Thursday, March 8, 2018
Rufus Norris's production which stars Kinnear and Duff as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, strays a little close to comic horror movie, but stays just on the side of chilling
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 30, 2017
An immersive Indian Noir launches a new Dishoom restaurant, and while the show may be less memorable than the food, the evening adds up to more than the sum of its parts
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:36AM[SHARE]Friday, November 17, 2017
Audience members join a fictional totalitarian dystopia in The Les Enfants Terrible's production about Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova's ordeal as she is sent to jail for pla…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 15, 2017
The 'Breaking Bad' star plays news anchorman Howard Beale in the stage adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 film, walking the line between anger and madness perfectly
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:18AM[SHARE]Monday, November 13, 2017
David Mamet's play which he adapted into a 1992 film starring Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino, now stars Slater in its first major stage revival in over a decade
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 12, 2017
The Vaults is turned into an immersive Sixties venue for this big-hearted production of 'Hair The Musical' which is celebrating its 50th anniversary
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Both monologues are delivered in a monotone that makes it hard to stay tuned in Chris Thorpe's short two-hander
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:48PM[SHARE]Monday, October 9, 2017
A revival of the late Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa's 'Macbeth', which sets the action in a 16th century samurai world, is performed in Japanese with English surtitles
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:54AM[SHARE]Friday, October 6, 2017
James Graham, who also wrote 'Ink' about 'The Sun' newspaper, pulls it off again with his latest play, a political rom-com, which stars Martin Freeman and Tamsin Greig
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:54AM[SHARE]Monday, August 14, 2017
From speed-dating to gambling, rifling through suitcases to find terrorist activity and having a cucumber between her thighs, Holly Williams braves some of Edinburgh Fringe's interactiv…
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2017
James Graham's new play about the rise of 'The Sun' newspaper which stars Bertie Carvell as Rupert Murdoch is directed by Rupert Goold
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 20, 2017
After its triumphant win at the 2017 Olivier Awards, and a sell-out run in New York, Jon Brittain's critically acclaimed 'Rotterdam' returns to the West End with more trans dr…
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:18AM[SHARE]Monday, March 27, 2017
The actor who goes under the stage name of Urbain Wolf has created his first play 'Custody' with writer Tom Wainwright which looks at real-life cases of police brutality and black …
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:24PM[SHARE]Monday, October 31, 2016
With the transatlantic transfer of the David Bowie musical, Lazarus, as well as the Young Vic's production of The Nest with a score by PJ Harvey, is the theatre-pop marriage a dream tic…
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2016
The English actor stars in Almeida theatre's production of Oil from this Friday
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:13PM[SHARE]Monday, October 10, 2016
Artists and celebrities including Alison Steadman and Sophie Dahl read aloud important letters from history
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:40AM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2016
John Malkovich's play never feels like a Hollywood-star-does-serious-theatre vanity project
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2016
His stories might seem like a golden ticket, but endless stage and screen versions risk over-exposure
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2016
A look at masculinity and patriarchy, Two Man Show is played by two women
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:19PM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2016
Using spirit animals as a way into talking about accepting who you really are is the charming conceit at the centre of Animal (Are you a proper person?)
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:43PM[SHARE]Last year, Not Too Tame had a hit with a show in a pub; now the young ensemble are doing a site-specific 'party-theatre' in a disused house
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:43PM[SHARE]Kieran Hurley had a big fringe hit with Beats, a one-man show about rave culture. Heads Up is about what would happen if the apocalypse hit our city, right now
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2016
Isn't it slightly self-indulgent to make a play about how you suffered when your girlfriend had anorexia?
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2016
Stand-up Liam Williams's sharply comic debut play forces you to notice how coded and gendered both language and gesture can be
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:07AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 6, 2016
It's his autobiographical and shamelessly showbiz anecdotes in-between numbers which really delight
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2016
She's famous for her little black dress, but Holly Golightly's shoes are what you've got to worry about filling. Because they're already firmly occupied in most people&ap…
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:22PM[SHARE]Sean O'Casey's 1926 play tells the story of the Easter Rising, when Irish nationalist rebels were quashed by British army forces in 1916
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 21, 2016
Edinburgh is always a treasure trove but it can be hard to find the gold among the glitter. Holly Williams offers up her top picks to delight, surprise, move or provoke
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2016
Local amateurs are stepping in to play the role of Bottom alongside the professionals in the Royal Shakespeare Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2016
The setting of 1950s Verona is mucho, mucho Italiano, but it also proves an effective backdrop for the star-crossed lovers
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2016
