Crucible, SheffieldLolita Chakrabarti’s superbly acted adaptation of Yann Martel’s Booker-winner makes dazzling use of its interplay of illusions Everything about this production is amaz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterThe Hodgkiss award winner by 154 Collective finds complexity in a simple encounter between two people Wrestling the Walrus is the winner of the latest Hodgkiss awar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMThe Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonRobin French’s new play mixes music, folklore and contemporary ideas to intriguing, if overlong effect Into a house in a forest go a boy and a girl. Wol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMTheatre Royal BathJennifer Saunders stars as Madame Arcati in this touching production of the Coward classic When Charles summons a psychic to perform a seance in his home so that he can obs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMRoyal & Derngate, NorthamptonUnmissable performances save a creaky tale of differing approaches to God’s calling Anthony McCarten, the Oscar-nominated writer of the Freddie Mercury bio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMStephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughA role-swapping, multiple-version adaptation of Wilde’s novel is too tricksy for its own goodWhy “pictures”? Just as in Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMThe MAC, BelfastWriter Rachel Trezise brings universality to the tale of a young Northern Irish woman travelling to Wales for a termination “Any separate status for Northern Ireland from t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghZinnie Harris’s narrow reworking of Webster’s revenge tragedy fails to persuade Tom Piper’s design sets the keynote for the play: striking, efficient and almost …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMLeeds PlayhouseA play set in 1964 about young mothers forced to give up their babies for adoption is as fresh as when first performed in 1998The action of Amanda Whittington’s bittersweet …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMBirmingham Rep, and touringThe Rep’s Roxana Silbert bows out with an inventive staging of Ursula Rani Sarma’s adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s 2007 novel “Every street of Kabul is ent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMPerth theatreMorna Young’s moving play about a journalist researching the life and death of her fisherman father is beautifully served by this fine production Towards the back of the prosc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMWatermill theatre, NewburyClever staging and warm performances make this adaptation of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film a visual treat Last week’s fire at Notre Dame prompted various reflectio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMTheatre Royal, YorkImitating the Dog interrogate their own staging of the controversial novella as well as its themesJoseph Conrad’s 1899 novella tells of the steamboat journey undertaken …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMUstinov Studio, Theatre Royal, BathPunchy characters, great pace, prizes… but something doesn’t work in this play about dysfunctional relatives Claudio Tolcachir’s award-winning play, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMRoyal Lyceum theatre, EdinburghBill Forsyth’s adaptation of his 1983 film, with new music by Mark Knopfler, is topical all over again Bill Forsyth’s lighthearted story has a strong moral…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMBirmingham Repertory theatreA reimagining of the life of Cyrano de Bergerac writer Edmond Rostand is a whirl of can-cans and cavorting in its English-language premiere Panache! The word enca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMTheatre Royal PlymouthPhil Porter’s new play about social media moderators is a bold attempt to address issues of online censorship but doesn’t quite click “Click the left arrow to del…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMLibrary theatre, BoltonMarital tensions and mental health are expertly explored in David Thacker’s production of Miller’s 1993 play Director David Thacker’s setting, as realised in Cia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMRoyal & Derngate, NorthamptonNiamh Cusack and Stephen Boxer shine in a clunky adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1989 Booker prize-winning novel is narrated by Ste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMBristol Old VicA beautifully crafted play about a family threatened by racial tensions during the 1960s Bristol bus boycott The Princess, in Princess and the Hustler, is 10-year-old Phyllis …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMBroadway theatre, Letchworth Garden CityA mischievous menagerie of six actors have fun down on the farm Mother, father, grandfather, big sister and little brother dance around the bed singin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterAnna Jordan’s new adaptation sets Brecht’s anti-war play in a dystopian 2080From the lighting rig are suspended wire grids on to which are fastened ragged cardb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMLeeds PlayhouseKiza Deen excels in green’s heart-wrenching one-woman play about the killing of a black schoolboyA son and brother dies as a consequence of “something important, not no ra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMLyceum theatre, SheffieldDastardly Agatha Cackle’s attempts to make witching great again have the young audience almost levitating in their seatsAn onstage banner proclaims that “Miss Ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMHull Truck theatreBarrie Rutter revives Ben Benison’s reworking of King Lear set in a 21st-century fishing community with action-packed successA reworking of King Lear, spliced with legend…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMHome, ManchesterOne man’s life from cradle to grave is the subject of Eve Steele’s intense one-woman playManchester’s annual Push festival celebrates the creative work of the north-wes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSharon D Clarke’s bravura performance in Caroline, or Change reaches London’s West End, tears flow at Goodnight Mister Tom, and a Robin Hood reboot hits the markChristmas is for children…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMTramway, GlasgowSound, light and sets brilliantly convey Scrooge’s turn from miserliness to philanthropy in Neil Bartlett’s joyous adaptationCharles Dickens’s 1843 story of the transfo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMMel Brooks’s classic musical about two swindling impresarios gets a risky reprise, while a brilliant cast carry off Cole Porter“It ain’t no myst’ry. If it’s politics or hist’ry. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMUstinov, BathDiana Quick and Ian Gelder star as Holocaust survivors moving from New York to Florida in this superb production of Donald Margulies’s 80s black comedyFinely directed by Laure…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMNST City, SouthamptonJon Brittain’s musical adaptation of David Walliams’s tale of Joe Spud, the richest boy in the country, has plenty to sing aboutDavid Walliams’s book titles give m…
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