Thursday, December 19, 2024
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, LondonUnfamiliar songs are performed beautifully in an episodic play featuring the escapades of the rackety real-life Addison and Wilson Mizner
If you’ve never …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMWednesday, November 6, 2024
Ambassadors theatre, LondonRelocating the F Scott Fitzgerald story to a Cornish fishing village, this is a vivacious yet touching show
F Scott Fitzgerald’s tale of a man who ages in revers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31PMTuesday, September 17, 2024
Hampstead theatre, LondonCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin faced constant sexism and professional exclusion, but Stella Feehily’s play shows a woman with an iron will to succeed
Cecilia Payne-Gapos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMWednesday, August 14, 2024
Though Ian McKellen gave his Hamlet at the age of 82, older women rarely get the chance to play young characters. But with Imelda Staunton in Hello Dolly and Geraldine James as Rosalind, are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00AMTuesday, July 16, 2024
From the Gareth Southgate play Dear England to Red Speedo, about a swimmer caught doping, dramatists are using sport to examine class, race, morality – and life in Britain today
Will no on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMFriday, April 19, 2024
Kiln theatre, LondonSophie Thompson and Charles Edwards are delightful as the unlikely pair thrown together by a school production as teenagers and reunited late in life
Music, says Hattie, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMFriday, March 1, 2024
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonToxic masculinity rears its head in Rachel Bagshaw’s Globe debut which proves less interested in horror effects than the characters’ emotional journeys
Joh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMWednesday, August 23, 2023
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe performances are superb in this tale of a family dealing with bipolar disorder but the storyline is thin
Given that Next to Normal is about a woman with bipolar d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AMFriday, June 30, 2023
Arcola theatre, LondonIn a week when English cricket was found guilty of deep-rooted racism, an affecting tale of discrimination dismissed as banter feels particularly profound
This one-man …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMWednesday, June 21, 2023
Theatre Royal BathDespite charismatic performances and real chemistry, the classic Audrey Hepburn romcom falters in its transition into a Cole Porter jukebox musical
Jeremy Sams’ productio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AMSunday, June 11, 2023
Royal Court, LondonSet in a future police state, Tom Fowler’s play sees two women go on the run in a feverish reimagining of Thelma and Louise
The winning scene that opens Tom Fowler’s n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMWednesday, May 10, 2023
Fortune theatre, LondonWith gag-packed songs and gender-swapped roles, this fringe show about a secret service plot is a joyful success on the big stage
SpitLip’s anarchic adaptation of on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMFriday, May 5, 2023
Chichester Festival theatreLia Williams and her son Joshua James make a scintillating double act in a resonant revival of the 1924 hit
There’s a tableau in this production of The Vortex wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMThursday, April 13, 2023
Arcola, LondonWhat starts as a comedy of sibling manners ends in a soap opera-like recital of childhood abuses and family grievances
The question of what we inherit from our parents has been…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Daniel Fish’s restaging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic is no Kansas City cornbread caper. The director explains why he ratcheted up the racial tension and gun violence
In the Oklah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMWednesday, April 13, 2022
Charing Cross theatre, LondonThe whiff of hamminess is never absent from the Zorro story and here both script and performances are endearingly alive to a sense of the ridiculous
Swipe right!…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMWednesday, March 2, 2022
Dorfman, LondonAlecky Blythe’s masterful play – which features a brilliantly charismatic cast – follows real youngsters across five years of their lives
Ali, 14, wants to be a criminal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMTuesday, February 22, 2022
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonLikable leads who act with great verve are let down by a weak story that can’t hold the weight of its themes
Given the scale of the environmental challenges fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMThursday, November 18, 2021
Park theatre, LondonLydia White is magnetic as the aspirational Jo in an uneven but stirring adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic
Jo March is a heroine well suited to musical theatre.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMSunday, November 14, 2021
Park theatre, LondonMike Leigh’s 1970s masterpiece of aggressive hospitality, embarrassing silences and gauche behaviour is back in a slightly more naturalistic portrayal
Mike Leigh’s co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMMonday, November 12, 2018
He has done politics in Bodyguard, horror in Utopia and comedy as Kevin in Motherland. Next up for Paul Ready is Shakespeare’s tragedy, alongside his wife, at the GlobePaul Ready is spooke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AMWednesday, May 11, 2016
Some cover their feet in glue, others slice at them with razor blades ... Emma John discovers what performing night after night does to a dancer's feetIt should have been the best day of Jen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11PMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jaques’s lines on the seven ages of man fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMTuesday, May 3, 2016
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Paterson Joseph speaks Shylock’s lines from The Merchant of Ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:11AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jacques’s lines on the seven ages of man fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Damian Lewis performs Antony’s lines from act III, scene 2 of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Laura Carmichael speaks Portia’s lines from The Merchant of Ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund’s soliloquy from the start of Act I, S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMMonday, February 29, 2016
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Camille O’Sullivan plays Constance in King John, Act III, Scen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Joanna Lumley speaks Viola’s soliloquy from Twelfth Night, Act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Sacha Dhawan delivers an edited version of Parolles’s lines fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AM 
