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 06:48AMBirmingham 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 08:48AMPark 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 07:36AMTwo 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 08:06AMThe 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 03:54PMOld 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 05:42AMTheatre 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 05:42AMNST 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 06:18PMEvents 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 06:04AMFinborough, 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 02:36PMRoyal 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 09:48AMHampstead 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 11:24AMNottingham 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 09:24AMAlmeida, LondonClare Barron lifts the curtain on American unease in a show packed with energy, sly satire and first-rate performancesClare Barron’s prize-winning American play is the theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMIndhu Rubasingham has overseen a rebrand for the north London theatre but her exciting programme doesn’t suggest a radical break from its rich history. So why the new moniker?What’s in a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMShe has made every theatre trip an adventure into the unknown, with a relentless urge to experiment that hasn’t abated over almost 40 playsCaryl Churchill, who will be 80 on 3 September, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMGender-swapped classics, Hans Christian Andersen’s closet secrets, two giants of US comedy sharing a stage, plus Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo as rulers in love More autumn picks: Film …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThe Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonA dazzling Jude Owusu is haunted by the dead as the RSC revives Marlowe’s story of violence, vengeance and vanityMichael Boyd, in his return to the RSC, brings…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMinerva, Chichester History, morality and quantum mechanics collide in Michael Blakemore’s storming revival of a modern classicMore information has come to light, since Michael Frayn’s p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMPark theatre, LondonA real-life mother and daughter play the lead roles in Tom Latter’s capable revival of Jim Cartwright’s playThe hook for this revival of Jim Cartwright’s famed 1992…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMFinborough theatre, LondonJordan Seavey’s provocatively titled new play charts the ups and downs of a relationship while making sharp points about the persistence of homophobia‘Is he str…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04AMTheatre Royal, BathMiller’s 50-year-old play emerges as one of his best, as two estranged brothers learn the cost of dividing the family spoilsOn its Broadway debut in 1968, Arthur Miller�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe supposed dark lady of the sonnets is transformed into a convincing symbol of exploited women through the agesWhat do we know of Emilia Bassano? That she live…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonFiona Laird’s production provides wheelie-bins, estuary accents, physical comedy and a first-rate Falstaff, but loses the sense of small-town …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonOverly abstract production lifted by first-rate performances in an engrossing tale of decaying culture and rocky relationships As Translations closes at the National,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMUstinov Studio, BathThe writer gets a mystery visitor in Joanna Murray-Smith’s smartly self-referential salute to her riveting crime tales‘The most important crime novelist in practice,�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonWith numbers co-written by the award-winning Hamilton creator, the real gem is the show’s scoreBetween creating In the Heights and Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMVaudeville theatre, LondonMichael Fentiman’s coarse production robs Wilde of his decorum, swapping subtleties and satire for screaming and sexThis is one of those occasions when, in the wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonRylance is a fascinating and nihilistic Iago and André Holland exudes majestic dignity as Othello in Clare van Kampen’s lively and unsettling productionAny pr…
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