Monday, 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 11:24AMThursday, January 2, 2020
Tom Stoppard gets personal, Cush Jumbo does Hamlet, Hollywood names bring everything from tragedy to comedy … plus dance confronts shame and there’s standup open heart surgery Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMFriday, December 13, 2019
Belgrade theatre, CoventryCharacters including The Great Gatsby’s Daisy round on a Greek god in this bewildering Christmas show
The setting is a cabaret-style jazz club with saxophonist, d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMThursday, December 12, 2019
National Theatre, LondonGaiman’s novel turns into a dynamic and quirky stage spectacular, though at the expense of the more nuanced relationships
There are some hair-raising monsters in T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMWednesday, December 11, 2019
Almeida, LondonLydia Wilson is riveting as the strong-willed duchess in Rebecca Frecknall’s arresting update
When The Duchess of Malfi was revived in 1945 after falling out of fashion for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMMonday, December 9, 2019
Bunker, LondonMatilda Ibini’s autobiographical coming-of-age play mixes serious scenes with underpowered comedy sketches
Little Miss Burden begins as a Jackanory-style story, narrated by t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PMThis year, the tried-and-tested tale at London’s Old Vic is up against subversive surprises at Wilton’s Music Hall, where Scrooge’s sister takes the lead
Charles Dickens knew he had st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMWednesday, December 4, 2019
Royal Court, LondonSaturating the senses with sound, light and sign language, this imaginative experience explores whether the web can free us from our ‘glitching’ bodies
In Midnight Mov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMMonday, December 2, 2019
She needed police protection after her play about a rape in a Sikh temple was axed mid-run. The playwright talks about the extraordinary upbringing that drives her
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti was a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMMonday, November 18, 2019
Park theatre, LondonAnna Akhmatova is forced to choose between artistic integrity and saving her son in Olivia Olsen’s play
In 1935, Anna Akhmatova began writing Requiem in Soviet Russia. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMFriday, November 8, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonSamuel Bailey’s moving play is carried along by its characters’ wisecracking – and reveals the anguish hidden underneath
The bored young men in Shook yearn t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMWednesday, November 6, 2019
Her musical Poet in da Corner brought raving to the Royal Court. Now the writer and performer is exploring first love. She talks Mormonism, trauma and teen dreams
Debris Stevenson’s first …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMTuesday, November 5, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonVR headsets and a gender switch give National Youth Theatre’s exuberant production a modern twist, but the storytelling feels gimmicky
‘The human era is coming…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMThursday, October 31, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonIn his debut play, starring Alan Davies, David Baddiel gambles on a mash-up of physics and midlife crisis
Alan Davies emerges on stage to address the room, or so it seems…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMMonday, October 28, 2019
Her dramas confront the growing horrors facing women in India today. Now she’s reworked Ibsen’s Ghosts, taking out the syphilis and putting in the Delhi bus gang rape of 2012
Anupama Cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMSunday, October 27, 2019
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe painter resembles a drunken YBA in a flawed but timely show that veers from camp humour to political intrigue
‘This is not just a play, it’s an extravaganza,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMThursday, October 24, 2019
Vaults, LondonShepard picks apart the frailties of two men tormented by unspoken emotions, from marital meltdown and armchair priapism to the existential crisis of mortality
The men in Sam S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMSunday, October 20, 2019
Old Vic, LondonDuncan Macmillan’s two-hander is a frenetic portrait of flawed love in a flawed world, exposing the neuroses of a modern couple who struggle to put their principles aside
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMFriday, October 18, 2019
Hackney Showroom, LondonZawe Ashton aims high with an intricate dissection of race and gender but a smart ending can’t save this muddled show
Zawe Ashton has described her play as both an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Theatre 503, LondonDanusia Samal’s complex drama explores the double life of a young Muslim millennial heading for marriage
Zara is a British-Arab millennial who feels the strain of her do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMSunday, October 13, 2019
A drama competition for 200 naked people in a giant sauna? Our writer gets a sweaty taste of ‘aufgass’ in the Netherlands
I am standing behind a partition rope, waiting for the theatre t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMMonday, October 7, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonThis fearless production uses intelligent humour to expose racial typecasting in the entertainment industry
How diverse is theatre? Are there more roles for BAME actors …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMBelgrade theatre, CoventryPlacing Mary Shelley alongside the characters she created undermines the extraordinary power of her classic story
The real-life tale behind the creation of Frankens…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMFriday, September 27, 2019
Yvonne Arnaud theatre, Guildford Set during and after the blitz, the lives of five characters and the scars left behind are movingly explored
Sarah Waters writes historical novels that seem …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMThursday, September 26, 2019
Young Vic, LondonYaël Farber’s visceral production, relocating the action to rural Ireland, retains all the potency of Lorca’s play about tribal vengeance
How to stage Lorca’s Blood W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMWednesday, September 25, 2019
Park theatre, LondonOberman stars as the mother of a teenage rapist in this revival of Evan Placey’s rich exploration of family conflict
Matthew Kapowitz is a Canadian teenager under house…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMThursday, September 12, 2019
Orange Tree, LondonMaya Arad Yasur’s complex play about the consequences of war is obscured by a series of comic games
Amsterdam is billed as an “audacious thriller” and the mystery at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMFriday, September 6, 2019
Finborough, LondonAfter a boy runs away, a Maori social worker is sent to investigate the parents in Emma Kinane’s engaging if overlong New Zealand drama
A young Maori social worker is sen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMTuesday, August 27, 2019
The Weinstein scandal has inspired several new plays ranging from sharp satire to crass comedy. As the mogul heads to trial, we gauge theatre’s response
Katie Arnstein tells a story of a d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMFriday, August 9, 2019
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonAndrew Lloyd Webber’s epic gets a rock-concert revival that features pom-poms and twerking but lacks central chemistry
It is no surprise that Evita …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, August 1, 2019
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonMalcolm Rennie is stunning as Harry McNish, a carpenter on Shackleton’s ill-fated voyage, whose key part in the famous story has been overlooked
The lights go …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM 
