Sunday, June 19, 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonBack in the role she first played in 1997, Hunter uses her extraordinary transformative powers to show us the king as a geriatric child at the head of a disinteg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMSunday, May 22, 2022
Chichester Festival theatreHenry Goodman gives us every inch of Hercule Poirot’s dandiness and comedy in this exemplary adaptation of Christie’s ingenious murder mystery, but also gets e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PMWednesday, May 4, 2022
Sondheim theatre/Prince Edward theatre, LondonJudi Dench, Rob Brydon, Imelda Staunton and Bernadette Peters joined the cast for this superb tribute to a genius
Stephen Sondheim was so vast a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMThursday, April 21, 2022
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonWith their portrait of a wobbling monarchy and egotistical leadership, these rare stagings are particularly topical
The three plays about King H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWednesday, April 20, 2022
Chichester Festival theatreMosse’s adaptation of her blood-soaked novel delivers on chills but could do with more substance amid the sound and fury
Gothic chillers are rare in modern theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMTuesday, April 12, 2022
Watermill theatre, NewburyThe actor-musicians deserve an award for multitasking here, switching between roles and instruments in a production exploring lying and dual identities
Though equiv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMWednesday, April 6, 2022
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThis elusive curiosity – whose original production in 1964 closed on Broadway after nine performances – finds brilliant new contexts for its absurdist story
So…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMFriday, March 25, 2022
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonDavid Owen Norris and his son Barney reflect on the slipperiness of history in a show that elegantly defies categorisation
Ticketing websites divide shows fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMThursday, March 24, 2022
Bridge theatre, LondonFiennes heads an electrifying cast in David Hare’s dynamic portrait of Robert Moses, an aggressive yet visionary urban planner who refused to back down
Robert Moses, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMThursday, March 17, 2022
The classy actor could play both establishment and villainous characters with aplomb. He was naturally charming and hugely admired by great men of theatre like Harold Pinter
Peter Bowles die…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMThursday, March 3, 2022
Coronet theatre, LondonThis drama about a sculptor looking back on his life is powerfully staged by the Norwegian Ibsen Company
In the last year of the 19th century, when Henrik Ibsen began …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMWednesday, March 2, 2022
As he beams aboard another Star Trek adventure, the 81-year-old actor talks about playing Picard as an intergalactic Prospero, hitting the bottle during Macbeth – and reaching page 310 of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMWednesday, February 9, 2022
Holy Trinity Church, GuildfordFox is emotionally wrenching in Tom Littler’s inventive and streamlined production, which explores the play’s integral Christianity
Shakespeare gives a vari…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThursday, January 27, 2022
A generous-hearted jokesmith, Cryer created laughs for generations of comics, was a consummate performer and had a lifelong commitment to wit
‘An honorary uncle to countless comics’: Jac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMWednesday, January 26, 2022
Derby theatreUsing music hall and Broadway songs to tell the story of former MP Dennis Skinner’s colourful Commons battles makes surprising sense
Writers often say that content dictates fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMFriday, January 21, 2022
Ian McKellen and Sanjeev Bhaskar will also take to stage and solve a crime without rehearsal in starry fundraising drama at London theatre
Actors have nightmares of going on in a play for wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMSunday, January 16, 2022
Park Theatre, London
Interweaving triple narratives of lovers, siblings and soldiers doesn’t give enough space to explore the complexities of British rule
The title of The 4th Country pres…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMThursday, December 16, 2021
How does it feel to go back on stage night after night in a play that’s been mauled by critics and deserted by audiences? Richard Eyre and other directors and actors relive their trauma
Mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMWednesday, December 15, 2021
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, LondonPablo Manzi’s political scenes, which span several decades and are powerfully performed, could perhaps lead to a future epic
Thirty years ago, the Royal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMFriday, December 10, 2021
Young Vic, LondonDavid Harewood and Charles Edwards go head-to-head as William F Buckley Jr and Gore Vidal respectively in an enthralling play based on a 1968 TV debate
James Graham speciali…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMTuesday, December 7, 2021
Birmingham Repertory theatreThe A-lister provided joyous shock on opening night, as Morecambe and Wise’s screen routines return to the boards
Regularly drawing TV audiences in the 1970s th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMFriday, November 26, 2021
The American composer and lyricist, who has died aged 91, shaped the musical artform with his wise, witty and extravagantly clever work
Stephen Sondheim achieved such acclaim – for deepeni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMFinborough theatre, LondonDavid Ireland’s provocative, surreal, intensely brutal farce finds a former loyalist paramilitary seeking mediation from Eamonn Holmes for a dispute with his neig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThursday, November 4, 2021
North Wall, OxfordWill Howard and Kimberley Jarvis portray more than 20 characters with ease in this superb tale set against the 2001 disaster
The new BBC Two documentary Blair and Brown: Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMFriday, October 29, 2021
Bush theatre, LondonIgor Memic’s prize-winning debut is an affecting if slightly uneven conflict romance brought to life by vivid detail
Igor Memic, winner of the 2020 Papatango new writin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMWednesday, October 27, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonThis play daringly switches tone as it follows three mothers and explores exhaustion, panic and feelings of inadequacy
The title of Mum – a fertile-with-ideas play by M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMFriday, October 15, 2021
Minerva theatre, ChichesterDavid Storey’s intense drama of cross-talking patients in an institution has gained fresh relevance from the pandemic
Harry and Jack – distinguished-looking ol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMThursday, October 14, 2021
Theatre Royal WindsorArtfully combining clumsiness with precision, McKellen’s Firs is the highlight of a production marked by arresting gestures and modern parallels
Having recently playe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMFriday, October 8, 2021
Chichester Festival theatreTara Tijani and Llewella Gideon are superb in this unblinking portrait of dignity amid moral horror, which follows a Jamaican woman looking back on her life
An add…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMFriday, October 1, 2021
Caryl Churchill explores grief and loss with a study of a man facing different possible futures
During the time it took Keir Starmer to deliver his party conference speech this week, Caryl C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMTuesday, September 14, 2021
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonSeven actors share 42 roles in Rebecca Taichman’s stunning production of Paula Vogel’s Tony award-winner about a controversial queer Yiddish play
Contempo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PM 
