Friday, April 29, 2022
Apollo theatre, LondonProblematic gags limit the power of Jez Butterworth’s layered drama about myths and Englishness but the lead performance still astonishes
Full disclosure: I did not l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMThursday, April 28, 2022
The actor’s response to criticism of The First Lady is astonishingly thin-skinned and misses our role in building dialogue and serving readers
It’s hard to see your idols torn down unfai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMWednesday, April 27, 2022
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonThe Killing Eve star makes a masterful West End debut in Suzie Miller’s play about sexual assault and the legal system
Jodie Comer’s West End stage debut is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMAvailable onlineWorking-class history and a young woman’s story combine in this audio drama from the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
Keli is a three-part audio drama about brass band contests and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMTuesday, April 26, 2022
The playwright reflects on the importance of difficult conversations, putting female characters centre-stage and reading a Greek tragedy a day to write The House of Shades
In 2016, Beth Stee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMMonday, April 25, 2022
Finborough theatre, LondonThis slow-moving drama inspired by the life of Lady Grange explores the historical control of women and changing attitudes to mental health
The little-known story o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMHer Majesty’s theatre, LondonThe Italian actor delivers an elegant but eccentric show that can’t quite decide who it’s for: opera aficionados or initiates
It is a thrilling pairing on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, April 24, 2022
National Theatre, LondonEmlyn Williams’ 1938 play is a kind of Billy Elliot of the Valleys: the old-fashioned but hugely entertaining and affecting story of a Welsh miner’s son who escap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMFriday, April 22, 2022
Donmar Warehouse, LondonDespite strong performances, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s play zigzags so much that it overshadows the remarkable life at its centre
The provocations and final controver…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMThursday, April 21, 2022
One Cartridge Place, LondonThis immersive retelling of Greek tragedies is stylish and atmospheric but lacks narrative momentum and its scattered scenes can be frustratingly arcane
It is imme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33PMBirmingham RepCasey Bailey’s moving, emotionally honest grime musical grows in power and has its own poetic, street-smart presence
Grimeboy starts off with a deceptive lightness as a comin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMMonday, April 18, 2022
Available onlineThe canine curse is given a comic makeover, sapping the story of its terror but bringing laughs and charming energy from the cast of three
Arthur Conan Doyle’s sinister tal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMSunday, April 17, 2022
Bush theatre, LondonThe performer of this one-woman play steers through multiple characters with charm, but is held back by a story that is less than the sum of its parts
Princess Dinubolu o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMFriday, April 15, 2022
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonMike Bartlett’s rambunctious capers with types including Lady Susan Climber and Matt Eton MP are great fun if not exactly stinging satire
In Mike Bartlett’s ramb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMThursday, April 14, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonClaire Latham is utterly arresting as a traumatised woman, surrounded by violence, who transforms into a wolf
This monologue, by a woman from the deep south of the U…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMWednesday, April 13, 2022
Theatre503, LondonA mother-daughter confrontation at a motivational speaker’s coaching session raises urgent questions about mental health
A play about a self-help circle can usually guara…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMMonday, April 11, 2022
Cabaret and Life of Pi were deservedly recognised on a night that could have spread the love more widely and often favoured comforting shows
Full list of winners
It began with the host Jason…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMSunday, April 10, 2022
Old Vic theatre, LondonMike Bartlett’s script turns US politics into Shakepearean comedy but falls oddly flat despite magnetising performances
Donald Trump’s inner circle has, in Mike Ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMThursday, April 7, 2022
Almeida, LondonA white billionaire art collector’s relationship with a young Black artist forms the heart of this bold, brawny play about race, patronage and exploitation
Ever since Suns…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMWednesday, April 6, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonThere is some fine acting as the wife and children of Robert Lindsay’s patriarchal professor bicker and bond over inheritances and legacies, but it is all a little…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMTuesday, April 5, 2022
Birmingham RepWe see the shock of Windrush-era racism from a child’s perspective, but miss the details of how she rose nontheless to become the face of children’s TV
It is fitting that a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, March 31, 2022
Gielgud theatre, LondonRafe Spall is a dignified Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s smooth and confident adaptation, which finds modern-day resonances in the 1960 classic about racial injusti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMSunday, March 27, 2022
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonThough innovative in delivery, this bizarre experimental production has gratuitous descriptions of sex and violence and fails to satisfy as a performance
Psychod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24PMThursday, March 24, 2022
Park theatre, LondonThe acting, by Imogen Stubbs and Eric Underwood among others, is formidable but Bruce Norris’s 2010 play lacks depth
Bruce Norris’s 2010 satire was written as a respo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMWednesday, March 23, 2022
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonIvo van Hove’s production divests this drama of emotional power and momentum, keeping us at arm’s length
Jean Cocteau’s 1930 play is a monologue disguised …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMTuesday, March 22, 2022
The Law & Order: SVU star is returning to the stage in a White House satire set in 2024. She talks about the ‘black-lash’ after Obama’s election, brokering a new deal for Broadway …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMMonday, March 21, 2022
The Olivier-winning actor is starring in his own play about a horrifying chapter of history and the fight to abolish slavery. He reflects on the resistance to making the story heard
At a piv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMFriday, March 18, 2022
Available onlineThis is a gripping drama about the inner struggles and temptation endured by a recovering alcoholic during a dark night of the soul at his father’s wake
Marcus Brigstocke�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMThursday, March 17, 2022
Unicorn theatre, LondonBewitching video and ingenious sets combine in a staging that turns the 18th-century adventure into an escape for a troubled student
This radical reimagining of Jonath…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMTuesday, March 15, 2022
Ambassadors theatre, LondonJade Anouka’s character causes an existential earthquake in Marianne Elliott’s stylised revival of Mike Bartlett’s comedy about sexual identity
The world has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMThe eponymous do of Mike Leigh’s 1977 play is reimagined in Abi’s House Party, a youth production at the Watford Palace theatre. But what would Bev think?
The drama in Abigail’s Party …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM 
