Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonGender swapped roles shed new light on dark days in a production – complete with gruesome bodybags and references to fake news – that feels aptly aligned to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMWatermill theatre, BerkshireA formidable cast journey through folk via Bollywood to pop – not to mention mountain treks and orc attacks – in a compressed revival of the 2007 musical As d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMDorfman theatre, LondonPiling up devastating detail, this play with a remarkable cast shockingly lays bare the abject failures behind this disaster During dramas about a national catastrophe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19PMWatermill theatre, NewburyKate Summerscale’s Victorian potboiler is deftly condensed in a production that brings out the misogyny and class snobbery of the era The risk of a successful cr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonDeparting artistic director Greg Doran reinvigorates this tale of a royal family in crisis with clarity and intelligence The president of the Ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMWatermill theatre, NewburyBarney Norris’s revival radiates the pain of older parents trapped on deteriorating paths, while their son and end-of-life au pair struggle to find their own Youn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonAtri Banerjee’s RSC production stresses the remarkable universality of the play’s examination of leaders and the led Early in the Trump admi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMPartially based on verbatim texts from Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser, a new play which lists no dramatist veers from Ted talk to pantomime At this play about Dominic Cummings, the n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonClimate catastrophe and power struggles dominate Elizabeth Freestone’s RSC interpretation of Shakespeare’s play If there were prizes for inv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AMOrange Tree theatre, LondonThis 1894 farce set during the Serbo-Bulgarian war is impeccably played in a production showing the playwright’s radical vision still resonates When Channel 4 be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonDavid Edgar’s sharp script feels close to home in this exuberant, illusion-filled version of Dickens’ seasonal but socially conscious story …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03AMOriginal Theatre OnlineShomit Dutta’s play imagines the two cricket-obsessed Nobel prize winners as waiting batsmen in an enjoyable spin on Waiting for Godot and The Dumb Waiter Samuel Bec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMNottingham PlayhouseAdrian Scarborough stars in his own adaptation of Bennett’s story, featuring convincing new dialogue and staged with visual panache Between the stage and TV plays and j…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AMMinerva, ChichesterA spin doctor’s life spirals into chaos after he’s hired by an ambitious senator in Christopher Shinn’s grimly comic drama After working on Hillary Clinton’s faile…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMFinborough theatre, LondonA ghostly tale and a potent monologue form a double bill that uses the 2014 conflict to remark movingly on current events Because theatres schedule so far ahead, th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMThe esteemed British director inspired each new generation of theatre creatives to be more daring and experimental Peter Brook, influential theatre visionary, dies aged 97 The two key Britis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonBack in the role she first played in 1997, Hunter uses her extraordinary transformative powers to show us the king as a geriatric child at the head of a disinteg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMChichester Festival theatreHenry Goodman gives us every inch of Hercule Poirot’s dandiness and comedy in this exemplary adaptation of Christie’s ingenious murder mystery, but also gets e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PMSondheim theatre/Prince Edward theatre, LondonJudi Dench, Rob Brydon, Imelda Staunton and Bernadette Peters joined the cast for this superb tribute to a genius Stephen Sondheim was so vast a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonWith their portrait of a wobbling monarchy and egotistical leadership, these rare stagings are particularly topical The three plays about King H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMChichester Festival theatreMosse’s adaptation of her blood-soaked novel delivers on chills but could do with more substance amid the sound and fury Gothic chillers are rare in modern theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWatermill theatre, NewburyThe actor-musicians deserve an award for multitasking here, switching between roles and instruments in a production exploring lying and dual identities Though equiv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonThis elusive curiosity – whose original production in 1964 closed on Broadway after nine performances – finds brilliant new contexts for its absurdist story So…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMRoyal & Derngate, NorthamptonDavid Owen Norris and his son Barney reflect on the slipperiness of history in a show that elegantly defies categorisation Ticketing websites divide shows fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMBridge theatre, LondonFiennes heads an electrifying cast in David Hare’s dynamic portrait of Robert Moses, an aggressive yet visionary urban planner who refused to back down Robert Moses, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMThe classy actor could play both establishment and villainous characters with aplomb. He was naturally charming and hugely admired by great men of theatre like Harold Pinter Peter Bowles die…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMCoronet theatre, LondonThis drama about a sculptor looking back on his life is powerfully staged by the Norwegian Ibsen Company In the last year of the 19th century, when Henrik Ibsen began …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMAs he beams aboard another Star Trek adventure, the 81-year-old actor talks about playing Picard as an intergalactic Prospero, hitting the bottle during Macbeth – and reaching page 310 of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMHoly Trinity Church, GuildfordFox is emotionally wrenching in Tom Littler’s inventive and streamlined production, which explores the play’s integral Christianity Shakespeare gives a vari…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMA generous-hearted jokesmith, Cryer created laughs for generations of comics, was a consummate performer and had a lifelong commitment to wit ‘An honorary uncle to countless comics’: Jac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMDerby theatreUsing music hall and Broadway songs to tell the story of former MP Dennis Skinner’s colourful Commons battles makes surprising sense Writers often say that content dictates fo…
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