Sunday, August 18, 2019
Wharfhouse, Cropredy, OxfordshireMikron’s second world war show follows two female navy recruits as they battle the enemy and colleagues
“Theatre anywhere for everyone, by canal, river a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMSunday, August 11, 2019
King’s theatre; Lyceum, Edinburgh; Minerva, ChichesterEnglish settlers terrorise Indigenous Australians in an unflinching production from Sydney; the aftermath of a homophobic killing is e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSaturday, August 3, 2019
Theatre Royal Bath; Royal Exchange, Manchester; Passenger Shed, BristolRupert Everett’s astute direction of Chekhov results in a meeting of minds, and a luddite history is given a modern e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMSunday, July 28, 2019
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickLucy Kirkwood’s domestic-seeming drama has the steely underpinning of a Greek tragedy
A visitor arrives at a cottage by the sea – unexpected but not unknown. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, July 14, 2019
Crucible, SheffieldLolita Chakrabarti’s superbly acted adaptation of Yann Martel’s Booker-winner makes dazzling use of its interplay of illusions
Everything about this production is amaz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSunday, July 7, 2019
Royal Exchange, ManchesterThe Hodgkiss award winner by 154 Collective finds complexity in a simple encounter between two people
Wrestling the Walrus is the winner of the latest Hodgkiss awar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMSunday, June 30, 2019
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonRobin French’s new play mixes music, folklore and contemporary ideas to intriguing, if overlong effect
Into a house in a forest go a boy and a girl. Wol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMSunday, June 23, 2019
Theatre Royal BathJennifer Saunders stars as Madame Arcati in this touching production of the Coward classic
When Charles summons a psychic to perform a seance in his home so that he can obs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMSunday, June 16, 2019
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonUnmissable performances save a creaky tale of differing approaches to God’s calling
Anthony McCarten, the Oscar-nominated writer of the Freddie Mercury bio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMSunday, June 9, 2019
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughA role-swapping, multiple-version adaptation of Wilde’s novel is too tricksy for its own goodWhy “pictures”? Just as in Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMThursday, May 30, 2019
The MAC, BelfastWriter Rachel Trezise brings universality to the tale of a young Northern Irish woman travelling to Wales for a termination
“Any separate status for Northern Ireland from t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSunday, May 26, 2019
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghZinnie Harris’s narrow reworking of Webster’s revenge tragedy fails to persuade
Tom Piper’s design sets the keynote for the play: striking, efficient and almost …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMSunday, May 19, 2019
Leeds PlayhouseA play set in 1964 about young mothers forced to give up their babies for adoption is as fresh as when first performed in 1998The action of Amanda Whittington’s bittersweet …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMSunday, May 12, 2019
Birmingham Rep, and touringThe Rep’s Roxana Silbert bows out with an inventive staging of Ursula Rani Sarma’s adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s 2007 novel
“Every street of Kabul is ent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMSunday, May 5, 2019
Perth theatreMorna Young’s moving play about a journalist researching the life and death of her fisherman father is beautifully served by this fine production
Towards the back of the prosc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMSunday, April 21, 2019
Watermill theatre, NewburyClever staging and warm performances make this adaptation of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film a visual treat
Last week’s fire at Notre Dame prompted various reflectio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, April 14, 2019
Theatre Royal, YorkImitating the Dog interrogate their own staging of the controversial novella as well as its themesJoseph Conrad’s 1899 novella tells of the steamboat journey undertaken …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, April 7, 2019
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, BathPunchy characters, great pace, prizes… but something doesn’t work in this play about dysfunctional relatives
Claudio Tolcachir’s award-winning play, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, March 31, 2019
Royal Lyceum theatre, EdinburghBill Forsyth’s adaptation of his 1983 film, with new music by Mark Knopfler, is topical all over again
Bill Forsyth’s lighthearted story has a strong moral…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, March 24, 2019
Birmingham Repertory theatreA reimagining of the life of Cyrano de Bergerac writer Edmond Rostand is a whirl of can-cans and cavorting in its English-language premiere
Panache! The word enca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSunday, March 17, 2019
Theatre Royal PlymouthPhil Porter’s new play about social media moderators is a bold attempt to address issues of online censorship but doesn’t quite click
“Click the left arrow to del…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSunday, March 10, 2019
Library theatre, BoltonMarital tensions and mental health are expertly explored in David Thacker’s production of Miller’s 1993 play
Director David Thacker’s setting, as realised in Cia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSunday, March 3, 2019
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonNiamh Cusack and Stephen Boxer shine in a clunky adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel
Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1989 Booker prize-winning novel is narrated by Ste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, February 24, 2019
Bristol Old VicA beautifully crafted play about a family threatened by racial tensions during the 1960s Bristol bus boycott
The Princess, in Princess and the Hustler, is 10-year-old Phyllis …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMBroadway theatre, Letchworth Garden CityA mischievous menagerie of six actors have fun down on the farm
Mother, father, grandfather, big sister and little brother dance around the bed singin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, February 17, 2019
Royal Exchange, ManchesterAnna Jordan’s new adaptation sets Brecht’s anti-war play in a dystopian 2080From the lighting rig are suspended wire grids on to which are fastened ragged cardb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMSunday, February 10, 2019
Leeds PlayhouseKiza Deen excels in green’s heart-wrenching one-woman play about the killing of a black schoolboyA son and brother dies as a consequence of “something important, not no ra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMSunday, February 3, 2019
Lyceum theatre, SheffieldDastardly Agatha Cackle’s attempts to make witching great again have the young audience almost levitating in their seatsAn onstage banner proclaims that “Miss Ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSunday, January 27, 2019
Hull Truck theatreBarrie Rutter revives Ben Benison’s reworking of King Lear set in a 21st-century fishing community with action-packed successA reworking of King Lear, spliced with legend…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSunday, January 20, 2019
Home, ManchesterOne man’s life from cradle to grave is the subject of Eve Steele’s intense one-woman playManchester’s annual Push festival celebrates the creative work of the north-wes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSunday, December 30, 2018
Sharon D Clarke’s bravura performance in Caroline, or Change reaches London’s West End, tears flow at Goodnight Mister Tom, and a Robin Hood reboot hits the markChristmas is for children…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM 
