Monday, February 27, 2017
The National Theatre's My Country delivers a verbatim verdict on Brexit and Duncan Macmillan adapts Auster's City of Glass in ManchesterLittle Bulb's all-singing Wail, which is about whales …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32AM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2017
Christopher Luscombe's frisky production tackles male domination of the stage, while a new mixed bill at the Barbican features Annabelle Lopez Ochoa1 The Pitchfork DisneyExhilarating, tense …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2017
Everyman, LiverpoolGemma Bodinetz's loving, elegant revival of the Russian villagers' story is joyful and warm in the hands of the theatre's versatile new repertory companyAn old Broadway mu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Tobacco Factory, Bristol Director Richard Twyman's riveting production excels at depicting the racial and religious tensions underlying Othello and Desdemona's peril"So much ado, so much str…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Theatre-makers are creating personal work that might be hard to deal with but that shouldn't make it out of bounds for artists, critics or audiencesLast weekend's The Sick of the Fringe fest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Orange Tree, Richmond Like 1980s precursors to Fleabag, young female flatmates confide their fantasies in a world where men seem to hold all the powerMore than a third of teenage girls suffe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2017
Dolphins are taught to speak in a clever satire, Theatre 503 presents works by prisoners and Madame Bovary is relocated to a plumbing company " in a play with no actorsSinners Club, at the O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2017
New Diorama, London This story of a British POW's love affair is strong on identity issues but the cartoon Nazis and jolly japes flatten any nuanceHorace Greasley was a British prisoner of w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2017
The Bunker theatre, LondonExaggerating the element of chance in Arthur Schnitzler's play slows it down, removes vital sexual tension and makes it feel old-fashionedLove, apparently, makes th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]The Other Room, CardiffLucy Rivers' show, inspired by the case of Ruth Ellis, hanged in 1955, uses a clever conceit to tell a story of music, murder and motherhoodA microphone suddenly sugge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2017
In Between Time reveals a readiness to respond to the times with shows about refugees, race and togetherness, posing vital questions about an anxious worldI'm wearing headphones. In my ears,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a gender-shifting Twelfth Night at the National Theatre, while the Traverse's brilliant Black Beauty does a final lap and Sherlock's Andrew Scott stars as HamletL…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 12, 2017
In Between Time at Arnolfini, BristolExquisite torture and infinite complexity are wrung from three performers, six words and scenario repeated like a demented Groundhog Day"Right, let's get…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2017
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonThe latest production from 20 Stories High is a vivid, clever piece that fuses tough subject matter with wicked humour and moments of pungent emotionOne in three…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PM[SHARE]From a full-blooded reimagination of Shakespeare to the best of a celebrated choreographer. Plus: Eurohouse, Joan, BU21 and more1 Richard IIIDavid Hare may be up in arms about the European i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2017
Rose theatre, KingstonToksvig's play has plenty of good gags but there's far too little characterisation, leaving an experienced ensemble treading waterSandi Toksvig's new comedy, set in a r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Unicorn, LondonPurni Morell directs a lush production of Ignace Cornelissen's drama about a prince who is under pressure to remarry after his bride goes missingWhat happens after "happily ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2017
A gang of emerging outfits " including Silent Uproar and Middle Child " hit the road to reveal the Yorkshire city's buoyant theatre sceneThe big question facing any festival is what will its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2017
Ovalhouse, LondonAudience participation turns from fun to fraught in this assault on the corporate world inspired by the American author's short storyTerry works for a marketing company whos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Black Beauty gallops into Glasgow, Cardiff hosts a retelling of the last woman hanged in Britain, and a show created sex workers premieres in the capitalFirst seen at the Traverse in Edinbur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AM[SHARE]Friday, February 3, 2017
The people's Maria is under incredible pressure to perform. I reckon people should give her a break.Relax, it's only a Lloyd Webber musical. Photograph: Tristram KentonLoss of innocence has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PM[SHARE]The contestants can belt out a tune but can they cut it in musical theatre? The stage show cast from the BBC1 series will fall flat if it doesn't find acting talentReality TV and talent show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonJamie Lloyd's revival of Philip Ridley's 1991 dark fable, starring George Blagden and Bafta-nominated Hayley Squires, is vivid and monstrousThe gaudy excesses of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]From Stephen Daldry's ground-breaking production to a visceral take on the welfare crisis. Plus: Worst Wedding Ever, Material Men Redux and more1 An Inspector CallsThat inspector keeps on ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2017
Many a playwright owes a debt to a radio commission. Audio drama allows an ambition and scope that can't always be achieved on stageEarlier this week, at the Critics' Circle theatre awards, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Applications are in for the next round of the council's funding for National Portfolio Organisations. Some have decided it's better to opt outThe deadline has now passed for those applying t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]The Pit, LondonEuripides Laskaridis puts on high heels and a fat suit to explore gender in a striking show at the Barbican as part of London international mime festivalImagine Dame Edna Ever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Watermill, BagnorTwo actors play all 14 characters " and the piano " in a smart, jaunty show that transposes the English country-house mystery to small-town AmericaJoe Kinosian and Kellen Bl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]The decade is still associated with the 'In-Yer-Face' moniker but it brought us a thrilling variety of new writing and fresh, boundary-breaking styles of theatre There seems to be a bit of a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2017
The playwright's concerns over European directors 'infecting' British theatre are misplaced " the two-way traffic between the UK and Europe has benefited us allWith a hard Brexit on the hori…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Sandi Toksvig debuts a new comedy, Crew for Calais take over the Vault festival for a good cause and Bristol's Tobacco Factory hosts a double bill from Manipulate about a doomed romance and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AM[SHARE] 
