Thursday, October 24, 2019
In a rare interview, Baker explains why she hates commercial theatre (except Hello, Dolly!) and how she anticipated Trump and #MeToo in her new work at the National, The Antipodes
It is not …
Linked From The Guardian at 10:12AMSunday, October 13, 2019
Chichester Festival theatreSet in a London pub during an England v Germany football match, the topical take on racism and nationalism shows Roy Williams’s 2002 play hasn’t dated
It is un…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:03AMWednesday, September 18, 2019
Nottingham PlayhouseSet in a contemporary Norwegian town, the classic is reworked by Rebecca Lenkiewicz to chime with Brexit divisions
An accidental trilogy of updatings of Ibsen plays by fe…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:42PMFriday, September 6, 2019
Impressionist Jon Culshaw, playwright James Graham, comedian Bridget Christie and critic Mark Lawson on the prime minister’s opening week in Westminster
I’ve been doing Boris impressions…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:24PMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Chichester Festival theatreJosie Lawrence stars in a revival that perfectly delivers both the jolly and sombre elements of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical
Although it begins with someon…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:48AMMonday, June 24, 2019
Jessie Cave’s intimate standup, a beatbox Frankenstein and a twist on the star-crossed lovers are among the Edinburgh shows we’ve previously reviewed. Here’s what we said …
Pleasance…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:48AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Nottingham PlayhousePitch-perfect performances enliven Kemp Powers’ impressive play, punchily debating racial tensions in 1960s America
The night he beat Sonny Liston in 1964 to become wor…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:48PMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Norman’s Coach & Horses, LondonRobert Bathurst stars in an hour-long version of the comedy, staged in the pub where Keith Waterhouse sought inspiration
In Keith Waterhouse’s 1989 com…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:42PMFriday, May 10, 2019
The performer – who died this week – found fame as a musician and an impressionist, but could never escape a notorious Sun front page
The career of the comedian and singer Freddie Starr,…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:03PMFriday, May 3, 2019
Chichester Festival theatreQuestions of faith and loss drive a masterly story of the Narnia author in Rachel Kavanaugh’s deeply poignant production
The first three speeches of Shadowlands …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:18AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Minerva, ChichesterJames Nesbitt and Sheila Hancock star in Tim Firth’s touching comedy about a dysfunctional group of relatives
Musicals head inexorably towards big ensemble numbers, a c…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:48AMMonday, April 29, 2019
London PalladiumThis chatshow canter through the career and comedy loves of Humphries proved he is an unrepentant controversialist
The television chatshow spread to theatre as a way of getti…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, March 17, 2019
King’s Head, LondonSkilfully combining play-that-goes-wrong antics with a potted history of the royals, this has fringe festival hit written all over it
From the National Theatre of Brent …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:37AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonAmid the delightful comic dialogue, some of the musical numbers can feel like padding The smooth transition from dialogue to songs in musicals is the genre’s…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:18PMMonday, February 18, 2019
His plays have shocked audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Is David Ireland bothered about the walk-outs? Will he give in to demands for trigger warnings?Cradling his grandchild for the…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:32PMWednesday, February 6, 2019
The Lady From the Sea, a powerful drama about loss and longing, is being rehearsed at the very flat where Ibsen ended his years in exile. Our writer pops byOn Oslo’s Victoria Terrasse ther…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:54AMFriday, February 1, 2019
Provocative and political, the stand-up – who has died aged 57 – shook up Radio 4 at a time when it was in danger of resembling a Rotary Club quiz night Although generally excluded from …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:12AMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Theatre 503, LondonA catastrophic fact-checking error that nearly breaks the internet cues Osman Baig’s expressive and energetic one-man piece about digital journalismThe narrator-protagon…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:12AMSunday, December 16, 2018
Young Vic Theatre, LondonPaapa Essiedu and Black Panther’s Letitia Wright are captivating in Danai Gurira’s story of religious and linguistic colonialismEnglish-speaking missionaries in …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonNeil McCormick’s memoir about schoolmates-turned-rock stars is brought to raucous lifeThe story of a talented composer whose hopes of fame are broken when a local conte…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:18PMThursday, December 6, 2018
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonWith antisemitism on the rise, Tevye’s struggles with the tsar’s thugs are powerfully topical in this note-perfect productionAlthough much-loved and often…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, November 21, 2018
Theatre Royal Plymouth A daughter inherits her dad’s diary and prized car in Carl Grose’s tightly plotted episode of farcical intrigueThe bequests and effects of the dead are reliably dr…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:18PMMonday, October 8, 2018
The RSC’s revival of Edgar’s 1985 drama about leftwing politics coincides with David Hare’s latest study of the Labour partyTwo dramatists who share a generation and a first name – D…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:36AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
The Yard, LondonBrad Birch’s play has a protagonist sharing space with huge projected images in an exploration of information overloadAfter an upsetting conversation with her dad, data ana…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:18AMThursday, September 27, 2018
Watermill, NewburyThe ‘blasphemous’ 19th-century pamphleteer William Hone is at the sharp end of destructive libel action in Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s dramaIan Hislop and Nick Newma…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:18AMWednesday, September 19, 2018
Bristol Old VicDavid Greig finds humour amid the horror in this triumphant stage adaptation of the mountaineering memoirClimbing high mountains is often used as a metaphor for other ominousl…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:12AMTuesday, August 14, 2018
From The Yalta Game to Living Quarters, the Irish playwright’s works have added resonance in this year’s FrielFestAlthough Ireland is famously cultured, it’s a shock to walk into a vil…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:06PMThursday, August 2, 2018
Almeida, LondonThis ingenious high-stakes show uncovers the psychology of those whose financial flutters shook the worldIn place of the Almeida theatre’s rows of tip-back seats are 10 semi…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:06PMMonday, July 9, 2018
The Fawlty Towers star rails against the government, the BBC and British newspapers in stage appearance for Hacked OffIt was hard to know what to expect of a solo show by John Cleese, organi…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:12PMMonday, June 4, 2018
A number of comedy classics are being reinterpreted for the stage as ‘joke-box’ musicals. Can they avoid the pitfalls of previous sitcom adaptations?Over the weekend, it has been reveale…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:12AMFriday, June 1, 2018
Star Audrey Fleurot and playwright Christopher Hampton talk about his reboot of the hard-hitting moral comedy set in post-Weinstein America“One of the marks of great plays,” says Christo…
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