Hampstead theatre, LondonCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin faced constant sexism and professional exclusion, but Stella Feehily’s play shows a woman with an iron will to succeed Cecilia Payne-Gapos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMThough Ian McKellen gave his Hamlet at the age of 82, older women rarely get the chance to play young characters. But with Imelda Staunton in Hello Dolly and Geraldine James as Rosalind, are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00AMFrom the Gareth Southgate play Dear England to Red Speedo, about a swimmer caught doping, dramatists are using sport to examine class, race, morality – and life in Britain today Will no on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMKiln theatre, LondonSophie Thompson and Charles Edwards are delightful as the unlikely pair thrown together by a school production as teenagers and reunited late in life Music, says Hattie, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonToxic masculinity rears its head in Rachel Bagshaw’s Globe debut which proves less interested in horror effects than the characters’ emotional journeys Joh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonThe performances are superb in this tale of a family dealing with bipolar disorder but the storyline is thin Given that Next to Normal is about a woman with bipolar d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AMArcola theatre, LondonIn a week when English cricket was found guilty of deep-rooted racism, an affecting tale of discrimination dismissed as banter feels particularly profound This one-man …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMTheatre Royal BathDespite charismatic performances and real chemistry, the classic Audrey Hepburn romcom falters in its transition into a Cole Porter jukebox musical Jeremy Sams’ productio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AMRoyal Court, LondonSet in a future police state, Tom Fowler’s play sees two women go on the run in a feverish reimagining of Thelma and Louise The winning scene that opens Tom Fowler’s n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMFortune theatre, LondonWith gag-packed songs and gender-swapped roles, this fringe show about a secret service plot is a joyful success on the big stage SpitLip’s anarchic adaptation of on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMChichester Festival theatreLia Williams and her son Joshua James make a scintillating double act in a resonant revival of the 1924 hit There’s a tableau in this production of The Vortex wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMArcola, LondonWhat starts as a comedy of sibling manners ends in a soap opera-like recital of childhood abuses and family grievances The question of what we inherit from our parents has been…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMDaniel Fish’s restaging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic is no Kansas City cornbread caper. The director explains why he ratcheted up the racial tension and gun violence In the Oklah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMCharing Cross theatre, LondonThe whiff of hamminess is never absent from the Zorro story and here both script and performances are endearingly alive to a sense of the ridiculous Swipe right!…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMDorfman, LondonAlecky Blythe’s masterful play – which features a brilliantly charismatic cast – follows real youngsters across five years of their lives Ali, 14, wants to be a criminal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMJermyn Street theatre, LondonLikable leads who act with great verve are let down by a weak story that can’t hold the weight of its themes Given the scale of the environmental challenges fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMPark theatre, LondonLydia White is magnetic as the aspirational Jo in an uneven but stirring adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic Jo March is a heroine well suited to musical theatre.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMPark theatre, LondonMike Leigh’s 1970s masterpiece of aggressive hospitality, embarrassing silences and gauche behaviour is back in a slightly more naturalistic portrayal Mike Leigh’s co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMHe has done politics in Bodyguard, horror in Utopia and comedy as Kevin in Motherland. Next up for Paul Ready is Shakespeare’s tragedy, alongside his wife, at the GlobePaul Ready is spooke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AMSome cover their feet in glue, others slice at them with razor blades ... Emma John discovers what performing night after night does to a dancer's feetIt should have been the best day of Jen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11PMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jaques’s lines on the seven ages of man fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Paterson Joseph speaks Shylock’s lines from The Merchant of Ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:11AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jacques’s lines on the seven ages of man fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Damian Lewis performs Antony’s lines from act III, scene 2 of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Laura Carmichael speaks Portia’s lines from The Merchant of Ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund’s soliloquy from the start of Act I, S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Camille O’Sullivan plays Constance in King John, Act III, Scen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Joanna Lumley speaks Viola’s soliloquy from Twelfth Night, Act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Sacha Dhawan delivers an edited version of Parolles’s lines fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, David Threlfall speaks Prospero’s lines from The Tempest, Act …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Daniel Mays speaks Macbeth’s lines from Act II, Scene 1. As Ma…
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