Donmar Warehouse, LondonWelsh playwright Peter Gill tracks the damage done to the English middle classes by the first world war in this taut and passionate dissection of the doomed 1919 peac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, London This boisterous production brings Francis Beaumont's 1607 burlesque of citizen drama and chivalric romance to lifeThis dashing new theatre has already proved …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:58AMNoel Coward Theatre, LondonSimon Beaufoy's stage version of the iconic film is well directed but feels like a missed opportunity to address any of the degradation of unemploymentIn the end, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10PMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonIsy Suttie is perkily determined, but this musical about the woman who mapped London lacks dramatic tensionIt is rare to find a new British musical that is not by …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMAudiences struggled to relate to the 50-year-old Profumo scandal. Lloyd Webber needs to focus on passionate love• Matt Trueman: Stephen Ward to close after four months• Xan Brooks: Steph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMOdeon theatre, Paris Luc Bondy's stylish, modern-dress production of Marivaux's comedy is a compelling portrait of a woman poleaxed by passionIsabelle Huppert, a veteran of some 90 films, is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:52AMSoho theatre, LondonThis story of a couple's escape to the countryside finds a visceral intensity as it explores the symptoms of drug addictionAddiction lies at the heart of this short, shar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMLyttelton, London This revival of Shelagh Delaney's portrait of sexuality, working-class life and mothers and daughters in the 1950s has the same emotional bite as the originalAlthough much …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:38AMDystopian plays are rare, but from Samuel Beckett's Happy Days to Caryl Churchill's Far Away, there have been some standout original stage creationsThe arrival of 1984 at the Almeida theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonAuthentic acting makes up for a slightly nostalgic script by Tracy Letts about an ailing Chicago doughnut storeAs you enter the theatre, a sign warns you of "mild …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMJoan Littlewood's pioneering 1963 musical about the first world war not only changed attitudes towards the conflict, it remade British theatre. As the show gets a loving revival, Michael Bil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMThe Langham, LondonA trio of plays by Tennessee Williams benefit from their plush hotel setting: there is angst and politics as well as sex in the airA lot of theatre these days takes the au…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AMHe may not look like a showman, but Lan has a Diaghilev-like talent for bringing artists togetherIt comes as no surprise to learn that David Lan has been appointed as a consulting artistic d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMTheatre Royal Stratford East, LondonTerry Johnson's revival of Joan Littlewood's iconic musical restores a classic for a new generationIf ever a show deserved to be called "iconic" it was Jo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMOrange Tree, RichmondFrom art to politics, consumerism and climate change, this is a play that is not afraid to address big ideasI instinctively warm to plays on big issues and they don't co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMPalace, WatfordDaniel Kanaber's first full-length play makes a sincere case for religion as an aid in the grieving processHow do you cope with the death of a loved one? That is the question …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMRoyal Court, LondonAbi Morgan's play is something of a romcom for the intellectual classes, though it's given a bit of zip by the two actorsAbi Morgan, who has had great success on TV with T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09PMFinborough, LondonA boy has died in care in this debut piece that couples authenticity with moral ambivalence in its exploration of guiltThe title implies that we might be in for a study of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMJuliet Stevenson gives a remarkable performance in Beckett's story of a woman tragically aware of her mental plightBeckett's Happy Days, with its progressively entombed heroine, would seem t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49PMNew Diorama, London There's little respite from the noise and rhetoric in Schiller's story of sibling hatred, written under the spell of ShakespeareAs part of a three-play rep season, The Fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:34AMRoyal Festival Hall, LondonThis Irving Berlin tribute hummed along pleasantly enough, but it failed to face the music and danceThis celebration of Irving Berlin's 125th anniversary offers a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:41AMThose wanting a glimpse into Hollywood's future should pay attention to what British theatre critics are saying today. Ejiofor, Dench, Weisz, Redmayne – the list of graduates goes onIt's t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSouthwark Playhouse, London This triple bill of plays about the women left behind during the first world war makes for uneven yet fascinating viewingTheatrical commemoration of the first wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AMHampstead theatre, LondonA grad-school reunion in New England raises pertinent questions about the role of women – and draws disappointing conclusionsGina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, seen at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMOlivier, LondonSimon Russell Beale is magnetic and unorthodox in an exceptional production that mixes the epic and the intimateAnother day, another Lear. But, although this is the third prod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44PMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonIf the BBC does not go and record Atkins's masterclass in acting – in which she channels Ellen Terry's informal lectures on Shakespeare's female characters �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AMRoyal Court, London Russell Tovey is commanding as a repressed gay footballer in John Donnelly's witty but finally overdone new playJohn Donnelly has the enviable gift of writing plays that …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMArcola, London This manic farce with a first-rate cast is full of erotic confusion, but its cross-dressing comedy is stretched to breaking pointThis manic farce by Tirso de Molina kicks off …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AMHis TV work might have upstaged his distinguished career in theatre, but the actor best known as Trigger excelled in work by Bennett, Marber and, especially, PinterYou can often tell the qua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AMGemma Arterton brings beauty, determination and moral goodness to one of the great female roles, writes Michael BillingtonA new theatre is often a challenge. Until weathered and worn by use,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58PMSt James Theatre, LondonGiving this revue of Sondheim numbers a narrative may be a little tenuous, but it's a feast of pleasure delivered with real verveIt's a sign of Stephen Sondheim's fec…
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