Thursday, 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMMonday, October 15, 2018
Natural History Museum, LondonCharles Darwin’s adventures aboard the HMS Beagle are told through engrossing puppetry and painterly projectionsThis is an unusual enterprise. The museum’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMFriday, October 12, 2018
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJosie Rourke directs an ingenious production starring Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden, giving us Shakespeare’s play twiceThere are no half measures in Josie Rourke’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
Lyttelton, LondonHare’s state-of-the-nation drama pricks the mind and is supported by strong performances but it lacks momentumDavid Hare has acute antennae and in his 17th new play for th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Wyndham’s, LondonJonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins excel in Florian Zeller’s beautifully elusive play, translated by Christopher HamptonThe one sure fact about a play by Florian Zeller is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMYoung Vic, LondonThe artistic director opens his first season with a festive, expertly choreographed production but it misses Shakespeare’s blend of laughter and sadnessKwame Kwei-Armah op…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMMonday, October 8, 2018
Smock Alley, Dublin Annie Ryan provides a new perspective on Arthur Miller’s short story and film in this brooding, intelligent showAnnie Ryan, who successfully adapted A Girl Is a Half-Fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, October 7, 2018
Gate/Abbey theatre, DublinYaël Farber’s Hamlet offers freshly minted thrills, while Aaron Monaghan brings demonic glee to the role of Richard IIIShakespeare, unusually, dominates the two …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMWednesday, October 3, 2018
Wilton’s Music Hall, LondonGraham and eight previously unproduced writers present stories that capture the oddity and excess of the capital Inspired by Charles Dickens’ Sketches by Boz, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
Menier Chocolate Factory, London Finty Williams excels in the role first played by her mother, Judi Dench, in Hugh Whitemore’s slow-burning spy storyThis slow-burning play by Hugh Whitemor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMSunday, September 30, 2018
Rose theatre, KingstonKeith Allen excels as the embittered old painter in the second of Nick Dear’s two plays following the life of William HogarthThere is a palpable irony to the umbrella…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMFriday, September 28, 2018
Harold Pinter theatre, London Antony Sher, David Suchet and Hayley Squires are among the cast for a compelling set of works by the master playwrightJamie Lloyd has had the bold, bright idea …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMThursday, September 27, 2018
Olivier, London Simon Godwin directs a terrific and epic National Theatre production, filled with passion and delusionThis is the third production of Shakespeare’s tragedy on the Olivier s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Birmingham RepCharles Lawson is on fine form as a retired John Rebus but the novelist’s Edinburgh underworld is missingYou can see the temptation to bring Ian Rankin’s rumpled sleuth Joh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
Park theatre, LondonKaren Archer gives a fine performance as a woman experiencing cognitive difficulties in Sharr White’s playHow do you dramatise dementia? Not easily. But Sharr White, in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMFriday, September 21, 2018
Two productions in Manchester rework five Shakespeare plays so as to put his female characters centre stageFemale writers and directors, impatient with male-dominated Shakespeare, are offeri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, September 19, 2018
The Swan, Stratford-on-AvonThis striking new take on Molière by the writers behind Citizen Khan sends up religious phoniness and secular pretensionThese days, every classic play seems to be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMMonday, September 17, 2018
Old Vic, LondonThis hip-hop-infused story of Sylvia Pankhurst’s struggle and socialism has the audience on its feet in acclamation If you create a musical about (British) history with a pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMTara theatre, LondonA survivor of the 1988 uprising meets the ex-reporter to whom he leaked information – for which action he was jailed – in this vital, fascinating dramaPlays in which …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMSaturday, September 15, 2018
Theatre Royal, Stratford East, LondonAnya Chalotra is compelling as a 16-year-old who leads the women in her Indian village to stand up to Art Malik’s sadistic, tyrannical cop Nadia Fall b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMThursday, September 13, 2018
NST City, SouthamptonAristophanes’ neglected classic The Assemblymen, which proposes economic and sexual communism – is given an uneven musical updateNo fewer than seven female writers a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMTuesday, September 11, 2018
Events at Westminster Abbey and National Theatre honour RSC founder who died last yearExactly one year to the day after his death, Peter Hall has been given a double-headed, star-studded tri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMKiln theatre, London Alexis Zegerman’s comedy exposes middle-class hypocrisy as couples battle to get their children into the top local primaryProtesters gathered outside this handsomely r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AMMonday, September 10, 2018
Finborough, London This all-female revival of Harrison’s 1992 piece exploring scientific morality is expressively directed and performed‘Duality reigns,” says the German-Jewish chemist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMSunday, September 9, 2018
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonSome of the heartbreak is lost but this adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel, in which a murder victim watches events from the afterlife, is a mesmerising spec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMFriday, September 7, 2018
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe Broadway cast of Stephen Karam’s award-winning play shine, but horror movie tropes detract from real-life fearsStephen Karam describes his play, which arrives …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, September 6, 2018
Nottingham PlayhouseA strong score, fresh choreography and a spirited cast save Fellini-inspired musical from feeling irredeemably datedI sometimes worry that our regional theatres are over-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM 
