Monday, May 30, 2016
Coliseum, LondonA glittering Glenn Close is ready once again for her close-up as Norma DesmondIt is more than 20 years since Glenn Close first starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boule…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:45AMSunday, May 29, 2016
Royal Exchange, ManchesterHattie Naylor’s beautifully deft adaptation springs Sarah Waters’s bestseller on to the stage in a pitch-perfect productionWhat a haunting, unusual thing Hattie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:46AMGarrick, LondonLily James and Richard Madden certainly look the part, but are doomed by their dictionIt’s easy to think the famous golden lines, the swift, sad arc of Romeo and Juliet will…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:46AMWednesday, May 25, 2016
Young Vic, LondonBenedict Andrews's revival of the Tennessee Williams classic steams off the revolving set of the Young Vic• Gillian Anderson in Streetcar – in pictures• From Anderson …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:14AMSunday, May 22, 2016
Orange Tree, LondonGeorge Bernard Shaw’s satirical attack on the divorce laws (and the medical profession) rather outstays its welcomeThe Philanderer, written in 1893, is a prescient play.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:21AMYork Theatre RoyalThis adaptation of the novelist’s prescient 1909 short story is impressively nimbleA woman looks into a screen showing the face of her faraway son. Electronic music ping …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:21AMWednesday, May 18, 2016
Chichester Festival theatre, West SussexA vivid revival of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus christens a newly refashioned Chichester Festival theatreChichester Festival theatre reopens this summer, n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56AMSunday, May 15, 2016
Royal Court, LondonAbout half a mile down from the Little Chef on the A14, a giant chats about building Stonehenge. In a Wiltshire glade at dawn, teenage girls tumble bug-eyed and doped-up f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:21AMFriday, May 13, 2016
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s resurrected musical features terrific dancing and some truly hideous moggiesThere is nothing subdued and nothing rough about Cats. Nor is there much that looks theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PMSunday, May 8, 2016
Chichester Festival theatreHugh Bonneville as a whistleblower driven by sibling rivalry shows how Ibsen’s play switches emphasis with every stagingHere is Hugh Bonneville, the amiably stuf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:44AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonEmma Rice’s first production as artistic director at Shakespeare’s Globe is a glittering, unnerving comic triumphA sitar player sends music pulsing through t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:44AMSunday, May 1, 2016
Duke of York’s, London Kit Harington gets his kit off and Jenna Russell sings Bat out of Hell… but no one profits from this deal with the devilEveryone applauds Jamie Lloyd’s determina…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15AMDonmar, London Zoë Wanamaker must choose whether to lose her life or her lover in Nick Payne’s thought-provoking follow-up to ConstellationsFour years ago Nick Payne shone new light on th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15AMBarbican, LondonIvo van Hove takes Henry V, Henry VI and Richard II and mashes them up into a wonderful study of the modern ruling classThe most immediately surprising feature of Kings of Wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15AMSunday, April 24, 2016
Dorfman; Temporary theatre; Lyttelton; all LondonRufus Norris’s National Theatre is in rude health, with Annie Baker’s remarkable The Flick and a verbatim drama about why children join I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:25AMSunday, April 17, 2016
Almeida, LondonLeo Butler’s fine new play brings teeming London on to the stage, with help from a set design that’s practically installation artLondon in 2016 has made it on to the stage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:14AMRoyal Court theatre, LondonDavid Ireland’s shocking new play balances humour and horror, with Stephen Rea superb as an Ulster loyalist suspicious of his ‘Fenian’ baby granddaughterSome…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:14AMThe Observer’s theatre critic remembers one of Britain’s most influential playwrights of the postwar yearsArnold Wesker, who died on 12 April at the age of 83, was one of the male playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:14AMSunday, April 10, 2016
Coliseum, LondonGlenn Close plays Norma Desmond with as much panache as she did more than 20 years agoIt is more than 20 years since Glenn Close first starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Suns…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:58AMOld Vic, LondonCompelling performances from Timothy Spall, Daniel Mays and George MacKay fail to elevate Matthew Warchus’s production of the Pinter classicHere is an idea about The Caretak…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:58AMRoyal Court, LondonJessica Raine proves herself a stage natural in Alistair McDowall’s ingenious but taxing tale of future humanity adrift in despairX is another of Alistair McDowall’s d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:58AMSunday, April 3, 2016
Found111, LondonKate Fleetwood’s magnetic performance in this paranoia play continues this tiny pop-up space’s run of terrific performancesEvery now and then a particular theatre turns i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMNational theatre, LondonA new version of Lorraine Hansberry’s play about unrest in colonial Africa is a compelling mix of atmosphere and argumentAudiences at the National don’t often app…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMEugene O’Neill’s partly autobiographical play of family dysfunction careers towards its tragic outcome with terrific energyLong Day’s Journey Into Night? No. It is the speed of Richard…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMSunday, March 27, 2016
Garrick, LondonKenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon labour for laughs as hotel guests thrown together by circumstanceGradually the stage is picking to pieces accepted ideas about the 1960s. Martin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Paapa Essiedu paints a young and striking Hamlet, torn by indecision in an African military state, in Simon Godwin’s stirring interpretationA…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMSunday, March 6, 2016
Trafalgar Studios, LondonUzo Aduba, Zawe Ashton and Laura Carmichael make a striking cast, but the declamatory dialogue is heavy-handedAt Trafalgar Studios, Uzo Aduba steams and storms: a ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonJean Anouilh’s slight tale of a amnesiac soldier claimed by a host of different families gets a colourful 1950s treatmentJean Anouilh’s 1937 comedy Le voyageur sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31AMNational Theatre, LondonJack Thorne’s play about a couple struggling to come to terms with tragedy is unflinchingI can’t remember when I last saw a play that was at once so forthright an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31AMSunday, February 28, 2016
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe Globe director’s farewell production casts its spell in the candlelit space that crowns his time thereDominic Dromgoole says goodbye to the Globe with th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:38AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonKathryn Hunter plays the lovelorn French nobleman in this all-female production, but nothing is gained by the gender swapWhat is the point of an all-female Cyrano …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:38AM 
