Sunday, 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 03:24AMSunday, July 14, 2019
Manchester international festival; Olivier, LondonTree is less exciting than the row about its authorship, Lolita Chakrabarti works wonders with Italo Calvino’s tricky text, and David Hare…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSunday, July 7, 2019
Donmar Warehouse; Royal Court, London; Curve, LeicesterDavid Greig’s play on continental movement still resonates, while the makers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child can’t summon the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMSunday, June 30, 2019
Almeida; Old Vic; Barbican, LondonYoung performers shine in a riveting adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg’s film about a falsely accused teacher. And Andrew Scott is a Noël Coward natural
It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, June 23, 2019
Our critic reflects on the exciting developments sweeping our stages and below, some of the top new recruits share their stories and ways of working
British theatre is in the process of a ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMGarrick; Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire; Bush, LondonJohn Malkovich cannot save David Mamet’s lame post-Weinstein satire. Thank heavens for Giffords’ groovy circus spectacular
Any sex play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMSunday, June 9, 2019
Ambassador, Bradford; Trafalgar Studios; Young Vic, LondonThe short but vibrant life of playwright Andrea Dunbar is vividly recreated by an all-female cast, while the joys and trials of 90s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMSunday, June 2, 2019
Royal Theatre Stratford East; Lyttelton; Wyndham’s, LondonLenny Henry and Aaron Pierre are supercharged in August Wilson’s epic while Roger Allam excels as a stern Edwardian patriarch
Au…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSunday, May 26, 2019
Dorfman; New Diorama; Regent’s Park; Royal Court, LondonA startlingly innovative play turns the audience into East German snoopers and a clever musical tackles a wartime ruse
What a whirli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMSunday, May 19, 2019
Young Vic; Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonAn outstanding cast portray a family stuck together while falling apart in the Young Vic’s Death of a Salesman. At the Globe, enter Falstaff, Harry …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMSunday, May 12, 2019
Duke of York’s; Camden People’s theatre; Hampstead, LondonHayley Atwell excels in a dazzling new Ibsen adaptation, while Thomas Hardy has a hand in dramas about HS2 and a Syrian cleaner
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMSunday, April 21, 2019
Bridge; Donmar Warehouse; Almeida, LondonMaggie Smith makes a triumphant return to the stage as Joseph Goebbels’s former personal secretary, while Anne-Marie Duff hits the high notes
“Le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, April 14, 2019
Royal Exchange, Manchester; Arcola; Lyric Hammersmith, LondonOut go the finger clicks but the knife crime stays in Sarah Frankcom’s vital reworking of West Side Story. And Little Miss Suns…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMSunday, April 7, 2019
Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon; Lyttelton; Barbican, LondonJohn Kani and Antony Sher are reunited in Kani’s powerful new drama. Plus, a timely revival of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls and Enda …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, March 31, 2019
Hampstead; Menier Chocolate Factor; Vaudeville, London Debut playwright Ella Road conjures a potent dystopia, Penelope Wilton is perfection in a sharp David Hare revival, and Shakespeare’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSaturday, March 23, 2019
Crucible, Sheffield; National Theatre; Alexandra Palace theatre, LondonA new musical with songs by Richard Hawley is rooted in Sheffield but richly resonant for all, while Bruce Norris and J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMSaturday, March 16, 2019
Harold Pinter; Adelphi, LondonTom Hiddleston leads a fine Pinter revival, while a housewife’s flights of fondant fancy fail to rise
What a clever idea: to follow the triumph of Pinter at t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSunday, February 24, 2019
Young Vic; Almeida; Donmar Warehouse, LondonTwo prisoners confront each other and God in a vital revival, Trump gets off lightly, and a clever tale of a sound engineer packs some real reverb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSaturday, February 16, 2019
Noël Coward; Old Vic; Royal Court, LondonGillian Anderson is the steely centre of Ivo van Hove’s glitzy adaptation of All About Eve, while Nicôle Lecky’s Superhoe storms the Royal Cour…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSunday, February 10, 2019
Derby theatre; Barbican; Hampstead, LondonMalorie Blackman’s bestseller leaps off the stage in a fine new adaptation. Plus, Chekhov without the samovars and 2018’s Pulitzer prize winnerI…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMSunday, February 3, 2019
Vault festival; Soho theatre, London Waterloo’s tunnels buzz with sharp new writing. And the joy and pain of a night at the circusIn Dublin, Edinburgh and Manchester, festivals light up su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMSunday, January 27, 2019
Dorfman; Gate; New Diorama, LondonCate Blanchett and Stephen Dillane can’t save a clunky S&M study of sexual politics, but thrills are to be had in a vivid account of poetic friendship…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSunday, January 20, 2019
Royal & Derngate, Northampton; Arcola; Kiln, LondonIn a trio of new plays, three young Rwandans are moved by the spirit, a lorry driver and a refugee share a watchful journey, and two fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSunday, January 13, 2019
Harold Pinter theatre; Finborough, LondonThe surprises continue in an extraordinary Pinter season. Plus, the rise and rise of Sheila AtimIt has been hard to guess where lightning will strike…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSunday, December 30, 2018
People of colour finally moved centre stage, young performers shone, and two veterans gave an acting masterclass. See our top 10 list below• Read the Observer critics’ reviews of the yea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04AMSunday, December 23, 2018
Donmar Warehouse; Young Vic; Almeida, LondonLynn Nottage brilliantly dramatises industrial unrest in small-town America in the year’s most powerful playA tremendous theatrical week culmina…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSunday, December 16, 2018
Royal Court; Dorfman; Hampstead, London Corporal punishment still hurts in Mark Ravenhill’s haunting new play, Poe is channelled for festive creepiness, and fine performances spruce up Ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSaturday, December 8, 2018
Vaudeville; Royal Court; Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonKit Harington and Johnny Flynn slug it out as Sam Shepard’s feuding brothers, women rabble-rouse at the Royal Court, and Trevor Nun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMSunday, December 2, 2018
Chickenshed; Little Angel; Unicorn, LondonThree festive shows for young and old serve up Dickens with attitude, ticklish puppets and Philip Pullman’s grisly Grimms’ fairytalesThe future …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMSunday, November 11, 2018
Kiln, London; Orange Tree, RichmondZadie Smith’s White Teeth bounds on to the stage leaving some of the novel’s subtleties behind. And 30 years on, Martin Crimp’s Dealing With Clair ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSunday, November 4, 2018
Royal Court; Theatre Royal Stratford East; Hampstead, Londondebbie tucker green delivers blistering insights into racism in the west. Elsewhere, joyous teenage kicks and a gasp-out-loud deno…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM 
