Sunday, May 31, 2015
Olivier, LondonDirector Simon Godwin conspires to make George Farquhar’s restoration comedy fresh, relevant and unstoppably entertaining Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:40AMTuesday, May 26, 2015
Tom Hiddleston was named best newcomer at the Laurence Olivier Awards in March and delivered acclaimed turns in Ivanov at the Wyndham's theatre and BBC drama Wallander Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37PMMonday, May 25, 2015
A fine cast fails to revive Ira Levin's comedy thriller, while there's mirth and madness at the Globe, writes Kate Kellaway
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMSunday, May 3, 2015
The Globe, LondonJonathan Pryce and his daughter, Phoebe, excel in Jonathan Munby’s inspired production Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, April 26, 2015
The National’s magnificent production of Caryl Churchill’s English civil war play resonates powerfully today Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, April 19, 2015
The Vaults, London An aptly subterranean reworking of Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece is the perfect remedy for grown-ups who have forgotten what it is to play Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, March 8, 2015
Almeida, LondonVideo-game violence and reality meet in an ingeniously executed eveningGame is more a concept than a conventional play, in which multitalented and prolific playwright Mike Bar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMYoung Vic, LondonDead Centre’s terrible and true story of a mysterious hunger strike is a perfect companion to Beckett’s Happy Days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMBarbican, LondonThere is perhaps unfair pressure on Binoche to pull off miracles in Ivo van Hove’s eagerly anticipated take on Sophocles Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, February 22, 2015
Barbican, LondonHigh emotion drives this anarchic Russian production in which the doomed lovers are accompanied by dancing damsels and a brooding ukulele Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMUnicorn, LondonThe story of how music-hall male impersonator Vesta Tilley became a first world war recruiter is eloquent, delightful and moving Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMBirmingham RepMary Chase’s 40s Broadway comedy doesn’t always hit the funny boneIt is the task of director Lindsay Posner to pull a rabbit out of a hat: white, invisible, over six feet t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, February 8, 2015
One of Britain’s most brilliant actors on reprising her performance as Winnie in Beckett’s Happy Days, and the unexpected joys of getting olderJuliet Stevenson arrives late and apologeti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSunday, February 1, 2015
Lyttelton, LondonPrincely rivals fight it out in the National’s pertinent tale of hardline fundamentalism versus religious tolerance Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSwan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThe RSC succeed in making an epic, albeit a remote one, out of this tale of the boffin behind the atomic bomb Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMTheatre Royal Haymarket, LondonPenelope Wilton is outstanding as the mother of one of Hitler’s earliest victims in this first-rate West End transfer from Chichester Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMSunday, January 18, 2015
Harriet Walter’s new play, Boa, is an intimate dissection of love, ego and creative differences that sees her cast opposite her real-life husband, Guy Paul – but don’t mistake it for a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30AMSaturday, December 13, 2014
The London writer on the inspiration behind her award-winning debut play about a child soldier in Liberia’s civil war“It’s interesting,” Diana Nneka Atuona says, “how many people a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSunday, December 7, 2014
For Eddie Redmayne, playing Stephen Hawking in a film about the brilliant scientist with motor neurone disease was a huge challenge. But the hardest part was meeting the great man himself……
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSaturday, November 29, 2014
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal BathAlun Armstrong rules in Ionesco’s absurdist drama Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09PMJerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, LondonThe kids are more than all right in this marvellous send-up of positive thinking in a primary school Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMPhoenix theatre, LondonThe Boyzone star’s acting errs on the wooden side, but there’s no doubt about his singing performance Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, November 15, 2014
Print Room, LondonJanet Suzman shows what great acting is in Lara Foots tense, moving two-hander set in South Africa Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMHampstead, LondonLorraine Stanley is superb as a young south London copper in Roy Williamss sparky but flawed new play Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMRoyal Court, LondonKatie Mitchell directs this powerful riposte to all climate-change deniers. If only some drama had been injected into it too Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, November 1, 2014
Southwark Playhouse, LondonAn international cast share their own moving, first-hand accounts of Vietnam, Nagasaki and Treblinka Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMBarbican, LondonA dead body poses questions of absence and existence, but is at risk of leaving the audience cold too Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMOutstanding performances from a cast led by Eileen Atkins, but the play is a case of too many playwrights spoiling the plotEileen Atkins: Even today theres a resentment of old people Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMSaturday, October 25, 2014
Shaftesbury theatre, LondonBeverley Knight and Killian Donnelly head the terrific London cast of the Tony-winning musical Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, August 23, 2014
Lyceum, EdinburghPeter Eyre is riveting as the would-be tragic hero in a brilliant revival of Thomas Bernhard's tremendous Minetti Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PM 
