Friday, June 16, 2023
Gielgud theatre, LondonHarnessing horror film conventions, Lyndsey Turner’s intelligent revival conjures places where truth is a political inconvenience
Seventy years after its premiere, A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMThursday, June 15, 2023
Her singular passion lit up performances from Women in Love to King Lear and drove her 23-year middle career as an MP
Michael Billington: Glenda Jackson was piercingly intelligent and unafra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMWednesday, June 7, 2023
His 2003 play about child torture and freedom of speech became a global phenomenon. But will it offend today’s audiences? The writer-director explains why he won’t be changing a thing
Ir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMFriday, May 5, 2023
Brixton House, LondonDirector Monique Touko keeps the tone lively with this tough story of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe in which the actors switch race, age and gender with ease
In a place called Par…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, April 19, 2023
The actor looks back over a four-decade career balancing ‘serious’ drama and improv comedy, describes the making of her wholly improvised new film, and explains why we don’t see her on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMSunday, April 2, 2023
O’Farrell’s novel about Shakespeare losing his young son to the plague struck a powerful chord in lockdown. She and Chakrabarti discuss exploring class, place and creativity for a play t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Hampstead theatre, LondonTwo women disinter a trauma from their past in Michael John O’Neill’s allegorical play set in an evangelical church
Two sisters circle each other in the antecham…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:57AMTuesday, February 7, 2023
Hampstead theatre, LondonRuby Thomas’s play, based on a true story about a married couple in 18th-century Prussia who were tried for sodomy, is tender, musical and funny
From Gentleman Jac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThursday, February 2, 2023
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonHeirs and spares fight under a sleazeball Roman emperor and candles take a hammering in a brilliantly provocative show with an all-female ensemble
What do you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMSaturday, January 21, 2023
The innovative Australian director who gained acclaim for his version of Yerma starring Billie Piper is now reframing Phaedra as a postmenopausal love story with Janet McTeer
Simon Stone doe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMWednesday, January 4, 2023
Novelist and screenwriter whose tales of women taking control of their own destinies included The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
• Writer Fay Weldon dies aged 91
The novelist Fay Weldon, wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMSunday, December 18, 2022
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThis co-production between the Globe and Tamasha gives voice to five fluent, witty and graceful women, allowing them to reshape the ancient tales as their own
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMSunday, November 27, 2022
The comedian-writer’s One Woman Show takes hilarious issue with the Fleabag-style ‘messy woman’ trope. As it transfers to London’s West End, she says she feels ‘at odds’ with its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMTuesday, November 15, 2022
The actor and the director Michael Grandage talk about how relevant their staging of Virginia Woolf’s classic work of gender fluidity feels – and remember their own queer battles
Emma Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMMonday, October 24, 2022
As Complicité’s Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm
Time feels out …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49AMFriday, October 21, 2022
In his new play, the screenwriter and author investigates ideas of individualism, sexual freedom and mortality through a woman who recreates herself as a cyborg
David Farr is perplexed by tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Lyttelton theatre, LondonA group of friends in 1930s New York pursue diverging dreams in a transfixing production of Pearl Cleage’s play directed by Lynette Linton
‘You’re a genius wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMWednesday, June 8, 2022
In the first of our festival previews, we round up some of the best offerings we’ve already reviewed – including Tim Key, Liz Kingsman, La Clique and Hungry
This searing, sweaty disco is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMFriday, May 20, 2022
Olivier theatre, LondonAnupama Chandrasekhar artfully unpicks the forces of history with a tale of violence and colonialism that echoes into today
When it comes to taboo-busting, Anupama Cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMMonday, April 18, 2022
How did the novelist adapt her bestseller The Taxidermist’s Daughter for the stage? By stripping out the gore, ratcheting up the revenge – and asking her actor son for tips
‘I’ve ver…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMThursday, March 10, 2022
Almeida theatre, LondonA cycle of nine community pieces that use black comedy and cautionary tales to celebrate the people who keep things going
For its latest show, the Almeida, in Islingto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMFriday, February 25, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonRuby Thomas peels back the emotional layers in a group-therapy drama that fizzes towards a devastating finale
A family of four and a therapist tiptoe around one anot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMTuesday, February 8, 2022
Sieges, riots, serial killings, sex work … Alecky Blythe has put them all on stage. She reveals all about her latest project – an epic look at the comic ups and touching downs of teenage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMFriday, November 5, 2021
Duke of York’s theatre, LondonShapeshifting creatures take centre stage in Katy Rudd’s production that terrifyingly evokes childhood nightmares and family trauma
Neil Gaiman’s short, l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMTuesday, November 2, 2021
The former League of Gentlemen star on his love of low-budget British spinechillers, his loathing of Brexit and a slew of projects opening this winter
Mark Gatiss scans the breakfast menu at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMMonday, October 11, 2021
It started with lockdown and a broken angel, but Coventry’s year as city of culture is highlighting its reputation for resilience
Shortly before midnight on 23 January 2020, security came…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMWednesday, October 6, 2021
Gielgud theatre, LondonThe climactic play based on Hilary Mantel’s magisterial trilogy has wit and grace but no great dramatic release
It’s a truism all too well known to Thomas Cromwell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06PMTuesday, October 5, 2021
Four years ago, she was involved in a horrific accident. Little did she know it would leave her uniquely prepared to play a noblewoman hit by a falling elephant in the RSC’s new Christmas …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMFriday, September 10, 2021
Bush, LondonHumiliation meets humour as Mika Onyx Johnson tells of his hard-won transformation through rap, storytelling and dance
From the moment Mika Onyx Johnson bounces on to the stage, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMMonday, August 23, 2021
Kitchen discos and archive performances kept us going – but being stuck at home made me pine for a full house
In the early months of the pandemic, as the survival instinct of the live arts…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMWednesday, July 7, 2021
Nottingham PlayhouseJenna Russell captures the tragedy in this rags-to-rags story but the power of the songs can’t hide the play’s weaknesses
From the moment Jane Lapotaire stepped out a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM 
