Thursday, 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 01:36PMWednesday, July 31, 2019
Theatre Royal, BathA dark, growly Everett pushes the humour in David Hare’s absurdist adaptation of the classic drama of mid-life malaise
Last year, Rupert Everett gave a heart-wrenching p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMHe lit up the screen in the 80s – but things did not go as planned. As he takes on Chekhov, Everett speaks about stardom, midlife crises and penis padding
Rupert Everett is directing his f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, July 28, 2019
Troubadour White City theatre, LondonSally Cookson’s stunning production brims with naughtiness, bloodlust and menace – recalling JM Barrie’s original intentions for the story
Peter Pa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMFriday, July 26, 2019
The Passenger Shed, BristolWith a diverse cast bringing an affectionate subversiveness to Enid Blyton’s postwar school tales, Rice’s musical is huge fun and surprisingly contemporary
Emm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMThursday, July 18, 2019
Watermill, NewburyMarietta Kirkbride’s play about a village torn over forgiving a sex offender convincingly channels older voices
The #MeToo movement has inspired a number of plays giving…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PMFriday, July 12, 2019
Finborough, LondonGabriela Garcia and Devon Anderson shine as a prisoner and her guard in a story where the lines are blurred
Tegan McLeod’s drama about American citizenship, illegal immi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMTuesday, July 9, 2019
Royal Court, LondonJasmine Lee-Jones’s play follows an online battle about the Instagram star and tackles racism, misogyny and colourism
The lights are still dead when this play opens. A w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMMonday, July 8, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonA young man plans to privatise the estate where he grew up in Gabriel Bisset-Smith’s quick-witted drama about identity and belonging
Mary is mixed-race; her son Lysande…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMThursday, July 4, 2019
Ovalhouse, LondonThe second instalment of Koko Brown’s colour trilogy is a darkly humorous piece about depression
White, the first part of Koko Brown’s “colour” trilogy, was about gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMThursday, June 27, 2019
Hoxton Hall, London Donna Berlin is intense as an astronaut in Oneness Sankara’s play about the emotional cost of female ambition
‘I would like to tell you a story about being the first,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMTuesday, June 25, 2019
William Baldwin concealed his 16th-century book Beware the Cat because of its satirical swipes at the Catholic church. Now, it’s celebrated on stage
What was the first novel in the English…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMThursday, June 20, 2019
Theatre Royal BathSaunders is a fizzy delight as the medium in Richard Eyre’s revival of the Noël Coward comedy about a couple haunted by the ghost of the husband’s first wife
Noël Cow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMMonday, June 10, 2019
Pleasance, LondonDavid Finnigan’s bold play about protesters who take an environment minister hostage is stalled by metatheatrics
In London’s Parliament Square last October, teenage acti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMTuesday, June 4, 2019
Arcola, LondonFemi Elufowoju Jr’s engaging production puts an African American family at its centre but misses some of the play’s quietly heart-wringing moments
Playwright August Wilson…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMMonday, June 3, 2019
NST City, SouthamptonUpdated to include Brexit, Peter Morgan’s 2013 drama about the Queen’s off-the-record conversations with her prime ministers seems underpowered
Peter Morgan’s play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMMonday, May 27, 2019
Finborough theatre, LondonJulia Pascal’s dynamic production sees Medea reborn as a former fighter against Isis who finds Jason in the British capital
Euripides’ Medea is not just a blood…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMThursday, May 23, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonNyla Levy’s play about London schoolfriends, divided when one goes to Syria, is savvy, streetwise and energetic
What makes a 15-year-old from Mitcham, south London, lea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMWednesday, May 22, 2019
Arcola theatre, LondonThere are entertaining performances in Bim Adewunmi’s lively debut play about a British-Nigerian family with a dinner guest
The dinner party has served as the setting…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Hampstead theatre, LondonZingy repartee and energetic performances fail to enliven Roy Williams’ tale about a criminal gang’s unresolved grievances
The Firm opens in high mood as four mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMTuesday, May 14, 2019
Ovalhouse, LondonNothing feels gratuitous in Bella Heesom’s bold and poetic play about female sexuality which ends in catharsis not climax
More than 20 years ago, Eve Ensler dared to say t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMThursday, May 9, 2019
Birmingham RepThis staging of the bestseller loses the story’s gut-wrenching power in a sea of lighthearted flourish
Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling book The Kite Runner is about fathers, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMFriday, April 26, 2019
Rose theatre, KingstonRona Munro’s adaptation of the Louis de Bernières classic cuts back the love story to drum home the bloody trauma of conflict
Louis de Bernières’s Greek island ep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonUnfettered excess and predatory humour combine in a timely reflection on big business
Jerry Sterner’s play about Wall Street avarice first opened off-Broadway tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AMFriday, April 19, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonThere’s comedy and mystery but darker themes are under-explored in this original but tricksy meta-theatre production
Anthony (Ciarán Owens) is a thirtysomething gay ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:21AMThe Watermill Theatre, NewburyThe arrival of the kind-hearted and introverted Parisian on the UK stage is a magical and emotional triumph of adaptation
The formidable success of Amélie the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:55AMSunday, April 14, 2019
Among the protesters heading for parliament are Noah’s family and Ade Adepitan as God in a suit. April De Angelis talks about turning the biblical flood into riotous drama
On Monday, a day…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AMThursday, April 11, 2019
A Piece of the Continent, a festival celebrating the unifying influence of European theatre, includes dramas about patriarchy, dogmatism and dementia
As Britain seeks to finalise its divorce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Blocked from entering Tibet, he simply walked in through the Himalayas, hiding from Chinese soldiers. As his play about riots in the region is finally staged, the Indian writer talks about l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThis drama inspired by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is ripe for revival but the story asks more questions than it answers
James Phillips calls it the “perfect time…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AMWednesday, March 13, 2019
New productions of A Lesson from Aloes and Blood Knot forcefully portray a world of claustrophobia, surveillance and the subtleties of racial exclusion
The multiracial plays of Athol Fugard …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:56AM 
