Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Orange Tree, LondonThe impact on one Ugandan family of the country’s homophobic legislation is a rich premise explored with visible passion in Chris Urch’s playBig issues alone don’t m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AMSunday, January 17, 2016
King’s Head, LondonThe conflict between black servants and white employers at the height of the US race struggle is explored in Paul Minx’s taut, though narrowly focused playPaul Minx’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Rickman, who came to the fore in the RSC’s 1980s golden period, was an actor blessed with a voice that could caress language with laidback seductivenessFor all his later fame as the creepy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMBattersea Arts Centre, LondonRidiculusmus find comedy in their Beckettian take on treating post-traumatic stress disorder with ecstasyMuch research has evidently gone into this production, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:58AMNational, LondonYou can see what Katie Mitchell as director and Martin Crimp as translator are trying to do in this new version of The Seagull: strip away the varnish and escape the linen-su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:34AMTheatre Royal, LondonOnce upon a time musicals drew their inspiration from books, plays or even real life; now they seem to be based on animated movies. But, although Shrek stems from the 20…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMWednesday, January 13, 2016
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe last Macbeth we saw at this venue was a pop-culture Polish production in which the transvestite witches assiduously fellated the hero. No such excesses ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49PMIn his latest production, Battlefield, the 90-year-old theatre director focuses on a single episode from the great Indian epic that lies at the heart of his careerI’m lucky. I’ve twice s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:22AMTuesday, January 12, 2016
The cast of King Charles III recently held an Equity meeting about whether to share the stage with an auction winner. Are such sales all in a good cause, or do they set a worrying precedent?…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56AMMonday, January 11, 2016
Union theatre, LondonBertolt Brecht is often thought to be preachy and simplistic, but these plays prove otherwise, offering a complex montage of life in Nazi Germany Brecht wrote this colle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PMSunday, January 10, 2016
Finborough theatre, LondonRed-star-crossed young lovers, estranged by a socially stratified regime, attempt to escape oppression in a traditional-yet-original romanceYou wait years for a pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMFriday, January 8, 2016
Southwark Playhouse, LondonHigh Society meets What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? in this look back at a socialite mother and daughter’s downfallLike Richard Greenberg’s The Dazzle, current…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMThursday, January 7, 2016
Savoy theatre, LondonWith outstanding leads and fizzing choreography from Carlos Acosta, the classic gambling musical is staged with elanIt seems fitting that the Chichester production of Gu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AMWednesday, January 6, 2016
Park theatre, LondonTwo siblings in an isolated farmhouse role-play traumatic episodes from their childhood in this flesh-creeping metaphor for colonial declineThis play certainly delivers w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AMTuesday, December 29, 2015
Comedy Theatre, LondonThere's only one question to which everyone wants the answer: can Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss cut the mustard? The short answer is that they prove as potent a co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22AMFriday, December 18, 2015
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJosie Rourke directs a fine revival of Christopher Hampton’s adaptation, where two jealousy-fuelled aristocrats stumble into the confusions of true loveHas there ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:21AMThursday, December 17, 2015
Old Vic, LondonDavid Greig’s anarchic take on the ecological analogy – where greed increases the need for ‘thneeds’ – is full of verbal wit and social purpose Related: How the Lora…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AMWednesday, December 16, 2015
Found 111 theatre, LondonThis story of two society brothers turned recluses is an extraordinary real-life American gothic – but the underlying message is quietly troublingThere’s a long …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AMMonday, December 14, 2015
Bush theatre, LondonAn unremittingly emotional play focuses on a family torn apart by the British empire’s practice of shipping UK children abroad to cover labour shortagesTom Holloway’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AMImelda Staunton bustled brilliantly through Gypsy and Shaw’s Superman soared. But it’s a celebrity hangman who tops our theatre critic’s pick of this year’s best showsMartin McDonagh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AMImelda Staunton bustled brilliantly through Gypsy and Shaw’s Superman soared. But it’s a celebrity hangman who tops our theatre critic’s pick of this year’s best shows Continue read…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:08AMThursday, December 10, 2015
Let's have more black Hamlets and white Othellos - not to mention some Queen Lears.Patrick Stewart does Othello in Jude Kelly's "photo-negative" production in Washington. Photograp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46PMHampstead theatre, LondonTom Stoppard’s science-meets-espionage thriller makes for an excellent revival, as public savvy catches up with its testing dual structureAttention must be paid to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:45AMWednesday, December 9, 2015
Royal Court Upstairs, LondonTwo starving sisters flee across the border with very different results in this brilliantly designed, superbly disorientating dramaLike Lucy Kirkwood’s Chimeric…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09AMTuesday, December 8, 2015
Marlowe, Canterbury Simon Mendes da Costa’s lively comedy has fun exploring the etiquette of modern dating for dithering middle-aged men and sexually assertive divorceesHaving undergone a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMSunday, December 6, 2015
Wilton’s Music Hall, London Roy Hudd plays his first pantomime dame – amid a medley of time-tested jokes and cockney standards – in this witty, warm, unadulterated delightIt comes as a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56AMFriday, December 4, 2015
Director whose opera and theatre work was enriched by a broad European outlook and interest in new dramaIn an age when mainland European directors are often judged by the extravagance of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:57PMYoung Vic, LondonAnna Maxwell Martin is a cool Lady Macbeth to John Heffernan’s neurotic hero, but the relentless physical movement overshadows the text’s potencyIf directing Shakespeare…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26AMThursday, December 3, 2015
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonIt may be a poor man’s Gypsy and Barbra Streisand has hitherto owned the role, but this production exhibits real class and Smith is a constant joy to watchT…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AMWednesday, December 2, 2015
Royal Court, London Real social issues about older women get lost in sensory overload as Penelope Skinner’s promising polemic lapses into melodramaNoma Dumezweni has stepped in at short no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26AMTuesday, December 1, 2015
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonThe queen’s relationship with Sarah Churchill (an icily seductive Natascha McElhone) is central to this fascinating, topical production on the last Stuart quee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM 
