Sunday, November 10, 2024
Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse, SheffieldHolden and Ed Stambollouian’s one-man drama based on a real-life murder in 80s America uses film tropes to great effect – but it plays with the fac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMSunday, November 3, 2024
Theatre Royal, BathMen struggling to hide their feelings are uncloaked in James Dacre’s astute revival of the playwright’s Table Number Seven and The Browning Version
Director James Dacr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSunday, October 27, 2024
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonTwo American strategists compete to influence an eastern European election in a nuanced new play that suffers from tackling too many subjects
In the 21st …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMSunday, October 20, 2024
Birmingham RepTerry Ronald’s true-life tale of a bullied gay teenager who prevails in the school production of Oliver! is performed with affecting verve
Today, Terry Ronald is a successful…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSunday, October 13, 2024
Bristol Old VicFussy filmic visuals hobble fine performances in the European premiere of the Inheritance writer’s study of three characters struggling for connection
London-based American …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMSunday, October 6, 2024
The Dipping House, Stoke-on-TrentClaybody Theatre’s show about a famed flying saucer sighting on a housing estate is whimsical fun
Back in 1967, the most extraordinary thing about Bentilee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMSunday, September 29, 2024
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeChoreography accentuates the otherness of the creatures in a fluid take on the dark coming-of-age fable
Form thrillingly matches content in this new stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMEveryman, LiverpoolMartin McDonagh’s black comedy about a violent republican terrorist can feel like a parody of 007 in its action but it is hard to be stirred by the dully repetitive scen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMSunday, September 22, 2024
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotA cast of deaf, disabled and neurodivergent actors throw new light on the star-crossed lovers in Graeae’s uneven yet often thrilling show
Actors appear,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMSunday, September 15, 2024
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughA ‘sprightly comedy’ isn’t all it seems in this beautifully performed drama, which the playwright directs
On one level, Alan Ayckbourn’s 90th play …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, September 1, 2024
Barn theatre, CirencesterMarie Jones’s 1996 hit play is given a spectacular, Hollywood-style makeover by her son Matthew McElhinney, though the momentum of the drama suffers
Throw a stone …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMSunday, August 25, 2024
The Mill at Sonning, ReadingA fine ensemble cast deliver plenty of laughs and more in Robin Herford’s terrific production of the playwright’s intertwined tale of three couples
Reviewing …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, August 18, 2024
Ustinov Studio, BathDirector Richard Jones tries to capture the menace felt by the play’s first audiences, but the result is overmannered
Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party was almost un…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30AMSunday, August 4, 2024
Williamson Park, LancasterAndrew Pollard turns Lewis Carroll’s classic into a delightful quest, tirelessly acted and cleverly designed
We are sitting in a wooded dell, ranged on felled tre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30AMSunday, July 28, 2024
Watermill theatre, NewburyThere are somersaults, pivots and tumbles aplenty in this gleeful tribute to the 19th-century circus showman turned politician
Barnum dances a tightrope between con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSunday, July 21, 2024
Black Box; Town Hall theatre, GalwayA family reunion unravels with viciousness and humour in Mark O’Rowe’s new play. And Garry Hynes’s searing direction makes Beckett new
Since it laun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMSunday, July 14, 2024
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonSheridan’s comedy of manners is given an all too knowing makeover in Tinuke Craig’s fitfully amusing new production
Richard Brinsley Sherida…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, July 7, 2024
Tron, GlasgowA couple stop at nothing to secure their first home in Johnny McKnight’s deliciously fast-paced production of Philip Ridley’s Faustian black comedy
The theme underpinning Ph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, June 23, 2024
A two-year celebration of the centenary of James Joyce’s Ulysses culminates in a women-led, cross-border, multidisciplinary festival dedicated to the novel’s main female character
On a g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMSunday, June 16, 2024
Leeds PlayhouseOpera North brings shimmering music to this gorgeous and crisply choreographed co-production, which preserves Shaw’s critique of the British class system
Some have called it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, June 9, 2024
Watermill, NewburyCalum Finlay’s fast-moving comedy about the composer and her struggles to be recognised is pitch-perfectly performed
Felix is working out an idea at the piano. What does …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, June 2, 2024
Live theatre, NewcastleStewart Pringle’s new play set in Northumberland in 1553 has the bones of something great, but at present teeters on parody
Newcastle’s Live theatre is 51 this yea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, May 26, 2024
Belgrade theatre, CoventryThree women push themselves beyond the local swimming pool and into the unknown in Siana Bangura’s buoyant, enlightening new play
Three women “in their prime”…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMSunday, May 19, 2024
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonThe RSC’s European premiere of Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer prize-winning play tailors its intriguing characters a little too neatly
Daniel Evans and Tamar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSunday, May 5, 2024
York St John University, YorkFootsbarn Travelling Theatre’s Twelfth Night and a Turkish Macbeth rubbed shoulders with manga, memoir and a Ukrainian scratch show at this boundary-defying fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, April 28, 2024
Dundee RepMorna Young’s new adaptation, directed by Finn den Hertog, captures the earthiness of rural life in early 1900s Scotland, but it needs to dig deeper
In front of a backdrop sugges…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMSunday, April 21, 2024
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeA first-rate cast delight in controlled chaos of the highest order in Conrad Nelson’s seamless revival of Richard Bean’s hit play
A couple on the stairs behi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMSunday, April 14, 2024
The Studio, Edinburgh, and touringThe fifth of Rona Munro’s James plays fails to develop an interesting premise about a hidden romance
A dark stage is lapped by flickering candles. Here, f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, March 31, 2024
Leeds Playhouse and touringThe company’s trademark fusion of live performance and digital wizardry doesn’t quite hang together in a radical take on Mary Shelley
The structure of Mary She…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSunday, March 24, 2024
Cast, DoncasterElvi Piper’s fine revival of Boff Whalley’s 2014 musical comedy about three sisters on a pit village frontline in 1984 is full of humour, drama and lived experience
Boff W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMSunday, March 17, 2024
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotHistorical novelist Philippa Gregory has fun reframing the notorious Richard III and the women in his life in her first play
From a hole in the stage, a v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM 
