Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Theatre Royal, BathA whole set of relationships unravel in a shrewdly observant play showing the ripple effect of marital hostilities
This is only the second play by the admired novelist Wil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMTuesday, August 13, 2019
Trafalgar Studios, LondonPhotograph 51 playwright Anna Ziegler returns with a problematic two-hander that asks us to decide where the truth lies
In Photograph 51, Anna Ziegler attacked the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMMonday, August 12, 2019
Plan your schedule with our roundup of top shows, ordered by start time. This page will be updated daily throughout the festival
BoutSummerhall, 10.20am, until 25 AugustAn exploration of bro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMFriday, August 9, 2019
Finborough theatre, LondonA grieving father and son lock horns over an alluring visitor in a magnetically acted revival of Philip King’s Freudian drama
Philip King is best known for See Ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMThursday, August 8, 2019
Minerva, Chichester Based on a true story, a new play tracks a backstage affair with big repercussions for Robeson, played perfectly by Tory Kittles
Nicholas Wright’s compelling new play i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMMonday, August 5, 2019
Traverse, EdinburghDritan Kastrati’s journey as an 11-year-old to the UK with people smugglers is a survival story that speaks to what it is like to be caught between two cultures
Dritan K…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMKing’s theatre, EdinburghAndrew Bovell’s adaptation of Kate Grenville’s novel about the collision between settlers and Indigenous Australians combines masterly storytelling with metaph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, August 4, 2019
Traverse, EdinburghStef Smith’s latest production depicts the two female leads rejecting male classification and raising themselves up
Stef Smith wrote a fascinating dystopian drama in Hum…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghDirector Milo Rau asks disturbing political questions while attempting to honour the real-life victim of a senseless homophobic crime
This is exactly the kind of show …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Menier Chocolate Factory, London With two excellent lead performances at its heart, Trevor Nunn’s production of the musical version of the bestselling love story is focused and honest
Firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, July 21, 2019
Park theatre, London Christopher Durang’s breezy sextet of plays takes the cast from pique to panic as he explores the insecurities of performing life
To complement its main-house product…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, July 18, 2019
Ustinov Studio, BathThe star mines her family history in this passionate but haphazard ride through socialist resistance to the Nazis
This is a show unlike any other. Subtitled “A Family A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMWednesday, July 17, 2019
Park theatre, LondonA quick-witted Gyles Brandreth, one of 22 stars in action during the run, sleuthed stylishly in this fundraising spoof
This is all very jolly. Jez Bond and Mark Cameron h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PMTuesday, July 16, 2019
Noël Coward theatre, LondonOwen is a disgraced priest, Anna Gunn a widowed hotel keeper in Tennessee William’s languorous hymn to human endurance
‘Nothing human disgusts me unless it’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54PMFriday, July 12, 2019
London PalladiumSheridan Smith and Jason Donovan bring charisma to a jubilant revival – but neither can match the young dreamer at its centre
I first saw this show in 1972 when it was a mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMThursday, July 11, 2019
The Lowry, SalfordInternationaal Theater Amsterdam present a constantly inventive, four-hour staging of the overheated 1943 polemic
Ivo van Hove is the most ubiquitous of modern directors. B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWednesday, July 10, 2019
Olivier, LondonHare updates Ibsen’s 1867 dramatic poem with wit and ingenuity, resulting in a sharp satire on contemporary mores
This play is credited as “by David Hare after Henrik Ibs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AMSunday, July 7, 2019
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonGregory Doran’s assured production offers a perfectly judged portrait of public hypocrisy and seething sexuality
Gregory Doran is not the firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54PMFriday, July 5, 2019
Family and politics collide as a British man sets out to unearth his South African roots – and get the audience off their seats
This show has the aura of a big event. It helps kickstart th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThursday, July 4, 2019
Royal Court, LondonBeautifully staged by John Tiffany, Thorne’s new drama explores the pitfalls of socialist parenting
How does one cope with being reared by radical parents? It’s a them…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMWednesday, July 3, 2019
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonMichael Frayn’s witty parody of backstage antics endures in an entertaining production that hit a real-life on-stage glitch
What irony! Just as Michael Frayn’s f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMTuesday, July 2, 2019
Chiswick House, LondonCal McCrystal brings a woozy vibe to Giffords Circus, though these hippies are versatile performers and formidable athletes
We expect a display of random skills. But th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMSunday, June 30, 2019
Minerva, Chichester Nancy Carroll is magnificent as a woman shamed by a failed affair with a younger man, in a play that seethes with postwar English anger
Two critics, a Young Turk and an O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMFriday, June 28, 2019
Donmar Warehouse, London David Greig’s 1994 play about yearning for a united Europe as fascists gather strength is deeply resonant
Refugees desperately seek shelter, neo-fascist thugs roa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMThursday, June 27, 2019
Almeida, LondonRupert Goold directs a taut adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg’s film about an innocent man falling prey to clannish locals
Back in 2004 the Almeida had a big hit with a stage …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMWednesday, June 26, 2019
Old Vic, London Scott is richly funny as a peacocking Peter Pan whose theatrical bohemia is threatened by outsiders
Andrew Scott gives a virtuosic performance in Noël Coward’s imperishabl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMSunday, June 23, 2019
Finborough, LondonDion Boucicault’s convoluted melodrama is elevated by the earnestness and imagination of Phil Willmott’s canny revival
“Spare me the theatricals,” pleads a characte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMFriday, June 21, 2019
Vaudeville theatre, LondonLev Dodin’s masterly production allows the actors to truly inhabit their roles and presents a familiar play afresh
We live in an age of director’s theatre. But …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMThursday, June 20, 2019
Barbican, LondonThis adaptation of Luchino Visconti’s 1969 film, performed by the Comédie-Française, is full of startling set pieces
When Luchino Visconti’s movie, The Damned, opened i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMWednesday, June 19, 2019
Garrick theatre, LondonJohn Malkovich works overtime to squeeze depth into David Mamet’s predatory Hollywood tycoon Barney Fein
David Mamet’s new play, we are assured, is fiction and any…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMTuesday, June 18, 2019
Bush theatre, LondonNancy Medina directs a slow-burning story of a family caught between two cultures in 80s Britain
As part of its policy of reviving neglected plays by writers of colour, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM 
