Friday, February 28, 2020
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThomas Middleton’s play seems perfect for the #MeToo era, but this over-stylised production misses the mark
Thomas Middleton’s revenge drama about patriarc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMWednesday, February 26, 2020
Tales by Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter and Emily Brontë are all being brought to theatres this year. Their creative teams reflect on what they cut and what they added
How does a well-loved …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMCoronet theatre, LondonNico Holonics is in resoundingly offbeat form as as a stunted child in a solo show that delights in making its audience squirm
‘How shall I begin?” asks Nico Holon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMTuesday, February 25, 2020
Dominion, LondonIt’s got pageantry, pyramids and dazzling dance moves, but this lavish stage adaptation drowns out the emotional drama
DreamWorks’ musical animation The Prince of Egypt …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMThursday, February 20, 2020
Kiln, LondonAntoinette Nwandu’s powerful absurdist urban tragedy sees two black homeless men – cowed by the ever-present threat of police brutality – pursue their own American dream
An…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMWednesday, February 19, 2020
Bridge theatre, London Roger Allam plays a father with multiple versions of the same son in a drama that feels like an early noughties Black Mirror
Caryl Churchill wrote A Number in 2002, wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
The Other Palace, LondonThe soaring joys and plunging agonies of adolescence are treated with humour and heart in this refreshing arrival from Broadway
‘There’s never been a better time …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMMonday, February 17, 2020
Bush theatre, LondonInspired by Master of None, Temi Wilkey delivers a heartfelt and funny tale of love and ancestral ties in a Nigerian family
‘Being gay isn’t something black people lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMFriday, February 14, 2020
Olivier theatre, London Lesley Manville excels as the billionaire returning to her small town but even she can’t save this bloated adaptation
The Visit (or The Old Lady Comes to Call) is a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, February 12, 2020
Wyndham’s theatre, LondonPatrick Marber directs Tom Stoppard’s sweeping story of a Jewish family in Vienna across six decades
In 2003, Tom Stoppard was asked if he would ever write a �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMSwan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonJuliet Gilkes Romero’s play about the battle to end slave-owning in the British empire grows in intrigue and tension
The Whip takes a moment in British his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMTuesday, February 11, 2020
Royal Court, LondonAlistair McDowall’s monologue – performed by a mesmerising Kate O’Flynn – channels female experience with warmth and humour
Alistair McDowall joined forces with th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMSunday, February 9, 2020
She loved her nude scenes in the Netflix hit but the West End’s Uncle Vanya gave her stage fright. The Stockport star remembers being the class clown and tracking down her tormentor
Aimee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMFriday, February 7, 2020
National Theatre, LondonSpall is like a man possessed in Roy Williams’ and Clint Dyer’s hair-raising dramatic monologue about the grief and grievances of a working-class white male
In th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMThursday, February 6, 2020
Almeida, LondonRevived by Rupert Goold just over two years after its premiere, this subtle drama has grown with new meaning
In 2017, Rupert Goold directed a state-of-the-nation play by Mike …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMFriday, January 31, 2020
Pound Arts Centre, Corsham Luke Wright’s eloquent verse monologue pairs Brexit with the breakdown of a marriage
Luke Wright is a poet for our day and today in particular. This dramatic mon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, January 29, 2020
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonChris Bush’s female Faustus is original, ambitious and fantastically revisionist – but this bare-boned production fails to save its soul
Doctor Faustus, as we kn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Orange Tree, LondonOscar Toeman directs a striking revival of the 2003 play about the relationship between a teenage girl and a paedophile
Since Lucy Prebble’s award-winning first play pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMMonday, January 27, 2020
KVS, BrusselsThe complicated legacy of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is fearlessly transformed into a radical and rousing musical
When Winnie Madikizela-Mandela died in 2018, she was seen both a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, January 23, 2020
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonIan Rickson’s exquisite production is enlivened with expertly weighted humour and a modern beat
Last year, David Hare teamed up with Rupert Everett to stage an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PMLyttelton, LondonTwelve bickering, bantering women must determine an accused murderer’s pregnancy claim in this admirable drama
The Welkin is a courtroom drama that sets itself up as a wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Boulevard theatre, LondonGary Beadle and Jasper Britton are excellent in this static and plotless existential treatise, but still can’t transcend its dramatic limitations
There is a flagra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMTuesday, January 21, 2020
Belgrade theatre, CoventryThe story of Sarah Bonetta Davies, given to Queen Victoria, is contrasted with a modern black British woman in Janice Okoh’s play
The historian David Olusoga has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMSunday, January 19, 2020
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonDavid Threlfall, James Hayes, Niall Buggy and Lisa Dwan star in Trevor Nunn’s atmospheric productions of Krapp’s Last Tape, Eh Joe and The Old Tune
Harold Pi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, January 17, 2020
Pleasance theatre, London Julie Tsang’s modern gothic fairytale is full of ideas and has some creepy moments but it never quite delivers
Fix opens with all the thrilling promise of a moder…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMWednesday, January 15, 2020
He gave up football after being racially abused on the terraces. Now the barrier-breaking writer, actor and director has turned his scars into a play about a bigoted white family
As a child,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMTuesday, January 14, 2020
Royal Exchange, ManchesterCharlene James’s 2016 play about female genital mutilation combines a powerful social message with bursts of humour
It’s a “messed-up tradition” says one o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMMonday, January 13, 2020
New Diorama, LondonSuperb performances by Annabel Baldwin and Rachel Hosker capture the intimacy and grief of this fearlessly revisionist retelling of Sophocles’ drama
This startling retel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMFriday, January 10, 2020
Finborough theatre, LondonAthena Stevens creates comedy and occasional danger from a real-life incident in this tricksy drama
‘Part of being a creative person who happens to have a disabil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMWednesday, January 8, 2020
Hampstead theatre, LondonAlexandra Wood’s spirited story of modern womanhood reminds us that the blood-bond of sisterhood has hard edges
For 40 years, the photographer Nicholas Nixon took…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMMonday, January 6, 2020
Film reviewers sank their claws into Cats, but is it really so awful? Our stage reviewers steeled themselves for the caterwauling ... but ended up quite enjoying it
It can be very pleasurab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM 
