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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMBarbican, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:56AMTheatre 503, LondonRoss Willis’s surreal debut is driven by a concern for vulnerable children, but will be remembered for its two remarkable actors Ross Willis’s debut play is subtitled …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMBirmingham RepThis slapstick look at the classic play about Cyrano the long-nosed poet has been given a witty, kaleidoscopic staging It is not hard to see why Alexis Michalik’s play has cl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59AMDorfman, LondonFour sex offenders are confronted by one of their victims in Bruce Norris’s viscerally acted drama about punishment Bruce Norris likes to live dangerously. In Clybourne Park…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:58AMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonPenelope Wilton gives a fine turn as an understated heroine in this revival of Hare’s play about a one-time pupil of Matisse David Hare’s 1986 play was or…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Gender-swapped roles turn this courtship power game into a strange puzzle – although the trick plays dividends with its gleeful subplots You…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30PMHarold Pinter Theatre, LondonTom Hiddleston is the big draw and is superb in conveying unhealed emotional wounds After a brilliant season of Pinter’s short plays we now get his full-length…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26PMTrafalgar Studios, London When positive discrimination appears to rob a boy of his college place, the racial pieties of America’s left are exposed in Joshua Harmon’s drama Joshua Harmon …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PMUpstairs at the Gatehouse, LondonThe Gershwins’ upbeat music sits uneasily with a cheerily absurd script in this revival of George S Kaufman’s comedy Satire, George S Kaufman said, is wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:14AMAdelphi, LondonBased on Adrienne Shelly’s film and scored by Sara Bareilles, the New York hit arrives in London in a lively production Billed as the first Broadway musical with an all-fema…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:45PMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAdjoa Andoh is extraordinarily expressive in a production with politics to the fore that makes one see the play afresh By casting an iconic English history pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMBridge theatre, LondonJoanne Froggatt plays a lowly journalist who ascends into elite literary circles in Nicholas Hytner’s smooth production Journalists enjoy seeing themselves depicted o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:22AMThe Vaults, LondonThis viscerally powerful piece about the 2014 revolution divides the audience into protesters and observers Originally conceived by Mark and Marichka Marczyk, this piece of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:39AMKiln, London Fear and fleeting joy punctuate an exploration of family dynamics, charting the upheaval of divorce and adolescence Florian Zeller’s remarkable play completes a trilogy that v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44AMTheatre Royal Stratford East, LondonNed Bennett brilliantly directs the landmark 1973 play about a teenager who has blinded horses I’ve often complained about the move towards a directors�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonJames Saunders’ impeccably performed 70s piece takes on big issues as two couples swap partners and explore the poetry of painDedicated to retrieving forgotten p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMPhoenix theatre, LondonThis musical about plane passengers diverted to Newfoundland on 11 September has plenty of heart but not enough biteThis musical by the Canadian married team of Irene …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMSavoy theatre, LondonThis beloved revenge fantasy is as subtle as a sledgehammer but its advocacy of workplace equality makes it hard to dislikeYou can’t escape the presence of Dolly Parto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PMDonmar Warehouse, London This fascinating adaptation of a film about a Foley artist creating sound effects for a horror movie attacks its targets – artistic responsibility and male power s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMOld Vic, LondonThis vaudeville about the Great Depression showcases Miller’s capacity to capture the state of a troubled nationThe impromptu Arthur Miller festival – initiated by the tra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMGillian Anderson and Lily James give fine performances but this version of the 1950 film might be a little too clever for its own goodThis is a show that reeks of chic. It stars Gillian Ande…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMCrucible, SheffieldOwen Teale and Laura Elphinstone are superb, as a patriarch and his daughter, in Caroline Steinbeis’s potent production The astonishing thing about Githa Sowerby’s pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMThe actor shone as brightly in theatre as he did on film, helping to create modern classics from Billy Liar to Joe Egg, and playing the first Hamlet at the National’s Southbank homeBecause…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMThe London LibraryA cast of two do their best to breathe cohesion into a play full of sex, shrieks and floating eyes … but without a vampire in sightGiven that Bram Stoker researched his 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMHarold Pinter theatre, LondonDyer and Freeman excel as gunmen in The Dumb Waiter and Jamie Lloyd’s staging of A Slight Ache, with John Heffernan and Gemma Whelan, is a revelationThe season…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMOrange Tree, RichmondThis unsettling portrait of a world and a relationship in crisis breezes through 80 scenes in 75 minutesRose Lewenstein’s play triggers all kinds of associations. Sinc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMFinborough, LondonRichard Kalinoski’s deeply touching play is about the fraught relationship between two escapees of the Armenian genocide living in 1920s MilwaukeeDrama can tackle big sub…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMHampstead theatre, LondonAn impeccable cast play out dual narratives about life on the US breadline in a tough drama that earns its poignancyFor the 100th premiere in his decade-long tenure …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMOmnibus theatre, LondonA team of musicians create discord as the neglected playwright’s short, sharp drama is given a stylish revival In 1962 there were six plays by Jean Anouilh running i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PMTheatre 503, LondonVíctor Sánchez Rodríguez’s play stylishly shows how confrontation with the colonial past can lead to self-discoveryLiving European writers are so rarely seen on the i…
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