Birmingham RepCalixto Bieito’s intense theatrical collage brings together four first-rate actors and the miraculous Heath QuartetCalixto Bieito, as anyone who has seen his productions of C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMWyndham’s, LondonMichael Grandage directs a well-judged revival of John Logan’s play about the artist and his assistant ‘Make something new,” the painter Mark Rothko urges his young …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42PMUstinov Studio, BathIonesco’s imperfect study of a power-crazed monarch facing death is helped by a powerful performance from Alun ArmstrongIn early plays such as The Bald Prima Donna and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMHer Majesty's, LondonWe have had some pretty grim experiences in musical theatre in recent years. We have seen people turned into roller-skating ciphers, dwarfed by laser-beams and sententio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33PMHampstead theatre, LondonRajiv Joseph’s ambitious three-hour drama features an outstanding performance from David BirrellIt is tough luck on Rajiv Joseph that his play, first seen in Houst…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTheatre Royal Haymarket, London Sergey Kuryshev shines as a nuclear scientist stuck in a moral maze in this vivid staging of Vasily Grossman’s sprawling novelConsciously modelled on War an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMBridge theatre, LondonClaire Skinner is outstanding as a bereaved mother trying to save her farm in Barney Norris’s poignant new play, but the venue overwhelms the drama’s delicacy All t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMPark theatre, LondonThe president’s war on illegal immigrants is taken to its logical conclusion – a heartening sign that dramatists are responding with something stronger than lampoonsH…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMNational, LondonThis is an odd evening: one in which Brian Cox gives us a dramatised reading of Vladimir Nabokov's novel in a potted, two-hour version by Richard Nelson. It prompts two quest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonPlays about painters are fraught with difficulty. Either the hero preaches about art without practising it, or the Bohemian lifestyle supersedes the work. But John Lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMVaudeville, LondonEdward and Freddie Fox, as a father and son, are the star turn in this stylish revival of Wilde’s send-up of a money-mad societyRailing against fashionable society’s ov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMOld Vic, London A row over intellectual property is at the heart of a fascinating and topical drama starring Ben Chaplin and Seána KerslakeJoe Penhall is very good at showing how a crisis c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThere are strong performances in Eric Whyman’s swift production but it doesn’t solve the problems of the playIn 1845, the American Charlotte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMDorfman, LondonNatasha Gordon’s impressive debut about living between two cultures gains extra resonance in the light of the Windrush scandalThere’s a key moment in Natasha Gordon’s hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMRoger Michell’s film Nothing Like a Dame brings four legends together – and evokes decades of brilliant performancesSometimes the best ideas are the simplest. The wheeze of bringing toge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMChichester festival theatrePlayed as a broad farce, Sean Foley’s revival starring Rufus Hound ignores Noël Coward’s faultless verbal stylingsRufus Hound, whose recent roles include Mr T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMLyttelton, LondonJoe Hill-Gibbins gives Rodney Ackland’s drama the full expressionist works in a production full of visual bravuraAt the curtain call for this revival of Rodney Ackland’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMAlmeida, LondonElla Hickson’s riveting play about a writer exploring the sexual revolution boasts a shining performance from Romola GaraiElla Hickson struck gold with her last play, Oil (2…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMPiccadilly, LondonWill Young entertains in a sequined catsuit but this laborious version of the charming film is a step in the wrong directionI don’t know if it’s been spotted already, b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PMNational, LondonThe easy word to describe Brian Friel's Aristocrats is "Chekhovian". The decay of a great Georgian house, the decline of a once-powerful Catholic family, the eventual expulsi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMPrint Room at the Coronet, LondonThis shattering revival draws out the playwright’s sexual candour and grim humour – and deserves a far longer runIt is the fashion these days to strip Ib…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMRose theatre, KingstonThe star plays Beatrice opposite John Hopkins as Benedick in a lively production set in a luxury Sicilian spa full of mafiosiThe Rose theatre marks its 10th anniversary…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMAldwych theatre, LondonPhyllida Lloyd’s musical is a heady celebration of triumph over adversity, with an astonishing turn by Adrienne WarrenThis terrific show is billed as the “untold�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PMRoyal Court, LondonBonnar and Horrocks are excellent as parents attempting to replace their dead son with another straight from the box in Thomas Eccleshare’s quirky dystopian dramaThomas …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:21AMDuke of Yorks, LondonThis is a rich, funny, touching play about the opera house and the extraordinary marriage of its co-founders, John Christie and Audrey MildmayIt has taken two and a half…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMPhoenix theatre, LondonKander and Ebb’s show about crime and celebrity is faithfully recreated but is beginning to resemble an animated corpseIf this Kander and Ebb musical feels as if it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMBarbican, London There are shades of Casualty as Cheek By Jowl’s briskly ingenious production confines the entire action to a hospitalHow do you give unity to Pericles? It has a rambling n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:23AMOld Red Lion, LondonKenneth Emson’s fascinating play has its characters speaking in jagged rhyme, but it rests on some questionable assumptions about its settingThis curious 70-minute play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonJames Macdonald’s revival offers clarity and hilarity, with Haydn Gwynne on brilliant form as an amorous widowThis is the kind of production one had almost given up…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonThere are good moments in Luke Fredericks’s revival – but relocating the action to the 1920s is an unnecessary, frustrating fiddleLuke Fredericks prefaces this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:05AMThe Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonMary Pix’s 1700 comedy about a rich widow’s wayward social ascent becomes theatrical gold in Jo Davies’s scintillating productionMary Pix is hardly a name …
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