Monday, November 28, 2016
Leeds goes Strictly Ballroom, Sweet Charity is revived in Manchester and the Donmar’s astonishing Shakespeare Trilogy continuesWhat do we value and have we got our priorities right? Those …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMSunday, November 27, 2016
Roundhouse, LondonThe performance artist Scottee uses real-life interviews with LGBT people to ask just how tolerant Brexit-era Britain really isThere is a remarkable moment – one of sever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, November 25, 2016
Dead Funny | Amadeus | An Inspector Calls | What I Learned From Johnny Bevan | Cinderella: A Fairytale | National Ballet Of China | Michael Keegan-Dolan: Swan Lake | Loch na hEala | The Nutc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMWednesday, November 23, 2016
King’s Cross theatre, LondonA new staging of The Tempest crowns Phyllida Lloyd’s captivating trio set in a women’s prisonHelp fund our journalism by becoming a Guardian supporterWhat a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMTuesday, November 22, 2016
The theatre world must connect with those who feel disaffected but it should also face some unpalatable truths about how the artform is perceived by the vast majority of peopleIt’s good to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMHope Mill, Manchester For all the failings of the hippy dippy 60s musical, this is an irresistibly sunny revival – and not without contemporary resonanceI was too young for Hair the first …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMMonday, November 21, 2016
Harry Enfield goes to Hollywood at the Young Vic, Elvis makes a comeback in Manchester, Sacred: Homelands brings a world of theatre to Toynbee Studios – and the festive show season is kick…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMFriday, November 18, 2016
Secret location, London Teatro Vivo’s new show, which takes place in private homes, throws characters from Kafka and Ibsen into a jumbled storyTeatro Vivo have a gift for disrupting the fl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMMatilda The Musical | World Without Us | One Night In Miami… | Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Parts I & II | King Lear | Cloud Gate 2 | The Red Shoes | Hetain PatelIt takes years to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMThursday, November 17, 2016
Even established companies currently fear for the future thanks to increasingly risk-averse venues and the difficulty of securing fundingRecently, I’ve heard from two theatre companies who…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMUstinov, BathTanya Moodie is quite magnificent in a revival of Alice Childress’s play, whose skewering of racism behind liberal attitudes makes the audience squirm Wiletta Mayer is a black…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMMonday, November 14, 2016
Teatro Vivo bring ghost stories into your own home, Mark Rylance stars in new comedy Nice Fish and Peter Pan flies into the National TheatreTeatro Vivo’s The Residents is a ghost story bei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMSunday, November 13, 2016
Playhouse, LondonA timely revival of Daldry’s expressionistic staging of JB Priestley’s moral thriller repeats its plea for a fairer and more compassionate worldThat inspector keeps on c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMSaturday, November 12, 2016
Paul O’Grady, Julian Clary and Berwick Kaler lead a troup of redoubtable dames this panto seasonThe good news is that panto is back at the Palladium after almost 30 years without…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMChristmas theatre needn’t mean panto – check out human cannonballs and escapologists, biting comedy and Luhrmann adaptationsLast year, they gave us the spooky The Haunting of Hill H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMBattersea Arts Centre is reprising its London Stories project and inviting audiences to meet a stranger and hear about why they journeyed to the capitalWalk into the council chamber at Batte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMFriday, November 11, 2016
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical | Love, Lies And Taxidermy | My Mother Medea | Blue Heart | The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide To Capitalism And Socialism With A Key To The Scriptures …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMThursday, November 10, 2016
Rosemary Branch, LondonIn her complex and intelligent one-woman show, Silva deconstructs EL James’s erotic bestseller to celebrate the slipperiness of wordsThe stage is piled with copies o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMArcola, London This intelligent and gripping double bill probes the ethics, power and policy behind ‘kill lists’ and the technology that has changed modern warfareAt a 2011 Washington di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMTuesday, November 8, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonWilliam Leith’s book has been turned into an uninspiring monologue delivered by a softly spoken Adrian EdmondsonPhoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, which captured the anx…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31AMMonday, November 7, 2016
Bryony Kimmings’s hugely moving show at the National Theatre reduces us to tears and skilfully stage-manages us into participating in its finaleOne of the many pleasures of A Pacifist’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMSimon Russell Beale braves a technological Tempest, while Milton’s masque Comus is performed by candlelight, Compass festival takes us by the hand in Leeds, and Frankenstein goes to the se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMSunday, November 6, 2016
St James theatre, LondonJason Robert Brown’s story of a relationship from first kiss to break-up is told by each protagonist in opposite directions to poignant effectComposer Jason Robert …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMFriday, November 4, 2016
Rose, KingstonA pair of fine performances reveal the subtleties in Arthur Miller’s postwar play, a rollicking good story about family secretsThere are three excellent reasons to see Michae…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMKey Change | World Without Us | The Red Barn | Oil | Grain In The Blood | Rambert | Multiverse | Coal Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMThursday, November 3, 2016
Few playwrights take the thriller genre seriously: David Hare is an exception. The National’s staging of his Simenon adaptation explores how theatre itself manipulates what we seeThe ancie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, London Lucy Bailey and the National Theatre of Brent’s Patrick Barlow bring the poet’s masque to magical life in this delightful stagingDirector Lucy Bailey has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWednesday, November 2, 2016
Stadsschouwburg, AmsterdamIvo van Hove’s epic reimagining of Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III makes for an explosive examination of political leadership and present-day powerThere is a mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
Kids are increasingly creating work with adult theatre-makers and the results challenge our expectations of both childhood and performanceHow do we grow up? It’s a good question and one ra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31PMYoung Vic, London Franz Xaver Kroetz’s 1975 play about a hard-up couple preparing to have a child is staged by Ian Rickson in a new translation by Conor McPhersonFranz Xaver Kroetz’s pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PMMonday, October 31, 2016
Orange Tree, RichmondFlute Theatre’s innovative production gives children the chance to play out the scenes initiated by the actors“The isle is full of noises,” says Caliban, and it ce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM 
