Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Donmar Warehouse, LondonA fine revival of Wesker's kitchen-sink drama, in which a daughter's return reveals the emptiness of lives marked in potato peelingsLook Back in Anger is often cited …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AMTuesday, October 8, 2013
Watford PalaceTwo plays take on the impact of the digital world: futuristic Override is an at-times sinister comedy, while Virgin examines what women gain and lose from brave new techStars: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PMCritics are getting laid off. It's getting tougher to find ways to be paid to write. It sounds as if theatre criticism is on life support. Or is it?Is theatre criticism in meltdown, as some …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMFriday, October 4, 2013
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsJames Brining's debut production strips the Victorian gothic from Sondheim's greatest musical – with compelling resultsAll the world's a madhouse in James Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThursday, October 3, 2013
From rabble-rousing to quietly comforting, which monologues make you lean forward in your seat?A revival of Arnold Wesker's 1959 play, Roots, opens at the Donmar Warehouse next week. It star…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:52AMAmbassadors theatre, LondonThis look at the Conservative party's struggles with sexuality is timely and thoughtful, with lively performancesSam is a young, working-class Tory education resea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
Hytner's successor needs to make bold, brave changes to keep the NT relevant through the 21st centuryEveryone who works in theatre knows that it is the successful act that is the hardest one…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:01AMPeacock, LondonFrom breakdancing to trampowalling, the Canadian circus's latest spectacle fizzes with skill and self-beliefTake the energy of a small nuclear explosion and add the attitude o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AMTuesday, October 1, 2013
National Theatre, LondonFrances Ya-Chu Cowhig's play puts the flesh and blood on the stories of China's workers who flock to the citiesWhen Sunny (Katie Leung) is born in rural China in 1992…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMMonday, September 30, 2013
Rose, KingstonStephen Unwin's production captures the grey mood of Ibsen's gripping family story – until an ill-timed interval breaks the spellThe portrait of the late Captain Alving …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15AMFriday, September 27, 2013
St James, LondonOlivia Williams and Mark Bazeley are lacerating as the central couple in this stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's filmMarianne (Olivia Williams) and Johan (Mark Bazeley) see…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:05AMThursday, September 26, 2013
Duchess, LondonHitler's rise to power is parodied in Brecht's allegorical satire with the Führer as scary as a tea cosy. But the finale is soberingThe American gangster movie meets Richard …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMNew research suggests that teenagers don't think that theatre is just for their mums and dads. Maybe theatres should take note• Read more on the reportAre theatre audiences getting younger…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
Taking shows out of traditional venues will be good for audiences – and provide a necessary fillip for stagecraft tooAccepting a special commendation at this year's Amnesty International F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMTuesday, September 24, 2013
The Door, BirminghamKate Tempest's single, unguarded three-hander about women in prison is a little too earnest but fizzes with truthChess (Amanda Wilkin) and Serena (Gbemisola Ikumeio) are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:14AMMonday, September 23, 2013
Derby theatreThis fluid, largely traditional take on the boy and his bird taps directly into current concerns about wasted potentialSince the arrival of new artistic director Sarah Brigham a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:50AMEquity wants action on female stereotypes on stage. But change would be swifter if theatre-makers challenged their own thinkingWomen are at the heart of Ché Walker and Arthur Darvill's The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:29AMSunday, September 22, 2013
Nottingham PlayhouseThis George Orwell adaptation is a superbly handled multimedia speculation on the nature of truthThe Party plays plenty of mind games in George Orwell's novel about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:57AMThursday, September 19, 2013
We all know the stage is a precarious profession. But maybe that's what's driving such brave and creative performancesPlaywright Simon Stephens says actors are being creatively "stifled" and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10PMShakespeare's Globe, LondonThis wild, panto-campy version of Euripides's last play is oddly conventional and pointlessly excessiveEuripides's last play still has a grip on British theatre. S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:52AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Battersea Arts CentreWith tales told by a single storyteller, this site-specific journey through the city finds the extraordinary in ordinary livesIn big cities, most people are strangers an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:51AMMill Studio, GuildfordSiobhan Nicholas looks to the stars in an exploration of the role played by women as thinkers and scientists throughout historyYou have probably heard of William Hersch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
Southwark Playhouse, LondonBeau Willimon's play about political machinations in modern-day Washington DC suffers in this rather low-energy productionFarragut North is the name of the metro s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AMMonday, September 16, 2013
English Touring Theatre is on a mission to find the nation's best-loved theatre piece. Let's give them a helping handLeafing through an old theatre guide to playwrights, living and dead, whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:27AMFriday, September 13, 2013
Hampstead theatre, LondonTerry Johnson's farce about Dalí's meeting with Freud is not just clever and funny, it's unexpectedly moving, tooIn 1938 the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí paid …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16AMThursday, September 12, 2013
The old adage says that some actors are so mesmerising that people would flock to watch them even if they were reading the telephone directory. Tell us who you would pay to see in any showIn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:50PMCharing Cross, LondonThis supposed fright-fest is incoherent, poorly written and as scary as a wet sock"Not suitable for children under 12, those of a nervous disposition or for those suffer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
A critic who tweeted the title of the Lyric's new season sparked outrage – and possibly drove audiences to the theatreI love going to the theatre when I don't know very much about a show, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AMYoung Vic, LondonWith flashes of fitful brilliance, Theatre O's political thriller has come a long way since its Edinburgh fringe debutThere is a remarkable moment in Theatre O's latest – …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:56AMMonday, September 9, 2013
Finborough theatre, LondonA set of intertwined fishy tales spanning the centuries on a Suffolk shingle spit makes for entrancing viewingIn the early 1970s during the cold war, Orford Ness, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PMThe comic timing and dynamic of spectators are just as important as the performances on stage.We've all experienced audiences behaving badly, whether it's talking on their mobile phones, cou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AM 
