Finborough, LondonNeil McPherson’s documentary drama is a powerful reminder of the 1915 massacre of Armenian civilians and the tragedies that ensued Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AMLyttelton, LondonChurchill’s civil-war drama has become an epic folk play under Lyndsey Turner’s directionThe new regime at the National begins with a welcome revival of Caryl Churchill�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AMArcola, LondonGreg Hicks is hilarious as a demonic newspaper editor in Mark Jagasia’s scorching satire on the anti-immigration rhetoric infecting parts of Fleet Street Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:51AMFrom the archive: The first night review, published on 23 September 1998, for The Blue Room, David Hare’s version of Schnitzler’s erotic masterpiece La Ronde at the Donmar Warehouse Cont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:43AMYoung Vic, LondonThe American playwright’s nostalgic look at middle-class life gets a visually seductive revivalEugene O’Neill wrote expressionist plays such as The Hairy Ape and Dynamo.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMThis first major production of Ford’s play since the 1630s makes conspicuous the work’s debt to Shakespeare, but finally looks forward to Restoration comedy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38AMRoyal Court, LondonMichael Wynne’s ingenious verbatim drama is zealously researched but lacks polemical punchHow do you dramatise a subject like the NHS? In this 90-minute play, Michael Wy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMIn Peter Hall’s 1987 National Theatre production, Dench took Shakespeare’s character and re-created it from her own personality and imaginationIn the case of Judi Dench, one is confronte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSimon Stephens’s extraordinary and haunting new play peoples the Carmen story with vivid, isolated characters from our modern urban world Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMSoho theatre, LondonOwen McCafferty’s play is an oversimplified morality tale, but the acting is first-rate and it packs a lot into 80 minutes Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AMSavoy theatre, LondonEverything’s coming up roses for this Chichester transfer of the Sondheim show about a starstruck mum who steers her children into showbizJonathan Kent’s production …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMNational Maritime Museum, Greenwich, LondonThe immersive theatre stalwarts load this family show with nautical atmosphere and gizmos, but there’s too little dangerPunchdrunk are famous for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59PMRoyal Court, LondonEnda Walsh has invented a new cast of fairground misfits to stretch Dahl’s tale for the stage, but the titular couple are still the funniest thing in this anarchic farce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:34AMAs Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron, Rylance transformed himself into a strutting, muscular figure in Jez Butterworth’s haunting study of a changing England Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSoho theatre, LondonAnders Lustgarten’s drama boldly contrasts the lives of a fisherman retrieving the bodies of refugees drowned at sea and a Chinese-British woman who collects debts for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35AMTricycle, LondonAs an 81-year-old artist announces that she plans to kill herself, April de Angelis asks: is old age a curse from which we are entitled to escape? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AMRoyal and Derngate, NorthamptonNigel Barrett makes for a virile, athletic protagonist in this deeply moving, stripped-down version of Rostand’s classic Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMPark theatre, LondonJonathan Maitland’s take on Geoffrey Howe’s ferocious resignation speech shows the enmity inside Thatcher’s government Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMIn our new series, Michael Billington picks 10 theatrical performances that have etched themselves on his memory. The list begins with Olivier as John Osborne’s Archie RiceEvery time I inv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonGregory Doran’s Arthur Miller production skilfully contrasts a bitter old man with his dapper younger self, as Harriet Walter touchingly revea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:23AMColiseum, LondonStephen Sondheim’s bloodstained musical about the demon barber gets an adventurous outing at ENO First seen in New York in 2014, this semi-staged version of Stephen Sondhei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMFinborough, LondonTom Taylor’s protagonist packs a punch in this sometimes heavy-handed comic melodrama that Abraham Lincoln was watching on the night he was assassinated“And how did you…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AMJimmy Porter takes on class, religion, politics and the press in Osborne’s classic 1956 play – but its real revolution lay in its thrilling linguistic exuberanceIn the summer of 1955 an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38AMSwan, StratfordJasper Britton gives a robust performance as Marlowe’s murderous merchant, but Justin Audibert’s production will improve when it fully embraces the play’s savagery Conti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMSt James theatre, LondonWilliam Gaminara’s farce is inventive and funny and clever, and the cast excel as Prince William, David Cameron and David Beckham steer England’s 2018 World Cup b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMNational Theatre, LondonPersonal crises plunge order into chaos in Sam Holcroft’s intelligent and superbly cast yuletide comedy directed by Marianne ElliottSam Holcroft has already made a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:59AMPrint Room, LondonThis portrayal of two men who struggle to express their feelings for each other has moments of great beauty but is all too restrained Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonThis US show about an out-of-work actor employed to service Streisand’s subterranean mall takes its star-obsession several notches too far Continue reading.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AM70-year career of a director with a touch of the showman who has always sought to bring reality to the stage Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PMBush theatre, LondonThis knockout drama – based on the life and times of the first African-American heavyweight champ, Jack Johnson – hits hard but has balletic graceMarco Ramirez is not…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonThis revival of Michael Hastings’s 1973 play immaculately captures the rhythms and tensions inside a tailor’s workshop in the 1950sWork is not only a four-lett…
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