Sunday, March 25, 2018
Ustinov, BathIn Trevor Nunn’s handsome but stilted production, an Edwardian painter is caught between her art and the affections of three men‘Only little bits of me are developed, and th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:53AMThursday, March 22, 2018
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonJosé Rivera’s adaptation of Manuel Puig’s prison-set romance is well-acted but needs more of an erotic and political chargeManuel Puig’s odd-couple lov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:41AMTuesday, March 20, 2018
Arcola, London This inventive adaptation of the novel set in an ape-dominated world pokes fun at human assumptions of evolution Will Self believes the novel is doomed. But the Arcola theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMMonday, March 19, 2018
Audible has recently announced the first wave of writers to receive commissions for new one and two-person plays for its platform. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMSunday, March 18, 2018
Nottingham PlayhouseRamps on the Moon uses sign language and captioning brilliantly in a striking update of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s historical humanist play‘People who have no imaginati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:27AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
Critics accuse the sector of becoming increasingly dominated by middle-class sensibilities, neglecting the tastes of many in favour of ‘high art’. Working-class
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMThe Yard, LondonJosh Azouz’s horror-tinged play, with an eight-month-old baby played by an adult, comes over like surrealistic Harold PinterNur (Hoda Bentaher) and Jaden (Noof McEwan) have…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMMonday, March 12, 2018
Empire Cinema, LondonBack in the West End after 10 years, Rice’s heart-stopping adaptation cuts seamlessly from theatre to cinema It’s billed as Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter, but thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20AMI loved Nicholas Hytner’s Julius Caesar at London’s Bridge Theatre, and one of the reasons I enjoyed it so much was because
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMonday, March 5, 2018
Alexander Wright is about to open a new version of his successful immersive production of The Great Gatsby in a disused pub
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, March 2, 2018
Sheffield CrucibleMorgan’s play on the clash between the chatshow host and the US president gets a timely, entertaining revivalThis 12-year-old play by The Crown writer Peter Morgan pro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMWednesday, February 28, 2018
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonAudience expectations are gleefully derailed as Lucy Bailey directs this creepy tale of love and liesSneered at for so long as a dramatist, Agatha Christie i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:46AMTuesday, February 27, 2018
Charing Cross theatre, LondonThere’s witty live music and convincing performances by Sheila Hancock and Bill Milner but this staging of the cult movie feels coy and dated‘I can never und…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AMMonday, February 26, 2018
Attending the first preview of Dennis Kelly’s gut-wrenching Girls and Boys at London’s Royal Court Theatre was hugely enjoyable, especially as I
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, February 22, 2018
Viaduct, HalifaxDeborah McAndrew adapts the classic novel about facts and feelings but comedy drowns out subtlety“Is it possible that, despite all precautions, a storybook could have got i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMThe Matilda playwright has written a shattering solo drama that he didn’t think his star would read. He talks about fear, masculinity and burying secrets“It’s a really, really tough pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMWednesday, February 21, 2018
Birmingham RepEveryone has something to hide in this funny yet serious examination of cultural values, blood ties and atonementIn 2004, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti wrote Behzti (Dishonour), a produ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:34AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
Nottingham Playhouse / Sheffield Crucible Studio Beth Steel gives a clear-eyed account of 1984 strike while Ray Castleton and Kieran Knowles focus on its legacy for womenThe rock glistens in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonGeorgie Henley and Tyrone Huntley star in a swaggering production that seldom deepens into anything meaningfulThere’s so much to be angry about in the world that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMMonday, February 19, 2018
“Why are actors’ biographical details in theatre programmes so universally rubbish – just a long list of past plays and films?” asked
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, February 15, 2018
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsIn this adaptation of Lisa Genova’s bestselling novel, it’s the subject rather than the staging that moves the emotionsBest known from the 2014 movie and J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:27AMWednesday, February 14, 2018
Royal Exchange, ManchesterKendall Feaver’s striking debut pits a daughter who wants to give up medication against the mother who wishes to keep her safeWhen Anna (Norah Lopez Holden) was s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00PMMonday, February 12, 2018
While at Edinburgh in 2009, I reviewed a play called A Western staged at Forest Fringe by a young company called Action
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, February 8, 2018
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonPost-9/11 anxieties come to the fore in a muddled show that likens rehearsing for a play to preparing for a disaster There are plenty of writers and academics ex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMFrom Frances Poet’s Gut to Monica Dolan’s The B*easts, new plays about parenthood raise vital questions about societyWhen playwright Frances Poet ventured out alone as a child she knew h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMWednesday, February 7, 2018
Royal Court, LondonVicky Featherstone’s bleakly beautiful production of Simon Longman’s play is a compelling tale of rural lifeNature is cruel in Simon Longman’s play, which is set on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59PMWith a body of experimental work behind him, the maverick director and founder of Improbable has embraced opera and is helping lead
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
Sherman, Cardiff McPherson’s prose glimmers and glows in his richly understated tale of an undertaker seeking salvation on Christmas EveIn A Christmas Carol, Scrooge encounters three ghost…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:34AMMonday, February 5, 2018
New Diorama, LondonLulu Raczka’s disorienting drama about a missing schoolgirl searches for truth in the shadows of a dystopian cityThe title sounds like the start of a joke, but there is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMI have sympathy for those making tricky decisions about how to distribute arts funding. It’s not an easy task and requires imagination,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, February 1, 2018
The Other Palace, LondonA school nerd escapes the bullies but meets a murderous movie mogul in an imaginative 1980s-themed musicalThings are looking up for new British musicals. The gorgeous…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM 
