Friday, September 23, 2016
Royal Court, LondonPerformed by an excellent cast, Suzan Lori-Parks’s trilogy about the US civil war is riddled with Homeric allusions and seamlessly incorporates songs into the action Rel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AMPrince Edward theatre, LondonThe opposing forces of communism and capitalism carry strange visual echoes in this production by Laurence ConnorSo how does Boublil and Schönberg's musical sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33AMThursday, September 22, 2016
Rose, KingstonJohn Malkovich’s immaculately staged version of Zach Helm’s clever play about drug dependency and genius doesn’t quite escape its sentimental conclusion John Malkovich is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMTuesday, September 20, 2016
Theatre Royal HaymarketIt's a sign of how much our theatre has changed that Beckett's masterpiece, once seen as a subversion of West End theatre, now occupies one of its iconic temples. But …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56PMWyndham’s theatre, LondonSean Mathias’s production shows the comedy and bleakness in the story of a pub potman invited to a writer’s luxurious homeWhen Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:44PMTara theatre, LondonTara’s new theatre is an enticing venue for this adaptation of a medieval tale, with topical lessons, about lovers manipulated by religious ideology This vital multicul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AMMonday, September 19, 2016
Theatre Royal, BathClare Higgins and Tim Pigott-Smith trade blows with relish, but Adrian Noble's revival brings little fresh insight to Albee's classicWhen Peter Hall ran the Bath summer se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13AMSunday, September 18, 2016
Lyric HammersmithThis strongly cast British/Australian collaboration is a pleasure to watch but glibly assumes the strains of domestic life are the same the world overThe fraught family has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:23AMThe film, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, led Edward Albee’s play to be remembered as a boozy marital slugfest. But it is as much about America itselfEdward Albee occasionall…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:57AMSaturday, September 17, 2016
A new tranche of Harold Pinter’s letters, written to lifelong friends, has been made public. We take a first glimpseHarold Pinter was a born letter writer. In later years his com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMApollo, LondonTruth versus illusion is the great theme of American drama: think of O'Neill, Miller and Williams. And, since it lies at the core of Edward Albee's ritualistic 1962 drama, it i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMFriday, September 16, 2016
Almeida, LondonTragedy, we are often told, is dead: an impossibility in an age that believes all problems are socially remediable. But Edward Albee has boldly defied convention by writing an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20PMThe Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonA cavalier meets his match among strong women in Loveday Ingram’s carnivalesque production of Aphra Behn’s 17th-century comedyAphra Behn is acclaimed as the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AMWednesday, September 14, 2016
Donmar, LondonTennessee Williams's play is so inexhaustible that it is always worth seeing. With Rachel Weisz playing Blanche DuBois there is also no doubt this production will be a popular …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:58AMTuesday, September 13, 2016
Young Vic, LondonAlthough this modern update of Tennessee Williams's play isn't always plausible, this is a powerful production'Anderson is utterly compelling' – Susannah Clapp's reviewAme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27PMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterMaxine Peake excels as Blanche Dubois in a nightmarish production of the Tennessee Williams classicMaxine Peake is not automatic casting for the role of Blanche Dub…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08PMOrange Tree, RichmondZoe Cooper’s skilful and touching account of an unlikely teenage friendship brings to mind The Catcher in the Rye Zoe Cooper’s play, co-produced with Farnham Malting…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AMNational Theatre, LondonYou can see Tennessee Williams's Blanche DuBois in one of two ways: as an embodiment of the poetic spirit destroyed by crude reality or as a southern snob tragically …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:22AMJermyn Street theatre, London Before writing children’s classics, Milne was a popular dramatist. His 1922 comedy about eloping lovers gets an excellent revival by Nichola McAuliffeLondon�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AMMonday, September 12, 2016
Aldeburgh, SuffolkTwo short new plays skilfully compress stories of cultural power in Boko Haram-ravaged Nigeria, and an agile and eloquent mountaineering romanceNow celebrating its 10th yea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:56AMFriday, September 9, 2016
Young Vic, LondonHunter is a strutting minister one minute and the emperor’s pillow-bearer the next in this shrewd and resonant account of Haile Selassie’s fall from graceThis is not the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20AMThursday, September 8, 2016
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonOliver Ryan and Sandy Grierson share the roles of the doctor and the demon in Maria Aberg’s darkly inventive, richly psychological productionIt is fascinating …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10PMHampstead theatre, LondonBeth Steel’s play about the 1980s Latin American debt crisis is staged with a hurtling energy that propels us through the intricacies of international bankingBeth …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:39AMRegent's Park, LondonFollowing stage versions of works by William Golding, EL Doctorow and Harper Lee, this novel-hungry venue now brings us a new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in time f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:28AMWednesday, September 7, 2016
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London This imagined encounter between Jesus and a crazed Roman emperor is deeply flawed but is given a strong, clear productionYou have to go back to Shaw’s Saint…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49PMFriday, September 2, 2016
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonGregory Doran’s Arthur Miller production skilfully contrasts a bitter old man with his dapper younger self, as Harriet Walter touchingly revea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PMRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonAntony Sher is unbearably moving as the volatile king, in Gregory Doran’s stellar production full of standout performancesThis year, we may be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMRoyal Shakespeare TheatreIt works. That's one's instant verdict on the transformed Royal Shakespeare Theatre. And it succeeds precisely because it feels new and strangely familiar. The old a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:27AMThursday, September 1, 2016
Found 111, LondonNiamh Cusack and Matthew Lewis are part of a quartet of characters whose unfulfilled lives throw them together in Owen McCafferty’s play about infidelityOwen McCafferty, i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AMTuesday, August 30, 2016
He was one of theatre's most daring stars, whose best films bear witness to a talent many never had the chance to see on stage• Picture from the past: Dalí paints Olivier in 1955It's a sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33PMGarrick, LondonBranagh is highly watchable as the music-hall veteran Archie Rice, but John Osborne’s portrait of a collapsing culture is undercut in a misjudged productionKenneth Branagh h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PM 
