Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Armando Iannucci and Coogan team up to bring Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War satire to the West End, but the production is constrained by aiming too hard for cinematic perfection
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:18PMWednesday, October 16, 2024
Writer and director Robert Icke reinvents the well-known story as a taut political thriller
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:24AMSunday, October 6, 2024
Despite the marketing behind it, Matthew Warchus’s play doesn’t do much to update either the gender roles or the aesthetic of this stubbornly traditional Irish masterpiece
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:06PMWednesday, September 25, 2024
Lyndsey Turner’s production sounds a warning about the dangers of elitism, with contemporary debates about monuments and stolen treasures the backdrop of her confident production
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:32AMThursday, September 12, 2024
The long-awaited follow-up to Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s mega-hit ‘Six’ follows two millennial friends bemoaning their love lives – but it sometimes sags under the pressure of expec…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:32PMSunday, September 8, 2024
The Korean Canadian actor and writer on bringing his comedy Kim’s Convenience back to theatre, changing the way Asian people are portrayed, and how he didn’t see the K-culture boom comin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMWednesday, September 4, 2024
James McArdle and Bel Powley star in the Old Vic’s revival of Stoppard’s tricksy, self-parodical play, but it feels dated to watch middle class couples being beastly to each other in bei…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:36AMThursday, August 22, 2024
With fine performances from Tosin Cole and Heather Agyepong, Benedict Lombe’s will-they-won’t-they love story – which has high profile backing from Idris Elba, Little Simz and Maya Jam…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:03AMThursday, August 1, 2024
Cherry Jones is wry and warm in Carrie Cracknell’s revival of Steinbeck’s story about a sprawling clan of dustbowl refugees in the Depression era – but the elements of this three-hour …
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:41AMThursday, July 18, 2024
Imelda Staunton brings heart and substance to this lavish feast, as Dominic Cooke’s revival of the 1964 show lights up the London Palladium
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:06PMWednesday, July 10, 2024
Therapy sessions, dildos, Rihanna, and an exposing performance from Kit Harington... ‘Slave Play’ has finally arrived – loudly – in London, and it’s a sharp, intelligent, multi-lay…
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:02PMWednesday, March 27, 2024
Nods to accusations of paedophilia are kept to a bare minimum, but there’s sufficient darkness in Lynn Nottage’s script to tarnish MJ’s over-exploited stardom
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:42PMTuesday, March 26, 2024
Rufus Wainwright’s songs reach new emotional heights, Smith’s performance is radiant – but Ivo van Hove’s stage adaptation of John Cassavetes’s 1977 film is sometimes misjudged
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:48PMThursday, March 14, 2024
Unlike ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’, ‘Saltburn’ and other stories of queer anti-heroes, ‘Harry Clarke’ lacks psychological depth – and star Billy Crudup’s Estuary accent is somet…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:18AMThursday, March 7, 2024
The man who helped create our National Health Service is found lying sickly in a hospital bed in the National Theatre’s new play about the Labour politician’s life – despite a baggy sc…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:18AMSaturday, December 16, 2023
Lady Macbeth’s whispers crackle in your ear as audience members wear headphones in Max Webster’s intimate production, but the sound design can sometimes feel like a distraction
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:54PMThursday, December 14, 2023
Humungous projections, a big musical score, an onslaught of foam, dry ice and flares: this big-budget stage play from the ‘Stranger Things’ universe spares no bombastic effect to bring n…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:36PMMonday, April 17, 2023
From fights at the Bodyguard musical to wild drunken antics at comedy clubs and even heckling at the opera, performers and theatre staff say crowds are getting out of hand. What’s going o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMThursday, April 6, 2023
Ivo Van Hove’s adaptation is cold, surgical and humourless
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:06AMSunday, March 19, 2023
Sunday, June 26, 2022
It’s a fine showcase for the talents of Harbour and Bill Pullman, but ‘Mad House’ is built on shaky foundations
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:37PMWednesday, June 1, 2022
The Oscar nominee lacks flamboyant charisma in a Tennessee Williams revival that’s frustratingly light on laughter
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:54AMSaturday, April 30, 2022
There’s a real cruelty to the Englishness of ‘Jerusalem’, which has returned to the West End with its original star
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:24AMSunday, March 6, 2022
What’s going on in our theatres? A recent spate of rowdy behaviour – notably at jukebox musicals – raises the question: have audiences simply forgotten how to behave?
A drunk woman in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMFriday, February 25, 2022
Anthony McCarten’s Young Vic pacy production is an exercise in giving the audience what they want
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:54AMWednesday, January 26, 2022
Biographical drama is a feeble attempt to immortalise an already-fading Hollywood star
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:06AMThursday, January 20, 2022
Anthony Ofoegbu takes on the role of both energetic schoolboy and brow-beaten adult with impressive nimbleness in this swirling, repetitive Young Vic production
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:06AMFriday, October 22, 2021
Suzan-Lori Parks’ gripping new work at the Bridge Theatre explores the scars slavery has left on today’s Americans
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:42AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
Alice Saville writes on what 'The Color Purple' casting controversy says about theatre producers' attitudes towards queer actors, and queer audiences.
The post The Color Purple; who gets t…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 12:13PMThursday, March 14, 2019
A tear-stained rundown of all the ways in which the UK's theatre scene will mark Britain's (probable) parting of ways with the EU.
The post Theatre’s Plans for Brexit Weekend appeared firs…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:10AMMonday, March 11, 2019
"THIS pie was SO perfect!" - Alice Saville responds to the hit musical, using real TripAdvisor reviews of American diners.
The post Review: Waitress – The Musical at Adelphi Theatre appea…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:41PM 
