Old Vic, LondonCarter’s riotous novel about a south London theatrical dynasty bursts on to the stage in this life-enhancing showAt the end of a programme essay, Emma Rice wonders what Ange…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMOlivier, London; Bristol Old Vic; Royal Court, LondonRalph Fiennes’s Antony grapples with a midlife crisis while Sophie Okonedo’s Cleopatra is the ultimate diva in an outstanding product…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMThe award-winning actor on playing a narcissistic writer opposite Glenn Close in The Wife, his Welsh roots, and looking like the popeJonathan Pryce has played Shakespearean heroes (Hamlet, S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMHer stewardship of Shakespeare’s Globe ended in acrimony but a revitalised Emma Rice, now about to launch her own company Wise Children, couldn’t be happier“It was on Shakespeare’s b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32AMOlivier; Harold Pinter; Finborough, LondonNot understanding speaks volumes in Ian Rickson’s tremendous new production of Brian Friel’s 1980 classic. And Nina Raine’s unflinching Consen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMThe US actor tells how a new adaption of Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton chimes with our uncertain timesid-morning in Brooklyn, New York and grey clouds are scudding across the s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMNoël 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 07:12PMUstinov Studio, Theatre Royal BathAlun Armstrong rules in Ionesco’s absurdist dramaIonesco’s Exit the King was first performed in 1962, and the theatre of the absurd cannot boast any mor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMThanks to The Hour, playwright Abi Morgan has enjoyed an incredibly prolific year. Next up, a Thatcher biopic starring Meryl Streep, a Steve McQueen film about sex and a play about GodAbi Mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMThe veteran playwright and the prolific young star, both masters of political theatre, reflect on the state of the nation – and contemporary culture – in the internet ageDavid Hare and J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMThe National’s magnificent production of Caryl Churchill’s English civil war play resonates powerfully todayCaryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire was written in 1976, is s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Dorfman, National Theatre; Lyric Hammersmith, London; Theatre Royal, BathTragedy meets levity in the RSC’s Scottish play. Plus, a captivatin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMBristol Old Vic; Royal Exchange, Manchester; The Yard, London The Cherry Orchard springs to life in Michael Boyd’s thrillingly vital Bristol Old Vic production. In Manchester, April De Ang…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMWyndham’s; Shakespeare’s Globe; Hampstead, LondonLesley Manville glitters as desperate mother Mary in O’Neill’s grim family portrait. Plus, Barrie Rutter’s valedictory Captive Quee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMArcola theatre, LondonSharp moral conundrums arise in Sam Potter’s compelling monologue about babies swapped at birthHanna, a new play by Sam Potter, is like overhearing talk outside the s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMAs her monologue My Mum’s a Twat opens at the Royal Court, PR turned playwright Anoushka Warden talks about her big break – and how she survived a difficult childhoodAnoushka Warden did …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30AMA 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 03:36AMOlivier, LondonImelda Staunton leads an evening of star turns in this glittering, bittersweet dissection of midlife regret, brilliantly directed by Dominic CookeFollies is like a distinctive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMKing William House, HullRevolt meets retail in 80s South Korea in this dazzling, thought-provoking production from dreamthinkspeakOne Day, Maybe is an unusual, intimidating and thought-provo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonDavid Harrower’s 1995 play explores the feral intensity of a marriage in medieval times, staged here with a fluid physicalityDavid Harrower’s Knives in Hens (1995…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMMinerva, ChichesterGitha Sowerby’s superb 1924 play, with Ophelia Lovibond in the title role, reminds us that being a woman of means isn’t always enoughIn a house in Surrey in 1911, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMAlmeida, LondonChristopher Shinn’s elegant play about the nature of violence in the modern world asks intriguing questions but is short on answersChristopher Shinn’s Against, receiving i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMIt was to celebrate Nina Simone’s political passion as much as her musical genius that Josette Bushell-Mingo created her one-woman show about the singer. Here, the acclaimed actor talks ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMHarold Pinter theatre, LondonAndrew Scott’s prince proves a brilliant communicator as Robert Icke’s acclaimed Almeida production transfers to the West EndAfter a sell-out run at the Alme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMHampstead theatre, LondonBranden Jacobs-Jenkins’s tale of vicious infighting at a New York magazine should make most of us value our own workplacesGloria, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, was sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMLyric Hammersmith, LondonFerdinand von Schirach’s morally perplexing legal drama puts the fate of a German fighter pilot at the audience’s mercySince it opened in Berlin in 2015, Terror,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMBarbican, LondonThere is perhaps unfair pressure on Binoche to pull off miracles in Ivo van Hove’s eagerly anticipated take on SophoclesIt’s an ill wind that blows at the beginning of An…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04AMTony Kushner’s 1991 play Angels in America broke the silence about Aids. As a revival wows audiences at the National, he talks about how the world has changedTony Kushner flew in to London…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThe Almeida, LondonThis revival of Martin Crimp’s intricate 1993 satire captures the powerlessness of a writer chewed up by the movie businessEveryone has a story, but who owns it? What ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonBrecht’s anti-fascist study of political power hits home in a tremendous new adaptation by Bruce NorrisThe Donmar has been transformed: gone are the elegant benches…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMThe 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 …
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