Saturday, October 1, 2016
This account of the Tolpuddle martyrs' struggle for higher wages and justice is heartfelt, but should trust its audience rather moreThe Tolpuddle martyrs were a group of 19th-century Dorset …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:09AMFriday, September 30, 2016
Torn | A Tale Of Two Cities | O No! | A Streetcar Named Desire | In The HeightsThere’s more than a hint of Debbie Tucker Green about this incendiary family story and that’s no bad thing.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50AMPolitical plays about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are repeatedly failing to reach American theatres. The US playwright Naomi Wallace is doing something about it – by setting sail for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:39AMThursday, September 29, 2016
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds Charlotte Brontë’s intimate novel of doomed love is stripped of bonnets and reset as science fiction by Linda Marshall GriffithsCharlotte Brontë’s final…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMDuchess, 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 12:22AMWednesday, September 28, 2016
Royal Exchange Studio, ManchesterIn Katherine Soper’s devastating debut play, a young woman balances a zero-hours packing job with caring for her brotherTamsin is 19 but she walks like an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:50PMThe artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe has been criticised for her many innovations. She is not ignoring tradition but boldly investigating how the theatre can remain relevant for mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:57AMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Crucible, SheffieldPhillip Breen’s adaptation sensitively and sweetly explores Mellors and Constance’s love affair but takes the focus away from the social backdropDH Lawrence’s workin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMMonday, September 26, 2016
Harriet Walter stars as Prospero at the Donmar’s new site, Mark Gatiss joins The Boys in the Band at the Park, London, and, in Edinburgh, a 2,500-year-old story of women seeking asylumDubl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:55AMSunday, September 25, 2016
Camden People’s theatre, London Cabaret singing group the Ruby Dolls tackle domestic violence in their updated folktale that tempers its sinister edges with humourBilled as “a gothic fol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:56AMFriday, September 23, 2016
There’s no shortage of women working in the arts but the organisations taking part in Tonic Theatre’s Advance programme are scrutinising the obstacles facing them – with a focus on fre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PMStratford Circus, London The circus double act Magmanus deliver a charming and cunningly constructed piece with a Mouse Trap!-style finaleThe Swedish duo Magmanus get themselves into some ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16AMWednesday, September 21, 2016
Theatre 503, LondonAmy Shindler’s play about a young woman with Asperger’s and a couple’s unsteady marriage has convincing performances but suffers from too much plotSince the success …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:58AMTuesday, September 20, 2016
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe story of players from Clapton Orient who joined the ‘football battalion’ in the first world war is worth telling, but this production borders on the ineptA…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AMMonday, September 19, 2016
Kathryn Hunter stars in The Emperor at the Young Vic, Tony’s Last Tape goes to Liverpool and Maxine Peake plays Blanche Dubois in ManchesterIt’s your last chance to try to snaffle a tick…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:14AMSunday, September 18, 2016
Bristol Old VicDirector Dominic Hill boldly places a brattish, spoilt teenager at the heart of his engaging revival of Sheridan’s comedy of mannersEveryone is putting on a performance in D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMPlaywright whose masterpiece of marital disharmony, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, delved beneath the surface of middle-class lifeEdward Albee, who has died aged 88, has been described a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMUnderstudies power West End shows and many use social media to say when they’re taking over a lead role. But those in Cameron Mackintosh Ltd’s productions must wait for permission firstE…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27AMFriday, September 16, 2016
Royal Court Upstairs, LondonNathaniel Martello-White’s drama warps past, present and future as a first-rate ensemble portray a fraught and fragmented south London family Angel has gathered…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AMBlow Off | The Cheviot, The Stag And The Black, Black Oil | The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time | Doctor Faustus | The Glasgow GirlsWhen the pressure gets too much, something h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AMMonday, September 12, 2016
Last call beckons for for Helen McCrory’s The Deep Blue Sea, David Hoyle delivers an education, Great Yarmouth goes Out There, and National Theatre Wales celebrates Roald Dahl It’s almos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:45AMFriday, September 9, 2016
Sunny Afternoon | Yerma | Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour | 1984 | The Sugar-Coated Bullets Of The BourgeoisieJoe Penhall’s musical telling the story of the Kinks has enjoyed a long West E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20AMMonday, September 5, 2016
Maxine Peake arrive as Blanche DuBois in Manchester, Maria Aberg’s Doctor Faustus pays a house call to the Barbican and Tron tells of the life of Holocaust survivor Alice Herz-SommerBeth S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:22AMSaturday, September 3, 2016
Some theatregoers feel short-changed by a short play. But can brevity be a bonus, or do you expect a full-night's entertainment?Linger at a press desk on a first night and you are guaranteed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15PMFriday, September 2, 2016
Groundhog Day | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Every Brilliant Thing | In Fidelity | StrifeReuniting the team behind Matilda (composer Tim Minchin, director Matthew Warchus and designer Rob H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AMWednesday, August 31, 2016
Cambridge Theatre, LondonThose who think that the West End is always dumbing down and that an intelligent musical is an oxymoron will have to stay behind for detention with the diabolical Mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48PMTuesday, August 30, 2016
Cardiff goes all in for Roald Dahl, David Bowie falls to Earth in London, and David Hare’s new play takes a tramp through the Connecticut snow. Plus, Glenda Jackson does Lear, and McKellen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:34PMFriday, August 26, 2016
At this year’s festival there were some bold shows such as Breach Theatre’s Tank and Matt Regan’s Greater Belfast. But too many companies are playing it safeSo the Edinburgh fringe is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PMKing’s theatre, EdinburghThierrée’s new show is a spellbinding mix of ravishing visuals, breathtaking acrobatics and Heath Robinson-style contraptions Related: James Thierrée: 'Baryshn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:21AMYerma | The Truth | The Cheviot, The Stag And The Black, Black Oil | Sunny Afternoon | The View From Castle RockSimon Stone has a knack of reinventing familiar classic stories, as he did bri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMThursday, August 25, 2016
Lyceum, EdinburghLars Eidinger is a monstrously watchable Richard – played like a seductive rock star gone to seed – in Thomas Ostermeier’s mesmerising productionThe storm clouds gathe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AM 
