Thursday, February 22, 2024
Yaël Farber presents Shakespeare’s blistering play with bravura
Less than three years after her magnificent Macbeth, Yaël Farber returns to the Almeida with another Shakespeare tragedy. …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:48AMTony-winning production lands in the West End with an astounding cast
Doom and gloom, we are told, may have abounded in the classical underworld, but Hadestown suggests otherwise. Returning …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:42AMMonday, February 19, 2024
A solo performance in theatre may often trap us inside a single dramatic character, taking us deep into their interiority. Or it may zigzag feverishly between an astounding range of figures …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:39AMSunday, February 4, 2024
“This play is a lie,” boldly declares the poster of Sam Holcroft’s new play A Mirror, now playing at London’s Trafalgar Theatre after its initial run at the Almeida Theatre last summ…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:02AMWednesday, December 20, 2023
How to render Macbeth anew—and how to do it well? It’s a question that has undoubtedly preoccupied countless directors, actors, and designers over the centuries. And it’s a question th…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:28AMSunday, December 17, 2023
An American actor, an English director, and a Northern Irish playwright walk into a house in London to start working on a new production. This is not so much the opener of a joke as the tant…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:21AMFriday, December 15, 2023
The Netflix hit broadens its beguiling story with this thrilling, high-powered stage production
Stranger Things has shown us over four seasons that the alternate dimension known as the Upsid…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:02PMTuesday, October 31, 2023
Shakespeare meets Game of Thrones in an efficient but emotionally stilted production
Few would have imagined that Kenneth Branagh’s return to the West End would see him garbed in fur-lined…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:13PMFriday, October 13, 2023
Director Jamie Lloyd is at the height of his powers in this stark, sublime reinterpretation of a modern classic
Jamie Lloyd has the gift that keeps on giving. Hot on the heels of recent prod…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:07AMTuesday, July 25, 2023
Today’s obvious was most likely yesterday’s incredible. This is the conceit at the heart of Dr Semmelweis, a new play written by Stephen Brown with Mark Rylance, which has transferred to…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:07AMWednesday, June 28, 2023
Martin McDonagh is perhaps better known today globally for his recent accomplishments on screen as a writer and director, but he cut his teeth through his prodigious work as a playwright. Fi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:05PMFriday, May 19, 2023
Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges star in an underpowered adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story
For a masterclass in expansive adaptation, one could do worse than turn to Ang Lee’s Oscar-winn…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:42AMSunday, April 9, 2023
Contemporary Black British theatre is admirably adamant about pushing its own boundaries and expanding its audience. A recent case in point is Ryan Calais Cameron’s bracing play For Black …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:17PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Dominic Cooke's otherwise uneven production boasts formidable performances
What is one to do with Greek tragedy on the contemporary stage? For Simon Stone, whose Phaedra is currently playing…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:19AMFriday, December 9, 2022
This new musical about the early life of Nelson Mandela is a mawkish misfire
As bio-musicals continue to have their heyday, it makes sense for the Young Vic to throw its hat in the ring and …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:06AMThursday, December 8, 2022
TV is a strange medium, but James Graham is no stranger to its toxic charm. London audiences have recently witnessed the British playwright’s musical adaptation of the life of Tammy Faye, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:57AMTuesday, December 6, 2022
Charming performances in this watered-down version of Virginia Woolf’s novel
Identity is thorny business. This was the parting thought of Anna X, the play that marked Emma Corrin’s West …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:32AMFriday, September 30, 2022
Lyndsey Turner paints this seminal drama with disturbing colours
How can this beauty arise from such ugliness? The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s 1953 drama about the Salem witch trials of 1692…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:43AMFriday, September 9, 2022
Édouard Louis’s book is brought to life in a fierce performance
A bare interior with tarnished walls, a single bed, and an oxygen tube. The stage seems to have been set for a Beckett play…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:07AMSaturday, May 21, 2022
Bartlett Sher's Broadway production comes to London with aplomb
First staged in 2018, Bartlett Sher’s Lincoln Center Theater production of My Fair Lady is London’s latest import from B…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:33AMSaturday, April 30, 2022
Jez Butterworth's 2009 play is evergreen in its excellence
At long last, the giant has come back. Over a decade after its critical apotheosis on both sides of the Atlantic, Jez Butterworth�…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:33PMThursday, April 28, 2022
'Killing Eve' star's stage debut is a triumph
National statistics tell us that, in the year ending September 2021, 41% of rape victims in England and Wales eventually withdrew their support …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMMonday, April 25, 2022
Jackie Sibblies Drury is one of the most exciting voices working in American theatre today. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Fairview and We Are Proud to Present a Presentation… has a …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:29AMMonday, November 8, 2021
Alana Valentine's play about crime and poverty in Australia receives a spirited production
The complex history of capital punishment in Australia may not be familiar to many Londoners, but t…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:03AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
An adroit cast does justice to Isley Lynn's complexly woven narrative
"You need to get better at communicating", says one character to another in Isley Lynn’s albatross. Indeed, the same…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:06AMTuesday, October 26, 2021
What does it take to stretch Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy to a runtime of over three hours? Not, as it turns out, a tedious crawl through the play. Rather, an electrifying but patient jo…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:26AMFriday, March 13, 2020
“Would you rather have one shoe or no shoes?” Viv is here to show us that missing only one shoe is not necessarily the better option. Having lost one of her shoes on the way to work, she…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:44AMMonday, March 9, 2020
Evelyn Farrant, the scheming actor at the centre of Gerald Moon’s 1983 play Corpse!, would like to believe that he is the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
What goes into an apology, and what comes out of it? The three plays assembled in The Apologists approach these questions from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMFriday, February 28, 2020
John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is often remembered for its association with kitchen sink realism. Marking the play’s return to London
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:46AMSaturday, February 22, 2020
Antoinette Nwandu’s play Pass Over is a palimpsest. Its outer surface looks familiar: haunted by the ever-present threat of a murderous police force, two black men are paralyzed into inact…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:25PM 
