Tuesday, March 15, 2022
The 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 06:48AMMonday, March 14, 2022
Park theatre, LondonRon Hutchinson’s play picks up intriguing themes about fake news and psychology but fails to explore them in depth
“What if the Titanic never hit an iceberg? What if …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMSunday, March 13, 2022
Barbican, LondonFairytale imagery is mixed with absurdist humour in this prescient political thriller in which Russia has become a dictatorial superstate
Given the political history of the B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMFriday, March 11, 2022
Royal Exchange, ManchesterStef Smith’s reworking of the incendiary play casts three Noras in different eras, but can’t give them credible life
There is not one disgruntled wife in this h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMWednesday, March 9, 2022
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonLooking back at the work of Sondheim, Hamlisch and Legrand, with glorious songs and personal stories, this is a mixed bag of a show
Maria Friedman has staged …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMFriday, March 4, 2022
Olivier theatre, LondonA superb new cast show this story of love, war and racial prejudice has earned its place in the National Theatre pantheon
There is arguably a calculated safety in stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThursday, March 3, 2022
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe Game of Thrones star impresses in an uneven production balancing boardroom and battlefield
It is impossible to watch Max Webster’s modern-dress staging of Henry…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMTuesday, March 1, 2022
Riverside Studios, LondonTim Walker’s drama reconstructs the battles between Theresa May and Gina Miller after the Brexit vote, and their misogynist context
Kenneth Clarke’s description …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonA couple bicker through the night in a remote cabin in a well-performed revival of David Mamet’s two-hander from 1977
David Mamet’s odd if intriguing two-hande…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33PMSunday, February 27, 2022
Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon TyneA startlingly handsome production of George Orwell’s allegorical farmyard tale, with hints of kabuki and film noir, is given ever more meaning and relevan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMThursday, February 24, 2022
Young Vic, LondonPaul Bettany and Jeremy Pope excel as the art world legends in Anthony McCarten’s account of a fractious friendship
Anthony McCarten’s new play is an odd bromance betwee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54PMWednesday, February 23, 2022
Studio theatre, SheffieldJohn Rwothomack, performing his own one-man play, depicts a Ugandan boy terrorised into fighting for the Lord’s Resistance Army with visceral power
‘Will you fav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMHis liberal-baiting plays have caused punch-ups in the aisles and he hasn’t finished yet. As The Woods – his incendiary take on sexual politics – returns, the writer cuts loose
‘I ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMMonday, February 21, 2022
The award-winning writer of Shook grew up on an estate and did not see his world represented on stage. When he acknowledged his shame about his background, he found his voice
In 2019, Samuel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMFriday, February 18, 2022
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Afrofuturism meets comic-book kitsch in a radiant production whose dramatic impact cannot match its majestic design
The first and last word on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMWednesday, February 16, 2022
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonSian Carter’s debut play tells an inter-generational story of hidden mental illness that is richly played, with real pain but also sparks of joy
You are forced to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMTuesday, February 15, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonA seductive production that jumbles chronology and blends memory with fantasy is undeniably slick and captivating to watch
Florian Zeller’s brand of psychological …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMFriday, February 11, 2022
Almeida, London
Kathryn Hunter and Marcello Magni are perfectly grotesque in this timely revival of Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist classic
This may be the perfect time to revive a play about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMThursday, February 10, 2022
Theatre Royal PlymouthNigel Harman and Hannah Rose Caton star as Dan Brown’s adventurers in a show that sometimes feels as if it is on fast-forward
Dan Brown’s compulsive, contentious st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMFriday, February 4, 2022
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAlthough Sean Holmes’s production has some nice touches, it fails to plumb the play’s existential depths and lacks emotional intensity
George Fouracres, be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMThursday, February 3, 2022
He came blazing out of Glasgow like a rocket, scoring hits and acclaim. As he returns to the stage in a hard-rapping, homoerotic Cyrano de Bergerac, the star talks about partygate, snout siz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMWednesday, February 2, 2022
Old Vic theatre, LondonThe powerhouse duo’s effortless chemistry and emotional realism brings Caryl Churchill’s cloning tragedy blazing into new life
‘They’ve taken your cells,” sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMFriday, January 28, 2022
Chichester Festival theatreAn unruly nun’s quest for the truth about an accused priest leads her into a moral maze in this riveting study of truth and ideology
Many will know John Patrick …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMThursday, January 27, 2022
Bristol Old VicRylance turns the life of the 19th-century doctor and campaigner for antiseptic practices into a tragedy of almost Shakespearean proportions
A few months ahead of bringing “…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMThursday, January 20, 2022
The Walking Dead and Save Me actor and writer on his return to theatre, why he left to work in the US, and what his mum would think of his career choice
Lennie James has missed being on stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMWednesday, January 12, 2022
The actor and new artistic director of Tamasha theatre company, dedicated to stories from the global majority, talks about her campaign to change the industry
Pooja Ghai struggled to find he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMThursday, January 6, 2022
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThis story about the aftermath of an Alpine disaster was brilliantly compelling on film but becomes a clumsy comedy on stage
Anyone who has watched Ruben Östlund’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMWednesday, January 5, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe songs that unite two grieving sisters are collected and ‘tidied up’ by Cecil Sharp in this historical drama
This beautifully brooding slice of English pastor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMMonday, December 27, 2021
Amy Adams makes her West End debut, immersive dance confronts mental health and Steve Coogan’s alter ego embarks on a rare live UK tour
• Preview more cultural highlights of 2022 Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSunday, December 19, 2021
Almeida theatre, LondonRupert Goold’s production of the alt-rock musical has a talented young cast and some striking moments but the songs are often banal
It is audacious of Rupert Goold t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMHampstead theatre, LondonAlan Plater’s 60s-set play honouring agent Peggy Ramsay hasn’t aged well – her once maverick ideas now look outmoded
Henry Livings felt that “all plays abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM 
