Wednesday, 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 08:18AMMonday, June 17, 2019
Orange Tree, RichmondSuperb performances power the ingeniously plotted story of a young earl’s marriage to the daughter of an impoverished duke
The whirligig of time, as Shakespeare observ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMFriday, June 14, 2019
Chichester Festival theatreRachael Stirling is excellent in Kate Hewitt’s invigorating production of a play about individual and national unease
There seems a cunning plan to Chichester’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMThursday, June 13, 2019
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonRivalry and shared guilt combine as Pope Benedict XVI meets his successor, Pope Francis, in Anthony McCarten’s drama
Having written films about Winston Chur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Ustinov, BathStrong performances buoy up a lightweight story about characters fated to fulfil the destinies of their fictional namesakes
I find it mildly astonishing that this piece won the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
Bridge theatre, London Festive fun, ear-nibbling and high-wire antics infuse Nicholas Hytner’s startling role-reversal production
A promenade Julius Caesar was one of the Bridge’s bigges…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMFriday, June 7, 2019
White Bear, LondonSophie Treadwell’s long-lost tale of Freudian fear gets its first outing with a cast who foster high tension in an intimate venue
Sophie Treadwell is best known for her e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMThursday, June 6, 2019
Barbican, LondonA pair of Lion King fans blunder into a highbrow drama in Declan Donnellan’s gallant update of the class-collision comedy
In Francis Beaumont’s 1607 burlesque, a grocer a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMWednesday, June 5, 2019
Kiln, LondonSamuel Adamson’s stimulating family saga revolves around A Doll’s House and is inventively staged by Indhu Rubasingham
The slam of the door at the end of A Doll’s House was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMFriday, May 31, 2019
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonPrasanna Puwanarajah’s edge-of-the-seat revival of Thomas Otway’s 1682 tragedy looks like Blade Runner but deals in age-old themes of hypocrisy, corruption a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMThursday, May 30, 2019
Old Red Lion, LondonEmma Hemingford’s promising debut gets under the skin of a troubled relationship and refuses to take sides
Emma Hemingford has written and co-stars in this promising de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMWednesday, May 29, 2019
Wyndhams, LondonKenneth Lonergan’s tale of astronomy and midlife misery makes fine use of an A-list cast but never truly explodes into life
With Matthew Broderick and Elizabeth McGovern he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06PMLyttelton, LondonAllam shines as the tyrannical capitalist patriarch at the heart of Githa Sowerby’s powerful story of a society in transition
It has been exactly 25 years since a National…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMTuesday, May 28, 2019
King’s Head theatre, LondonKnown for her sharp tongue and love affairs, the eccentric Australian actor is celebrated in this entertaining one-woman show
If the title is outrageous, so was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMFriday, May 24, 2019
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonAugust Wilson’s overheated story of an ex-con attempting to rebuild his life is buoyed by an energetic cast with meaty roles
The parts are sometimes big…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, May 23, 2019
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonThe classic snapshot of a community is given fresh life by a youthful production that stresses the story’s harsher moments
Thornton Wilder’s 1938 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMWednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM 
