Saturday, 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 07:07PMFestival theatre, ChichesterSophie Thompson gives a masterclass in comic acting while Carlos Acosta brings Cuban flamboyance as choreographer Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PMSaturday, July 26, 2014
Royal Opera House, LondonCarlos Acosta's attempt to link his two homes doesn't quite work, but still he dances a dream Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, July 5, 2014
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds; Hampstead theatre, Royal Court, LondonMaxine Peake puts Yorkshire cyclist Beryl Burton back in the saddle, but a play about the miners' strike sheds little n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 31, 2014
The Globe makes a fine, risky romance out of Antony and Cleopatra, but a play about art offers no fresh perspectivesI have never seen an Antony and Cleopatra in which I have been made more a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, May 10, 2014
Barbican, London; Minerva, ChichesterFiona Shaw is spellbinding as the traumatised mother of Christ, while Stevie Smith's life offers a whimsical return to 70s suburbiaBefore The Testament o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMFriday, April 18, 2014
Old Red Lion, LondonA warm and touching performance from Illona Linthwaite is at the heart of this ambitious new playAt the centre of this ambitious play is Ingrid, who suffers from dementia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, March 15, 2014
Olwen Fouéré's solo stage interpretation of Finnegans Wake at the Shed is a delightShe leans down to unlace her shoes, a tiny figure in a grey suit, her long hair tied back. And then she w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMSaturday, March 1, 2014
Royal & Derngate, Northampton; Lyttelton; Southwark Playhouse, London Dickens moves smartly from page to stage, old junk jogs memories, and a musical explores the streets of LondonThere is a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, February 8, 2014
After 650 show-stealing turns as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda the Musical, Bertie Carvel is about to star in Channel 4's new comedy drama Babylon. Though some of the Trunch's truculence remain…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSunday, January 5, 2014
The author tells how football nearly cost her the nannying job on which her hilarious memoir of 80s literary London is basedHow did you get the job as nanny to the sons of Mary-Kay Wilmers […
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30AMSaturday, January 4, 2014
Old Vic, London; Orange Tree, RichmondThe Old Vic have struck gold with a brilliant production of a neglected country house satire by TurgenevIt is rare to come out of the theatre with a pre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, December 14, 2013
Hoxton Hall, LondonActor-director Ruth Wilson is terrific in three short Eugene O'Neill plays from the ragtime eraFrom the moment you step into Hoxton Hall, your spirits rise and you are rem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, December 7, 2013
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonMatthew White's production of the challenging Candide is ambitious if somewhat over the topCandide ends with Voltaire's famous imperative: "Il faut cultiver n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, November 30, 2013
Wigmore Hall, London W1Even with Handel's wretched lovers at their lowest ebb, this was a concert to be treasuredThe Early Opera Company's sparkling concert performance of Handel's 1718 oper…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, November 16, 2013
JW3, LondonFour actors listening through headphones recreate Jewish families exactly as they sound, with funny and moving resultsThe elegant new Jewish centre in north London's Finchley Road…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMThe actress talks about Mary Poppins, playing disturbed people and her move into directingCan you give us a quick sketch of your character in Saving Mr Banks?I play Margaret Goff who is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSunday, November 10, 2013
Nina Stibbe was nanny to LRB editor Mary-Kay Wilmers's children in the 1980s. Her witty letters from 55 Gloucester Crescent provide a fascinating glimpse of 80s literary LondonGloucester Cre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSaturday, November 2, 2013
Young Vic; Orange Tree, Richmond; Hampstead, LondonBigotry is transformed into glorious song and dance as Broadway hit The Scottsboro Boys reaches LondonNine black boys in Alabama in 1931 we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMSaturday, October 26, 2013
Sadler's Wells, LondonAn underground theme runs through Rambert's triple bill, but only Subterrain – a restless study of unravelling relationships – emerges fully formedOne of the pleasu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, September 28, 2013
Musician, satirist, writer of Matilda... Tim Minchin talks about his Aussie roots, why he never Googles himself and how, as a rationalist and Richard Dawkins fan, he still has a romantic sid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMSaturday, September 7, 2013
Olivier; Royal Court, LondonThe time is vividly out of joint in the National's affecting Edward IIChristopher Marlowe's Edward II (1594), one of the earliest English history plays, is domina…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, July 20, 2013
The gifted young director on Ibsen, the entrapment of women and why she loves to be in controlAt 32, Carrie Cracknell is one of our most gifted young directors and on the receiving end of a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, June 8, 2013
The actor talks about the psychology of Lady Macbeth – and feelings of guilt closer to homeSamantha Spiro suggests, when we meet on a summer afternoon at the Globe theatre, that rehearsal …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSunday, June 2, 2013
Seventeen years after being nominated for an Oscar for her role in Mike Leigh's award-winning Secrets & Lies, Londoner Marianne Jean-Baptiste has returned to the London stage. Here she talks…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSeventeen years after being nominated for an Oscar for her role in Mike Leigh's award-winning Secrets & Lies, Londoner Marianne Jean-Baptiste has returned to the London stage. Here she t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, May 19, 2013
On the day the actor bids farewell to her character in the last episode of Shameless, she will open in a very different role in Eugene O'Neill's marathon, Strange Interlude, at the NationalA…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMSaturday, May 11, 2013
Duke of York's, LondonIf the break-up of a marriage tends to be chaotic, the problem with Peter Nichols's Passion Play (1982), I used to think, was that its contrivance created order, was to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 4, 2013
Barbican, LondonFräulein Julie, directed by Katie Mitchell for Berlin's Schaubühne theatre, is a visual experiment – as much painterly and cinematic as theatrical. The look is reminiscen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMFriday, April 19, 2013
Wyndham's, LondonIt might seem a doomed idea to turn Hjalmar Soderberg's 1905 novel Doktor Glas into a one-man show. It caused a scandal when first published because of its treatment of sex,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:41PMSaturday, April 6, 2013
Rose, Kingston; Almeida; Young Vic, LondonRichard Bean's new comedy, Smack Family Robinson, is perfectly tailored for the Rose theatre because it's packed with gags about local geography (ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM 
