Thursday, 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 09:32AMTuesday, April 12, 2016
Orange Tree, Richmond A jittery teacher dreams a bomb lurks under school in a funny, engrossing play that pairs emerging writer Brad Birch with award-winning director Mel HillyardPaul Miller…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMOutrage has greeted the news that two exam boards say it is no longer compulsory for pupils to see a live performance. But digital streaming could turn more children on to theatre than ever …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMMonday, April 11, 2016
Old Red Lion, LondonFelix Trench’s intriguingly surreal drama about an old man communing with the cosmos would be better heard but not seenA young man goes for a walk down a canal path and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:10AMRoundhouse, LondonThis all-male troupe impress with their human cannonballs and religious spin on the wheel of death, but the audience remains emotionally detachedCircusFest 2016, taking pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMThe new boss of Shakespeare’s Globe admits she doesn’t always understand the world’s biggest playwright. But a gender-swapping Midsummer Night’s Dream shows she won’t be playing it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:27AMBig openings include Maureen Lipman in My Mother Said I Never Should, and New York hit The Flick – plus the rest of the week’s must-see productionsPeople, Places and Things is unmissable…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:27AMFriday, April 8, 2016
With her Olivier-winning performance in People, Places and Things, Denise Gough played a role that is all too rare for women – one where she explores what it is to be human, rather than fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:08AMThursday, April 7, 2016
Initiatives like Playing Up and Haphazard are turning children into artists, and at a time of political apathy and risk aversion, they can also teach adults to playMost people interested in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:50AMWednesday, April 6, 2016
Barbican, LondonThere are, of course, three types of people: those who can count and those who can't. As I'm firmly in the latter camp, Complicité's A Disappearing Number - returning to the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55PMRoyal and Derngate, Northampton Michael Webster shifts the focus of Shakespeare’s monumental royal drama towards the younger generation, in a clear and pacy productionIt’s less of a leap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMTuesday, April 5, 2016
Camden People’s theatre, LondonA fitfully entertaining portrayal of George Price, the mathematical geneticist who tried, and fatally failed, to disprove that altruism is selfishThe father …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:27AMMonday, April 4, 2016
Brentwood theatre, EssexPolly Wiseman’s play about black GIs recruited in East Anglia during the war is sometimes clunky, but shows love doesn’t always conquer all – especially racismW…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:51AMStephen Rea stars at the Royal Court, Kit Harrington plays Dr Faustus, and the superb Buzzcut festival starts in GlasgowThe Roundhouse’s CircusFest 2016 begins in London, and there’s som…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:16AMSunday, April 3, 2016
Ustinov Studio, BathMichel Tremblay’s portrait of marriage is effortlessly transposed to 1970s Dublin in a production that never quite grabs the heartAll children eavesdrop on their parent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:22PMThursday, March 31, 2016
Budget cuts, rising travel costs – it’s tough for critics to get to plays in remote areas but let’s not bolster the idea that regional theatre cannot compete In the week that A Nation�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:14PMSoho theatre, LondonA contemporary version of the Russian classic from Caligula’s Alibi never gets to grips intellectually or aesthetically with its own ideasIn Some Trace of Her at the Na…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31AMWednesday, March 30, 2016
Found 111, LondonStar-cast James Norton and Kate Fleetwood are intense, but Tracey Letts’ confined millenial drama on paranoia and infestation doesn’t get airborneThe pop-up West End spa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AMTuesday, March 29, 2016
Theatre By the Lake, KeswickWith theatrical sophistication and some delightful puppets, a community cast gives life to James Rebanks’ account of flock and family life Sheep attached to a p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AMMonday, March 28, 2016
Les Blancs Royal Exchange, ManchesterRating: **It is hard to imagine how Lorraine Hansberry's play, set in an African country under British colonial rule where the people are mounting an arm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44PMShe was an indifferent mother with a string of lovers - so how did E Nesbit come to write such an idealised celebration of Victorian family life? By Lyn GardnerA hundred years ago this month…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMAlistair McDowall’s latest play, X, is at the Royal Court, there are King Lears in both Manchester and Northampton, and Kiss Me Quickstep is on tourThe Shepherd’s Life, James Rebanks’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:25AMThursday, March 24, 2016
Tron, GlasgowA banker’s wife, a journalist, a singer and a civil servant secure the last boat leaving the UK in a play that never plots a course through its political ideasThe waters are c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:29AMWednesday, March 23, 2016
The Yard, LondonDeborah Pearson’s playful show is a serious examination of racism and the inadequacies of liberalismA theatre is a public space. So is a park. In Deborah Pearson’s play a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMSecret shows, street protests, satire … performance has long been connected to political causes. But does it have mass impact beyond a grassroots level?How can the arts effect social chang…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:14AMTuesday, March 22, 2016
St Peter’s Seminary, KilmahewThe artistic renewal of a derelict Scottish architectural gem starts with an otherwordly piece by NVA that delves into its graffiti-strewn cornersThe way the b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PMMonday, March 21, 2016
Unicorn, LondonTimberlake Wertenbaker’s reworked Odyssey focuses on characters who had supporting roles in the original poem but the result is hard to untangle“It’s what’s forgotten …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMLesley Manville and Jeremy Irons star at Bristol Old Vic, there’s a feast of new writing in Cardiff, and Lucy Bailey’s Great Expectations continues in LeedsJane Wainwright’s Jinny, abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:16AMSunday, March 20, 2016
Arcola, LondonThere’s a sharper story to be found inside this baggy drama about a Pakistan colonel who realises he might not be quite the war hero he thought he wasTariq (Robert Mountford)…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:40AMFriday, March 18, 2016
Arts theatre, London The wartime actions of an all-female volunteer corps fuel this spirited Women in the West End festival showAnonymous Is a Woman is a new all-female company dedicated to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMThursday, March 17, 2016
Southwark Playhouse, London"Our revenge is never to forget," says one of the characters at the end of Emily Mann's 1980s play about the trial of Dan White. White, an all-American boy, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30PM 
