Sunday, October 2, 2016
Royal Court, LondonSuzan Lori-Parks’s ambitious trilogy marries black history to a classical structure but suffers from static stagingThe London stage has always been a very white place. T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:51AMShakespeare’s Globe, London EastEnders’s Maddy Hill stars in Matthew Dunster’s taut, intelligent reimagining of Cymbeline in an urban gangland settingAnyone who takes on the Globe gets…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:51AMTheatre Royal Haymarket, LondonTerry Johnson gives Stephen Jeffreys’s 1994 tale of Restoration depravity the full rumpy-pumpy, but Cooper’s Rochester is stuck in surly modeOn stage, ever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:51AMSunday, September 25, 2016
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court theatreForm mirrors content in this fraught play full of tension, secrets and fractured dialogueEverything is shredded in Nathaniel Martello-White…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:28AMWyndham’s theatre, LondonOnly Ian McKellen flourishes in a lacklustre production of this beloved, strange and rich playThe legacy of No Man’s Land is overwhelming. In 1975, John Gielgud …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:28AMRose theatre, Kingston upon ThamesFreya Mavor excels in Zach Helm’s compelling tale of a woman trapped in addiction The Rose at Kingston has suddenly bloomed. John Malkovich’s production…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:28AMSunday, September 18, 2016
Hampstead theatre, LondonBeth Steel’s play aims to underline the cyclical nature of crash and austerity, but compares poorly to similarly themed worksWe have been here before it seems. Swa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterMaxine Peake’s creative partnership with the Royal Exchange hits another high in Tennessee Williams’s classicMaxine Peake and the Manchester Royal Exchange. The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMYoung Vic Studio, LondonColin Teevan’s adaptation of an account of Haile Selassie’s reign by Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński maintains a devastatingly light touch The Young Vic i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSunday, September 11, 2016
Wilton’s Music Hall, LondonSadie Frost as Gypsy Rose Lee fails to enliven Zoe Lewis’s play about a wartime gathering of Britten, Auden and McCullersThere is always an excitement at being…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AMSoho theatre, LondonDespite some magnetic moments – and a Pussy Rioter – Belarus Free Theatre fails to catch fireIn their home country, the founder members of Belarus Free Theatre face d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonAntony Sher is a shade too controlled as the maddened king in Gregory Doran’s fluent productionThe play that Dr Johnson thought too painful to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:16AMSunday, September 4, 2016
Found 111, LondonOwen McCafferty’s sharp drama of sexual entanglement features a crackling performance from Niamh Cusack“We are still ourselves when we lie.” Unfaithful is made up of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30AMGarrick, LondonJohn Osborne’s venomous 1957 play lends itself well to the Brexit era, but Kenneth Branagh’s farewell Garrick production fails to igniteIt seemed, John Osborne said, “as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30AMSunday, August 21, 2016
Old Vic, LondonMatilda maestro Tim Minchin and team have ingenious fun with his new musical adaptation of the movie classic – but would you want to see it more than once?Groundhog Day has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonThere’s method in the puppet mayhem of Emma Rice’s Kneehigh musical adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s D-day taleAt the Globe, artistic director Emma Rice an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AMSunday, August 7, 2016
Young Vic, LondonPiper makes a shattering Yerma in Simon Stone’s inspired present-day reworking of Lorca’s tragic study of childlessnessIn one fell – but felicitous – swoop, Simon St…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:20AMLyttelton, LondonHis powerful female characters redeem this handsome but hackneyed revival of Seán O’Casey’s great 1926 playThe Plough and the Stars is now most famous for causing a rio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AMBattersea Arts Centre, London A spoof on Victorian melodrama from the Little Bulb troupe makes a perfect debut for BAC’s new outdoor arenaBattersea Arts Centre is the only theatre in Londo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AMSunday, July 31, 2016
Royal Court, LondonCaryl Churchill takes just 15 minutes to skewer intolerance in Africa with a challenge to both prejudice and the conventions of political theatreOnce again Caryl Churchill…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01AMPalace theatre, LondonEmotional punch, rich suspense and dazzling effects make for all-round magic in the latest twist in Harry Potter’s taleOK, I’ll keep the secrets. After all, I’m w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMSunday, July 24, 2016
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonDanny Braverman conjures magic from a shoebox in his affectionate, unsparing portrait of a Jewish family in 20th-century east LondonIn Wot? No Fish!! at Batterse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49AMMinerva, ChichesterAnne Reid stars as a reluctant activist, but the plum role goes to the fracking company’s ‘horribly recognisable’ PR manOutside the Minerva, a woman from the Chiches…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49AMSunday, July 10, 2016
Bush Hall, LondonDespite a lovely lead performance, this all-female satire of women’s struggle to survive in a man’s world is feebleThere is a neglected theatrical treasure in Boys Will …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:27AMYoung Vic, LondonThirteen Syrian women bring Euripides up to date with unforgettable personal testimoniesIt is not only irrelevant but impudent to give a star rating to Queens of Syria. This…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:27AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonKneehigh’s captivating production is both playful and sombre as it conjures up the Chagalls’ intense relationshipMandolin, accordion, trumpet. Washes of ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:27AMSunday, July 3, 2016
Open Air theatre, Regent’s Park, LondonMichelle Terry shines in Rob Hastie’s muted productionThe important thing in cross-gender casting is not just the tremendous leads but the default …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:28AMDonmar Warehouse, London Stephen Dillane, Gina McKee and Ron Cook excel in Lyndsey Turner’s tremendous revival of Brian Friel’s 1979 playBrian Friel makes it look like the most natural t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:28AMBristol Old Vic‘Albion comes to great confusion’ as Timothy West’s thoughtful Lear presides over a nation dividedA map of the British Isles cracks into pieces. In front of it two tribe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:28AMSunday, June 26, 2016
Hampstead theatre, London NW3This edgy tale of a Snowden-type whistleblower is over-reliant on its stagey finaleMike Bartlett is one of our most protean playwrights. On telly: Doctor Foster;…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:16AMLes Nuits de Fourvière, LyonRobert Lepage pulls no punches as he revisits the notorious marquis in the asylumRobert Lepage is the Marquis de Sade. In pigtailed perruque and high heels, turn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:16AM 
