Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Dorfman theatre, LondonElla Hickson’s inventive thriller turns the audience into spies behind a glass wall, with fascinating but flawed results
Created by Ella Hickson and sound designers …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:54AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Eden Court, InvernessJohn McGrath’s 1973 play uses ceilidhs and hoedowns to tell the shocking tale of the exploitation of Scotland’s natural resources
John McGrath’s 1973 play is a leg…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:03PMFriday, May 17, 2019
Royal Court, LondonAnchuli Felicia King’s Singapore-set drama brilliantly unpicks hypocrisy and the base values of the beauty business
White Pearl is a little gem. It is the work of Anchul…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:12AMThursday, May 16, 2019
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonHattie Morahan and Seth Numrich help breathe new life into Williams’ strange and clumsy southern gothic
How best to describe Tennessee Williams’ strange p…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:18AMTuesday, May 14, 2019
Park theatre, LondonChurchill, Blair and Thatcher drop in on Jonathan Maitland’s vacillating hero, but the jokes fall flat in this topical comedy
The problem with creating a play about Bor…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:36AMMonday, May 13, 2019
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonSome of the humour in John Vanbrugh’s 1697 sharp comedy about a tortured marriage doesn’t endure, but there’s much to admire in this important play
Phillip…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:06AMFriday, May 10, 2019
Young Vic, LondonRacial tensions simmer alongside those of class and family as Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke’s American dream unravels
There are two distinct impulses behind this rema…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, May 9, 2019
Everyman, CheltenhamShakespeare, wizards and panto dames all play their part in an evening of autobiography that is a love letter to theatre
Scratch a great actor and you often find a born c…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:36AMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Nottingham PlayhouseShelagh Stephenson’s Olivier-winning play about siblings reuniting in Yorkshire for a funeral mixes comedy and tragedy
With Alex Kingston scheduled to play Dr Stockmann…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:42AMSunday, May 5, 2019
Hampstead theatre, LondonBrenton’s ambitious but muddled new drama follows a gifted young Syrian woman who attracts the attentions of an Oxford classicist, Euripides and MI5
Edward Hall en…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:24AMFriday, May 3, 2019
Duke of York’s, LondonDuncan Macmillan’s deft but daring tweaks underline the majesty of this sexually charged study of faith and heartbreak
This has been dubbed Ibsen’s darkest and mo…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:12AMThursday, May 2, 2019
Olivier, LondonAndrea Levy’s story of first-generation Jamaican immigrants in postwar Britain has been skilfully adapted and staged with hurtling energy
This feels like a landmark in the N…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:12PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
Coliseum, LondonEven Danielle de Niese’s fine voice can’t save ENO’s out-of-sync commercial collaboration – no matter how many times they play The Impossible Dream
Previous collabora…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:12AMMonday, April 29, 2019
Park theatre, LondonBen Alderton’s bilious satire about the 2015 British general election is spasmodically entertaining but unsubtle
We desperately need political satire, yet now seems an …
Linked From The Guardian at 01:00AMSunday, April 28, 2019
Shakespeare’s Globe filled Westminster Abbey with a free-range assortment of famous – and dangerous – characters for this moving celebration
A brawl broke out in the nave of Westminste…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:12AMFriday, April 26, 2019
Finborough, LondonWritten during the votes for women campaign, St John Ervine’s play receives its first London revival in 75 years
‘The half-witted heroine has held the stage too long,…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:03PMThursday, April 25, 2019
Royal and Derngate, Northampton Mike Poulton’s new version lends fresh wit to the tragedy without diminishing its emotional intensity
A great Manchester Guardian critic, CE Montague, once …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:30AMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Old Vic, LondonIn an era of fake news and moral uncertainty, this fine production of Arthur Miller’s play rings as true as ever
Why the spate of Arthur Miller revivals? And why now? Watchi…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:30PMThursday, April 18, 2019
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJosie Rourke turns this spirited Broadway musical into a hymn to female resilience in her exhilarating farewell production at the Donmar
Anne-Marie Duff’s last appe…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:11AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
Almeida, LondonPatsy Ferran’s Olga is one of the many admirable performances in a production by Rebecca Frecknall that fails to deliver a full Chekhovian experience
When actor Patsy Ferran…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:20AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Everyman, Liverpool Nick Bagnall’s ingenious revival reminds us that Sondheim’s musical thriller is also a savagely political piece about injustice
Forty years after its premiere, Stephe…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:01PMFriday, April 12, 2019
Bridge Theatre, London
Smith returns to the stage in triumph as she relives one woman’s extraordinary experience in Nazi Germany
Absent from the stage for 12 years, Maggie Smith returns in…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:48PMBarbican, LondonPart installation, part prose-poem, this strangely beautiful piece takes its audience into other people’s heads
Enda Walsh’s plays are often about people trapped inside f…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:36AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
Royal Court, LondonAbhishek Majumdar’s play launches a philosophical inquiry into non-violence and defying oppression
A special virtue attaches to playwrights who take us into unfamiliar t…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:07AMMonday, April 8, 2019
Park theatre, LondonAn English version of a play by golden boy of French theatre Alexis Michalik is too cavalier in its depiction of prison life
Alexis Michalik is the man of the moment. His…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:00AMFriday, April 5, 2019
Trafalgar Studios, LondonIn his funny and perceptive two-hander, Godber and his wife play a quarrelsome couple on a tandem trip to Europe
Although it dominates our lives, Brexit has so far m…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:30PMThursday, April 4, 2019
Lyttelton, LondonWith a boosted cast of 18, Lyndsey Turner’s revival of Caryl Churchill’s classic sometimes feels like three separate plays
What started as an economic necessity in 1982 …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:52AMWednesday, April 3, 2019
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonJohn Kani beautifully captures the complex divides of race, class and politics in a remarkable and moving new play
How do you put a nation’s history on stage? …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:30PMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Arcola, LondonThis lively musical take on the 2006 film satirising child beauty pageants is likable but lacks bite
I missed the 2006 film that is the source for this musical with songs by Wi…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:50AMSunday, March 31, 2019
Finborough, LondonBart and Alun Owen’s 1964 musical about a Liverpudlian dockside prostitute and her sailor beau gets a foot-stamping first professional revival
The working-class British m…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:01AMFriday, March 29, 2019
Barbican, LondonMurphy has an astonishing athleticism playing both man and crow in an adaptation of Max Porter’s story of grief
Cillian Murphy and Enda Walsh have teamed up to bring Max Po…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:56AM 
