Friday, March 27, 2020
Available onlineMoving between three timelines of women who go against the grain, Philip Franks’s haunted-house production cranks up the tension
The Croft is a haunted house story that has…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:36AMTuesday, March 17, 2020
Watermill, NewburyThis folk musical about a lonely fisherwoman looking for love boldly puts a puppet in the role of the leading man
Just after many UK theatres announced indefinite closures …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:06PMSunday, March 15, 2020
National Theatre, LondonRobert Lepage’s dazzling epic explores human resilience in the face of global trauma with elegance and imagination
An arresting image in the opening of The Seven St…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:54AMFriday, March 13, 2020
Coronet theatre, London Friel’s mashup of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters is an exciting prospect, but this production lacks chemistry
Afterplay initially sounds like drama of th…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:24AMThursday, March 12, 2020
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonMike Bartlett’s brilliant play follows a couple trying, and failing, to keep family together
‘The personal is political” started out as a feminist rallying cal…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:06AMWednesday, March 11, 2020
Crucible, SheffieldAn arrogant elite, populist fury … Robert Hastie charts the rise and fall of Tom Bateman’s hero with a modern-day edge
For all of its ruthless violence and ferocious m…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:02PMTuesday, March 10, 2020
Royal Court, LondonVicky Featherstone directs EV Crowe’s play about a working mother who loses a shoe and her grip on reality
‘I’m often frustrated by the rhythms of naturalism,” EV …
Linked From The Guardian at 12:36PMFriday, March 6, 2020
Park theatre, LondonSome nifty staging and a strong performance from Tom York as two warring brothers cannot enliven this outdated caper
Gerald Moon’s 1983 comic crime caper is set in the …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:18PMThursday, March 5, 2020
Crucible Studio theatre, SheffieldTwo sisters travel back across four decades in Chloë Morris’s gritty and unsentimental story of a pained relationship
Difficult sisterhood appears to be …
Linked From The Guardian at 03:03PMOrange Tree theatre, LondonJosh Azouz’s play explores the passion between two men who go to the same synagogue but it lacks tension and tenderness
‘This is a mikvah,” states a characte…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:33AMTuesday, March 3, 2020
From cat brains to dismembered tongues, the teams behind theatre’s bloodiest shows reveal how they made audiences shriek with horror and delight
Bodies hacked to pieces, brains dribbling o…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:12AMMonday, March 2, 2020
Piccadilly theatre, London Danny Mac and Aimie Atkinson star in the schmaltzy and shallow Hollywood tale, told with a few winning songs
A businessman picks up a sex worker to turn her into h…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:42PMFriday, February 28, 2020
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThomas Middleton’s play seems perfect for the #MeToo era, but this over-stylised production misses the mark
Thomas Middleton’s revenge drama about patriarc…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:42PMWednesday, February 26, 2020
Tales by Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter and Emily Brontë are all being brought to theatres this year. Their creative teams reflect on what they cut and what they added
How does a well-loved …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:12AMCoronet theatre, LondonNico Holonics is in resoundingly offbeat form as as a stunted child in a solo show that delights in making its audience squirm
‘How shall I begin?” asks Nico Holon…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:42AMTuesday, February 25, 2020
Dominion, LondonIt’s got pageantry, pyramids and dazzling dance moves, but this lavish stage adaptation drowns out the emotional drama
DreamWorks’ musical animation The Prince of Egypt …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:48PMThursday, February 20, 2020
Kiln, LondonAntoinette Nwandu’s powerful absurdist urban tragedy sees two black homeless men – cowed by the ever-present threat of police brutality – pursue their own American dream
An…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:24AMWednesday, February 19, 2020
Bridge theatre, London Roger Allam plays a father with multiple versions of the same son in a drama that feels like an early noughties Black Mirror
Caryl Churchill wrote A Number in 2002, wh…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:06PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
The Other Palace, LondonThe soaring joys and plunging agonies of adolescence are treated with humour and heart in this refreshing arrival from Broadway
‘There’s never been a better time …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:18PMMonday, February 17, 2020
Bush theatre, LondonInspired by Master of None, Temi Wilkey delivers a heartfelt and funny tale of love and ancestral ties in a Nigerian family
‘Being gay isn’t something black people lo…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:03AMFriday, February 14, 2020
Olivier theatre, London Lesley Manville excels as the billionaire returning to her small town but even she can’t save this bloated adaptation
The Visit (or The Old Lady Comes to Call) is a…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, February 12, 2020
Wyndham’s theatre, LondonPatrick Marber directs Tom Stoppard’s sweeping story of a Jewish family in Vienna across six decades
In 2003, Tom Stoppard was asked if he would ever write a …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:24PMSwan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonJuliet Gilkes Romero’s play about the battle to end slave-owning in the British empire grows in intrigue and tension
The Whip takes a moment in British his…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:24PMTuesday, February 11, 2020
Royal Court, LondonAlistair McDowall’s monologue – performed by a mesmerising Kate O’Flynn – channels female experience with warmth and humour
Alistair McDowall joined forces with th…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:36PMSunday, February 9, 2020
She loved her nude scenes in the Netflix hit but the West End’s Uncle Vanya gave her stage fright. The Stockport star remembers being the class clown and tracking down her tormentor
Aimee…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:54AMFriday, February 7, 2020
National Theatre, LondonSpall is like a man possessed in Roy Williams’ and Clint Dyer’s hair-raising dramatic monologue about the grief and grievances of a working-class white male
In th…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:18AMThursday, February 6, 2020
Almeida, LondonRevived by Rupert Goold just over two years after its premiere, this subtle drama has grown with new meaning
In 2017, Rupert Goold directed a state-of-the-nation play by Mike …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:54AMFriday, January 31, 2020
Pound Arts Centre, Corsham Luke Wright’s eloquent verse monologue pairs Brexit with the breakdown of a marriage
Luke Wright is a poet for our day and today in particular. This dramatic mon…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, January 29, 2020
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonChris Bush’s female Faustus is original, ambitious and fantastically revisionist – but this bare-boned production fails to save its soul
Doctor Faustus, as we kn…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:48AMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Orange Tree, LondonOscar Toeman directs a striking revival of the 2003 play about the relationship between a teenage girl and a paedophile
Since Lucy Prebble’s award-winning first play pr…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:36PMMonday, January 27, 2020
KVS, BrusselsThe complicated legacy of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is fearlessly transformed into a radical and rousing musical
When Winnie Madikizela-Mandela died in 2018, she was seen both a…
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