Saturday, November 10, 2012
This is a short play, but not a sweet one. Nevertheless, the ban on under-16s and the warning that it “contains themes that some audience members may find distressing” seems unnecessary …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:05PMTuesday, October 9, 2012
Lyric Hammersmith, London: "Purdy" - the idiomatic word glints repeatedly through O'Neill's 1924 play, which takes its central idea - an adulterous affair between a beaut…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AMWednesday, October 3, 2012
Donmar Warehouse, London: Racine's 17th century rhyming couplets are often pronounced untranslatable. Our ears are more tuned to the five-stress pentameters of blank verse than 12-sylla…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMFriday, September 28, 2012
September 24-October 27: There is much ado indeed in this energetic production with its vivid colours, music, dance and teeming communal hubbub. Iqbal Khan has set the action in present-day …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMWednesday, September 5, 2012
Old Rep, Birmingham: It is tempting but pointless to adopt a trainspotter's approach to Calixto Bieito's Catalan-English Shakespearian collage. Here are gobbets of As You Like It, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMThursday, August 9, 2012
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: Placed between the comedies and tragedies in the First Folio, Troilus and Cressida has always defied categorisation beyond the unhelpful 'problem play…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMThursday, June 21, 2012
Gate Theatre Notting Hill, London: The text-programme for The Prophet helpfully lists bloggers and tweeters as a means of keeping up with swiftly changing Egyptian politics. Despite being se…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:29AMFriday, June 8, 2012
Theatre 503, London: Vincent works in an abattoir. A young man in his community is killed. By the end of Jimmy Osborne's play, the interconnectedness of these two facts has been rammed …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMThursday, May 31, 2012
Olivier, National Theatre, London: The head of state and assorted generals and apparatchiks cluster round a screen much as Obama and his staff did to watch the death of Osama bin Laden. But …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Theatre Royal, Brighton: This was an exemplary festival event. First, it provided an enjoyable mix of star glamour (Vanessa Redgrave, its guest director) and local talent (the young Brighton…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMFriday, May 11, 2012
Jermyn Street, London: Adam is both son and mother to Mammles whom he tends - as he has for 15 years - in the cluttered attic of their home. She is bed-ridden, crippled with arthritis. He is…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMTuesday, March 27, 2012
New Victoria Theatre, Woking: Meeting Sharon, Tracey and Dorien again is a bit like encountering distant relatives after a gap of more than a decade. Will they have changed much? Will they b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMThursday, March 15, 2012
Cottesloe, National, London: This beautiful play set in post-war Trinidad won Errol John the newly-inaugurated Observer award for an undiscovered playwright in 1957. It was produced the foll…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMThursday, March 8, 2012
Hampstead Theatre, London: Richard Nelson has set himself quite a task in writing a play about Harley Granville-Barker. Not only is his subject revered by modern directors and theatre histor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMThursday, March 1, 2012
Bush Theatre, London: Uncertainty is the keynote of Ishy Din's first full-length play, the last of Josie Rourke's programming here before her departure for the Donmar.
Read the fu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMFriday, February 17, 2012
Lyric Hammersmith, London: Puck's beautiful speech at the end of the play, beginning "If we shadows have offended", comes as something of a surprise. Not because it is deliver…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:09AMThursday, May 5, 2011
The Print Room, London: This buzzing new 80-seat venue in Notting Hill is celebrating the centenary of Tennessee Williams's birth with this late, lesser-known melodrama. Full of William…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AM 
