Friday, 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 08:36AMThursday, March 16, 2017
Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein’s 1983 musical has been revived once more. The show struck an important, rarely acknowledged blow for equalityWhen it opened in New York in 1983, La Cage …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonAdults play confused adolescents in Matthew Whittet’s playground drama, adding an extra layer of hope and sadness to their characters Related: Seventeen going on 7…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Rose theatre, KingstonApril De Angelis’s inventive and fluid five-and-a-half-hour production spans 50 years in its characters’ lives, and makes clear the books’ feminist messageI am no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSunday, March 12, 2017
Garrick theatre, London The audience is clobbered into submission by an anything-for-a-laugh Molière adaptation that casts Lee Mack – in his theatre debut – as the sane oneI guess, sinc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMNational Theatre, London Britannia is shown to be fractious and divided in this bold but fragmented piece – built from interviews with UK voters – that does not tell us anything newTom S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMSaturday, March 11, 2017
It’s wrong to characterise 1930s theatre as escapist or frivolous. In Europe and America, many plays were alerting audiences to the dangers of fascism – led by the German fugitive Bertol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMThursday, March 9, 2017
Harold Pinter theatre, London Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill are both superb as they trade insults and toy vindictively with their guests in a first-rate revival of an astonishing playThis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonRoger Allam is astonishing as Roy Jenkins in this drama about how the ‘gang of four’ left Labour to form the SDPSteve Waters likes to peep behind closed doors. In…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, March 8, 2017
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJames Graham's new play under the direction of Josie Rourke is rich and adrenaline-fuelled but lacks a real intellectual tussle• Ewan MacAskill: Fear, then relief, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMTuesday, March 7, 2017
Old Vic, LondonActor perfectly matched in nimble high-wire act that is still spritely – but gains heft from its awareness of death The play’s the thing. Fifty years after its professiona…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMRoyal Court Theatre Upstairs, LondonMeera Syal stars in debbie tucker green’s play about intimate relationships which is given a perverse staging that leaves you with a crick in the neckAs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMMonday, March 6, 2017
Chichester Festival TheatreTrevor Nunn's fine production of Tom Stoppard's 1966 play begins with a striking image: the two heroes seen against the stark background of a leafless tree. The Be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMAudiences have been asked not to consume food at a new show. Theatre is a collective act of concentration – it’s spoiled by constant chomping and slurpingHallelujah! Imelda Staunton has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSaturday, March 4, 2017
Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonThe ghost of a wronged widow hovers over a modern industrial town in the RSC’s intriguing update of a 13th-century playThis is a genuine curiosity. As part of its …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMThursday, March 2, 2017
Hull Truck theatre, HullStaged for Hull’s year as UK City of Culture, this One Man, Two Guvnors-style farce is a merry take on local historyThe road to Hull, they say, is paved with good i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Richmond theatre, LondonSally Cookson directs a fine ensemble in a witty and inventive high-wire production with a modern edgeThe last attempt to stage Fellini’s Oscar-winning 1954 movie h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMTuesday, February 28, 2017
Almeida, LondonRobert Icke’s staging of Shakespeare’s tragedy has fine performances and highly intelligent touches but some of its ideas are eccentrically wrong-headedBy a strange irony …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMSunday, February 26, 2017
Trafalgar Studios, LondonPatsy Ferran shines in Stephen Karam’s shapeshifting off-Broadway hit about teenage dilemmas and predatory adults set around a school rhetoric contestFirst seen of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMFriday, February 24, 2017
Young Vic, London Simmering hatred, lust and violence are never far away in a disturbing production that delves deep into the collective unconsciousRomantic Victorian versions of Shakespeare…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMThursday, February 23, 2017
Olivier, LondonSimon Godwin’s inventive gender-fluid production of Shakespeare’s most perfect comedy has a vital elan and some great performancesThe casting of Tamsin Greig as Malvolia i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMArcola, London Trevor Griffiths’ version of the masterpiece is staged in London for the first time in a modern-dress production implying we too are on the brink of changeThis enterprising …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMTuesday, February 21, 2017
Phoenix theatre, London The Take That star and Tim Firth have collaborated seamlessly on a show that is far superior to its predecessors on stage and screenIt might be fair to assume that th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PMThe Other Palace, LondonThis musical adaptation, based on Joseph Moncure March’s racy 1928 poem, is so frenzied it leaves you exhausted Andrew Lloyd Webber acquired what used to be the St …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMSunday, February 19, 2017
Arcola, LondonOladipo Agboluaje hits close to home as he shows the darkly comic side of the fight for revolutionary changeDriving home after the play, I caught an item on Radio 4’s The Wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMFriday, February 17, 2017
Shedding his clothes and seducing the audience, Lars Eidinger’s Gloucester is the classic charming narcissist – but why soften the play’s political bite at such a crucial time?I have a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMTuesday, February 14, 2017
Crucible, SheffieldDan Gillespie Sells has a lot to offer musical theatre, but this Billy Elliot-style story about a northern teen drag queen lacks dramaA northern working-class lad strikes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMMonday, February 13, 2017
Finborough, LondonThis new play heightens our awareness of the city as a sterile Shangri-La, but the arguments would carry greater weight if it was more balancedAlongside all the promotional…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMSunday, February 12, 2017
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, LondonThis superbly performed production of Pearl Cleage’s drama gives a fierce sense of the conflict between belonging and the desire to escape Given the bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMSaturday, February 11, 2017
National, LondonEvery 20 years or so we rediscover Harley Granville Barker's astonishing play. Following revivals at the Royal Court in 1965 and the National itself in 1989, we now have Pete…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31AMFriday, February 10, 2017
Duchess, LondonLenny Henry has won his spurs as a Shakespearean actor in Othello and The Comedy of Errors. Now he takes on the titanic role of Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences which won…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03PM 
