Almeida, 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMCounty Hall, LondonLucy Bailey’s production of Agatha Christie’s ingenious courtroom drama fits perfectly in this debating chamberWe seem to be going back in time. Oscar Wilde’s A Woma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMJermyn Street theatre, LondonThe quiet life of an elderly Jewish musician is disrupted by an aristocratic German woman in this exploration of guilt, reparation and rootlessnessWhat does it m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonNikki Amuka-Bird is superb in a production that transposes the story to the Caribbean in the 1950s and is directed with panache by Kwame Kwei-ArmahIbsen can benefit f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMAlmeida theatre, LondonVictoria Hamilton is on breathtaking form as a grieving mother in the Doctor Foster writer’s richly layered play inspired by Chekhov’s The Cherry OrchardGardens of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMMinerva, ChichesterIt would be nice to think that Caryl Churchill's 1982 play, written during the rise of Thatcherism, now looks dated. In fact, it seems terrifyingly topical in its portrait…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AMVaudeville, LondonBest brings fierce emotional intensity, Eleanor Bron is a velvet-voiced aristo and Anne Reid delivers Victorian ballads in Dominic Dromgoole’s fine revivalA West End Osca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMAn exhibition of highlights from the NT’s archive triggers memories of striking productions and shows how the poster imprints a play on the public’s imaginationTheatre posters are by def…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMNational Theatre, London David Eldridge’s new play is a poignant real-time examination of relationships with two damaged people reaching out at the end of a partyTwo lonely, damaged people…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMOlivier theatre, London Rory Mullarkey pits the knight of folklore against the tyrannies facing Britain in three eras of history – and finds today’s foe is the hardest to pin downThe Nat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMVaudeville, LondonThe unfairly talented actor recalls a career that has taken him from Olivier’s National to British film comedies and Broadway in this exuberant solo showCan it be true? T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMLyttelton, LondonIn 1746, Carlo Goldoni wrote a classic comedy normally translated as The Servant of Two Masters. Richard Bean has used it for a riotous farce combining the original's struct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMGarrick theatre, London The horror-movie spoof is gleefully reanimated for the stage with even more jokes, superb set-pieces and barnstorming parody songs that stick a pitchfork into good ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMWyndham’s, LondonAnne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham are excellent in an immaculately designed production of Simon Stephens’ fable about love and physics This production has an impressiv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMRoyal Court, LondonSharon Duncan-Brewster and Jonjo O’Neill star in Chris Thorpe’s play which offers a bleak view of the world as a desolate wasteland This apocalyptic piece by Chris Tho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonReal-life couple Samantha Bond and Alexander Hanson star in this shrewd companion piece to The Truth, as a pair whose marriage is a labyrinth of deceit Floria…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMJimmy Porter takes on class, religion, politics and the press in Osborne’s classic 1956 play – but its real revolution lay in its thrilling linguistic exuberanceIn the summer of 1955 an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMBarbican, LondonA revival of the Japanese director’s 1985 production, filled with cherry blossom, poetically explores the obsession for power – and its emptinessThis production by Yukio …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMYoung Vic, LondonErin Doherty emerges as one of the year’s great discoveries with a stunning performance as the young American desperate to rectify the world’s injusticesTime changes thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMChichester Festival theatre Blanche McIntyre’s mordantly comic revival of the 1973 trilogy spotlights the plays’ sadnesses along with their orgiastic frenzies Related: Blanche McIntyre: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMCottesloe, LondonWith plays such as My Child and Contractions, Mike Bartlett has established a reputation as a theatrical miniaturist. Now he has written a big, epic, expansive play about cl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMNoël Coward theatre, London Martin Freeman and Tamsin Greig give sparkling performances as a reforming MP and his constituency agent fighting through Labour’s fluctuating fortunes James G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMRoyal Court, LondonThe Chilean dramatist’s new show about urban violence explores the tensions between two young anarchists and a veteran bomb-makerThe Royal Court’s international progra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMAt 92, the visionary director refuses to slow down. He talks about how to silence audiences, the trouble with doing Shakespeare in French, the difference between Olivier and Gielgud, and why…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMOlivier, LondonSimon Russell Beale is magnetic and unorthodox in an exceptional production that mixes the epic and the intimateAnother day, another Lear. But, although this is the third prod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04PMMinerva, ChichesterJonathan Munby’s smart, lucid production features plenty of pomp and circumstance, and a superbly detailed performance by McKellenIan McKellen knows his way round Lear. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMBarbican, LondonThe Swedish auteur’s tales of actors are directed by Ivo van Hove at his most lucid and ostentatious, featuring fine performances and a pulsating tempest****/***‘Can you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMThe surefire playwright, director and actor is an inspired choice as the Young Vic’s new artistic director – he has proved himself time and againThe appointment of Kwame Kwei-Armah as th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMTrafalgar Studios, LondonStephen Clark’s puzzling drama about a man planning to either seduce or murder his dinner guest comes across as both morbid and exploitativeSex and death are the t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMBush theatre, LondonThe Scottish coast is the setting for Sophie Wu’s witty play about crustacean-loving Jim, his girlfriend and his kooky exLike many actors who turn to writing, Sophie Wu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre/The Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon This well-matched pair of tragedies in the RSC’s Rome season give us strong images, unforgettable lines, probing psychology – and …
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