Monday, December 17, 2018
A gender-switch Company got Sondheim’s blessing, Sam Mendes probed the doomed Lehman dynasty and Austen had a sparkling rewrite. But the year belonged to Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins f…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:18AMFriday, December 14, 2018
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonA searing central performance flips the gender dynamics as Shakespeare’s study of greed gets a ravishing revivalShakespeare’s embittered satire, notoriously,…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:04AMThursday, December 13, 2018
Royal Court, LondonA deputy head’s historical deeds trouble his retirement in this tense drama starring Alun Armstrong, Nicola Walker and Maggie SteedFor the second time in a week on stage…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Orange Tree, RichmondSelina Cadell stages an enterprising production of Congreve’s convoluted restoration comedySelina Cadell is on a one-woman mission to preserve Restoration comedy. Havi…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:42PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
Old Fire Station, OxfordA masterfully written generational clash lies at the heart of this timely story rich in insight, poignancy and optimism It is a quite a coup for this bustling arts ce…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:42AMMonday, December 10, 2018
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonCharles Perrault meets Doctor Who in this lively production about a cockney martial-arts princess who travels through timePantomime survives by being infi…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:24AMFriday, December 7, 2018
Hampstead theatre, London There are vibrant performances in this new version of the Russian masterpiece, directed and written by Johnson Terry Johnson has directed his own new version of Che…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:06AMThursday, December 6, 2018
Royal Exchange, Manchester Raz Shaw’s riotous revival of Mel Brooks’s musical meisterwerk offers as much fun as you’ll find on a stage this ChristmasMel Brooks’s 2001 musical, like t…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:12AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
Royal Court, London Ellie Kendrick livens up her inventive debut with astrophysics and ancient Greek myth – but it could use more concrete argumentEllie Kendrick’s hour-long debut play c…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:12PMTuesday, December 4, 2018
Vaudeville, LondonKit Harington and Johnny Flynn are good, if slightly mismatched, as the brothers in Sam Shepard’s haunting playYou can see why Kit Harington and Johnny Flynn were drawn t…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:04PMMonday, December 3, 2018
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonWith a cast of three playing multiple characters, this is an energetic telling of the cadaver-supplying criminalsYou learn something new all the time. I had alwa…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:42PMFinborough, LondonMairi Hawthorn really gets her teeth into the titular heroine in Aimée Stuart’s 1940 play that creaks with age at timesCinderella stories are all the rage at Christmas. …
Linked From The Guardian at 12:06PMThursday, November 15, 2018
Print Room at the Coronet, London The novelist’s 2005 drama opens up arguments about assisted death and the point at which life ceases to have meaningMany of the great American novelists …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:33AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
Olivier, LondonThere are some cracking songs in Rachel Chavkin and Anaïs Mitchell’s haunting journey through the underworldThis is a show that escapes easy definition. With music, lyrics …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:04AMSunday, November 11, 2018
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonGreig shows nothing is now beyond her range while Evans’s physical comedy is a delight as this short-drama season highlights Pinter’s fascination with marita…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:06AMFriday, November 9, 2018
Hampstead theatre, LondonIfeyinwa Frederick’s debut play about three friends on holiday veers from comic to serious in a flashThis is a debut play by Ifeyinwa Frederick about three Essex-b…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, November 8, 2018
Minerva, Chichester In Laura Wade’s bold and playful adaptation of Austen’s unfinished novel, the mutinous characters threaten to take control of the dramaI would seriously urge anyone p…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:32PMWednesday, November 7, 2018
Theatre 503, London A Florida zoo curator befriends a British bat enthusiast in Lily Bevan’s engaging pair of interwoven monologuesLily Bevan is a talented writer-performer who has previou…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:06AMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Kiln, LondonStephen Sharkey adapts Smith’s immigrant tale with zest but struggles to contain the novel’s dizzying temporal leaps Adapting Zadie Smith’s phenomenal novel for the stage i…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:42PMSunday, November 4, 2018
Southwark Playhouse, LondonIman Qureshi’s award-winning play examines Islamic attitudes to same-sex relationships with grace and dignityEvery year the Papatango New Writing prize comes up …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:06AMFriday, November 2, 2018
Finborough theatre, London Six dead men do not want to be buried in Irwin Shaw’s expressionist but schematic anti-war play from 1936You can applaud a play’s intentions without enjoying i…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:54AMThursday, November 1, 2018
Royal Court, LondonGenerational friction, slavery laws and police protocol all come under scrutiny in a stirring three-part study of oppressionAs she showed in her plays hang (2015) and trut…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:24PMWednesday, October 31, 2018
Orange Tree theatre, RichmondThis revival gains an eerie topicality, yet its ingenious study of moneyed hypocrisy makes it truly timelessBy an extraordinary quirk of fate, Martin Crimp’s 1…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:24AMTuesday, October 30, 2018
The Other Palace, LondonEx-service personnel work alongside professional actors in Jonathan Lewis’s ingenious piece of meta-theatreWritten and directed by Jonathan Lewis, this is a play ab…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:12PMMonday, October 29, 2018
The playwright’s imagined confrontation with the political activist he was 50 years ago is a triumph of confessional courage – and relentless optimismWhat happened to the Sgt Pepper gene…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:24PMFriday, October 26, 2018
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe Game of Thrones star plays a surly death-haunted 17-year-old whose life is changed by a book of poems and an unlikely friendshipScarcely known in Britain, Lauren…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:32AMThursday, October 25, 2018
Bridge theatre, LondonJim Broadbent is brilliantly buffoonish and sadistic in Martin McDonagh’s wildly inventive dismantling of the great Danish storytellerMartin McDonagh’s new play is …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:12AMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Almeida, London This parasitic rewrite treats a masterpiece as a lecture and totally overlooks Ibsen’s elusive comedyIf you want an example of the arrogance of director’s theatre, head t…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:06AMFriday, October 19, 2018
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonVirtuoso percussionist Evelyn Glennie provides a soundscape for Gregory Doran’s futuristic production Expectation whirls me round, to borrow a…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:33AMThursday, October 18, 2018
Dorfman, LondonPlaying a single woman determined to have a child, Claudie Blakley lights up a new play by the Consent dramatistA character in Nina Raine’s vibrant new play points out that …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:54AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Gielgud theatre, London Rosalie Craig and Patti LuPone star in Marianne Elliott’s reimagining of the musical about marriage and the single lifeA gender change can work wonders. It is no se…
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