Saturday, March 7, 2020
The playwright and director on writing and depression, collaborating with Tom Stoppard, and reconnecting with his Jewish roots
Patrick Marber is a playwright, director, screenwriter and come…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:24AMSunday, March 1, 2020
Kiln; Riverside Studios; Coronet; Bush, LondonAntoinette Nwandu’s play about the US race divide flits thrillingly from laughter to rage, Christopher Reid’s poetry is a challenge on stage…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, January 26, 2020
Lyttelton; Jermyn Street; Boulevard, LondonA pregnant question hangs over Lucy Kirkwood’s elegant new courthouse drama, while a superlative Beckett triple bill could teach Cormac McCarthy …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:24AMSunday, December 8, 2019
Young Vic; Menier Chocolate Factory; 5-15 Sun Street, LondonDon’t be fooled by the homely setting of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s dazzling, disconcerting Pulitzer prize-winner
A woman is peel…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:33AMSunday, November 17, 2019
Prince Edward theatre; Southwark Cathedral; Wilton’s Music Hall, LondonRichard Eyre’s Mary Poppins revival soars, TS Eliot’s verse drama struggles under the weight of its gravitas, and…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, October 13, 2019
Gate; Trafalgar Studios; Wyndham’s, London A stirring Faustian tale puts actors under the moral spotlight, a revival of Joe Egg is brave but bleak, and The Man in the White Suit fades fast…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:36AMSunday, October 6, 2019
It’s a fairytale: the young dancer in a poor Lisbon suburb who makes it to principal at a world class company. But more underprivileged children should get a chance, says the Royal Balletâ…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:18PMSaturday, August 17, 2019
King’s theatre; Church Hill theatre; the Studio, EdinburghEmotion is pared to the bone in Robert Icke’s thrilling new real-time adaptation of Sophocles. Plus, folk tales that leap off th…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, August 4, 2019
Troubadour White City, LondonDespite a soaring lead and plenty of ideas, this production doesn’t quite get off the ground
Although a new theatre ought to be a cause for celebration, the Tr…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:24AMSunday, July 28, 2019
Menier Chocolate Factory, London; Chichester Festival theatre; Kiln, LondonThe Bridges of Madison County musical hits all the right notes in Trevor Nunn’s heartfelt production. Plus, an ir…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, June 16, 2019
Bridge, London; Orange Tree, Richmond; Theatre Royal BathNicholas Hytner pulls off a dazzling circus trick, and there’s some pleasing drawing-room drama for the less energetic
A Midsummer …
Linked From The Guardian at 04:36AMSaturday, May 4, 2019
Olivier; Barbican; Kiln, LondonRufus Norris’s epic adaptation of Andrea Levy’s Windrush novel is spectacular, while Maxine Peake excels in a moving portrayal of the trials of IVFSmall Is…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:24AMSunday, April 28, 2019
Old Vic, London; Royal and Derngate, Northampton; Duchess theatre, LondonTwo Hollywood actors bring skilful, unstarry performances to All My Sons, Lucy Bailey directs a fine, unstarchy produ…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:59AMSunday, April 21, 2019
The actor on her new role as a woman undergoing IVF, the trouble with being outspoken and why she called her dog CastroMaxine Peake’s roles range from a transgender Hamlet to a sharp lawye…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:00AMSunday, March 3, 2019
Lyttelton; Kiln; Theatre Royal Stratford East, London; Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonMolière’s anti-hero is a dodgy Highgate hippy, Florian Zeller dazzles with the latest …
Linked From The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, November 25, 2018
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Harold Pinter; Garrick; the GateThe domestic drama is especially close to home in the Globe’s Scottish play. Plus, more exceptional Pinter and a joyous West End re…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:48AMSunday, November 18, 2018
National Theatre, London; Minerva, Chichester A jazzy-poppy hybrid of Orpheus lacks depth, while an adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel is an unpredictable treatHadestown begins p…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:42AMSunday, October 21, 2018
Old Vic, LondonCarter’s riotous novel about a south London theatrical dynasty bursts on to the stage in this life-enhancing showAt the end of a programme essay, Emma Rice wonders what Ange…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:24AMSunday, September 30, 2018
Olivier, London; Bristol Old Vic; Royal Court, LondonRalph Fiennes’s Antony grapples with a midlife crisis while Sophie Okonedo’s Cleopatra is the ultimate diva in an outstanding product…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:18AMMonday, September 17, 2018
The award-winning actor on playing a narcissistic writer opposite Glenn Close in The Wife, his Welsh roots, and looking like the popeJonathan Pryce has played Shakespearean heroes (Hamlet, S…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:32AMSunday, July 1, 2018
Her stewardship of Shakespeare’s Globe ended in acrimony but a revitalised Emma Rice, now about to launch her own company Wise Children, couldn’t be happier“It was on Shakespeare’s b…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:32AMSunday, June 3, 2018
Olivier; Harold Pinter; Finborough, LondonNot understanding speaks volumes in Ian Rickson’s tremendous new production of Brian Friel’s 1980 classic. And Nina Raine’s unflinching Consen…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:42AMSunday, May 27, 2018
The US actor tells how a new adaption of Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton chimes with our uncertain timesid-morning in Brooklyn, New York and grey clouds are scudding across the s…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:54AMFriday, May 18, 2018
Noël Coward theatre, LondonGoing to Howard Davies's glorious production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever is like being invited to an irregular house party; the relief is that, unlike the hapless…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:12PMTuesday, May 15, 2018
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal BathAlun Armstrong rules in Ionesco’s absurdist dramaIonesco’s Exit the King was first performed in 1962, and the theatre of the absurd cannot boast any mor…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:33AMFriday, May 11, 2018
Thanks to The Hour, playwright Abi Morgan has enjoyed an incredibly prolific year. Next up, a Thatcher biopic starring Meryl Streep, a Steve McQueen film about sex and a play about GodAbi Mo…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:33AMSunday, May 6, 2018
The veteran playwright and the prolific young star, both masters of political theatre, reflect on the state of the nation – and contemporary culture – in the internet ageDavid Hare and J…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:36AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
The National’s magnificent production of Caryl Churchill’s English civil war play resonates powerfully todayCaryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire was written in 1976, is s…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:54PMSunday, March 25, 2018
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Dorfman, National Theatre; Lyric Hammersmith, London; Theatre Royal, BathTragedy meets levity in the RSC’s Scottish play. Plus, a captivatin…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, March 18, 2018
Bristol Old Vic; Royal Exchange, Manchester; The Yard, London The Cherry Orchard springs to life in Michael Boyd’s thrillingly vital Bristol Old Vic production. In Manchester, April De Ang…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:00AMSunday, February 11, 2018
Wyndham’s; Shakespeare’s Globe; Hampstead, LondonLesley Manville glitters as desperate mother Mary in O’Neill’s grim family portrait. Plus, Barrie Rutter’s valedictory Captive Quee…
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