He has done frothy romcoms and weighty epics such as Tony-winning The Inheritance. Now the US playwright is revisiting the drink-fuelled drama that terrified him as he wrote it In 2008, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMWatford Palace theatreStage version of TV movie offers impressive impersonations of the Beatles stars but is more like fan fiction than drama What went down during the penultimate face-to-fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMTheatre Royal, BathSpruced up for its 20th anniversary, Alan Bennett’s beloved play now has 80s musical numbers, but its blase attitude to teachers with wandering hands remains dated Just …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMArcola theatre, London Edoardo Erba’s two-hander takes up a position at the margins of the Anders Breivik massacre but leaves his characters disappointingly generalised Dur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:50AMAlmeida theatre, LondonKendall Feaver’s play dissects white privilege and a university’s #MeToo moment that begins when a student speaks out after being sexually assaulted “A terrible …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMMinerva theatre, ChichesterJustin Audibert’s revival nails the playwright’s humour better than his despair while Ian McDiarmid brings a balletic grace to the stage How would an estate ag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMRiverside Studios, LondonIn this adaptation of André Carl van der Merwe’s novel, Kai Luke Brümmer puts in a formidable performance as the South African conscript beset by homophobia Clos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMTurbine theatre, LondonAdequate songs are not enough to fill out Jonathan Harvey’s flimsy clubbers’ romance, though Frances Ruffelle provides some welcome razzle dazzle In four decades o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMArcola, LondonThe acting from Ellena Vincent, Peter De Jersey and Daniel Francis-Swaby is riveting but this play gets tied down in gothic horror and psychodrama A tattered US flag hangs from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMIt was the film about end of the silent era that scooped five Oscars, made $133m and beguiled the world. But can the movie work on stage? And how will its real star, a frisky parson russell …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMThey are comedy sparring partners from Green Wing. Can the duo play stricken lovers in The Deep Blue Sea, the eviscerating play Rattigan poured his own heartbreak into? Warning: contains spo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMSoho theatre, LondonSet entirely within the stained walls of a men’s public toilet, Sam Grabiner’s award-winning play is an ambitious, hallucinatory series of vignettes dramatising the g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMBush theatre, LondonTherapists will love this drama about neonatal strains with all its flashbacks to childhood battles. Shame the focus is all on the father, leaving the women looking like …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMJerry Seinfeld calls him ‘the most idolised comedian ever’. Yet after five decades at the top, success still makes him cringe. He discusses doubting himself, starring in a documentary �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMEight years after spectacularly crashing and burning out of the West End, the Olivier-winner is now playing an actress trapped in the same nightmare. Can she face down her demons? It is late…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMArcola theatre, LondonThis nimble play sets up a shocking scenario yet somehow it slaloms along – thanks to some Pirandellian trickery and three cheerful ghosts On a raised disc bristling …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMAs she hits the stage in an anarchic comedy about a family in freefall, the once-Oscar-nominated actor talks about her 2019 fraud conviction, why she’d never play a trans woman again – a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMThe actor’s suggestion in a roundtable interview is more common sense than provocation, the phrase speaking to a homophobic media that no longer calls the shots Andrew Scott is capable of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMAlmeida, LondonLuke Thallon and Anya Chalotra are the lovers in this adaptation of Paweł Pawlikowski’s 2018 film, with Polish folk music and Elvis Costello songs In Conor McPherson’s fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMAward-winning stage, film and TV actor who had memorable roles as meddling mothers in Cheers and Sex and the CityWith her shrewd blue eyes and twitching dormouse nose, the actor Frances Ster…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThe trio are about to fall out violently in the shocking yet hilarious play, featuring beheaded priests and the ghost of Bobby Sands. They talk woke fever, big pharma and playing chimpanzees…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42AMDrama teacher who started a theatre school for young people in north London, producing future stage and screen starsThe Anna Scher theatre in Islington, north London, was responsible for pro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMSwan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonDream cast and exuberant staging brings the genre’s dusty rules to a whole new frontier A sleepy US town in the late 19th century: the husbands are away, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AMBristol Old VicEveryone gets their chance to shine in Nancy Medina’s expressive staging of this drama about sparring prep-school students Some of the shine has come off Moonlight, the Osca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMThe comic, who has survived cancer and once sleep-jumped through a closed hotel window, is bringing his Broadway smash about mortality to the UK. ‘I guarantee you’ll laugh,’ he says Fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04PMSummerhall, EdinburghMax Percy’s physical theatre show mixes ideas on sex, power dynamics and homophobia into an audacious reflection on generational trauma Putting a shirtless young man o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:13PMAfter routines about orgies from the perspective of an ‘awkward English twit’, the comedian returns with an unironic and open account of carnal pleasure It is nearly midnight at a packed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMRiverside Studios, LondonSpattered with blood and brains, this blend of cabaret and cosplay brings together Quentin Tarantino’s career highlights with flashes of divine inspiration Childre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMTheatre Royal, WindsorIan McKellen and Roger Allam star in a rambling but unabashed depiction of desire after middle-age Walking their dogs on Hampstead Heath, the widowed Frank (Roger Allam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AMAs the two hard-loving herders from the 2005 Oscar-winner get back on their horses, the team behind a new musical version talk about fear, regret – and the tragic power of forbidden desire…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMPark theatre, LondonDavid has cerebral palsy and is determined to lose his virginity using Grindr in Jon Bradfield’s entertaining play Any Grindr user faces a barrage of questions. Top or …
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