Sunday, November 13, 2022
Royal Court; Finborough; Soho theatre, LondonQuestions of who can speak for whom animate both Martin Crimp’s new AI work and David Ireland’s brilliant Belfast dialogue. And a star is bor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMSunday, November 6, 2022
Jermyn Street theatre, London; Wilton’s Music Hall, LondonPeter Gill’s subtle new play finds the power of love in the smallest of details, while David Farr explores strained family bonds…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, October 30, 2022
Almeida, London; Bristol Old Vic; Soho Place, LondonKatie Brayben nails the title role as Tammy Faye in a musical otherwise lacking edge, Billy Howle makes a princely Hamlet and an all-new …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMSunday, October 23, 2022
Barbican, London; Minerva, ChichesterA beloved Studio Ghibli anime is brought to magical life in Phelim McDermott’s new RSC production, while the 1983 film Local Hero finds fresh resonance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMSunday, October 16, 2022
Harold Pinter; Donmar Warehouse; Dorfman, LondonAs a mild-mannered German academic who drifts into becoming an SS officer, David Tennant is transfixing; a vibrant oddball musical bridges the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMSunday, October 9, 2022
Lyttelton; Olivier; Royal Docks, LondonThirties Harlem is vibrantly alive at the National, while mob rule meets Little House on the Prairie in an assured revival of The Crucible. Elsewhere, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMSunday, October 2, 2022
Bridge; Old Vic, LondonSimon Russell Beale is doubly commanding as Ibsen’s charismatic banker in a problem-raising revival, while a new anti-vax satire needs more than a shot of Helen Hunt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMSunday, September 11, 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe, London; Royal Exchange, Manchester; Donmar Warehouse, LondonIsobel Thom’s non-binary Joan of Arc blazes on to the stage in Charlie Josephine’s eye-opening new play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:43AMSunday, September 4, 2022
Minerva, Chichester; Theatre Royal BathChristopher Shinn’s new play of post-Trump politics finds complex characters lost in ego and addiction, while Terry Gilliam and Leah Hausman’s take…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMSunday, August 28, 2022
Festival theatre; the Hub; Leith Academy; Studio, Potterrow, EdinburghThe hurt is all too real in Ivo van Hove’s visceral staging of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestseller; Liz Lochhead’s Scots…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMSunday, August 21, 2022
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe ‘dinosaur’ generation is put on trial in Dawn King’s near-future new play, graced by some nicely nuanced performances from its youthful cast
The Trials is f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, August 14, 2022
Dorfman; King’s Head, LondonDisablism, austerity and therapy-speak fuel Francesca Martinez’s jolting drama, while Mark Farrelly channels Derek Jarman in a rush of memories
There are star…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMSunday, July 24, 2022
Lyttelton; Olivier, London; Chichester festival theatreShakespeare’s comedy is the gift that keeps on giving; Mrs Malaprop’s a loose cannon in Richard Bean’s Battle of Britain take on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMSunday, July 17, 2022
Almeida, London; Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath; Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonTom Hollander excels in Peter Morgan’s incisive oligarch drama; Deborah Warner directs a fine Tempest; an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMSunday, July 10, 2022
Harold Pinter; Bridge, London; RSC, Stratford-upon-AvonThe action’s all in the detail in Jamie Lloyd’s spellbound Chekhov; Alex Jennings excels as a vicar refusing to find the common tou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSunday, July 3, 2022
Crucible/Lyceum/Studio theatre, Sheffield; Hampstead theatre, LondonTiming is everything in Chris Bush’s theatre-hopping trio of Sheffield plays; the same goes for Roy Williams’s ill-sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, June 26, 2022
Donmar; Old Vic, LondonLucas Hnath’s sequel to the Ibsen classic is intriguing rather than revelatory; but August Wilson’s taxi-stand drama has developed new flavour with age
Ibsen’s A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMSunday, June 19, 2022
Royal Court, London; Orange Tree, RichmondA revelatory drama about identity theft is let down by its thriller plot, while translator Martin Crimp adds wit to an outsized Marivaux comedy
The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMSunday, June 5, 2022
Duke of York’s; Kiln; Arcola, LondonAmy Adams’s star power fails to illuminate underpowered Tennessee Williams; Eileen Walsh burns bright as Clytemnestra; and Barbara Flynn and Robin Soa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMSunday, May 29, 2022
Olivier, London; Theatre Clwyd, Mold; Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonGandhi’s murderer turns on the charm in an extraordinary production; the ladies of Llangollen come to vibrant …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, May 22, 2022
Almeida; Coliseum; Hampstead, LondonAnne-Marie Duff’s aspiring singer transfixes in a didactic family saga; My Fair Lady feels strangely vacant. Plus, a stifling tale of dysfunctional sibl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMSunday, May 15, 2022
Young Vic, London; Brighton festival; Bush, LondonRodgers and Hammerstein’s first musical is roughed up; dreamthinkspeak amble around Brighton; and a first for Amharic on the British stage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, May 8, 2022
Dorfman; Harold Pinter; Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonA couple struggle to connect – or touch – in David Eldridge’s latest; Jodie Comer owns the courtroom; and Lucy Bailey directs a spa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AMSunday, May 1, 2022
Apollo; Lyttelton; Donmar Warehouse, LondonSpellbinding Mark Rylance returns as the anarchic Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron; Nicola Walker hits the mark in Dominic Cooke’s brilliant Emlyn Will…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMSunday, April 24, 2022
One Cartridge Place; Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThe immersive theatre trailblazers return with an all-consuming vision of the siege of Troy, while Mike Bartlett’s neo-Restoration farce can�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, April 17, 2022
Various venues, Coventry; Old Vic; Royal Court, LondonA site-specific quest gets to the heart of George Eliot’s novel; Mike Bartlett makes a Shakespearean tragedy of Trump; and six young b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, April 10, 2022
Almeida; Kiln; Hampstead, LondonJeremy O Harris’s trance-like study of power play sizzles; Chinonyerem Odimba tells a complex sibling story; and Robert Lindsay stars in a predictable famil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, April 3, 2022
Gielgud, London; Barn, Cirencester; Park, LondonRafe Spall is a fine Atticus in Aaron Sorkin’s somewhat awkward spin on Harper Lee; Jessica Daniels steers a sublime adaptation of Michael M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMSunday, March 27, 2022
Bridge; Harold Pinter theatre, LondonRalph Fiennes is firing on all cylinders in David Hare’s new play about a New York highway builder; and Ruth Wilson is beguiling in an unsubtle staging…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, March 6, 2022
Donmar Warehouse; Dorfman, LondonKit Harington’s a natural as Shakespeare’s military monarch, while Alecky Blythe’s long-awaited new verbatim play captures five years of teenage intros…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, February 27, 2022
Young Vic; King’s Head, LondonWarhol and Basquiat prove fertile inspiration for writer Anthony McCarten, while a rare airing of an early play by Victoria Wood reveals more than a glimpse o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:13AM 
