Thursday, 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 10:30PMYoung Vic, LondonHorrocks belts out the Smiths, Fall, Joy Division and other songs of her youth in this overly slick and choreographed dance-gig-theatre hybrid When you are younger the world…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:27AMWednesday, March 16, 2016
Stratford Circus, LondonPart gig and part theatre, this clever show explores young people’s experiences with a skilled quartet using simple means to show stories of pain and pressureJack H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMTuesday, March 15, 2016
In the RSC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play for the Nation, amateur actors feature alongside their professional peers: innovative theatre often has community involvement at its heart …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PMSt James, LondonTate’s accent goes walkabout in a wannabe screwball comedy set during America’s desert nuclear testsThis mildly likable but lame new musical is that increasingly rare thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:15AMMonday, March 14, 2016
Roald Dahl’s The Witches hit Liverpool, Denise Gough reprises her role as a troubled actor at Wyndham’s, and National Theatre Wales talks about democracyThe Solid Life of Sugar Water is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMTuesday, March 8, 2016
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonIt’s not an easy watch but Chris Goode’s rewarding revival of Jo Clifford’s play reminds us to focus on what’s important in our lives Related: 'I want to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16AMThe Iranian Feast is just one of the ambitious shows challenging the stereotype that rural touring work is just armchair theatreIf you were looking for exciting contemporary theatre in the U…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:50AMMonday, March 7, 2016
Theatre Royal, BathThis sly portrait of a cobbler and his class-conscious daughters is shown to be way ahead of its time in Jonathan Church’s handsome stagingThere are shades of King Lear …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMFarnham MaltingsAudience participation is a key ingredient of this touring regional theatre piece about cooking, community and life in TehranThe myth that theatre made for village halls and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:44AMVanishing Point’s The Destroyed Room opens in Edinburgh, the Hear Me Roar! festival of feminism begins in Lancaster and Jinny, a response to Look Back in Anger, premieres in DerbyThe Solid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:19AMSunday, March 6, 2016
Royal Court Upstairs, LondonPlaywright Mongiwekhaya’s post-apartheid tale of erased histories and frustrated dreams is beautifully acted and grips like a thrillerWhat’s in a name? A grea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMFriday, March 4, 2016
Director Sarah Brigham talks about her revival of the kitchen-sink drama Look Back in Anger, presented at Derby theatre alongside Jane Wainwright’s Jinny, a modern-day companion piece that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:16AMThursday, March 3, 2016
Forced Entertainment’s series of table-top plays performed with household items is in a great tradition of storytelling that keeps Shakespeare aliveIs it possible for a jar of Roses lime m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15AMPolka, LondonThe poet’s wit shines through in these 1960s miniature plays, though the staging sometimes struggles to match the rich languageThese stories written by Ted Hughes originally t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMWednesday, March 2, 2016
When acting in a female role at an all-boys school, Jo Clifford began to explore her gender identity and theatre became a place of shame. After transitioning, and beginning to perform her ow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMTuesday, March 1, 2016
Ustinov theatre, BathAlice and Ben’s neighbours want to be friends – or do they? Played to the hilt by a skilled cast, Catherine-Anne Toupin’s play generates unease amid the comedyA th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:51AMThe Vaults, LondonThis cheeky but unexpectedly moving show takes its cue from the astonishing story of a magician who vanished into thin airThe publicity for this performance claims that Hug…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:51AMMonday, February 29, 2016
Forced Entertainment do Shakespeare, Pixie Lott is Holly Golightly, and Analogue and Theatre Ad Infinitum both have new workJack Thorne and Graeae’s The Solid Life of Sugar Water hits the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMSunday, February 28, 2016
Arts theatre, LondonThis software-generated Greenham Common musical is risibly stereotypical but pleasant as a milky drinkPlenty of musicals written by humans sound as if they have been comp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:08AMWednesday, February 24, 2016
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonAyesha Dharker, Chu Omambala and Lucy Ellinson shine in a 1940s-tinged production that is dusted with magic by director Erica WhymanPast and pre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:08PMUnwomanly monsters, revolutionaries or worms who turned? As Jean Genet’s classic play is revived in London, the macabre story of the Papin sisters, who killed their employer’s wife and d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:52AMTuesday, February 23, 2016
Northcott, Exeter Director Paul Jepson overplays the pauses but there are fine performances in this cleverly designed revival of the playwright’s anatomy of egotism There are many differen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMUnicorn, LondonThe dialogue in Tim Crouch and Gary Owen’s show consists solely of the names of its heroes – the result is a smart and subtle take on family lifeJeramee, Hartleby and Ooog…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMWhile the Bush in west London closes its doors for a refurbishment it will put on work in nearby pubs and laundrettes. Its new season will include a ‘love letter’ to the neighbourhood, s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:08AMMonday, February 22, 2016
Bike Shed, ExeterFrom sea rescues to horse rides for autistic children, Daniel Bye and Nadia Morgan’s understated performance celebrates people who quietly get on with helping outThis late…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:57AMNoma Dumezweni directs I See You at the Royal Court, Dominic Dromgoole presents his Globe swansong and Standby for Tape Back-Up is out on tourThe hollowness of the New Labour dream is expose…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:37AMSunday, February 21, 2016
The Vaults, LondonA multisensory take on Shakespeare’s story, from the perspective of Banquo and intercut with first-hand accounts of military veterans, would work better if it was simply …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PMOld Red Lion, LondonDan Hutton’s inventive modern take on Thomas Kyd’s 1587 drama is neatly handled and well designed, but the cast’s inexperience showsRevenge (Leo Wan) watches as we …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PMWednesday, February 17, 2016
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonPeter Whelan’s compassionate, filigree drama tells the story of the Bard’s scion Susanna, seeking life’s poetry in puritan England, only to be accused of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:27AMTuesday, February 16, 2016
Gender and racial diversity is growing in UK theatres – but disabled creatives are being left behind. We have to shift away from patronising box-tickingOver the last few months, it has fel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AM 
