Friday, June 18, 2021
Reading Abbey RuinsBeth Flintoff’s atmospheric Reformation drama casts Henry VIII as a Boris-like bully, and is staged amid the ruins of his Catholic frenemy’s abbey
With so many people …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32AMThursday, May 27, 2021
Orange Tree, LondonTwo plays explore George Bernard Shaw’s questioning of social values, directed by Paul Miller as a pointer towards Pinter
Great Irish playwrights born two years apart in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMWednesday, May 5, 2021
Agatha Christie’s snowbound whodunnit is the world’s longest-running play. Now it’s leading the big reopening – with a double cast and no kissing
The London West End is filled with g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSaturday, April 17, 2021
The exquisitely talented actor shone at playing complex, intelligent women with a seemingly effortless skill
Helen McCrory dies aged 52
It seems fitting that one of Helen McCrory’s final s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMThursday, April 1, 2021
Available on BBC iPlayerProvocative playwright David Ireland returns with a slow-burn character study screened as part of the BBC’s Lights Up festival
In Cyprus Avenue (2016) and Ulster Am…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMWednesday, March 10, 2021
He’s no stranger to walk-outs and trigger warnings. So the daring dramatist is amazed the BBC is broadcasting his dark new play about a Belfast woman’s lockdown crisis
A decade ago, Davi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMFriday, February 12, 2021
Peter Barnes’ monologue about a royal footman was commissioned for radio but never broadcast until now. Director Philip Franks and others unravel its mystery
The most celebrated set of dra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMFriday, December 11, 2020
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonThe emotional and physical distance of this epistolary novel for the stage is ideal for Covid-era theatre, performed here with power and finesse
Pandemic theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMThursday, October 22, 2020
Theatre Royal BathStaged in a Covid-safe auditorium, this rattling revival of Harold Pinter’s mind-stretching drama is enjoyably brisk
Harold Pinter came to regret his frequent speech dire…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMonday, October 12, 2020
London PalladiumJason Robert Brown’s song cycle on the theme of life choices adapts well to social distancing, with a cast whose big voices make the huge auditorium feel small
Balancing dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMSunday, September 13, 2020
Available online In Richard Nelson’s third play about a US white liberal family Zooming through the pandemic, the Apples are forced to confront whether they are racist
In the Guardian on S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMThursday, September 10, 2020
From kick-ass screen roles to award-winning theatre and TV ones, with a curious sideline in nuns, the Yorkshire-born actor’s class and spirit earned her a magnificent career
Diana Rigg, A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMTuesday, July 7, 2020
Harry Gabriel, gatekeeper of London’s Shaftesbury theatre, recalls greeting the stars, his bond with Peter O’Toole and how the Harlem Globetrotters launched his West End career
The staff…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMWednesday, June 10, 2020
What makes Wicked and Starlight Express so addictive? A new documentary, Repeat Attenders, chronicles the reasons superfans return to see their favourites
You might guess that the Australian…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMSunday, May 3, 2020
The Remote ReadDavid Morrissey headed up a cast united on Zoom for a show that took on poignant new meaning and exuded theatrical joy
The countdown to the play beginning was on screen rather…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMMonday, March 23, 2020
From a musical version of Only Fools and Horses to a stage show based on The Good Life, small-screen comedies are inspiring theatre-makers
During the social confinements caused by coronaviru…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, March 5, 2020
Barbican, London Cheek By Jowl’s handsome Italian-language update of the cruel classic with Milan’s Piccolo Teatro delivers a harsh verdict on political corruption
When Chekhov is perfor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMMonday, February 17, 2020
Gielgud theatre, LondonDavid Mitchell is engaging and confident as Ben Elton brings his hit TV sitcom to the stage – it’s the definite article
Audiences unfamiliar with British TV will w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMFriday, February 14, 2020
Both the Donmar Warehouse and the Royal Court are staging plays that are under three-quarters of an hour long. Are theatregoers being short-changed?
People do a double take at the advisory n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMFriday, February 7, 2020
Hampstead theatre, LondonAl Blyth’s debut play explores how far into the lives of citizens a state can pry, and the effects on the snoopers themselves
After the movie Official Secrets, abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMTuesday, February 4, 2020
Old Vic, LondonDeftly bringing out the humour in Samuel Beckett’s lines, the two actors bring fresh life to a tale of imminent doom
As a blind man and his valet swap evidence of personal a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMMonday, January 13, 2020
Dressed in pyjamas and wellies, the great actor talks about his astronaut training in Russia, the original Cats – and putting his might behind his daughter Rosalind’s very personal plays…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMWednesday, December 18, 2019
Wyndham’s, LondonJason Manford is a charming, showtune-obsessed homicide cop in this fun companion to Chicago and Cabaret
Cabaret (1966) and Chicago (1975) became Broadway and West End per…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMFriday, December 13, 2019
Bush House, King’s College LondonSimon Russell Beale, Mark Gatiss and Catherine Tate were on hilarious form in this new version of the state-of-the-nation comedy
How is it possible that an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMStoryhouse, ChesterSet against the never-never-land of present-day austerity, Gary Owen’s production broadens the play’s appeal
JM Barrie’s 1904 play about a boy who never ages gets ol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMWednesday, November 27, 2019
The theatre and opera director, television producer, presenter, writer, comic and doctor had a special interest in the human mind – and a special example of one, too
Sir Jonathan Miller d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMThursday, November 21, 2019
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonElectrifying performances light up a glittering New York Christmas story in this warm-hearted, tuneful two-hander
On Christmas Eve, puppyish twentysomething…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMThursday, 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PM 
