmed
The question of how to build intimacy across the div…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMWednesday, November 27, 2019
National Theatre, LondonNiamh Cusack and Catherine McCormack perform the central roles with magnetic force in this frenetically comic adaptation of Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet
At the sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMMonday, September 9, 2019
Forget trying to saw Debbie McGee in half – some conjurers are using their skills to help surgeons, refugee children and even imagine a better future
What image does the word “magic” c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMFriday, August 2, 2019
As she prepares to direct an unstaged script by the late pirate queen of counterculture, theatre-maker Kate Valk recalls how they met – and how she dealt with Acker’s challenging attitud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMSunday, July 21, 2019
Stoller Hall, Manchester; The Lowry, SalfordMaxine Peake is a woman possessed in The Nico Project, while Ivo van Hove adapts Ayn Rand’s controversial novelHow can The Nico Project excavate…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Survivors of addiction have taken over a shop in Bournemouth to stage Secret Voices. Their raw and harrowing stories show the holiday town in a new light
Two men circle each other in a salt-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMSunday, April 7, 2019
Phoenix, LondonMaking a song and dance of how Newfoundland took in thousands of diverted passengers after the World Trade Center attack is fun up to a point
There’s a lot to love about Com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, March 10, 2019
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Bridge; Royal Court, LondonAdjoa Andoh leads a powerfully resonant Richard II; Harriet Lane’s bestseller thrills less on stage; and jolts mix with jollity in a wom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM 
