Laura Linney is utterly assured in a fine adaptation of the bestselling novel, but fellow Hollywood star Orlando Bloom fails to convince in Killer JoeWhat fascinates me about the rise of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMShakespeare’s Globe; Playground, LondonMichelle Terry’s reign as the Globe’s artistic director begins with an assured double bill; and Shirley Porter’s dark deeds are nicely skewered…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMWyndham’s; Gate, LondonMark Rothko’s work and mind are brilliantly evoked in a revival of John Logan’s 2009 play. And Weimar Germany is alive and kicking…Red: for rage and fire – a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMUstinov Studio, Bath; The Bridge; Vaudeville, LondonA morbidly obese man is trapped with his regrets and his furious daughter in the Ustinov’s superb revival of Samuel D Hunter’s The Wha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMArtist and producer fight over a song in Joe Penhall’s intricate new drama, a revival of Chess makes all the wrong moves, and a party of mourners lifts the spiritsThe lens through which we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMA thrillingly shifting feminist drama will send audiences out of the theatre arguing, but a plunge into postwar Soho is stiflingElla Hickson’s new play is an assault on the stage. The Writ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMAldwych, London; Everyman, Liverpool; Royal Court, LondonAdrienne Warren is a knockout as Tina Turner, droog culture rules in Liverpool. Plus, how to build a flat-pack childThe two most sign…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMDonmar Warehouse; Southwark Playhouse; Old Red Lion, LondonTwo biting Restoration dramas conjure contemporary echoes, and a boy with a ‘face like a fist’ reacts with fury to school bulli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSwan, Stratford-upon-Avon; Soho theatre, LondonMary Pix’s forgotten 1700 play fills the stage with defiant energy, while Ali Taylor’s remake of Cathy Come Home hits hardIs it a clus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMYoung Vic; Battersea Arts Centre, LondonMatthew Lopez’s seven-hour, Forster-inspired epic of New York gay life rewards patience. Plus, BAC’s thrilling beatbox Mary Shelley remake“You c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMAlmeida; Olivier, LondonPatsy Ferran shows her dramatic range in a Tennessee Williams revival, but Rory Kinnear’s Macbeth is one-dimensionalSummer and Smoke must make Rebecca Frecknall’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:35PMOld Vic, London; Gate, LondonPerceptions are challenged in a new Ingmar Bergman adaptation and a state-of-the-world addressShould the theatre reflect the outside world, or be a refuge from i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMTheatre Royal Haymarket, London; York Theatre RoyalA big week for Bryony Lavery sees a revival of her 1998 missing child play, Frozen, and the premiere of her fine Graham Greene adaptationTh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMJerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court; Donmar Warehouse, LondonAlone on stage for an hour and a half, Carey Mulligan is extraordinary in Dennis Kelly’s gripping new play. Plus, a dream d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThe Bridge; Young Vic, London; Hull Truck, HullNicholas Hytner’s outstanding production reconfigures Julius Caesar in more ways than one. Plus, James Graham and Moonlight’s Tarell Alvin …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMDorfman; Vaudeville theatre, LondonTension builds subtly in Annie Baker’s unmissable John at the National, while Kathy Burke has a hectic take on Oscar WildeWhat counts as action in the th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMHarold Pinter theatre; Gate, London Harold Pinter’s ‘ravings’ make perfect sense 60 years on in his seaside dreamscape, and one woman brings vivid life to 1992’s LA riotsNearly 60 ye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMJerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, LondonThe naturally comic Patsy Ferran shines in Anoushka Warden’s punchy autobiographical monologue about growing up the child of a cult followerAno…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMJerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, LondonAfter all the controversy surrounding this revival of Andrea Dunbar’s memorable play, it adds nothing that’s newRita, Sue and Bob Too comes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:55AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonJames Norton and Imogen Poots paint an intense picture of a couple in a violent but entirely predictable marriage crisisDoors are battered, blood is spattered, a per…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMYoung Vic, LondonTestimony from Calais refugees makes vital drama in a compelling but unsentimental document of our timesThe Jungle is one of the most vital productions of the year. Desperat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMVictoria Palace, LondonLin-Manuel Miranda’a smash Broadway musical about one of America’s founding fathers now breaks new ground in the West EndYes it is. Worth the wait. Yes it does. Sp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMNational Theatre, LondonThe almost-real boy and adorably annoying cricket win hearts and minds in John Tiffany’s skilful, subtle adaptationIt is easy to draw up a list of items that make P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSwan, Stratford-upon-AvonRobert Harris’s trilogy springs fully to life in Mike Poulton’s two-part epic – but where are the meaty parts for women?There are, well, a legion of reasons fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMAlmeida, LondonThe supernatural stories of the mid-20th century TV show have lost some of their bite in adaptation, but none of their deadpan charmCan irony and fear coexist in the theatre? …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMYoung Vic, LondonAn Edinburgh fringe hit, this spangled tale of the cross-dressing fifth marquis of Anglesey charms even as it cajolesI bet most of the audience in How to Win Against History…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonMarcus Brigstocke stars in a revival of the Broadway musical that brings the big top to fire-eating life, if not the showman himself“Humbug” at this time …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMHot-off-the-press plays thrust the personal and the political centre stage, while Bob Dylan had a moment• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in fullWhat a terrific turnaround year. At…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMApollo, LondonThere’s wit and heart galore in Tom Macrae and Dan Gillespie’s musical inspired by a teenage boy who wanted to dress in girls’ clothesWho could resist Everybody’s Talki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMYoung Vic, LondonAeschylus speaks directly to us in David Greig’s electrifying adaptationFierce and crystal-clear, The Suppliant Women arrives in London like an arrow shot into the he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMWales Millennium Centre, CardiffCardiff’s fabled docks are given the Les Mis treatment in a hulking, lacklustre new musical graced by some exceptional voicesIt is my favourite place name. …
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