Sam 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31AMWyndham’s, LondonRichard Eyre’s production arrives in the West End, bringing out the dizzying contradictions in Eugene O’Neill’s masterpieceTime works wonders. When Richard Eyre’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59PMLan, who ran the theatre for 18 years, reached out to bold, dynamic directors from across the globe – and they repaid him with spectacular showsI often recall a remark made by David Lan, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMFinborough, LondonHJ Byron’s 1868 play sparkles with wit, while Henry Darke delivers a timely message about Cornwall’s housing crisis The Finborough Arms in Earl’s Court is 150 years o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:14AM★★★☆☆/★★★★☆Hampstead theatre, LondonHayley Atwell plays a ruthless capitalist while Georgia Christou shows promise with tale of a teenager and her feckless fatherHayley A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44AMThe playwright juggles satire and farce in a knockabout celebration of Hull’s tenure as UK city of cultureSatire is one thing, farce another, and the two forms prove hard to reconcile in t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09AMBridge theatre, LondonBen Whishaw and David Morrissey star in Nicholas Hytner’s promenade production, which shows putative dictators can be populistsLike Shakespeare’s Mark Antony, Nicho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMThe Questors, LondonA deliberately unromantic view of the second world war as experienced by one family provides an antidote to current idealised versions on screenThis play by the late, muc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:23AMHoxton Hall, London Lil Warren’s scattershot musical about a turf war between all-female tribes in the capital has echoes of Sarah Waters’ Tipping the VelvetThis handsomely restored venu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMDorfman, LondonBaker’s play, set in a boarding house close to a battlefield, is a piece of American gothic that taps into universal emotionsAnnie Baker is one of the most singular talents …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26AMHarold Pinter theatre, LondonToby Jones, Zoë Wanamaker, Stephen Mangan and Pearl Mackie do rich justice to the playwright’s strange and captivating psychodrama“The first test of any wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMShoreditch Town Hall, LondonTim Cowbury’s play avoids the usual harrowing style associated with its subject and is swift, clear and well-actedThere is a growing body of theatre about the a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMGate, LondonNina Bowers delivers a nimble account of testimonies gathered in the wake of the unrest sparked by King’s televised beatingI recently suggested that, while one-person shows cou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSouthwark Playhouse, London A pharmaceuticals team juggle views on the global health threat posed by antibiotic resistance with pep, though Glenn Waldron’s prognosis is gloomyWhat poses th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AMThe fashion for solo shows is easily explained – they’re cheap, infinitely adaptable and highlight great acting – but does truly profound drama need multiple voices?In the space of a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:49AMRoyal Court theatre, LondonAndrea Dunbar’s unflinching portrait of a world of limited horizons still seems chillingly resonantThis production has had an eventful history. It was yanked out…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMRoyal Court, LondonPatsy Ferran is a puckish delight as an emotionally abandoned daughter in Anoushka Warden’s candid account of teenage wounded furyEyebrows might be raised at the Royal C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59PMFinborough theatre, LondonSet in the seaside town that registered one of the highest Brexit votes in the UK, Sue Healy’s ebullient play has some lively performancesThe English seaside town…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:26AMArcola theatre, LondonSam Potter’s sharp play, about a woman who finds out her daughter is not hers, raises big questions and is performed superbly by Sophie Khan LevyThere is a long histo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMFinborough, LondonChristopher Chen’s sombre piece explores how the writing of her bestseller The Rape of Nanking, about a mass killing in 1937, affected Iris ChangIt is a critical cliche t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMTerry’s first season at the theatre promises to dismantle hierarchies but how easy is it to stage Hamlet without one director in charge?Michelle Terry’s first season as artistic director…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AMBrace yourself for The Birthday Party, an EasyJet love story, Sting’s shipyard musical and Ben Whishaw as BrutusToby Jones, Zoë Wanamaker and Stephen Mangan star in a revival of a Pinter …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:05AMThe destructive nature of unchecked power-lust and political ambition in Shakespeare’s play speaks to us urgently still today“A drum! A drum! Macbeth doth come.” So say Shakespeare’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMVictoria Palace, LondonLin-Manuel Miranda’s rollercoaster of a show boasts outstanding performances and charts the life of the US founding father with political passion and nimble witA Hol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMHonoured at a ceremony in Rome, the stars gave a supreme version of Ashes to Ashes – after a rather frosty reading of Albert Camus’s love letters to María CasaresThere was no lack of dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PMWindsor CastleMarley’s ghost narrates a nightmarish account of Scrooge’s transformation in the castle’s sumptuous state apartmentsWindsor Castle’s state apartments, at first sight, m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMImelda Staunton simmered, Sondheim’s showgirls sizzled, Bryan Cranston gave us a cathode-ray Lear, and Jez Butterworth found love in the time of hunger-strikes• More of the best culture …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonAmy Herzog’s tale of uprooted Americans sinks into melodrama but is elevated by a central pair who reveal all the nuances of a marriage in crisisAmericans in Paris …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMLyttelton, London The puppetry is ingenious and the songs are a joy as Dennis Kelly and John Tiffany carve a morality play out of Carlo Collodi’s original storyThe challenge in staging thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMAlmeida, London Anne Washburn has adapted the TV show for an inventive production featuring tales of vanishing children, amnesiac teachers and alien interlopersAnne Washburn is clearly haunt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMOrange Tree, Richmond Shaw’s 1909 play about class and feminism moves skilfully from disquisitory drama to anarchic comedy in this intellectually stimulating production This indispensable …
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