Sunday, March 13, 2022
Leeds PlayhouseEfforts to make Shakespeare accessible to all rub against confused staging and wayward delivery in Amy Leach’s ambitious production
Cacophonous crashes signal the opening. S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMSunday, March 6, 2022
York Theatre RoyalA Rohingya refugee boy in an Australian detention centre befriends a local girl in a moving adaptation of Zana Fraillon’s novel
In staging Zana Fraillon’s 2016 novel, Y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMSunday, February 27, 2022
Lantern theatre, SheffieldClyde dockworkers take a stand in 1970s Scotland, in an affecting new play by Townsend Productions
The letters UCS, so firmly affirmed in the title, stand for Upper…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSunday, February 20, 2022
Crucible, SheffieldThough well acted, this revival of Helen Edmundson’s 1992 adaptation doesn’t feel ready for the big stage
“All ideas are good,” according to the great theatre tea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSunday, February 13, 2022
Northern Stage, NewcastleDespite clever stagecraft and the best efforts of four committed young actors, the drama and bite of Philip Correia’s new adaptation is muffled
The staging is witt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMSunday, February 6, 2022
Guildhall, DerryDrama, music and movement are combined to potent effect in this new play depicting the tragic events of 30 January 1972
Iconic photographs give this new musical play its titl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMSunday, January 23, 2022
The Place, LondonBroussé brings a tale of baking and suffering to glorious life in this much-kneeded autobiographical show
The title of Jean-Daniel Broussé’s solo show is a pun on the Fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSunday, January 16, 2022
Leeds PlayhouseDeveloped between teams in Leeds and Tokyo, this spectacular reimagining brings new complexity to JM Barrie’s story
Ella Hickson’s adaptation of JM Barrie’s world-famous…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMSunday, December 19, 2021
Birmingham Rep This 20-year-old comedy with the nightly surprise guest works its magic in a superb revival directed by its co-writer, the Rep’s artistic director, Sean Foley
As the title s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMSunday, December 12, 2021
Curve, LeicesterThe 70s musical centred on a group of Broadway musical auditionees is all about the ensemble in Nikolai Foster’s winning revival
It’s not difficult to see why Nikolai Fos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, December 5, 2021
Hull Truck; Hope Mill, Manchester; Barn, Cirencester; New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme; Watermill, NewburyThe Railway Children reduces our critic to tears, and a topical take on The Wizard of O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, November 21, 2021
Leeds Playhouse and touringThe arrest of a man outside a shop provides the framework for a dramatic investigation of black people’s experiences
Nana-Kofi Kufuor’s new two-hander opens wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMSunday, November 7, 2021
Royal Lyceum theatre, EdinburghWils Wilson delivers a high-energy version of the 17th-century play about a monstrous prince faced with the ultimate question
Edinburgh’s Lyceum has reopened…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMSunday, October 31, 2021
Leeds PlayhouseA strong cast and the world-weary Pittsburgh cab drivers they portray are all battling circumstances beyond their control in this overly busy production of Wilson’s 1982 pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, October 24, 2021
Salisbury Playhouse and touringIan McDiarmid wryly contemplates mortality in his engaging new adaptation of two Julian Barnes short stories
“Among the Chinese, the lemon is the symbol of d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, October 17, 2021
Dundee RepA powerful overhaul of An Enemy of the People weaves texts and emails seamlessly into the action
Kieran Hurley’s take on Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People was about to go i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, October 10, 2021
Leeds PlayhouseImitating the Dog’s technical marvel of a show turns an updated version of Bram Stoker’s novel into a live-action graphic novel
New Year’s Eve; a police interrogation ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMSunday, October 3, 2021
Crucible Theatre, SheffieldClean Break theatre company and the Crucible join forces in Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s worthwhile if underpowered play featuring the music of the Slits
Typical Girls…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMSunday, September 26, 2021
Theatr Clywd, MoldThe love triangle is gone, the wounds of war still raw in Kaite O’Reilly’s alternately intense and laboured adaptation set in Wales in 1921
Kaite O’Reilly’s new ada…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMSunday, September 19, 2021
York Theatre RoyalTonderai Munyevu’s semi-autographical show addresses Zimbabwe’s traumatic history with honesty and humour
Clothes hang in broken rows above the bare stage (Nicolai Hart…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMSunday, September 12, 2021
Curve, LeicesterAnthony Almeida’s staging is driven by Peter Forbes and Oliver Johnstone, magnificent in the roles of Big Daddy and Brick
In this new production of Tennessee Williams’s P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, September 5, 2021
Barn theatre, CirencesterMichael Morpurgo’s story of a family fleeing Dresden in 1945 resonates today, animated by Alison Reid’s uncanny acting
Michael Morpurgo’s 2010 story presents a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, August 29, 2021
Pitlochry Festival theatreAlan Watt is superb in an adaptation of two Chekhov short stories in this pioneering theatre’s fine new outdoor space
Pitlochry Festival theatre has been much in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, August 22, 2021
Traverse 1, Edinburgh; Newhailes House and Gardens, Musselburgh; Pleasance; Assembly Roxy, EdinburghDomhnall Gleeson is outstanding in Enda Walsh’s revelatory new play about attitudes to m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMSunday, August 15, 2021
Coole Park, County GalwayDruid Theatre’s fine production of Thomas Kilroy’s adaptation finds rich resonance in the grounds of Lady Gregory’s Coole Park estate
Druid Theatre Company is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, August 1, 2021
Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Garden theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonPhillip Breen’s RSC romp lacks a feel for Shakespeare’s text and fails its female characters – but this new open-air venue …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, July 25, 2021
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonApril De Angelis and Lucy Rivers bring 18th-century London to scabrous life in their boozy new musical satire with an excellent ensemble
The opening number i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, July 11, 2021
Crucible, SheffieldWood’s trademarks are all in place in her talent-show debut drama, first performed at the Crucible in 1978, though it feels somewhat dated now
The talents that made the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSunday, July 4, 2021
Watermill, NewburyA green adaptation of Shakespeare’s romcom focuses on the climate crisis, but takes its time to get the blood stirring
Duke Senior, banished by his usurping brother, prai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSunday, June 27, 2021
Grosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterNeither too Disney nor too Kipling, this witty staging also carries an ecological message
Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera – Kipling may have created them b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMSaturday, June 19, 2021
Piece Hall, Halifax; now touringAmanda Whittington’s new play is a stirring account of a Yorkshire women’s football team playing on despite FA opposition in the 1920s
The sky above the e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PM 
