Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonA terrific cast give a masterclass in power and paranoia in this tremendous modern-day revival of Shakespeare’s tale of revengeBlanche McIntyr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMTuesday, July 4, 2017
Donmar Warehouse, London Singing MPs grill charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh and chair Alan Yentob in a show that’s as melodramatic as Tosca – though not as tunefulIs there anything …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMMonday, July 3, 2017
Finborough theatre, LondonThis tale of an idealistic teacher in a Scottish mining village wears its enjoyably scathing politics on its sleeveAs an outpost for Scottish drama, the Finborough …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMFriday, June 30, 2017
Hampstead theatre, LondonIn Andrew Keatley’s powerful play, a life is destroyed by a pupil’s allegation of sexual assault, and shameful secrets are exposed‘Is the accuser always holy n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMThursday, June 29, 2017
London Palladium Toad, Badger, Mole and Rat are joined by new female characters in a fast-moving musical which ranges in style from Gilbert and Sullivan to raucous rockKenneth Grahame’s 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMTuesday, June 27, 2017
Wyndham’s, LondonSix-time Tony award-winner McDonald captures the style and spirit of the legendary jazz singer, but Lanie Robertson’s play wallows in her declineOne legend gets to play …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMMonday, June 26, 2017
Storyhouse, ChesterIn Loveday Ingram’s swaggering production, Caesar bids to ‘make Rome great again’ then poses for selfies at a rock festivalHedging his bets, Henry James described Ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, June 22, 2017
A new show, Terror, restores drama to its classical function by asking us to make a moral decision. But it doesn’t go nearly far enoughDrama invites judgment. One of the oldest plays in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PM"Sawyer, you're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star." So Ruby Keeler was famously told by Warner Baxter in the movie of 42nd Street. And that classic line about understu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMHampstead theatre, LondonThere are shades of Neil LaBute’s In the Company of Men in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ merciless modern satire, set in the offices of a Manhattan magazineNothing can…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSaturday, June 17, 2017
Courtyard, Stratford-upon-AvonAs a director Lucy Bailey is clearly at home in ancient Rome: she gave us a blackly sardonic Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe; now she comes up with a vi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMFriday, June 16, 2017
The Kids Company inquiry becomes a musical, Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams star as sisters, Sienna Miller and Jack O’Connell hit the roof and rhinoceroses rampage through Edinburgh• S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AMThursday, June 15, 2017
Minerva, ChichesterO’Brien has revised her 2011 stage adaptation of her evocative novel about two friends who move from rural Ireland to DublinRitually burned in the grounds of her local p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMTuesday, June 13, 2017
Cottesloe, LondonHaving written plays about the Suez crisis and Thatcher's childhood, James Graham now turns his attention to the Labour government's precarious ability to survive a hung par…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PMJermyn Street theatre, LondonAnthony Biggs directs the British premiere of Maxim Gorky’s chaotic and overloaded 1907 play with a bullying Russian patriarch at its centre Written in 1907 in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMMonday, June 12, 2017
Two US companies have pulled their sponsorship from a New York production of Julius Caesar because it depicts a Trump-like character – grisly ending and all. But the bard has other charact…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMRoyal Court, LondonAlice Birch’s radically experimental play, directed by Katie Mitchell, tests the theory that trauma can pass across three generations of womenWhat determines our charact…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMSunday, June 11, 2017
Chichester Festival theatreHarden is excellent in a sprawling yet skilful production of Tennessee Williams’s Gulf Coast melodramaThis is a strange play to find on the sprawling Chichester …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThe Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonOwen Horsley’s inventive production sheds little light on what it means to be gay today, but highlights Wilde’s passionate, transgressive textEveryone curren…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMThursday, June 8, 2017
Dorfman theatre, LondonInua Ellams’s invigorating and richly enjoyable drama, set in six hairdressers in two continents, offers sharp debate on family, politics, race and sportBijan Sheiba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
Olivier, LondonAnne-Marie Duff shines in a rich, strange and often baffling drama that shows the privatisation of land as a pivotal moment in our nation’s history‘We are not here for rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMMonday, June 5, 2017
Piccadilly theatre, LondonAn ingenious jigsaw-like design and strong performances lift this revival, but the main draw, Miranda Hart, is just too likable and the politics seem datedAt the cu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PMTuesday, May 30, 2017
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThis, of all Shakespeare's plays, badly needs a shot in the arm – and it receives a powerful one in this production by Gregory Doran, the RSC'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMMonday, May 29, 2017
Finborough, LondonAn Iranian teacher is confronted by one of her former pupils in Matt Parvin’s claustrophobic two-hander about social and racial prejudiceMatt Parvin is a young, Dorset-bo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMFriday, May 26, 2017
Orange Tree, RichmondBranden Jacobs-Jenkins’s extraordinary play is both an adaptation of a 19th-century melodrama and a dazzling postmodernist critique of itIf I say that this bizarrely b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, May 25, 2017
Shakespeare’s Globe, London Sailor-suited dancers and a disco soundtrack add a party atmosphere to Shakespeare’s comedy but drown out its melancholyThe peremptory treatment of Emma Rice …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMTuesday, May 23, 2017
Old Vic, LondonWhereas Georg Büchner’s original masterpiece allows audience to fill in the blanks, Thorne’s adaptation piles the pressure on the title characterThis production has a lot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMSunday, May 21, 2017
Attenborough Centre, BrightonRichard Nelson prophetically captures sense of unease as early as first play when character asks: “Do you feel like something really bad is about to happen?”…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMFriday, May 19, 2017
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonPhil Porter’s take on Plautus’s bombastic farce is a crowdpleasing show that reminds us of the ancient playwright’s immense influence on modern comedyThe R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThursday, May 18, 2017
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonMaureen Lipman’s brisk bureaucrat is a perfect complement to Felicity Kendal’s gutsy exhibitionist in a revival of Peter Shaffer’s heritage satireYou mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
Young Vic, LondonThe Atonement director presents the story of the astronomer with a kaleidoscopic theatricality that increasingly detracts from Brecht’s textIt is a sign of Bertolt Brecht�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM 
