Sunday, July 21, 2024
Royal Court; Hampstead; Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonFiona Shaw, Adrian Lester, Toby Jones and more explore the refugee experience in an intriguing multimedia show; Christopher Hampton pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSunday, July 14, 2024
As a theatre production of the Nobel prize-winning writer’s acclaimed autobiography The Years opens in the UK, the actors playing her at different ages – including Deborah Findlay, Gina …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, June 16, 2024
Bristol Old Vic; Lyric Hammersmith; Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe moving story of the invention of IVF gives space to the women affected; Alice Childress’s 60s interracial romance proves …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, June 9, 2024
With the London opening of his incendiary work set to be among the theatre events of the year, the dramatist, along with the show’s director and stars Kit Harington and Olivia Washington, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMMonday, May 27, 2024
He starred in Peep Show, Green Wing and Wonka – and his first novel won an award. Now the star is making operas with 64 homeless people. Not bad going for someone who was written off by hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMThursday, May 23, 2024
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonNetflix turned Kata Wéber and Kornél Mundruczó’s play into an Oscar-nominated film. Now a world-class ensemble from Poland’s TR Warszawa bring it out its …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSunday, May 12, 2024
Barbican, LondonThe final hours of Mary, Queen of Scots are enacted with hypnotic precision in Robert Wilson’s collaboration with Théâtre de la Ville–Paris
In the grand soap opera of 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMTuesday, March 26, 2024
Rivalries, putdowns, betrayals … director Natalie Ibu explains why she is thrilled to be making her National Theatre debut with an award-winning play about the famous writing sisters
Natal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMTuesday, March 5, 2024
One minute, she decided to try acting. The next, she had a plum role in Netflix’s Regency hit. And now she’s blazing into the West End. But that’s not nearly enough for this unstoppabl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMOne minute, she decided to try acting. The next, she had a plum role in Netflix’s Regency hit. And now she’s blazing into the West End. But that’s not nearly enough for this unstoppabl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMDeath announced of writer whose searing and controversial plays included Saved and Early Morning
Michael Billington on Edward Bond: a phenomenal talent who upturned theatre
Edward Bond, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, January 26, 2024
Orange Tree theatre, LondonWriter Zoe Cooper and director Tessa Walker reignite Jane Austen’s early novel with hilarious physical storytelling and a fizzing cast, though the romance sputte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMWednesday, November 29, 2023
As his Velvet Revolution drama returns, the great writer talks about his mounting Israel-Gaza uncertainties, the epiphanies he has in every hot shower – and our one-star ‘corker’ revie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMWednesday, October 18, 2023
As he returns to the stage to play JS Bach, the actor sounds off about the mess Britain’s in, explains why he turned down Game of Thrones – and reveals the price he has paid for Successi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37AMTuesday, October 17, 2023
The Yard, LondonJames Fritz frames a Victorian story as folk tragedy and political interrogation – exuberant in its ambition, just occasionally not quite fulfilling its potential
In July 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13PMTuesday, October 3, 2023
Gielgud theatre, LondonA cleverly cast tribute, featuring Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga and Bonnie Langford, reflects on the passing of time with comedy and melancholy
For those who know al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19PMFriday, June 16, 2023
Gielgud theatre, LondonHarnessing horror film conventions, Lyndsey Turner’s intelligent revival conjures places where truth is a political inconvenience
Seventy years after its premiere, A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMThursday, June 15, 2023
Her singular passion lit up performances from Women in Love to King Lear and drove her 23-year middle career as an MP
Michael Billington: Glenda Jackson was piercingly intelligent and unafra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMWednesday, June 7, 2023
His 2003 play about child torture and freedom of speech became a global phenomenon. But will it offend today’s audiences? The writer-director explains why he won’t be changing a thing
Ir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMFriday, May 5, 2023
Brixton House, LondonDirector Monique Touko keeps the tone lively with this tough story of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe in which the actors switch race, age and gender with ease
In a place called Par…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, April 19, 2023
The actor looks back over a four-decade career balancing ‘serious’ drama and improv comedy, describes the making of her wholly improvised new film, and explains why we don’t see her on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMSunday, April 2, 2023
O’Farrell’s novel about Shakespeare losing his young son to the plague struck a powerful chord in lockdown. She and Chakrabarti discuss exploring class, place and creativity for a play t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Hampstead theatre, LondonTwo women disinter a trauma from their past in Michael John O’Neill’s allegorical play set in an evangelical church
Two sisters circle each other in the antecham…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:57AMTuesday, February 7, 2023
Hampstead theatre, LondonRuby Thomas’s play, based on a true story about a married couple in 18th-century Prussia who were tried for sodomy, is tender, musical and funny
From Gentleman Jac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThursday, February 2, 2023
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonHeirs and spares fight under a sleazeball Roman emperor and candles take a hammering in a brilliantly provocative show with an all-female ensemble
What do you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMSaturday, January 21, 2023
The innovative Australian director who gained acclaim for his version of Yerma starring Billie Piper is now reframing Phaedra as a postmenopausal love story with Janet McTeer
Simon Stone doe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMWednesday, January 4, 2023
Novelist and screenwriter whose tales of women taking control of their own destinies included The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
• Writer Fay Weldon dies aged 91
The novelist Fay Weldon, wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMSunday, December 18, 2022
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThis co-production between the Globe and Tamasha gives voice to five fluent, witty and graceful women, allowing them to reshape the ancient tales as their own
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMSunday, November 27, 2022
The comedian-writer’s One Woman Show takes hilarious issue with the Fleabag-style ‘messy woman’ trope. As it transfers to London’s West End, she says she feels ‘at odds’ with its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMTuesday, November 15, 2022
The actor and the director Michael Grandage talk about how relevant their staging of Virginia Woolf’s classic work of gender fluidity feels – and remember their own queer battles
Emma Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMMonday, October 24, 2022
As Complicité’s Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm
Time feels out …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49AM 
