Theatre Royal, BathGeorge Bernard Shaw's Candida used to be a stock rep piece, but today is rarely seen. That's a pity because, as Simon Godwin's nifty revival shows, this 1895 play still ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:23AMVaudeville, LondonI warmed greatly to Graham Linehan's version of this classic Ealing comedy when I first saw it in 2011. But, while the script is still funny, this revival has a f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:40PMRegent's Park theatre, LondonThe only Shakespeare at the Open Air theatre this summer is this late play, "reimagined for everyone aged six and over". What this amounts to is an utterly begui…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMSt Peter's Church, ManchesterThis is more like it. After a lightweight Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe, we now get a production that gets closer to the heart of the play's mystery. Staged in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16PMPalace, ManchesterThe Manchester International festival is nothing if not daring. As proof, it kicks off its theatrical programme with Robert Wilson's visualisation of a surreal novella writ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AMShakespeare'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 06:00PMWhite Bear, LondonWhen the maverick playwright and director Charles Marowitz ran the Open Space theatre in London he did a fascinating adaptation of Wilde's The Critic as Artist. In this new…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34PMBy 'adapting' and updating historical texts – as the Royal Shakespeare Company is currently doing – aren't we just writing off the past?Do we need to rewrite the classics? Increasingly, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMPalace theatre, LondonDerren Brown begs us all, journalists included, not to reveal anything he has done in the course of two-and-a-half hours. Seeing him for the first time, however, I feel…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMDuchess, LondonLenny Henry has won his spurs as a Shakespearean actor in Othello and The Comedy of Errors. Now he takes on the titanic role of Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences which won…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55PMRegent's Park, LondonFollowing stage versions of works by William Golding, EL Doctorow and Harper Lee, this novel-hungry venue now brings us a new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in time f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMTheatre Royal, Drury Lane, London Reviews roundup: what the other papers thought In pictures: behind the scenes at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Interview: Director Sam Mendes talks to E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20PMTheatre Royal, Drury Lane, LondonChocs away! At last, we get to see the much touted stage musical based on Roald Dahl's children's classic. Although there's been much talk of the technical c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMCrucible, SheffieldTim Firth's first play, 1992's Neville's Island, showed four men stranded in the Lake District during a disastrous team-building exercise. This new musical comedy, for whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PMMinerva, ChichesterDavid Edgar has always been hooked on the process of politics. And in this fascinating, if occasionally flawed, play he pre-empts the forthcoming TV adaptation of Andrew A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonNo one is better than playwright Conor McPherson at dramatising the loneliness of the Irish male. Following a brilliant revival of The Weir at the Donmar earlier …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMWilton's Music Hall, LondonFarce is a serious business. It needs to be played with po-faced gravity to bring out its characters' desperation. But this evening of four short Victorian farces,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PMNoel Coward, LondonImagine a dramatic hero who stands no chance of being kissed "unless it was by a blind girl" and of whom it is said, by an adoptive aunt, "you'd see nicer eyes on a goat".…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMFinborough, LondonIt's hard to believe that it is 30 years since Doug Lucie's scathing portrait of a self-absorbed, style-conscious generation first appeared. I've never forgotten Mike Bradw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PMTricycle, LondonIn his last play, The Faith Machine, which opened at the Royal Court in 2011, Alexi Kaye Campbell dealt with the conflict between religious idealism and the free market. Now …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMSwan, Stratford-upon-AvonThomas Middleton's brilliant 1605 comedy has been cut, "edited" and updated to 1950s Soho by Sean Foley and Phil Porter for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Whether pa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PMOld Vic, LondonEverything that art can do to boost this revival of Tennessee Williams's 1959 play has been done. Marianne Elliott's production is first-rate. The cast, led by Kim Cattrall, i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMOlivier, LondonI don't think The Amen Corner is a great play, but I get the feeling it is one that its author, James Baldwin, was compelled to write back in 1955. It also gets from Rufu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterBlanche McIntyre is one of the flotilla of female directors coming to the forefront of British theatre. But, although she's assembled a cracking cast for this reviv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AMTheatro Technis/Jermyn Street theatre, LondonAside from Lysistrata, the plays of Aristophanes rarely get an outing these days. But these two wildly different updates prove one simple point: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMCockpit, LondonBack in 1973, Kennedy's Children by Robert Patrick fondly surveyed the 1960s through the monologues of five characters seated in a bar. Using a similar format, Blair's Childre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:08PMYoung Vic, LondonIf there is a problem with Belarus Free Theatre, it lies in deciding whether you're responding to them aesthetically or politically. But, while it's easy to admire their res…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMNational Theatre, LondonEugene O'Neill's 1928 play is famous for many things: its inordinate length, its prolonged asides and its extensive portrait of one woman, Nina Leeds, over the course…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44PMDrayton Arms, LondonAfter a surfeit of Miss Julies in London, it's refreshing to find this rare August Strindberg one-act play popping up in an attractive space above a South Kensington…
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