Monday, October 19, 2015
Watford Palace theatreUnlovely Alan comes up against his Indian heritage in Neil D’Souza’s play, but even a magical realist tiger can’t keep all these big ideas in focusWhen middle-age…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AMGrid Iron tour in Scotland, Little Bulb are in Liverpool, Figs in Wigs and Uninvited Guests are in Bristol and New York’s brilliant the Team take up residence at the Royal CourtAnne-Marie …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMFriday, October 16, 2015
Lyndsey Turner’s monumental Barbican production, broadcast to a global audience last night by NT Live, has visual swagger and an infinitely touching prince Related: Cumberfans on Hamlet: '…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMThursday, October 15, 2015
Bristol Old Vic An evening of high-quality storytelling, especially from leads Dean Lennox Kelly and Neve McIntosh, though the tension lags after three and a half hoursTom Morris’s product…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:45AMWednesday, October 14, 2015
King’s Cross theatre, LondonRazor-sharp lyrics and a hugely talented cast make this hip-hop musical about Latino communities on the breadline in New York a feelgood spectacleLin-Manuel Mir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
From pregnancy onwards the industry turns its back on mothers, claim campaigners. Then there’s the issue of affordable childcare … After the actor Laura Wells became pregnant, the work o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMStratford Circus, LondonA Trinidadian woman reflects on the twists that have left her alone in life, in an affecting debut play by Michelle InnissEvangeline, played by Cathy Tyson, was born …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMMonday, October 12, 2015
As they chop veg, the audience bond over stories of life and death in Leo Burtin’s interactive piece The Midnight Soup, a tribute to his late grandmotherLeo Burtin calls his theatre show T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMBattersea Arts Centre, LondonFamiliar places are given mysterious twists in this intriguing but poorly executed performance-cum-game You know that sense of dislocation you get when you retur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMNightjars spread their wings in Bristol before circus takes over the city, there’s pop-up theatre in Plymouth, Nikolai Foster unveils his Curve debut, and it’s kick-off for Kenneth Brana…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMSunday, October 11, 2015
Ovalhouse, LondonFrom the depths of her hair igloo, Selina Thompson untangles the personal and political roots of beauty and raceHair is just hair, right? Actually no. All those adverts for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMFriday, October 9, 2015
Camden People’s theatre, LondonThis clever retelling of the Joan of Arc story has comic fizz, emotional ballast and cross-dressing that looks like sorceryDerby theatre’s Retold series ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMWork by BME or disabled writers is too often treated as niche. Theatres have to commit to developing and supporting playwrights from a wider range of backgrounds if we are to affect real cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:13AMThursday, October 8, 2015
Project Arts Centre, Dublin Arthur Riordan and Bill Whelan explore a key moment in the unshackling of Irish church and state in an unsophisticated yet necessary showSometimes it’s not so m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Abbey theatre, DublinWayne Jordan’s production unfolds in a frightened village with a flawed leader, where everyone refuses to see the blindingly obvious“How terrible to see the truth,�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMMonday, October 5, 2015
As the response to the Almeida’s updated take on Euripides has shown, some audiences and critics are still wary of female protagonists – and the women behind themIt has been a fascinatin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMAt Arts Council England’s No Boundaries conference, the idea that big is beautiful seemed to be gaining traction. But in theatre, one size doesn’t fit allThere were lots of inspirational…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:39AMGaiety theatre, DublinA terrific Adrian Dunbar stars in this wonderfully unshowy revival of a Dublin drama that is full of tiny observationsConor McPherson’s modest, subtle 2013 play, alre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:39AM1927’s fabulous Golem is in Manchester, there are puppets galore in Tunbridge Wells, the circus takes over Bristol and a new Chris Goode show is part of the Fierce festivalHead to The Othe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:10AMSunday, October 4, 2015
Young Vic, LondonThere’s no love lost in this watchable but inert adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ doomy two-handerWe glimpse them first sitting side by side on a bench with their backs t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:27AMFriday, October 2, 2015
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonAn unremarkable, middle-aged man addresses the audience from a farmhouse kitchen nestling in a grassy glade: "When I cast my mind back to the summer of 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AMThursday, October 1, 2015
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds Reece Dinsdale plays up the comedy as Hitler in Mark Rosenblatt’s highly watchable productionIn the early 1930s, the British press often made fun of Hitler,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMTuesday, September 29, 2015
There’s nothing like a show that takes you out of your comfort zone. If theatre-makers can only afford to see a narrow range of work we are all the poorer for itI love going to the theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AMWatford PalaceFear, prejudice and passions bubble under the surface of Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s atmospheric new play about accusations of witchcraft in a Hertfordshire village Arthur Miller’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AMMonday, September 28, 2015
Rose, KingstonAdam is gone, presumed dead. He was last seen teetering on the grille of a deep, disused shaft, a group of bullying teenagers throwing stones at him. They may all be guilt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:38AMFun Palaces open up across the country, Pomona continues at the NT, Romola Garai stars in the Young Vic’s Measure for Measure and Philippe Quesne’s La Mélancolie des Dragons is in Manch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMThursday, September 24, 2015
BAC, LondonMary Norton's much-loved novel The Borrowers, about the small people who live under the floorboards in the homes of "human beans" and "borrow" whatever they ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04PMTuesday, September 22, 2015
Unicorn, LondonMarius von Mayenburg’s tricky play brilliantly puts the audience on the spot in Ramin Gray’s lively productionActors Touring Company is back on form with Marius von Mayenb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMMonday, September 21, 2015
Camden People’s theatre, LondonLouise Orwin’s multi-layered show about stereotypical gender roles in film raises issues around our own collusion as movie watchersIn silent films, the fem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:27AMA new play from Simon Armitage in Liverpool, Word of Warning take over a tower block in Salford and there is witchcraft in WatfordThe big event of the week is Iliad, National Theatre Wales�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:44AMSunday, September 20, 2015
Camden People’s Theatre, LondonRachael Ofori’s show about young black women trying to find their way in modern London is fresh and engaging, although its sketch format holds it back“Yo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PM 
