Thursday, February 18, 2021
Available onlineCovid guidelines and clunky camerawork sadly undermine the ebullient performances in this digital adaptation of Alice Walker’s modern classic
It felt auspicious when the le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMAvailable onlineHarriet Walter, Cherylee Houston and Sharon D Clarke star in the second collection of shorts in Graeae’s series of dramas
The second instalment of Graeae theatre company’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMAvailable onlinePeter Barnes’s spellbinding play about class as seen by a Buckingham Palace footman is the pick of these four single-handers
Most of Peter Barnes’s people in this quartet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMWednesday, February 17, 2021
Our new series profiling theatre talents continues with a sparky, award-winning writer-actor committed to making her industry more inclusive
For as long as Amy Trigg can remember, she wanted…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMMonday, February 15, 2021
Available onlineJanie Dee stars as a newly bereaved Hampstead widow in this poignant, ventriloquising monologue by Terence Rattigan
“I despise middle-aged women who talk to themselves at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PMThursday, February 11, 2021
Available onlineSam Tutty and Emily Redpath star in an ambitious new version of Shakespeare’s play created with digital wizardry
The warring houses of Montague and Capulet are living in a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42PMWednesday, February 3, 2021
In our new series profiling exciting theatre talents, the actor-writer remembers lessons from Phyllida Lloyd and rapping in Molière
The nation’s theatres may be dark, but in a new series …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMTuesday, February 2, 2021
Mike Bartlett, Alan Ayckbourn, Adjoa Andoh and other top theatre-makers reflect on why listening to drama is perfect for our times
In the first lockdown, many noticed how the roar of traffic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMMonday, January 25, 2021
Available onlineJoseph Potter summons enough characters to fill the stage in Philip Ridley’s dark comedy of manners about family dysfunction and wasted talent
Philip Ridley’s interest in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32AMFriday, January 22, 2021
Adjoa Andoh, who plays Lady Danbury in the show, admires the creativity, zest and collective spirit of tribute songs
Bridgerton, the Regency-era TV smash that sparked a virtual water-cooler …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMAvailable onlineThe easygoing reminiscences of three women reveal depths of turmoil and heartache in Mark O’Rowe’s deftly written triumph
Three friends meet around a table to catch up on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, January 17, 2021
Available onlineFrancesca Forristal and Jordan Paul Clarke’s show supplies sharp satire on influencer culture, but doesn’t dig into bigger issues
A computer cursor clicks on the instruc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMWednesday, January 13, 2021
Research exposes sustained levels of gender imbalance across theatre, film and TV, with fears that it will be worsened by pandemic
Gender inequality across the theatre industry is of rising …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMSaturday, January 2, 2021
Modern masterpiece Jerusalem storms back and Trevor Nunn goes underground with Beckett, while Bob Marley gets a musical and Frankenstein becomes a ballet Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMThursday, December 24, 2020
Available onlineThe National Theatre’s pantomime paean to London feels a little too bright in the current climate, but its naughtier denizens – including a goth Queen Rat – shine
Chris…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMWednesday, December 23, 2020
As the industry faced turmoil, there were triumphant stagings of classics by Sarah Kane, David Mamet and Alan Bennett – and bold new experiments
More on the best culture of 2020 Continue …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMFriday, December 18, 2020
Available onlineThis MR James ghost story has been rethought as a suspenseful tale for the Covid era, with a standout performance from Tamzin Outhwaite
This supernatural thriller is based on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMWednesday, December 16, 2020
Available onlineOlivia Williams voices Rafaella Marcus’s story of a woman in a house who has only bumps in the night for company
There is nothing quite like a festive haunting to see us in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMBad films can spawn kitschy, cult devotion, as Linus Karp demonstrates in How to Live a Jellicle Life
As London’s theatres prepared for tier 3 closure last night, some of us spent our las…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMTuesday, December 15, 2020
Dominion theatre, LondonThis delightfully staged concert has West End ritz, Disney schmaltz and an East End music-hall heart
On paper, a high-octane staged concert of Charles Dickens’ Chri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PMSunday, December 13, 2020
After a tough year for theatre, our chief critic celebrates the joy of the Christmas show, while five festive performers reveal how it feels to be waiting in the wings
Remember your first ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMTheatre Royal BathRosie Sheehy and Jonathan Slinger are captivating in David Mamet’s 1992 two-hander about a university student and professor in a battle of power, privilege and consent
A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMFriday, December 11, 2020
From a weather room to dating in the bar, the theatre is inviting audiences to experience ‘editions’ of a weekly paper staged in its building. Our critic gets an exclusive look
From an a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMThursday, December 10, 2020
Almeida theatre, LondonDevised with the company, this is a bold but rough-hewn and perplexing production lifted by soothing music
‘This is not a corona play,” the production notes state.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMWednesday, December 9, 2020
Hampstead theatre, LondonThis revival of Harold Pinter’s two-hander about a pair of Beckettian hitmen raises questions for the age of strongman politics
There is an “amusing story” abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48PMTuesday, December 8, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonSimon Russell Beale stars in an economical Dickens adaptation that reminds us of the richness of live theatre
What has made this Victorian tale of child poverty, stalki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMSunday, December 6, 2020
The Big House, LondonA mixture of surrealism and satire renders Maggie Norris’s production both unnerving and puzzling
Covid-19 dramas have kept us afloat during lockdown. There have been …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48PMTuesday, December 1, 2020
The award has been won by Ahlam and Amy Trigg, who beat more than 1,000 other entries, in initiative to dismantle stereotypes about women’s writing
The inaugural Women’s Prize for Playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMFriday, November 27, 2020
Available onlineThe experience of black frontline workers in the Covid crisis is brought to harrowing life in these plays based on interviews with a teacher and mental health worker
As the C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMThursday, November 26, 2020
Available onlineAlan Ayckbourn plays a man looking for answers about the death of his musical prodigy daughter in an audio version of his 1994 work that keeps us guessing till the end
When A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMWednesday, November 25, 2020
Available onlineIn an intimate and often traumatic one-woman performance, Pepa Duarte explores her hostile relationship with cravings, calorie-counting and identity, as a bean soup bubbles o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM 
