Monday, January 30, 2017
Sandi Toksvig debuts a new comedy, Crew for Calais take over the Vault festival for a good cause and Bristol’s Tobacco Factory hosts a double bill from Manipulate about a doomed romance an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMSunday, January 29, 2017
Camden People’s Theatre, LondonStarting naked, and narrated by a female voice, two men physically dominate and surrender to each other – raising questions of coercion between the sexesTh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMFriday, January 27, 2017
A remarkable look at the Beslan school tragedy and a homage by Wayne McGregor to Virginia Woolf. Plus: The Glass Menagerie, Letters To Windsor House, Love, Travesties, Sampled and Cinderella…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Graeae and the Royal Exchange are staging Lorca’s classic in a show that creatively incorporates BSL, captioning and audio description and takes a great play to another level“Right,” s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMClowns might be getting a bad press just now, but clowning has long been an essential part of British theatre traditionEverybody loves to hate a clown, and news of sightings of clowns on str…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMMonday, January 23, 2017
Obscure language in show descriptions and reviews prevents us from opening the conversation to everyoneI was browsing through the programme of an international festival recently. The visuals…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMPark theatre, LondonDavid Spicer’s humorous play about animal rights boasts deft one-liners and giant amphibians, but it ends up down a dramatic cul-de-sacMartha is dead but no longer buri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMDrum, PlymouthIt's not often that you hear mass sobbing in the theatre, but it's all sniffles during the latter stages of this new Frantic Assembly show. It's hardly surprising: Abi Morgan's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMEscaped Alone returns, Gary Barlow opens his musical The Girls, Vault and Manipulate add to the festival fare and The White Devil walks againOwen Sheers’s Pink Mist, about three lads who j…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04AMSaturday, January 21, 2017
Park theatre, LondonRobert Holman’s play confronts the big existential questions with a graceful simplicityOtto is an anxious, ageing vicar so lonely that he talks to walls and touch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMThe London international festival of theatre draws great – and brave – talents from around the globe but the staff also deserve applause for this mammoth eventDuring the 2012 London inte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMFriday, January 20, 2017
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonA failed poet presides over a bottomless well in a production of Howard Barker’s play that has drawn fire for its lack of east Asian actorsArt does not exi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMCaryl Churchill’s drama confounds expectations, while Javier De Frutos directs Philip Glass’s opera. Plus: Hedda Gabler, Pink Mist and Richard Alston Dance1 Escaped AloneAs ever, the bri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AMThursday, January 19, 2017
A new verbatim theatre piece stars teachers, consultants and cleaners who have all earned a living through the sex trade. The creators, including a dominatrix, discuss a show that’s about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMThe Pit, LondonMachetes fly as Sacékripa’s skilful two-hander for the London international mime festival brings lethal clumsiness and passive aggression to the Barbican A lovely, low-key …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Greenwich theatre, London Misfit teen Martin goes in search of his absent father and his pop idol in a sharply observed, compelling one-man showThose unacquainted with the lyrics to David Bo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMTuesday, January 17, 2017
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonLucy Bailey's returning revival of this vicious, bloody tragedy is still ingeniously disturbing, and much more than just a splatter festNasty, but oh so very, very…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMTheatre has often depicted women subjected to degradation but context is key. The appalling final scene in the NT’s production made me see the play anewWe all know that British theatre sti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMThe Bunker, LondonWhen the relationship depicted in Fiona Doyle’s fractured-chronology drama falls apart, it’s left to the audience to pick up the piecesWoman in her 20s meets man in his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMOld Red Lion, London The laughs keep coming in David K Barnes’ play about a party where awkward small talk descends into a drunken debate about personal desiresDiane (EJ Martin) is nervous…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMMonday, January 16, 2017
Us/Them dramatises the Beslan massacre, the London international mime festival has lots to shout about, and Theatre503 invites Neil LaBute, Caryl Churchill, Roy Williams and more to respond …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04AMFriday, January 13, 2017
Park theatre, LondonA man tries to sell a dead eagle on the black market in a laboured comedy that, despite all the metaphors, has little to say about contemporary AmericaWhen Spider (Charli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMTrampolines, smashed crockery, ghostly goings-on … the annual gala of physical theatre shows no sign of slowing downAt Central St Martins’ Platform theatre, two men – maybe brothers bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMYasmina Reza’s hit play returns, while interdisciplinary art is celebrated. Plus: Mamma Mia!, In a Pickle, Much Ado About Nothing, Amadeus, Russian State Ballet Of Siberia and Blak Whyte G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
As funding for the arts looks increasingly uncertain, the challenge for theatres is to find the right financial model to secure their futureLast year, I visited a regional theatre whose work…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMBeslan’s 2004 school siege, in which more than 300 people died, is the subject of a playful, comic and desperately moving piece for young audiences‘I’m always up for a bit of a challen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMTuesday, January 10, 2017
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonTom Jacobson’s two-hander takes a situation heavy with dramatic promise – the entrapment of gay men in 1914 America – and sacrifices it to metatheatre In 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMMonday, January 9, 2017
London’s International Mime festival throws up some special treats including Gandini Juggling’s Smashed, and Cinderella is still having a ball in BoltonThe London International Mime fest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMFriday, January 6, 2017
Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen’s girl band musical, plus The Witches, Wish List, The Snow Queen, The Little Match Girl And Other Happier Tales, Fall Out, Giselle and Resolution 2017It’s been…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMMonday, January 2, 2017
The outcry over the all-white cast of In the Depths of Dead Love is a sign of shifting attitudes. But the industry still has some way to goThe “yellowface” dispute that blew up just befo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMThursday, December 29, 2016
Soho theatre’s pop-up soapbox inspired a raft of brief yet pointed speeches. The project’s 2017 tour of London venues couldn’t come at a better timeThe downstairs space at Soho theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM 
