The Lowry, SalfordInternationaal Theater Amsterdam present a constantly inventive, four-hour staging of the overheated 1943 polemic Ivo van Hove is the most ubiquitous of modern directors. B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMOlivier, LondonHare updates Ibsen’s 1867 dramatic poem with wit and ingenuity, resulting in a sharp satire on contemporary mores This play is credited as “by David Hare after Henrik Ibs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonGregory Doran’s assured production offers a perfectly judged portrait of public hypocrisy and seething sexuality Gregory Doran is not the firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54PMFamily and politics collide as a British man sets out to unearth his South African roots – and get the audience off their seats This show has the aura of a big event. It helps kickstart th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMRoyal Court, LondonBeautifully staged by John Tiffany, Thorne’s new drama explores the pitfalls of socialist parenting How does one cope with being reared by radical parents? It’s a them…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMLyric Hammersmith, LondonMichael Frayn’s witty parody of backstage antics endures in an entertaining production that hit a real-life on-stage glitch What irony! Just as Michael Frayn’s f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMChiswick House, LondonCal McCrystal brings a woozy vibe to Giffords Circus, though these hippies are versatile performers and formidable athletes We expect a display of random skills. But th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMMinerva, Chichester Nancy Carroll is magnificent as a woman shamed by a failed affair with a younger man, in a play that seethes with postwar English anger Two critics, a Young Turk and an O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMDonmar Warehouse, London David Greig’s 1994 play about yearning for a united Europe as fascists gather strength is deeply resonant Refugees desperately seek shelter, neo-fascist thugs roa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMAlmeida, LondonRupert Goold directs a taut adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg’s film about an innocent man falling prey to clannish locals Back in 2004 the Almeida had a big hit with a stage …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMOld Vic, London Scott is richly funny as a peacocking Peter Pan whose theatrical bohemia is threatened by outsiders Andrew Scott gives a virtuosic performance in Noël Coward’s imperishabl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMFinborough, LondonDion Boucicault’s convoluted melodrama is elevated by the earnestness and imagination of Phil Willmott’s canny revival “Spare me the theatricals,” pleads a characte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMVaudeville theatre, LondonLev Dodin’s masterly production allows the actors to truly inhabit their roles and presents a familiar play afresh We live in an age of director’s theatre. But …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMBarbican, LondonThis adaptation of Luchino Visconti’s 1969 film, performed by the Comédie-Française, is full of startling set pieces When Luchino Visconti’s movie, The Damned, opened i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMGarrick theatre, LondonJohn Malkovich works overtime to squeeze depth into David Mamet’s predatory Hollywood tycoon Barney Fein David Mamet’s new play, we are assured, is fiction and any…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMBush theatre, LondonNancy Medina directs a slow-burning story of a family caught between two cultures in 80s Britain As part of its policy of reviving neglected plays by writers of colour, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMOrange Tree, RichmondSuperb performances power the ingeniously plotted story of a young earl’s marriage to the daughter of an impoverished duke The whirligig of time, as Shakespeare observ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMChichester Festival theatreRachael Stirling is excellent in Kate Hewitt’s invigorating production of a play about individual and national unease There seems a cunning plan to Chichester’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMRoyal and Derngate, NorthamptonRivalry and shared guilt combine as Pope Benedict XVI meets his successor, Pope Francis, in Anthony McCarten’s drama Having written films about Winston Chur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMUstinov, BathStrong performances buoy up a lightweight story about characters fated to fulfil the destinies of their fictional namesakes I find it mildly astonishing that this piece won the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54PMBridge theatre, London Festive fun, ear-nibbling and high-wire antics infuse Nicholas Hytner’s startling role-reversal production A promenade Julius Caesar was one of the Bridge’s bigges…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMWhite Bear, LondonSophie Treadwell’s long-lost tale of Freudian fear gets its first outing with a cast who foster high tension in an intimate venue Sophie Treadwell is best known for her e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMBarbican, LondonA pair of Lion King fans blunder into a highbrow drama in Declan Donnellan’s gallant update of the class-collision comedy In Francis Beaumont’s 1607 burlesque, a grocer a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMKiln, LondonSamuel Adamson’s stimulating family saga revolves around A Doll’s House and is inventively staged by Indhu Rubasingham The slam of the door at the end of A Doll’s House was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMThe Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonPrasanna Puwanarajah’s edge-of-the-seat revival of Thomas Otway’s 1682 tragedy looks like Blade Runner but deals in age-old themes of hypocrisy, corruption a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMOld Red Lion, LondonEmma Hemingford’s promising debut gets under the skin of a troubled relationship and refuses to take sides Emma Hemingford has written and co-stars in this promising de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMWyndhams, LondonKenneth Lonergan’s tale of astronomy and midlife misery makes fine use of an A-list cast but never truly explodes into life With Matthew Broderick and Elizabeth McGovern he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06PMLyttelton, LondonAllam shines as the tyrannical capitalist patriarch at the heart of Githa Sowerby’s powerful story of a society in transition It has been exactly 25 years since a National…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMKing’s Head theatre, LondonKnown for her sharp tongue and love affairs, the eccentric Australian actor is celebrated in this entertaining one-woman show If the title is outrageous, so was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMTheatre Royal Stratford East, LondonAugust Wilson’s overheated story of an ex-con attempting to rebuild his life is buoyed by an energetic cast with meaty roles The parts are sometimes big…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMRegent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonThe classic snapshot of a community is given fresh life by a youthful production that stresses the story’s harsher moments Thornton Wilder’s 1938 …
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