The 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMFinborough, London Two white couples lock horns over their prejudices in Bruce Graham’s powerful tale of racial dividesPlays about race often exude a liberal optimism. This pungent, abrasi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMArts theatre, LondonAn over-the-top paean to stage ambition ends up in thrall to the world it tries to parodyCamp, says one of the gay men in Matthew Lopez’s new play, The Inheritance, is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMYoung Vic, LondonStephen Daldry directs a stellar cast, including Vanessa Redgrave, in a rollercoaster epic about gay men in New YorkThis is quite something: a two-part, seven-hour play by M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMSilk Street theatre, LondonGuildhall School of Music and Drama students deliver a stirring revival of Odets’ forgotten state-of-the-union storySpurned by the New York critics in 1935, Clif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PMBush, LondonArinzé Kene’s one-man show rejects the urban jungle cliches in a heartfelt but too playful exploration of the role of the artistAs we know from One Night in Miami and Girl fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMRoyal Court, LondonMixing poetry and politics, Yorkshire-based rapper Testament has created a witty, innovative piece that says a lot about British identity and racial historyThis is that ra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMNorthern Stage, NewcastleWith rousing anthems and purposeful politics, this tale of Thatcher-era shipbuilders launches anew in home watersHaving bombed on Broadway, this musical by Sting abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonChristopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack star in an RSC production that moves at a lick but sometimes lacks subtletyProductions of Macbeth come th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMHe took the shonky British musical and made it a global phenomenon. As the composer celebrates his birthday with a new memoir, our theatre critic looks back at the hits – and flopsI first …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMDorfman, LondonFrancis Turnly’s drama drills to the heart of the harsh politics and complex emotions surrounding a series of historic abductions of young Japanese peopleSometimes a play gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AMHampstead theatre, LondonAmy Ng’s second play is given a crisp, clear and well-acted production, but it tries to compress a few too many big issuesThere are few topical concerns that don�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterBlending gothic horror and moral parable, this adaptation is skilfully stitched together by April De Angelis and Matthew XiaThere are said to be more than 55 theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01AMOrange Tree, Richmond Astrophysics and simmering family tensions come to the boil in this superb revival of Charlotte Jones’s household dramaCharlotte Jones’s prizewinning play, to which…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09AMThe veteran’s linguistic prowess, outlandish appearance and musical smarts could tickle any audience into a state of collective ecstasyThe death of Ken Dodd not only leaves the nation a sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMJermyn Street theatre, LondonWH Auden and Christopher Isherwood’s satire on 1930s nationalism has a topical pungency but can’t match the gravity of the subjectThis political satire by WH…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AMThe Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon The front row are given protection for the second half of Maria Aberg’s RSC staging of Webster’s Jacobean tragedy – a brutal tale of female defianceThe RS…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:47AMAlmeida, LondonPatsy Ferran proves she is one of Britain’s most exciting actors in a major and wrongly neglected work by the great playwrightAs it is so rarely seen, this early play by Ten…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:51AMOlivier theatre, LondonRory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff star in a vigorous production that shows scant regard for the rhythms of the languageYou have to admire Rufus Norris’s chutzpah. For…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMPlayhouse, LondonMartin Shaw and Maureen Lipman star in an entertaining 1960 drama set during a Democratic party conventionIt has taken Gore Vidal’s highly entertaining drama about US pres…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMFinborough, LondonA Palestinian couple return to their former home to be confronted by its new Israeli owner in this unsentimental, gently political family dramaCommissioned by New York’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:02AMOld Vic, LondonPenelope Wilton leads a top-notch cast in this gothic family drama that only fleetingly captures the brilliance of the filmYou can see the temptation to turn Ingmar Bergman’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00PMGate, LondonThe exuberant pessimism of Falk Richter’s play might be hard to swallow, but Jude Christian’s production is an extraordinary mix of the political, the personal and the pantom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMBarbican, LondonThe myth about a group of schoolgirls who go missing on Valentine’s Day is hauntingly realised by a versatile cast and impressive special effectsI initially assumed, like m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:26AMYork Theatre RoyalBryony Lavery’s adaptation underplays the classic novel’s religious theme and focuses on the pleasure-seeking IdaBy a strange quirk of fate, Bryony Lavery’s adaptatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMTheatre Royal Haymarket, London The performances match the intensity of the writing in Bryony Lavery’s drama, which asks if some people are born evilFirst seen 20 years ago, Bryony Lavery�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00PMNST City, SouthamptonThe Luftwaffe’s destruction of a Spitfire factory sparks vivid tensions between local people and the state in this Southampton-set playAn expansive new arts complex in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35AMRoyal Court, LondonMulligan is a joy to watch as she brings her expressive powers to bear in Dennis Kelly’s flawed but compelling one-handerCarey Mulligan has had quite a week. First she s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonRobert Hastie’s excellent revival of Gill’s 2001 play about class, sex and divided loyalties brings out its poetryThe intersection of class and sex has long fasci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMBarbican, LondonSidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s visually spectacular adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s manga is philosophical about our relationships with robots, but lacks a human heartIn 1920, Karel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonRelocating Dryden’s tale of love and dynasty in 17th-century India to an English mill, Rutter’s final show for Northern Broadsides is at its best when it d…
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