Wednesday, April 19, 2017
The West End is becoming a Broadway-like shop window for musicals and spectaculars. Hytner and Starr’s theatre devoted to new plays is to be welcomedWhat is instantly striking about the in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMonday, April 17, 2017
Arcola, LondonNeil Bartlett asks what this 1947 allegory of Nazi occupation means today in a striking production as focused on optimism as on despairAlbert Camus’ novel La Peste was publis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSunday, April 16, 2017
The 2001 staging at Shakespeare's Globe, with Mark Rylance tackling a trio of roles, gave clarity to this convoluted playNot a play for rationalists. Dr Johnson wrote of its "unresisting imb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AMFriday, April 14, 2017
Ustinov studio, BathThe Homeland actor plays a tetchy older author clashing with a younger dramatist in Daniel Kehlmann’s compelling study of creative anxietyThis show has the aura of an e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMWilton’s Music Hall, LondonDerived from a mocking tome on how to lie and cheat your way to the top, this musical brings a welcome note of satire amid a daft plot with beguiling songsMusica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:02AMThursday, April 13, 2017
Bush, LondonHuman curiosity and the capriciousness of power are central to this story of two footmen forbidden to look on the splendour of the Taj Mahal in 1648 Related: Bush Theatre boss Ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMTrafalgar Studios, LondonThis bedroom drama about a man who steers a gauche student towards sex misses its chance to explore the problems of nostalgia for a pre-Aids pastBill Rosenfield, a L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMWednesday, April 12, 2017
Coliseum, LondonENO’s semi-staged production, with a 42-piece orchestra conducted by David Charles Abell, is a memorable reminder of this show’s adventurousnessAfter Sweeney Todd with Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMBarbican, LondonI've always thought there's a dodgy brilliance to Carousel. Musically it is far and away the most sophisticated of the Rodgers and Hammerstein operettas, yet lyrically it com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
Director and producer whose 60-year career spanned television, theatre and film – from The Jewel in the Crown to Pinter playsIn an age when it is fashionable for directors to be regarded a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMMonday, April 10, 2017
Dorfman Theatre, LondonPlaywright explores consciousness, morality and human behaviour in stimulating work that occasionally suffers from information overloadTom Stoppard famously uses drama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54PMFriday, April 7, 2017
Almeida theatre, LondonMike Bartlett has written a speculative play about the future of the monarchy that has the courage to ask serious questionsMike Bartlett has written a speculative play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMThursday, April 6, 2017
Finborough theatre, London Paul Bradley as a hopeless boozehound, Susan Penhaligon as a haughty mother and Rebecca Collingwood as a sparky sister light up TW Robertson’s 1867 playIt is 150…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonLewis plays an architect in love with a goat in Edward Albee’s tragedy about uncontrollable sexuality – with Sophie Okonedo equally riveting as his wifeAs …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMOrange Tree, Richmond Servants and employers swap places with a great deal of amorous confusion in a sparkling revival of Marivaux’s classicIn the past, we’ve seen Marivaux’s classic c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMDorfman, London The audience become judge and jury in Nina Raine’s intelligent play about a rape case full of opposing narratives, starring Anna Maxwell Martin and Ben ChaplinAside from Jo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMTuesday, April 4, 2017
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonSheena Easton brings poise and star quality to an energetic revival that suffers from its bloodless and out of date source materialIf you like musicals staged…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PMMonday, April 3, 2017
Salisbury PlayhouseA rural Wiltshire community during the first world war is depicted with quiet poetry in Barney Norris’s play on childhood friendship and adult expectationBarney Norris i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AMThursday, March 30, 2017
From West Side Story to Sweeney Todd, here are nine of my favourite musical moments. There’s one space left – for a classic selected by youAll great musicals need a moment of ecstasy tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:02AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
Southwark Playhouse, London This show about 42nd Street in the 1980s is imaginatively staged with the ever-magnificent Sharon D Clarke but it’s a tough sellThe low-life musical has a long …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
Wyndhams theatre, LondonTennant brings a beguiling, fleet-footed charm to Molière’s libertine, reinvented as DJ in Patrick Marber’s subversive updateDavid Tennant stars as the rutting r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMArts theatre, LondonHislop and Nick Newman’s play explores the extraordinary real-life story of how a Punch-style publication was set up by troops during the first world warIan Hislop and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMMonday, March 27, 2017
Storey, who has died at the age of 83, had a natural understanding of theatre and strived to resolve the tensions of his life through his playsDavid Storey, who has died aged 83, was a drama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMFriday, March 24, 2017
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonJosette Simon seems born to play Cleopatra, but the dissection of tyranny in Julius Caesar makes it the thrilling highlight of this Roman double…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMThursday, March 23, 2017
Royal Court, LondonSimon McBurney’s adaptation of the Hollywood tycoon’s memoir is technically brilliant and often breathtaking but it adds little to his familiar storyRobert Evans’s H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMTuesday, March 21, 2017
Dominion, LondonChristopher Wheeldon’s superb show is a riot of colour and movement, with irresistible dance routines and a wealth of Gerhswin classicsA magical transformation has taken pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMMenier Chocolate Factory, London Eve Best and Helen George star in a production that merges the playwright’s Love in Idleness with its former iteration, Less Than KindBetween August and De…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMMonday, March 20, 2017
To mark the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth we're choosing our favourite versions of his plays. Here's a handful of the finest Hamlets• 45 Hamlets for Shakespeare's 450th birthday…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMJermyn Street theatre, London Funny things happen on the way to Hades in this version of Aristophanes’ civic-minded comedy about the function of artIt is disconcerting to find the creator …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMSaturday, March 18, 2017
With its male rivalry and edgy dialogue about London buses, Pinter's 1950s novel The Dwarfs holds the key to all his later plays, says Michael BillingtonApart from their public prominence an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AMFriday, March 17, 2017
Hampstead theatre, LondonSara Kestelman excels as an uncliched Jewish matriarch in Ryan Craig’s punchily acted new play about an East End family firmIf plays survive by creating meaty role…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM 
