Saturday, September 23, 2017
Royal 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMThursday, September 21, 2017
O2 Arena, LondonThe statistics alone for this show are mind-boggling. It requires 620 tonnes of sand, involves a cast and crew of 400 and a total of 46 horses, donkeys and ponies. But specta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42PMYoung Vic, London Performing 360-degree loops, pummelled by voices and piecing together her shattered speech, Stevenson goes bravely to the limit in this high-concept showJuliet Stevenson mu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMWednesday, September 20, 2017
Viaduct, Halifax Blake Morrison transposes a corrupt, covetous 18th-century Paris to 1920s Yorkshire in a lively satire directed by and starring Barrie RutterNorthern Broadsides have made a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMTuesday, September 19, 2017
Adelphi, LondonThere is much to enjoy in Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical. The score is one of the composer's most seductive. Bob Crowley's design and Jack O'Brien's direction have a beauti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12PMMonday, September 18, 2017
Lyttelton, London In JT Rogers’ engrossing play on a historic moment in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in 1993, we are reminded that diplomacy requires duplicityJT Rogers is an Amer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMFriday, September 15, 2017
Hampstead theatre, LondonLindsay is magnetic as the celebrated cinematographer, who looks back over his life from Alzheimer’s-affected old age in Terry Johnson’s moving playJack Cardiff,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThursday, September 14, 2017
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonMcKee brings an imposing stillness to Tristan Bernays’s play about the ancient British queen whose uprising is crushed by the RomansGina McKee plays Boudica, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
Jermyn Street theatre, London The Swedish dramatist’s life is shown to echo his plays in a new production about his obsession with alchemy and his relationships with three women‘Death to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMIn conversations with Hall over 40 years, I encountered a creative powerhouse who exuded confidence yet could be a strangely solitary figurePeter Hall was a man of infinite contradictions. I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04AMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Royal Exchange, ManchesterBlanche McIntyre is one of the flotilla of female directors coming to the forefront of British theatre. But, although she's assembled a cracking cast for this reviv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMCreator of the Royal Shakespeare Company who built up the National and championed regional playhousesSir Peter Hall, who has died aged 86, was the single most influential figure in modern Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMOrange Tree, Richmond In this revival of Storey’s 1989 play, set during the Thatcher era, a poignant celebration subtly turns into a state-of-the-nation drama There could no better tribute…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMMore than any other director, Sir Peter Hall shaped British theatre. As he turns 80, he tells Michael Billington about his doubts about the new RSC building and his dismay at fighting arts c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMHamilton hits London, Bryan Cranston’s news anchor goes berserk, Wayne McGregor turns his DNA into dance, Mae Martin revisits her teen addictions and Toyah Willcox is a time-travelling que…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMMonday, September 11, 2017
Charing Cross theatre, LondonThis adaptation of Jack Rosenthal’s TV film brings back the desperate drivers and their sadistic examiner – but does the story belong on stage?Any adaptation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PMFriday, September 8, 2017
Royal Exchange, ManchesterFamilies lie at the heart of drama. And Simon Stephens' new play, co-commissioned by the National Theatre and the Royal Exchange, offers a sensitive study of three …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AMThursday, September 7, 2017
Belgrade theatre, Coventry A dazzling ensemble play dogs and chickens, as well as brutal soldiers and their prisoners, in this account of the horrors of the gulagHelena Kaut-Howson is one of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
National Theatre, LondonImelda Staunton is unforgettable in Dominic Cooke’s ingenious revival of a musical that perfectly fuses splendour and poetic sadnessAlthough it has legions of admir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04PMTuesday, September 5, 2017
Olivier, LondonHelen McCrory excels in this modern-dress take on Euripides that is alive with complexity and psychological astutenessAfter her success with Ibsen's A Doll's House, Carrie Cra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18PMMonday, September 4, 2017
Birmingham RepStuffed with gags and overflowing with an easygoing, laid-back liberalism, this comedy about a vinyl-shop owner fighting developers has the feel of a stonking hitIf there is a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48PMFriday, September 1, 2017
Donmar Warehouse, LondonHollywood star shines in limited run production directed by Kenneth Branagh and designed to raise funds for RadaFew shows are seemingly more exclusive than this. Tom …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMMonday, August 28, 2017
Finborough, LondonGeoffrey Beevers’ production of little-known play about the moral fissures within an upper middle-class family is a razor-sharp take on a quietly subversive workAs a refo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMThursday, August 24, 2017
Park theatre, LondonFrom the necrophilia to the suggestion Christ was framed, the playwright’s most dangerous work – performed without the censor’s cuts for the first time – shows Or…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, August 23, 2017
Donmar Warehouse, LondonDavid Harrower’s 1995 play, with its deceptively simple premise of a woman finding articulacy, offers insight into the power of language to shape our humanity If on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMSunday, August 20, 2017
Minerva, ChichesterInjustice, inequality, power and passion drive the plot of this remarkable play which still rings horribly true a century after it was writtenGitha Sowerby’s remarkable …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PMWhishaw is quietly charismatic in this play with lofty philosophical ambitions but which ignores the social and political history behind today’s violenceBen Whishaw is a highly sympathetic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMThursday, August 17, 2017
Shakespeare’s Globe, London On a stripped-back stage, Nancy Meckler’s production locates Lear in a world of deprivation, broken family relationships and bubbling anger‘No disco-dancing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMTuesday, August 15, 2017
Dorfman, London Rob Drummond presents us with questions such as whether violence is a legitimate weapon of political protest but there’s not enough room for real debateVoting is becoming t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMSunday, August 13, 2017
King’s theatre, EdinburghAlan Ayckbourn’s Handmaid’s Tale-esque projection of a plague-ravaged future contains many nice ironies and performances, but strains patience over its six hou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMFriday, August 11, 2017
Ustinov Studio, BathHenry Goodman is utterly convincing in Alan Franks’ one-man play about Lucian Freud, with stories of his models, from the Krays to the QueenA solo play about a painter …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM 
