Sunday, April 9, 2017
Dorfman, LondonNina Raine adroitly tackles barristers’ struggles with the truth as the audience becomes the jury in a rape caseMore than Consent. Heartfelt approval. It is hard to overemph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMTheatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonIf it’s a real musical you’re after, this is the one to watchForget La La Land. If you want to see hot hoofing, go to Mark Bramble’s production of 42nd …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMTheatre Royal, HaymarketDamian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo do their best with Edward Albee’s provocative play, but it is too knowing for its own goodIn the seven months since Edward Albee die…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMSunday, March 19, 2017
Dorfman, London Rufus Norris and Carol Ann Duffy’s verbatim drama includes a variety of voices but is already out of date in our bitterly divided nationOne of Rufus Norris’s aims since h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMRose theatre, Kingston upon ThamesCatherine McCormack and Niamh Cusack ignite April De Angelis’s five-hour staging of Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan sagaWhat a nerve. To think that Elena Fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMGarrick, London Heavily laboured jokes sink Griff Rhys Jones and Lee Mack in this 17th-century comedy of mannersIt may be that, all unwittingly, I have had a farsectomy. I – mostly – app…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMSunday, March 12, 2017
Old Vic, LondonDaniel Radcliffe and Joshua McGuire’s split-second timing ensures this well-judged production of Stoppard’s classic fizzes with lifeWhen as a schoolgirl I saw Rosencrantz …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMHarold Pinter, LondonPrepare for a high-wire showdown in James Macdonald’s fine production of Albee’s caustic classicNo one is going to accuse Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? of being …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonOutstanding performances, including Roger Allam as Roy Jenkins, enliven a timely drama about the birth of the SDPIt was an Alice Through the Looking Glass press night…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSunday, March 5, 2017
Hull Truck theatre, HullMark Addy and Caroline Quentin star in Richard Bean’s gag-heavy satirical tale of a 17th-century city governor navigating the outbreak of civil warThere is exemplar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMAlmeida, LondonScott brings total empathy to the title role in Robert Icke’s inspired production Robert Icke is one of the most important forces in today’s theatre. He blew the dust from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMSunday, February 26, 2017
Tobacco Factory, BristolPowerful performances from fine young actors bring fresh power to this sensual, subtle reinventionRichard Twyman is not resident at the Tobacco Factory. Yet his marve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMYoung Vic, LondonIt’s all mire, ire and menace in Joe Hill-Gibbins’s heavy-going productionMud sticks. The most immediately striking feature of Joe Hill-Gibbins’s staging of A Midsumme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMOlivier, LondonTamsin Greig is a magnetic Malvolia in an extravagant production that gleefully refocuses Shakespeare’s comedyShe is a 21st-century puritan: her religion is herself; her bod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSunday, February 19, 2017
Barbican, London Simon McBurney’s fizzing take on the novel that inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel transcends language barriers… and can still be seen onlineBefore I was a theatre critic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMBarbican, LondonLars Eidinger is a visceral, manipulative monarch in Thomas Ostermeier’s explosive German-language productionThomas Ostermeier has been director of Schaubühne Berlin since…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMApollo, LondonTom Hollander proves wonderfully potty in Stoppard’s 1974 play, given a startling new lease of life in this age of alternative factsEarly Tom Stoppard plays are having a stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSunday, February 12, 2017
Hampstead theatre, LondonDespite fine performances, Laura Eason’s 2009 play about two writers having a fling is too rooted in its timeLaura Eason’s Sex With Strangers was first staged by…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMThe Vaults, LondonFrom the Great Gatsby to Martian odysseys and life in a refugee camp, south London plays host to worlds of possibilitySince 2011, the traditionally torpid theatrical weeks …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMDuke of York’s, London Kate O’Flynn is outstanding in John Tiffany’s beautiful staging of Tennessee Williams’s breakthrough play about a fragile girl and her gentleman callerIs there…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMThursday, February 9, 2017
Royal Exchange, ManchesterThe gender switches in Sarah Frankcom’s Hamlet may unsettle for a moment but they do not distort the play• At her Peake: a stage career in pictures• Michael B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, February 5, 2017
Charing Cross theatre, LondonEven musical maestro Thom Southerland’s gifts can’t help this flight of fancy rise above its silly premiseThom Southerland has made himself a master of the u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMHome, ManchesterLizzie Nunnery’s play with music captures bittersweet memories of the North Atlantic convoys as documentary meets melancholy balladNarvik is not like anything else I have h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSunday, January 29, 2017
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonOnly the row over an all-white cast, in a tale set in ancient China, quickens the pulse of this arduous playThe Print Room has been in the middle of a “yel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04AMDorfman, LondonCarly Wijs’s 2016 Edinburgh fringe hit tells the story of the 2004 Russian school siege with clear-eyed audacityUs/Them: hostages and captors; Russians and Chechens; childre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMGate, LondonA young woman’s conversion to Catholicism in 19th-century Rhodesia speaks volumes in Danai Gurira’s bold tale of oppression and identityThe Convert is enough to give historic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMSunday, January 22, 2017
Orange Tree, Richmond, SurreyA silver-tongued visitor is not what he seems in Roland Schimmelpfennig’s subtle exploration of the rise of the new rightWinter Solstice is, in a way, the perf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMLyceum, EdinburghA vivid adaptation of the classic Australian tale about the disappearance of a group of schoolgirls in 1900When Joan Lindsay wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock in 1967, she create…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSunday, January 1, 2017
Old Vic, LondonRufus Sewell is poised and sleek in Yasmina Reza’s tale of three friends and a very expensive white canvasIn 1998, Yasmina Reza won a Laurence Olivier award for Art. The pri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSavoy theatre, London Amber Riley, of Glee fame, leads three wronged women in a show that packs a punchOnce upon a time, it was romance that roused the audiences in musicals. In Dreamgirls i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMMonday, December 26, 2016
Royal Court, LondonCaryl Churchill’s magnificent new play unleashes an intricate, elliptical, acutely female view of the apocalypseSo which is the best moment in Caryl Churchill’s sizzli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM 
