Tuesday, May 10, 2016
A handful of current shows, including The Flick at the National Theatre, ditch the traditional sense of narrative drive but still manage to draw you in“Nothing happens. Twice.” That was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMBarbican, LondonShakespeare gets a close-up in Toneelgroep's compression of three plays – Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra – a remarkable six-hour marathon played witho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:08AMMonday, May 9, 2016
Roedale allotments, BrightonArtist Marc Rees’s deliciously understated promenade piece unearths the story of eccentric Shakespeare scholar James Orchard Halliwell-PhillippsThe Brighton fes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMThere are festivals all across the country, while Philip Ridley’s Radiant Vermin returns and James Graham’s Monster Raving Loony arrives in SohoThe Ricochet Project’s Smoke and Mirrors…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:27AMFriday, May 6, 2016
Fake It ’Til You Make It | The Encounter | The Flick | Boy | The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-TimeIt was only some time into their relationship that performance-maker Bryony Ki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMThursday, May 5, 2016
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonEmma Rice’s debut is a brave adaptation of one of the bard’s best-loved comedies“Rock the ground,” declares a red neon sign high above the Globe stage wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49PMPark theatre, LondonLondon 2012 is the setting for an exuberant update of The Beggar’s Opera, featuring greedy mayors, pavement dissenters and an investment of lyrical witJohn Gay’s The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:44PMWednesday, May 4, 2016
Gate, LondonEuripides’s gory tale of murder is recast in four short plays that draw in Greek soldiers, Hollywood directors and the maid who found Agamemnon’s corpseWas Agamemnon a decent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMBaker’s heartbreaking Pulitzer-winner, is set in a doomed picturehouse but it’s really about how nothing beats the live theatrical experienceSome months ago, a friend and I walked into t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:25AMTuesday, May 3, 2016
Secret location, London This novel and surprising mystery, which unravels in a former rug factory, casts theatregoers as police officers“Crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot,�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16AMMonday, May 2, 2016
Branagh channels Olivier, Isabelle Huppert lusts after her stepson and Ralph Fiennes gets the royal hump. Meanwhile there’s magic in the air as Harry Potter grows up – and Groundhog Day …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:38PMJamie Lloyd’s noisy production made me want to lie down in a quiet room but it’s an admirable attempt to get a new and younger audience into the theatreJamie Lloyd’s production of Doct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:56AMThe Brighton festival and fringe begin, Spymonkey tackle all of the deaths in Shakespeare’s plays and Ambreen Razia performs Diary of a Hounslow Girl Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AMFriday, April 29, 2016
Boy | Right Now | Kings Of War | The Brink | The FatherYou wouldn’t exactly describe Leo Butler’s play as an enjoyable watch. But it is an utterly compelling 70 minutes. Deprived teen Li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:57AMThursday, April 28, 2016
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonA corpse falling from the sky triggers a fragmented series of stories in a show combining sound and movement to good effectWe are all connected, but often don’t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:57AMFor three years, a bright red box on the South Bank has hosted exciting shows. The National must retain its spirit if it is to truly live up to its nameThe National Theatre’s Temporary Spa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:14AMWednesday, April 27, 2016
Gemma Bodinetz’s plans for a multi-skilled, community-based company with a 50:50 gender split is a bold new vision of the theatre’s 70s rep modelThe news that Liverpool Everyman plans to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:53AMRichmond theatreBruce Norris’s incendiary and excruciatingly funny play, which explores racial tensions and gentrification, gets a finely acted revivalIn Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AMMonday, April 25, 2016
Emma Rice’s tenure at the Globe begins with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Cymbeline hits Stratford-upon-Avon – plus the rest of the week’s best theatre Clybourne Park, Bruce Norris�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, April 24, 2016
Roundhouse, LondonDeadpan comedy, athletic tumbling and the politics of men behaving like performing dogs drive Barely Methodical’s latest show A smartly dressed woman (Nikki Rummer) watch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMFriday, April 22, 2016
The Father | The Book Of Mormon | People, Places And Things | In The Heights | King LearSeventy-one-year-old Kenneth Cranham beat both Benedict Cumberbatch and Mark Rylance to win this year�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:22AMWednesday, April 20, 2016
Hackney Showroom, LondonUpswing’s charming show celebrates the place that bedtime stories have in a happy family life and why parents also benefit from the power of dreaming Continue readi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:10AMIn Bromance, they sketched out their blossoming friendship in dance and circus tricks. Now the Barely Methodical Troupe are riffing on Lord of the Flies with their new show Kin. They explain…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMTuesday, April 19, 2016
Shakespeare is now more popular abroad than in the UK, thanks in part to a government keen to preserve him as a tourist attraction. But by putting him on a pedestal, we threaten to kill him …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMMonday, April 18, 2016
Salisbury PlayhouseThe rural touring company Pentabus consider our evolving relationship to the land – and how fracking can damage more than just the landscape Bea and Joseph have moved wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20AMHugh Bonneville stars in An Enemy of the People in Chichester and Ivo Van Hove returns to the Barbican – plus the rest of the week’s best theatre The 2016 Chichester season begins with S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:44AMSunday, April 17, 2016
Curve, LeicesterColonialism, class and family fall under the spotlight as Asian and British soldiers take refuge in a barn during the first world warLand takes on many meanings in Ishy Din�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMFriday, April 15, 2016
Curve, LeicesterLucie Jones brings a winning energy to the tale of a sorority girl who goes to Harvard, but 15 years haven’t been kind to the show’s skin-deep central messageLikable, but…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:09PMRight Now | People, Places And Things | Kings Of War | Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | The Shepherd’s Life A young couple, Ben and Alice, move into a new apartment. The neighbours pop over. T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AMPlays such as Boy, Re:Home and Yen serve up downtrodden lives for wealthy audiences – and can verge on cultural tourism. But presented carefully, they’re essential reminders of the bruta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:56AMThursday, April 14, 2016
The Vaults, LondonThis lazy, unimaginative stage version of RL Stine’s creepy children’s stories relies on cheap effects and barely qualifies as theatre, let alone horrorThe title lies. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM 
