Monday, November 18, 2019
Park theatre, LondonAnna Akhmatova is forced to choose between artistic integrity and saving her son in Olivia Olsen’s play
In 1935, Anna Akhmatova began writing Requiem in Soviet Russia. …
Linked From The Guardian at 10:48AMFriday, November 8, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonSamuel Bailey’s moving play is carried along by its characters’ wisecracking – and reveals the anguish hidden underneath
The bored young men in Shook yearn t…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:06AMWednesday, November 6, 2019
Her musical Poet in da Corner brought raving to the Royal Court. Now the writer and performer is exploring first love. She talks Mormonism, trauma and teen dreams
Debris Stevenson’s first …
Linked From The Guardian at 01:48PMTuesday, November 5, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonVR headsets and a gender switch give National Youth Theatre’s exuberant production a modern twist, but the storytelling feels gimmicky
‘The human era is coming…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:33AMThursday, October 31, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonIn his debut play, starring Alan Davies, David Baddiel gambles on a mash-up of physics and midlife crisis
Alan Davies emerges on stage to address the room, or so it seems…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:03PMMonday, October 28, 2019
Her dramas confront the growing horrors facing women in India today. Now she’s reworked Ibsen’s Ghosts, taking out the syphilis and putting in the Delhi bus gang rape of 2012
Anupama Cha…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:24PMSunday, October 27, 2019
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe painter resembles a drunken YBA in a flawed but timely show that veers from camp humour to political intrigue
‘This is not just a play, it’s an extravaganza,…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:36AMThursday, October 24, 2019
Vaults, LondonShepard picks apart the frailties of two men tormented by unspoken emotions, from marital meltdown and armchair priapism to the existential crisis of mortality
The men in Sam S…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:12AMSunday, October 20, 2019
Old Vic, LondonDuncan Macmillan’s two-hander is a frenetic portrait of flawed love in a flawed world, exposing the neuroses of a modern couple who struggle to put their principles aside
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Linked From The Guardian at 08:48AMFriday, October 18, 2019
Hackney Showroom, LondonZawe Ashton aims high with an intricate dissection of race and gender but a smart ending can’t save this muddled show
Zawe Ashton has described her play as both an …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:12AMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Theatre 503, LondonDanusia Samal’s complex drama explores the double life of a young Muslim millennial heading for marriage
Zara is a British-Arab millennial who feels the strain of her do…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:36PMSunday, October 13, 2019
A drama competition for 200 naked people in a giant sauna? Our writer gets a sweaty taste of ‘aufgass’ in the Netherlands
I am standing behind a partition rope, waiting for the theatre t…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:03AMMonday, October 7, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonThis fearless production uses intelligent humour to expose racial typecasting in the entertainment industry
How diverse is theatre? Are there more roles for BAME actors …
Linked From The Guardian at 10:36AMBelgrade theatre, CoventryPlacing Mary Shelley alongside the characters she created undermines the extraordinary power of her classic story
The real-life tale behind the creation of Frankens…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:06AMFriday, September 27, 2019
Yvonne Arnaud theatre, Guildford Set during and after the blitz, the lives of five characters and the scars left behind are movingly explored
Sarah Waters writes historical novels that seem …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:06AMThursday, September 26, 2019
Young Vic, LondonYaël Farber’s visceral production, relocating the action to rural Ireland, retains all the potency of Lorca’s play about tribal vengeance
How to stage Lorca’s Blood W…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:18AMWednesday, September 25, 2019
Park theatre, LondonOberman stars as the mother of a teenage rapist in this revival of Evan Placey’s rich exploration of family conflict
Matthew Kapowitz is a Canadian teenager under house…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:42AMThursday, September 12, 2019
Orange Tree, LondonMaya Arad Yasur’s complex play about the consequences of war is obscured by a series of comic games
Amsterdam is billed as an “audacious thriller” and the mystery at…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:24PMFriday, September 6, 2019
Finborough, LondonAfter a boy runs away, a Maori social worker is sent to investigate the parents in Emma Kinane’s engaging if overlong New Zealand drama
A young Maori social worker is sen…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:03PMTuesday, August 27, 2019
The Weinstein scandal has inspired several new plays ranging from sharp satire to crass comedy. As the mogul heads to trial, we gauge theatre’s response
Katie Arnstein tells a story of a d…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:54AMFriday, August 9, 2019
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonAndrew Lloyd Webber’s epic gets a rock-concert revival that features pom-poms and twerking but lacks central chemistry
It is no surprise that Evita …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, August 1, 2019
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonMalcolm Rennie is stunning as Harry McNish, a carpenter on Shackleton’s ill-fated voyage, whose key part in the famous story has been overlooked
The lights go …
Linked From The Guardian at 01:36PMWednesday, July 31, 2019
Theatre Royal, BathA dark, growly Everett pushes the humour in David Hare’s absurdist adaptation of the classic drama of mid-life malaise
Last year, Rupert Everett gave a heart-wrenching p…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:03AMHe lit up the screen in the 80s – but things did not go as planned. As he takes on Chekhov, Everett speaks about stardom, midlife crises and penis padding
Rupert Everett is directing his f…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, July 28, 2019
Troubadour White City theatre, LondonSally Cookson’s stunning production brims with naughtiness, bloodlust and menace – recalling JM Barrie’s original intentions for the story
Peter Pa…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:03AMFriday, July 26, 2019
The Passenger Shed, BristolWith a diverse cast bringing an affectionate subversiveness to Enid Blyton’s postwar school tales, Rice’s musical is huge fun and surprisingly contemporary
Emm…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:54AMThursday, July 18, 2019
Watermill, NewburyMarietta Kirkbride’s play about a village torn over forgiving a sex offender convincingly channels older voices
The #MeToo movement has inspired a number of plays giving…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:36PMFriday, July 12, 2019
Finborough, LondonGabriela Garcia and Devon Anderson shine as a prisoner and her guard in a story where the lines are blurred
Tegan McLeod’s drama about American citizenship, illegal immi…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:32AMTuesday, July 9, 2019
Royal Court, LondonJasmine Lee-Jones’s play follows an online battle about the Instagram star and tackles racism, misogyny and colourism
The lights are still dead when this play opens. A w…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:24AMMonday, July 8, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonA young man plans to privatise the estate where he grew up in Gabriel Bisset-Smith’s quick-witted drama about identity and belonging
Mary is mixed-race; her son Lysande…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:36AMThursday, July 4, 2019
Ovalhouse, LondonThe second instalment of Koko Brown’s colour trilogy is a darkly humorous piece about depression
White, the first part of Koko Brown’s “colour” trilogy, was about gr…
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