Blanchett and Hiddleston get sexual, there are chills in a Glasgow tower block, Matthew Bourne takes on the star-crossed lovers, plus Catherine Tate, Tim Minchin and Ben Elton return to the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMEventim Apollo, LondonThe father-and-daughter duo add self-deprecating cheer, alongside Jo Brand, to this feelgood fairytaleThe Dyers – Danny and Dani – and Jo Brand are the marquee name…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonBased on interviews with residents of small-town Pennsylvania, Lynn Nottage’s play vividly describes the betrayal and resentments of striking female factory workers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMAlmeida, London Joe Hill-Gibbins’ stripped-back production delivers a forceful royal downfall, but leaves little space to explore the power plays behind itSimon Russell Beale was born to p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMA 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThe 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,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMRoyal 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMOrange 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42PMOld 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMTheatre 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMHampstead 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMRoyal 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMRoyal 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMVaudeville, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMJermyn 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…
SOURCE: 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. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMPrint 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 �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMOlivier, 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMHarold 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMHampstead 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMinerva, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32PMTheatre 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMKiln, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMSouthwark 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMFinborough 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMRoyal 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMOrange 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMThe 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMThe 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMHampstead 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMBridge 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 …
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