Thursday, August 10, 2023
Assembly @ Dance Base, EdinburghScotland’s leading company for older dancers offers statuesque personality and sprightly disco in a show that defies sentimentality
My neighbour at this sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AMWednesday, August 9, 2023
Assembly Hall, EdinburghThe company is understandably seeking ‘good stories with happy endings’ but the best results come in a brief folk-dance
Perhaps it isn’t surprising that there�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghAlexa Davies’ performance as Charly, a rhyming drug dealer who is falling apart, is the gleaming heart of this production
‘I am a trailblazer,” declar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
Traverse theatre, EdinburghNat McCleary’s play brings five women together through a Highland Games that does not always make them welcome
Backhold wrestling, a folk sport that thrives in S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25AMThursday, July 6, 2023
Young Vic, LondonKwame Kwei-Armah’s play takes a character from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun on a journey to Africa
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark 1959 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMFriday, June 23, 2023
Minerva, ChichesterRakie Ayola is superb in a story about the exploitation of a Black female playwright by the great and the greedy of London’s theatreland
It’s quite a title. Adrienne …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AMSunday, June 11, 2023
Royal Opera House, LondonLaura Morera takes her final bow as Anastasia in a night that also includes Christopher Wheeldon’s winningly athletic Olympian ballet and McGregor’s Untitled, 20…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMFriday, June 9, 2023
Royal Court, London Three audacious monologues by McDowall, dazzlingly performed by Kate O’Flynn, open vivid windows on to day-to-day existence
Alistair McDowall’s plays are portals to t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMMonday, May 29, 2023
In the run-up to the festival, our writers will choose new productions that have caught their eye – but here’s a selection of those we’ve already reviewed
Richard Marsh has clearly see…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMThursday, May 18, 2023
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonA young woman offers her life to save an unworthy aristocrat in a passionately sung fable of Caribbean history
A tragic tale rollicking with positive …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, May 7, 2023
Orange Tree, Richmond Strong emotions rule in a candid and well-judged Somerset Maugham comedy twisting romantic fates across generations of squabbling society
Elizabeth (Olivia Vinall), the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMWednesday, May 3, 2023
Queen’s theatre, HornchurchFearing the playwright’s works will be lost to history, former colleagues enact a rescue plan in Lauren Gunderson’s generous-hearted comedy
Less giddy than S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMTuesday, May 2, 2023
Russell Tovey, Simon Fisher Turner, Travis Alabanza and Neil Bartlett are teaming up to reimagine the director’s final film – a narrated meditation over a static blue screen – as a ‘…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMMonday, March 13, 2023
The actor, better known as a TV cop, is portraying Julius Caesar’s assassin in a first for the RSC. She reveals why she’s been studying revolutionaries, from Mexican Zapatistas to Welsh …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMThursday, February 23, 2023
Playground theatre, LondonWriter Richard Norton-Taylor and director Nicolas Kent’s almost anti-theatrical play uses residents’ testimonies and gives the bereaved a much-needed voice
Stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
Tracy-Ann Oberman’s Shylock, who has been relocated to 1930s Britain, is inspired by her tough great grandma – while Henry Goodman felt shame after losing himself in Shakespeare’s most…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PMFriday, February 17, 2023
Orange Tree theatre, LondonTara Fitzgerald plays the former violinist in a restaging of Tom Kempinski’s play that pits patient against doctor in a furious battle of wills
Change one elemen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AMTuesday, January 10, 2023
The Rev Simon Grigg, a former stage director, welcomes our writer to St Paul’s in Covent Garden, where the stars worship
“She’s a very good Christian soul, but not the dynamic person t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:09PMMonday, December 12, 2022
As Hellman’s 1941 play is revived at the Donmar Warehouse in London, director Ellen McDougall and dramaturg Emma Jude explain how it remains a call to arms
“We’re shaken out of the mag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMMonday, December 5, 2022
Garrick theatre, LondonIn Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s wild-goose chase through time, Corrin shines as the hero who falls asleep as a man and wakes as a woman
Emma Corr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMThursday, December 1, 2022
Wilton’s Music Hall, London Piers Torday’s update of the children’s classic brings Kenneth Grahame’s animals to modern-day London
Kenneth Grahame had terrifying nightmares about lyin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMThursday, November 24, 2022
Ustinov Studio, BathDickie Beau offers a merry miscellany, featuring stories from Ian McKellen and Fiona Shaw, in a meditation on theatre that is closer to possession than parody
Dickie Beau…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
Arcola, LondonFrank McGuinness conjures the bizarre but real encounter between TS Eliot and the Marx brother in a leaden piece a talented cast can’t save
Unlikely as it seems, TS Eliot and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThursday, October 20, 2022
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonGill weaves an intricate, poignant picture of London’s queer history as two elderly men ruminate on the long-gone loves of their youth
Two elderly men sit side…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMThursday, October 13, 2022
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonIvy Tiller: Vicar’s Daughter, Squirrel Killer by Bea Roberts and Nina Segal’s O, Island! offer cartoonish satire that lacks sting
The RSC has been sit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
As Kenneth MacMillan’s classic returns, his widow Deborah and Edward Watson – celebrated for dancing the lead role – reflect on preserving the spirit of this seamy beast of a ballet
It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AMFriday, October 7, 2022
Donmar Warehouse, LondonWhen an Egyptian orchestra accidentally tips up in a sleepy Israeli backwater, lives are changed in the quietest of ways
‘Nothing is as beautiful as something you d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Marylebone theatre, LondonPeter Oswald’s take on Friedrich Schiller’s unfinished tragedy shows Russia’s recurrent turn towards tyranny
When Friedrich Schiller died aged 45 in 1805, he …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Misogynist gags? Ancient puns? Unethical bed tricks? Theatre-makers discuss how they tackle the Bard’s trickier works
Earlier this year, I spoke to the actor Natasha Magigi, a regular at S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMFriday, September 30, 2022
Chichester Festival theatreJenna Russell stars in Alan Ayckbourn’s exploration of mental illness with an accomplished cast of supporting characters ably adding to the anguish
It’s clear …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMFriday, September 16, 2022
Park theatre, LondonA mourning woman looks back on her life in Martin Sherman’s ethereal yet uneven drama about history, heritage and memory
Rose doesn’t believe in the future. It’s ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AM 
