Sunday, August 16, 2020
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThere is no escape for a socially distanced audience all wearing headphones from Simon Stephens’s powerfully menacing adaptation of José Saramago
Every now and the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, August 9, 2020
Garden theatre, London SE11; onlineTwo singing, dancing Victorian cross-dressers give the kiss of life to London’s fringe theatre. And by Zoom to 2070 and Wonderland
Here are some chinks i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, July 26, 2020
Black writers shared feelings they had kept to themselves for years in a quietly explosive week of tension and tears
The words of My White Best Friend (and Other Letters Left Unsaid) hit act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, June 28, 2020
Urgent new perspectives on George Floyd’s death and the slave trade’s place in art; pastoral meditations from David Rudkin and an unforgettable wartime soundscape
Every week, a new catas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMEyebrows were raised over the casting for the young Prince of Denmark, but it could give the play new life
At first it seems preposterous. Aged 81, Ian McKellen has announced he is to play H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMSunday, June 21, 2020
With real life now the biggest show in town, our theatre critic reflects on the catastrophic effects of lockdown, and talks to industry insiders about navigating a way back
Kitty Empire: ‘…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, June 7, 2020
Outstanding Zoom drama from New York, a deluge of monologues from Dublin and an astonishing solo performance by Andrew Scott
The theatres have been dark – in that terrible, expressive phra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMMonday, March 30, 2020
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMSunday, March 22, 2020
Lyttelton, LondonRobert Lepage’s extraordinary, seven-hour fusion of horror, romance and French farce made for a fitting final show before London’s theatres went into lockdown
This was t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSunday, March 15, 2020
Trafalgar Studios; Royal Court, London; Theatre Royal BrightonSebastian Barry’s tale of two cellmates succeeds despite plausibility issues, while Katherine Parkinson is magnetic in a flims…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMSunday, March 8, 2020
Leeds Playhouse; Stratford East; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonOliver is both deaf and poor in a sign-language version of Dickens’s tale that speaks to 21st-century London. And Frantic As…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSunday, February 23, 2020
Bridge; Olivier, London; Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonCloned siblings cast fleeting shadows in a vivid Caryl Churchill revival, while Lesley Manville dazzles in an unwieldy revenge drama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSunday, February 16, 2020
Wyndham’s; Dorfman; Donmar Warehouse, LondonTom Stoppard explores his Jewish heritage in what may be his final play; Rafe Spall delivers a career-changing study in rage; and Caryl Churchil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, February 2, 2020
Harold Pinter, London; Leeds Playhouse; Lyric Hammersmith, LondonToby Jones and Rosalind Eleazar make light work of Ian Rickson’s overfreighted new Chekhov. Plus, wall-to-wall zombie horro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMSunday, December 29, 2019
There was fearless new work, revelatory sound design and a seismic shift in the tussle between Chekhov and Ibsen. The Observer’s theatre critic introduces her 10 best shows of the year
My …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, December 22, 2019
Dorfman; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Donmar Warehouse, LondonA Neil Gaiman adaptation delivers spooky childhood spectacle; and the teenage years of Elizabeth I and Richard III
Sometimes it is n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, December 15, 2019
Playhouse; Almeida; Lyttelton, LondonGone is the big nose, while the fighting’s a poetry slam in Martin Crimp’s ingenious new rapping Cyrano. Plus, The Duchess of Malfi reimagined, and T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSunday, December 1, 2019
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Bush; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonA new musical adaptation of David Walliams’s book scores on all counts; director Bijan Sheibani makes a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMSunday, November 24, 2019
Noël Coward; Duke of York’s; Arcola, LondonA dazzling West End debut lights up a newly arrived Broadway hit, while Joe Simpson’s Andes ordeal is all too real on stage, and a jailed repo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSaturday, November 9, 2019
Boulevard; Turbine; Kiln, LondonTwo recently opened London theatres make their mark, with love and loss round the camp fire, and a sparky reworking of High Fidelity that just needs a few goo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMSunday, November 3, 2019
Royal Exchange, Manchester; Dorfman; Hampstead, LondonSarah Frankcom signs off in Manchester with elegiac Simon Stephens and a little bit of Jarvis Cocker. Plus, Annie Baker’s latest and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMSaturday, October 26, 2019
Donmar Warehouse; Old Vic; Almeida, LondonAlice Birch searches for hope in the criminal justice system, Claire Foy and Matt Smith bring wit to eco angst, and Siobhan Redmond makes a fine Gor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMSaturday, October 19, 2019
Leeds Playhouse; Lyric Hammersmith; Royal Court, LondonA powerful verbatim portrayal of women’s lives during the Yorkshire Ripper years; a sci-fi classic reborn; and a musical imperialism …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSunday, October 6, 2019
Lyttelton; Young Vic, London; Chichester Festival theatreAthol Fugard’s masterly apartheid drama still shocks, while compatriot Yaël Farber is transfixed by Marina Carr’s lyrical Irish …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, September 29, 2019
Royal Court, London; Curve, LeicesterCaryl Churchill conjures four short, sharp, unconnected plays that add up to one remarkable whole. And a new spin on an 80s film classic
What a rapt, int…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMSunday, September 22, 2019
Dorfman; Hampstead; Bush, LondonAusterity bites at the National in Alexander Zeldin’s intense community centre drama, while a Chinese whistleblowing thriller is lost for words
Alexander Ze…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMSunday, September 15, 2019
Old Vic; Lyric Hammersmith, London; Minerva, Chichester Lucy Prebble’s take on the Litvinenko murder swivels brilliantly between tragedy and farce, while Ibsen’s women still have much to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMSunday, September 8, 2019
Lyttelton; Duke of York’s; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAlex Jennings and Lindsay Duncan snipe to perfection as an 80s Tory MP and his wife in a debut play that isn’t quite so sharp. P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSunday, September 1, 2019
Wyndham’s; Donmar Warehouse, London; Queen’s theatre, HornchurchPhoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag returns in singularly brilliant fashion. Plus, more electrifying drama from Branden Jacob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSunday, August 25, 2019
Almeida, London; Festival theatre, EdinburghRobert Icke concludes his dazzling run at the Almeida with another masterstroke. Plus, Stephen Fry’s one-man Greek myths
Robert Icke’s time as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMSunday, July 21, 2019
Two star performances breathe life into Tennessee Williams, Vanessa Redgrave’s memories could do with an edit, while Jasmine Lee-Jones is someone to watchTennessee Williams can make the st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AM 
