Saturday, 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 07:05PMSaturday, March 23, 2013
Old Vic, LondonThe Winslow Boy seems to be a storm in a teacup. Did Ronnie, a 14-year-old cadet, steal a postal order for five shillings, forge a signature and deserve expulsion from naval c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMThe actor on her time at the RSC, working with Peter Brook, sleeping on a scarlet feather and appearing in 4000 MilesYou are about to open in Amy Herzog's play 4000 Miles, playing Vera, a de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04PMSunday, March 10, 2013
The artistic director of London's Royal Court theatre, Dominic Cooke, is soon to bow out. We talk to him and some of the exciting new playwrights whose work he has helped showcaseDominic Coo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSaturday, February 23, 2013
Trafalgar Studios; Royal Court; Palladium, LondonThe wonderful thing about Jamie Lloyd's production of Macbeth is that the Scottish play is Scottish. There is a rightness about the accents �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, December 8, 2012
The director of Skyfall talks about the pleasures and pains of making Britain's highest-grossing film everSam Mendes, director of Skyfall, hesitates. He is thinking about James Bond. It is, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, October 27, 2012
Watford Palace theatre; Hampstead theatre, LondonMedea has moved into the suburbs. She is living in a modern house in a street of identical houses. The facade slides open and we see the inte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMSaturday, October 6, 2012
Minerva, Chichester; Donmar, London; Old Rep, BirminghamNoël Coward's Private Lives, with its unforgettable balcony scene, could be seen as a wink in the direction of Romeo and Juliet, a lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMA new era is dawning at London's Tricycle theatre under Indhu Rubasingham, its first new artistic director in three decades. Her inaugural play – starring Adrian Lester, and written by his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, September 8, 2012
Old Rep, Birmingham; Wepre Park, WalesIt is a bold idea to graft Shakespeare's thoughts about forests and make something original out of them – to turn over a new narrative leaf. And the C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMFreddie Fox on playing Oscar Wilde's lover Bosie – and the joys of being the baby in an acting dynastyFreddie Fox is deliciously debonair. He walks into Hampstead theatre wearing his silk …
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, August 18, 2012
The actor on audience taming, tap-dancing dreams and how life mirrored art at the OlympicsWhen Samuel Barnett asks whether I'd like a coffee, it sounds familiar – and it's only belatedly t…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMWednesday, August 1, 2012
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonArthur's Round Table has never looked so square. Spamalot, the 2005 musical adapted by Eric Idle and John Du Prez from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, is back i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMSaturday, July 21, 2012
Royal Opera House/National Gallery, LondonThe National Gallery and the Royal Ballet are collaborating in an uncommon and marvellous way with Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. Leading artists (Mark…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, July 7, 2012
Southwark Playhouse; Globe, London; Norwich CathedralThere is nothing theatre likes better than an unhappy marriage, and this makes Sebastian Barry's The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, June 23, 2012
Lyttelton, London; Playhouse Studio, Liverpool; Young Vic, LondonIt is with disbelief that one discovers that The Last of the Haussmans is actor Stephen Beresford's first play. It is a knock…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, May 26, 2012
Hampstead; Duke of York's; Almeida, LondonRunners surge endlessly along a white beach, and it is this victorious image, from the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, that continues to blaze in the mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10PMTuesday, May 22, 2012
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonIf all the theatre in Georgia comes anywhere close to the standard of the Marjanishvili company, then the job of theatre critic there must be the most covetable in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:51AMSaturday, May 19, 2012
Vaudeville, LondonMadness is as madness does in Joe Orton's 1969 farce What the Butler Saw, and by the end it's straitjackets all round. We're in a psychiatrist's consulting room (with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMSaturday, May 12, 2012
Arcola, LondonDennis Potter regarded this as his best play. But be prepared for unrelenting bleakness, and the darkest of laughs: a scoop of the blackest treacle. London has been enjoying an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMSaturday, March 17, 2012
Cottesloe; Lyttelton; Southwark Playhouse; all LondonIn 1957 Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, by Errol John, a young Trinidadian, won an Observer drama contest. The task was to write a play set afte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMSaturday, March 10, 2012
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonThe fun starts, in Lindsay Posner's triumphant production of Mike Leigh's best-known play, before Beverly has even sorted out the nibbles, as we inspect Mike …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, March 3, 2012
Noël Coward theatre, LondonGoing to Howard Davies's glorious production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever is like being invited to an irregular house party; the relief is that, unlike the hapless…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, February 25, 2012
Eve Best is famous for her role as glamorous Dr O'Hara in Nurse Jackie. But she made her name in Jacobean theatre – and she is back in London for moreEve Best has just walked into an unpre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMLindsay Duncan talks about tackling Noël Coward's 1924 farce, Hay Fever, his most challenging play"I've never seen it," exclaims Lindsay Duncan. We are talking about Hay Fever, one of Noël…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, February 18, 2012
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonAlan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends (1974) was his first play to experiment with almost no action – it is funny but there is reason not to laugh. The play is not o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMLindsay Duncan on playing the lead in Noël Coward's Hay Fever"I've never seen it," exclaims Lindsay Duncan. We are talking about Hay Fever, one of Noël Coward's greatest hits, which he wro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, February 11, 2012
Nuffield, Southampton; Young Vic; Vaudeville, LondonI watched Romeo and Juliet in the company of several Southampton school parties – bracing myself for a noisy night ahead. But Headlong, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, December 10, 2011
Chocolate Factory, LondonWe are inside cyberspace, at the court of emperor Charlemagne and in a 70s musical – complete with some of Bob Fosse's original choreography remastered by Chet Wal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PM 
