Sunday, January 17, 2021
Available onlineFrancesca Forristal and Jordan Paul Clarke’s show supplies sharp satire on influencer culture, but doesn’t dig into bigger issues
A computer cursor clicks on the instruc…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:12PMWednesday, January 13, 2021
Research exposes sustained levels of gender imbalance across theatre, film and TV, with fears that it will be worsened by pandemic
Gender inequality across the theatre industry is of rising …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:12AMSaturday, January 2, 2021
Modern masterpiece Jerusalem storms back and Trevor Nunn goes underground with Beckett, while Bob Marley gets a musical and Frankenstein becomes a ballet Continue reading...
Linked From The Guardian at 02:24AMThursday, December 24, 2020
Available onlineThe National Theatre’s pantomime paean to London feels a little too bright in the current climate, but its naughtier denizens – including a goth Queen Rat – shine
Chris…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:03AMWednesday, December 23, 2020
As the industry faced turmoil, there were triumphant stagings of classics by Sarah Kane, David Mamet and Alan Bennett – and bold new experiments
More on the best culture of 2020 Continue …
Linked From The Guardian at 05:42AMFriday, December 18, 2020
Available onlineThis MR James ghost story has been rethought as a suspenseful tale for the Covid era, with a standout performance from Tamzin Outhwaite
This supernatural thriller is based on…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:18PMWednesday, December 16, 2020
Available onlineOlivia Williams voices Rafaella Marcus’s story of a woman in a house who has only bumps in the night for company
There is nothing quite like a festive haunting to see us in…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:03PMBad films can spawn kitschy, cult devotion, as Linus Karp demonstrates in How to Live a Jellicle Life
As London’s theatres prepared for tier 3 closure last night, some of us spent our las…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:36AMTuesday, December 15, 2020
Dominion theatre, LondonThis delightfully staged concert has West End ritz, Disney schmaltz and an East End music-hall heart
On paper, a high-octane staged concert of Charles Dickens’ Chri…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:06PMSunday, December 13, 2020
After a tough year for theatre, our chief critic celebrates the joy of the Christmas show, while five festive performers reveal how it feels to be waiting in the wings
Remember your first ev…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:32AMTheatre Royal BathRosie Sheehy and Jonathan Slinger are captivating in David Mamet’s 1992 two-hander about a university student and professor in a battle of power, privilege and consent
A…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:32AMFriday, December 11, 2020
From a weather room to dating in the bar, the theatre is inviting audiences to experience ‘editions’ of a weekly paper staged in its building. Our critic gets an exclusive look
From an a…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:03AMThursday, December 10, 2020
Almeida theatre, LondonDevised with the company, this is a bold but rough-hewn and perplexing production lifted by soothing music
‘This is not a corona play,” the production notes state.…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:03AMWednesday, December 9, 2020
Hampstead theatre, LondonThis revival of Harold Pinter’s two-hander about a pair of Beckettian hitmen raises questions for the age of strongman politics
There is an “amusing story” abo…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:48PMTuesday, December 8, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonSimon Russell Beale stars in an economical Dickens adaptation that reminds us of the richness of live theatre
What has made this Victorian tale of child poverty, stalki…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:54PMSunday, December 6, 2020
The Big House, LondonA mixture of surrealism and satire renders Maggie Norris’s production both unnerving and puzzling
Covid-19 dramas have kept us afloat during lockdown. There have been …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:48PMTuesday, December 1, 2020
The award has been won by Ahlam and Amy Trigg, who beat more than 1,000 other entries, in initiative to dismantle stereotypes about women’s writing
The inaugural Women’s Prize for Playwr…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:36PMFriday, November 27, 2020
Available onlineThe experience of black frontline workers in the Covid crisis is brought to harrowing life in these plays based on interviews with a teacher and mental health worker
As the C…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:48PMThursday, November 26, 2020
Available onlineAlan Ayckbourn plays a man looking for answers about the death of his musical prodigy daughter in an audio version of his 1994 work that keeps us guessing till the end
When A…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:36AMWednesday, November 25, 2020
Available onlineIn an intimate and often traumatic one-woman performance, Pepa Duarte explores her hostile relationship with cravings, calorie-counting and identity, as a bean soup bubbles o…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:18AMFriday, November 20, 2020
The playwright and activist formerly known as Eve Ensler changed the world with The Vagina Monologues. Her next project hopes to be just as empowering – but this time she’s listening to,…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:24PMThursday, November 19, 2020
Available onlineGet that blindfold on! Morpheus’s interactive horror is scary – but teaming up with strangers is fun
We have been told to bring a blindfold and headphones for a “terrif…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:24PMWednesday, November 18, 2020
Available online Staffordshire’s Anglo-Saxon booty inspires a host of short plays by writers including April De Angelis and Darren Sharp
A metal detectorist from the West Midlands lists hi…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:18PMMonday, November 16, 2020
Available onlineThe Queen’s theatre in Hornchurch seeks to set the record straight on the county’s much maligned image with four monologues that fizz
When Mike Leigh situated his social …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:54AMThursday, November 12, 2020
Available onlineLouise Orwin whispers monstrous imaginings into your ear in an aural interrogation of the horror genre that touches on pandemic fears
‘What’s your favourite scary movie?…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:54PMTuesday, November 10, 2020
Mike Bartlett’s monologue brings us the inner life of a despotic public figure and Luke Barnes’s over-the-phone drama is profoundly creepy
A powerful man has broken the rules of lockdown…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:32AMMonday, November 9, 2020
Available onlineThese bite-sized, beautifully written short plays give a powerful voice to aggrieved heroines from Greek and Roman mythology
This three-part series enters the hearts and mind…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, November 6, 2020
Available onlineJuliet Stevenson, Linda Bassett and others bring to life a fantasy dinner party thrown as the Nazis overrun France
All does not go smoothly at Steven Carl McCasland’s fanta…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:12PMThursday, November 5, 2020
Olivier theatre, LondonMichael Balogun delivers this monologue – a sequel to Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ Death of England – with deftly controlled energy
‘There have been other mome…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:32AMWednesday, November 4, 2020
Crucible, Sheffield/onlineA three-woman cast powerfully captures the shifting fortunes of a Nigerian family down the decades, from Ibadan to Britain
With a cast of three on an almost bare st…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:03AMTuesday, November 3, 2020
Chichester Festival theatre/onlineDirector Tinuke Craig gives Sarah Kane’s one-act play an edge-of-the-seat tension as the four characters move between hope and despair
Crave was the one-a…
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