Friday, February 7, 2020
Hampstead theatre, LondonAl Blyth's debut play explores how far into the lives of citizens a state can pry, and the effects on the snoopers themselves
After the movie Official Secrets, about…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMTuesday, February 4, 2020
Old Vic, LondonDeftly bringing out the humour in Samuel Beckett's lines, the two actors bring fresh life to a tale of imminent doom
As a blind man and his valet swap evidence of personal and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMMonday, January 13, 2020
Dressed in pyjamas and wellies, the great actor talks about his astronaut training in Russia, the original Cats " and putting his might behind his daughter Rosalind's very personal plays
On …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMWednesday, December 18, 2019
Wyndham's, LondonJason Manford is a charming, showtune-obsessed homicide cop in this fun companion to Chicago and Cabaret
Cabaret (1966) and Chicago (1975) became Broadway and West End peren…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMFriday, December 13, 2019
Bush House, King's College LondonSimon Russell Beale, Mark Gatiss and Catherine Tate were on hilarious form in this new version of the state-of-the-nation comedy
How is it possible that an a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMStoryhouse, ChesterSet against the never-never-land of present-day austerity, Gary Owen's production broadens the play's appeal
JM Barrie's 1904 play about a boy who never ages gets older by…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMWednesday, November 27, 2019
The theatre and opera director, television producer, presenter, writer, comic and doctor had a special interest in the human mind " and a special example of one, too
Sir Jonathan Miller die…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMThursday, November 21, 2019
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonElectrifying performances light up a glittering New York Christmas story in this warm-hearted, tuneful two-hander
On Christmas Eve, puppyish twentysomething…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMThursday, October 24, 2019
In a rare interview, Baker explains why she hates commercial theatre (except Hello, Dolly!) and how she anticipated Trump and #MeToo in her new work at the National, The Antipodes
It is not …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMSunday, October 13, 2019
Chichester Festival theatreSet in a London pub during an England v Germany football match, the topical take on racism and nationalism shows Roy Williams's 2002 play hasn't dated
It is unusua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMWednesday, September 18, 2019
Nottingham PlayhouseSet in a contemporary Norwegian town, the classic is reworked by Rebecca Lenkiewicz to chime with Brexit divisions
An accidental trilogy of updatings of Ibsen plays by fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMFriday, September 6, 2019
Impressionist Jon Culshaw, playwright James Graham, comedian Bridget Christie and critic Mark Lawson on the prime minister's opening week in Westminster
I've been doing Boris impressions eve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Chichester Festival theatreJosie Lawrence stars in a revival that perfectly delivers both the jolly and sombre elements of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical
Although it begins with someon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMMonday, June 24, 2019
Jessie Cave's intimate standup, a beatbox Frankenstein and a twist on the star-crossed lovers are among the Edinburgh shows we've previously reviewed. Here's what we said …
Pleasance Court…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Nottingham PlayhousePitch-perfect performances enliven Kemp Powers' impressive play, punchily debating racial tensions in 1960s America
The night he beat Sonny Liston in 1964 to become world…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Norman's Coach & Horses, LondonRobert Bathurst stars in an hour-long version of the comedy, staged in the pub where Keith Waterhouse sought inspiration
In Keith Waterhouse's 1989 comedy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMFriday, May 10, 2019
The performer " who died this week " found fame as a musician and an impressionist, but could never escape a notorious Sun front page
The career of the comedian and singer Freddie Starr, who…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMFriday, May 3, 2019
Chichester Festival theatreQuestions of faith and loss drive a masterly story of the Narnia author in Rachel Kavanaugh's deeply poignant production
The first three speeches of Shadowlands pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Minerva, ChichesterJames Nesbitt and Sheila Hancock star in Tim Firth's touching comedy about a dysfunctional group of relatives
Musicals head inexorably towards big ensemble numbers, a con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMMonday, April 29, 2019
London PalladiumThis chatshow canter through the career and comedy loves of Humphries proved he is an unrepentant controversialist
The television chatshow spread to theatre as a way of getti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, March 17, 2019
King's Head, LondonSkilfully combining play-that-goes-wrong antics with a potted history of the royals, this has fringe festival hit written all over it
From the National Theatre of Brent to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonAmid the delightful comic dialogue, some of the musical numbers can feel like padding The smooth transition from dialogue to songs in musicals is the genre's t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMMonday, February 18, 2019
His plays have shocked audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Is David Ireland bothered about the walk-outs? Will he give in to demands for trigger warnings?Cradling his grandchild for the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMWednesday, February 6, 2019
The Lady From the Sea, a powerful drama about loss and longing, is being rehearsed at the very flat where Ibsen ended his years in exile. Our writer pops byOn Oslo's Victoria Terrasse there'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMFriday, February 1, 2019
Provocative and political, the stand-up " who has died aged 57 " shook up Radio 4 at a time when it was in danger of resembling a Rotary Club quiz night Although generally excluded from list…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Theatre 503, LondonA catastrophic fact-checking error that nearly breaks the internet cues Osman Baig's expressive and energetic one-man piece about digital journalismThe narrator-protagonis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMSunday, December 16, 2018
Young Vic Theatre, LondonPaapa Essiedu and Black Panther's Letitia Wright are captivating in Danai Gurira's story of religious and linguistic colonialismEnglish-speaking missionaries in 19th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonNeil McCormick's memoir about schoolmates-turned-rock stars is brought to raucous lifeThe story of a talented composer whose hopes of fame are broken when a local contemp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMThursday, December 6, 2018
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonWith antisemitism on the rise, Tevye's struggles with the tsar's thugs are powerfully topical in this note-perfect productionAlthough much-loved and often rev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, November 21, 2018
Theatre Royal Plymouth A daughter inherits her dad's diary and prized car in Carl Grose's tightly plotted episode of farcical intrigueThe bequests and effects of the dead are reliably dramat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMMonday, October 8, 2018
The RSC's revival of Edgar's 1985 drama about leftwing politics coincides with David Hare's latest study of the Labour partyTwo dramatists who share a generation and a first name " David Edg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM 
