Sunday, December 4, 2022
Lyttelton; Royal Court, LondonOpposite Giles Terera’s dynamic yet vulnerable Othello, Rosy McEwen’s forthright Desdemona is a revelation. Elsewhere, a personal tale of the Iraq war that …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSunday, October 2, 2022
Based on interviews by Jonathan Freedland with 12 British Jews, this verbatim play directed by Vicky Featherstone disturbs and frustrates
This brave and necessary show was conceived, accordi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMSunday, September 25, 2022
Kiln; Yard; Bush, LondonMoira Buffini’s damning satire imagining the Queen’s weekly meetings with Margaret Thatcher acquires poignancy; James Macdonald directs Chekhov in outer space; an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AMSunday, September 18, 2022
Almeida; Hampstead; Young Vic; Apollo, LondonFamily celebrations go pear-shaped in Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s mischievous new play; Richard Eyre’s writing debut falls mysteriously flat; and Gabr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMSunday, August 7, 2022
Lyric Hammersmith; Shakespeare’s Globe; Kiln, LondonPatrick Marber’s four-way passion play still adds up; Sean Holmes takes enjoyable liberties with his party island Tempest; and the hea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AMSunday, July 31, 2022
Young Vic; Regent’s Park Open Air; Gillian Lynne, LondonGlobalisation’s effect on an Indian factory makes for touching drama; Douglas Hodge’s new Dodie Smith musical is spot on; and a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, June 12, 2022
Lyric Hammersmith; Park theatre; King’s Head theatre, LondonEven Timberlake Wertenbaker can’t quite ignite Racine’s tyrannical hero; Harry Hill’s New Labour musical is a gag-filled j…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMSunday, March 20, 2022
Barbican; Ambassadors theatre, LondonThe exiled Belarus Free Theatre offers a frightening, timely vision of a divided Europe, and Taron Egerton brings emotive power to Mike Bartlett’s expl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, March 13, 2022
Royal Exchange, Manchester; Almeida; Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonStef Smith’s Ibsen update can’t quite match the original for its sense of dread; the mystery play gets a Covid-era re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMSunday, February 13, 2022
The musical theatre star on her new tribute show to Stephen Sondheim, her unconventional upbringing, and her happiest song…
Maria Friedman, 61, is a singer, actor and director who has a na…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMSunday, January 9, 2022
Donmar Warehouse; Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, LondonOne false move tears a family apart in a superb adaptation of Ruben Östlund’s avalanche film. And folk song collector Cecil Sharp mee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMSunday, December 26, 2021
Almeida; Hampstead theatre; Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonA revival of a 2006 musical gives thrilling voice to a Covid generation, Tamsin Greig is Peggy Ramsay to a tee, and an Alan Bennet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSunday, December 19, 2021
The actor, who is playing Scrooge on stage, is a fan of Christmas games – and quizzes in particular. But there’s one question he can’t answer: why are Christmas cracker jokes so bad?
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMSunday, November 28, 2021
The actor on breaking his vow never to ski again for his new stage role, a brush with death in the Namibian desert, and how he remembers his father, Roy
Rory Kinnear, 43, known for his origi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMSunday, November 14, 2021
Duke of York’s; Hampstead Theatre Downstairs; Jermyn Street, LondonThe National’s striking Neil Gaiman adaptation sweeps into the West End. A day inside the mind of a traumatised woman s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMSunday, November 7, 2021
The theatre and film actor on staging a pair of Julian Barnes stories, playing Emperor Palpatine, and finding peace in isolation
Ian McDiarmid, 77, has distinguished himself as a theatrical …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, September 26, 2021
Royal Court; Old Vic; Donmar Warehouse, LondonAleshea Harris sets the Royal Court alight with her blazing family drama; Patsy Ferran and Luke Thallon are marooned in a US Nazi summer camp; a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMSunday, September 19, 2021
Menier Chocolate Factory; Kiln, London; Birmingham RepCultural identity unites a Jewish writer’s shockingly radical play, diverse tales from Kilburn and Ayub Khan Din’s 1996 classic
It i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMSunday, August 8, 2021
Barbican; Young Vic, LondonA joyously shipshape revival of Cole Porter’s classic proves the perfect getaway, while an elegant staging lifts Ben Okri’s portentous foray into Ancient Egypt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, July 11, 2021
Manchester Central; Whitworth Art Gallery; Manchester Jewish MuseumChimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s reflections on the death of her father resist the confines of the stage; Forensic Architecture…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSunday, February 21, 2021
The Irish actor on reimagining Antigone, what she learned from Billie Whitelaw, and starring in Jed Mercurio’s new crime drama
Lisa Dwan, 43, is an Irish actor particularly celebrated for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSunday, October 4, 2020
The Bridge, LondonIn this warm monologue, Inua Ellams recalls his journey from Nigeria to London to shed light on Britain’s asylum system
There is a wonderful sense of release as Inua Ella…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 Ballet…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM 
