Orange 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMPark theatre, LondonPaulette Randall imaginatively revives Denise Deegan’s parody with a lively cast but this two-and-a-half-hour spoof is relentless in its gaietyDenise Deegan’s parody …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMWilton’s Music Hall, London Matthew Kelly plays good and evil spirits in a magical, visually arresting adaptation of John Masefield’s classic children’s book Related: Long before Harry…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMThe Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonMike Poulton’s two-part adaptation of Harris’s trilogy is an exhilarating and timely political drama about a democracy descending into tyrannyRome wasn’t b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMHampstead theatre, LondonThe uneasy relationship between convicted traitor George Blake and the anarchic Irishman who helped him escape Wormwood Scrubs is exposed yet still enigmatic in Simo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMThere are problems in paradise in Richard Bean's ingenious look at a failed attempt to create an island utopiaRichard Bean has hit upon a good subject: Fletcher Christian's attempt to create…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon David Edgar’s lively adaptation for the RSC foregrounds the tale’s reforming message and features Phil Davis as a grotesquely good ScroogeT…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMRare revivals of plays by Israel Zangwill, Jerome K Jerome and JM Barrie give lie to the idea that only a precious few classics deserve revisitingOne of the hoariest critical cliches is that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMRoyal Court, LondonLiwaa Yazji’s play is named after the animals that Syrian villagers were given as an inadequate, absurd compensation for the loss of family membersThe last time we saw a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMUstinov Studio, BathGreg Hicks plays an ailing father who cruelly mocks his wife, children and brother in Will Eno’s acid examination of family lifeJust when you thought the American famil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMOld Vic, London Jack Thorne’s superb retelling mines the ghosts of Scrooge’s past in a timely production brimming with love and affectionTwo months after Dickens’s story first appeared…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PMTheatre in the Park, ChichesterChichester has acquired a 25-metre-high big top to stand in for the temporarily closed Festival theatre. It would seem appropriate that it opens with a revival…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAnders Lustgarten plays fast and loose with history in his tale of the espionage network surrounding Elizabeth I, but the result is vivid and pungentHistory pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMRoyal Court, LondonThere are echoes of Sarah Kane in Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s powerful play exploring the collateral damage suffered by women during Ukraine’s conflictTheatre can sometimes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMOctagon, BoltonStella Feehily's passionate, urgently topical play captures the mix of care and chaos in wards up and down the countrySince the NHS is never out of the headlines and directly …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMJermyn Street theatre, LondonHoward Brenton’s new adaptation of the Swedish master’s tragedy is given a classy staging that strikes the right note of intimate realismWe endlessly revive …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMNational Theatre, LondonThe Breaking Bad star is magnetic as a raging anchorman in writer Lee Hall and director Ivo van Hove’s extraordinary version of the prophetic satireI am normally wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMMinerva, ChichesterIn resurrecting the case of a trio convicted of trying to defraud Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, James Graham reminds us we live in a quiz-obsessed cultureTheatre has oft…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThis take on the classic comedy plays too heavily on its Victorian setting but delivers rapturous speeches, splendid sets and some clever ideasC…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMPlayhouse, London A tip-top cast play David Mamet’s desperate salesmen turned robbers in his scorching condemnation of the dangers of male ego-driven capitalismHow well does David Mamet’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMThe Other Palace, LondonGrammer’s turn as a dad with a penchant for tall tales is the best part of this middling paean to narcissistic fantasy, based on Tim Burton’s movieAnyone drawn to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMThe Playground, London Terry d’Alfonso’s study of the painter and his serial infidelities is staged on a circular sandpit at a smart new London theatreGiven the economic climate, it is e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMOrange Tree, RichmondLot Vekemans’ play about a separated couple forced to relive a traumatic past makes for uncomfortable but compelling viewingWatching this prize-winning play by the Dut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMOld Vic, LondonKevin Spacey has lately enjoyed an excellent run of form at the Old Vic. It comes to an abrupt halt, however, with this ham-fisted American political thriller by Joe Sutton.Si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonEnergetic Denise and stuck-in-his-ways Harry bond during a series of brief encounters in a community centre, in Stewart Pringle’s prize-winning play Oldsters are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMDavid Hare's trilogy was an incisive portrait of British society in 1993, but is it still relevant, asks Michael BillingtonIn 1993 David Hare's trilogy about contemporary Britain at the Nat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMWith a gag for every occasion, the tattyfilarious comic clocks up 50,000 miles a year performing his epic standup shows. He talks about stage fright, playing Yorick for ‘Sir Kenneth All-Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMAfter 10 years, Spacey is stepping down from the London theatre he called home. There have been some resounding flops but he delivered the goods – and was a delight to watch on stageWhen i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMTom Stoppard's fierce, unrelenting opposition to the abuse of human rights makes him the ideal recipient of the Pinter/PEN prizeIn Antonia Fraser's book, Must You Go?, detailing her life wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMThe Bridge, LondonLondon’s first commercial theatre for 80 years opens with a pugnacious comedy about the early days of the political visionary – and shameless sponger Given the abundanc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMAlmeida, LondonLynn Nottage's play arrives in London laden with American honours. And rightly so, since it offers a graphic portrait of women as perennial victims of war. More than that, it …
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