Sunday, October 21, 2018
Old Vic, LondonCarter’s riotous novel about a south London theatrical dynasty bursts on to the stage in this life-enhancing showAt the end of a programme essay, Emma Rice wonders what Ange…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMSunday, September 30, 2018
Olivier, London; Bristol Old Vic; Royal Court, LondonRalph Fiennes’s Antony grapples with a midlife crisis while Sophie Okonedo’s Cleopatra is the ultimate diva in an outstanding product…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMMonday, September 17, 2018
The award-winning actor on playing a narcissistic writer opposite Glenn Close in The Wife, his Welsh roots, and looking like the popeJonathan Pryce has played Shakespearean heroes (Hamlet, S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMSunday, July 1, 2018
Her stewardship of Shakespeare’s Globe ended in acrimony but a revitalised Emma Rice, now about to launch her own company Wise Children, couldn’t be happier“It was on Shakespeare’s b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32AMSunday, June 3, 2018
Olivier; Harold Pinter; Finborough, LondonNot understanding speaks volumes in Ian Rickson’s tremendous new production of Brian Friel’s 1980 classic. And Nina Raine’s unflinching Consen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSunday, May 27, 2018
The US actor tells how a new adaption of Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton chimes with our uncertain timesid-morning in Brooklyn, New York and grey clouds are scudding across the s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMFriday, May 18, 2018
Noël Coward theatre, LondonGoing to Howard Davies's glorious production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever is like being invited to an irregular house party; the relief is that, unlike the hapless…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMTuesday, May 15, 2018
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal BathAlun Armstrong rules in Ionesco’s absurdist dramaIonesco’s Exit the King was first performed in 1962, and the theatre of the absurd cannot boast any mor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMFriday, May 11, 2018
Thanks to The Hour, playwright Abi Morgan has enjoyed an incredibly prolific year. Next up, a Thatcher biopic starring Meryl Streep, a Steve McQueen film about sex and a play about GodAbi Mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMSunday, May 6, 2018
The veteran playwright and the prolific young star, both masters of political theatre, reflect on the state of the nation – and contemporary culture – in the internet ageDavid Hare and J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
The National’s magnificent production of Caryl Churchill’s English civil war play resonates powerfully todayCaryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire was written in 1976, is s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMSunday, March 25, 2018
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Dorfman, National Theatre; Lyric Hammersmith, London; Theatre Royal, BathTragedy meets levity in the RSC’s Scottish play. Plus, a captivatin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, March 18, 2018
Bristol Old Vic; Royal Exchange, Manchester; The Yard, London The Cherry Orchard springs to life in Michael Boyd’s thrillingly vital Bristol Old Vic production. In Manchester, April De Ang…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSunday, February 11, 2018
Wyndham’s; Shakespeare’s Globe; Hampstead, LondonLesley Manville glitters as desperate mother Mary in O’Neill’s grim family portrait. Plus, Barrie Rutter’s valedictory Captive Quee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, January 14, 2018
Arcola theatre, LondonSharp moral conundrums arise in Sam Potter’s compelling monologue about babies swapped at birthHanna, a new play by Sam Potter, is like overhearing talk outside the s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, January 7, 2018
As her monologue My Mum’s a Twat opens at the Royal Court, PR turned playwright Anoushka Warden talks about her big break – and how she survived a difficult childhoodAnoushka Warden did …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30AMThursday, October 26, 2017
A new era is dawning at London's Tricycle theatre under Indhu Rubasingham, its first new artistic director in three decades. Her inaugural play – starring Adrian Lester, and written by his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSunday, September 10, 2017
Olivier, LondonImelda Staunton leads an evening of star turns in this glittering, bittersweet dissection of midlife regret, brilliantly directed by Dominic CookeFollies is like a distinctive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMKing William House, HullRevolt meets retail in 80s South Korea in this dazzling, thought-provoking production from dreamthinkspeakOne Day, Maybe is an unusual, intimidating and thought-provo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMSunday, August 27, 2017
Donmar Warehouse, LondonDavid Harrower’s 1995 play explores the feral intensity of a marriage in medieval times, staged here with a fluid physicalityDavid Harrower’s Knives in Hens (1995…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMMinerva, ChichesterGitha Sowerby’s superb 1924 play, with Ophelia Lovibond in the title role, reminds us that being a woman of means isn’t always enoughIn a house in Surrey in 1911, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMAlmeida, LondonChristopher Shinn’s elegant play about the nature of violence in the modern world asks intriguing questions but is short on answersChristopher Shinn’s Against, receiving i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSunday, July 9, 2017
It was to celebrate Nina Simone’s political passion as much as her musical genius that Josette Bushell-Mingo created her one-woman show about the singer. Here, the acclaimed actor talks ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMSunday, June 25, 2017
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonAndrew Scott’s prince proves a brilliant communicator as Robert Icke’s acclaimed Almeida production transfers to the West EndAfter a sell-out run at the Alme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMHampstead theatre, LondonBranden Jacobs-Jenkins’s tale of vicious infighting at a New York magazine should make most of us value our own workplacesGloria, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, was sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMLyric Hammersmith, LondonFerdinand von Schirach’s morally perplexing legal drama puts the fate of a German fighter pilot at the audience’s mercySince it opened in Berlin in 2015, Terror,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMSunday, June 11, 2017
Barbican, LondonThere is perhaps unfair pressure on Binoche to pull off miracles in Ivo van Hove’s eagerly anticipated take on SophoclesIt’s an ill wind that blows at the beginning of An…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04AMSunday, May 14, 2017
Tony Kushner’s 1991 play Angels in America broke the silence about Aids. As a revival wows audiences at the National, he talks about how the world has changedTony Kushner flew in to London…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, May 7, 2017
The Almeida, LondonThis revival of Martin Crimp’s intricate 1993 satire captures the powerlessness of a writer chewed up by the movie businessEveryone has a story, but who owns it? What ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonBrecht’s anti-fascist study of political power hits home in a tremendous new adaptation by Bruce NorrisThe Donmar has been transformed: gone are the elegant benches…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMSaturday, May 6, 2017
The actor talks about the psychology of Lady Macbeth – and feelings of guilt closer to homeSamantha Spiro suggests, when we meet on a summer afternoon at the Globe theatre, that rehearsal …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM 
