Thursday, August 13, 2015
Edinburgh festival has a long tradition of taking on leaders and legislation as dramatic subject matter and this year sees performers’ satire as sharp as everWho is the odd one out among T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09PMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghHenry Naylor’s impressive work tells the story of a modern-day British jihadi bride in Syria and a Victorian bluestocking in Afghanistan – and manages to conjure…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMTuesday, August 11, 2015
Gilded BalloonAn amoral anti-love story about the sexual abuse of a Spanish immigrant in Scotland is challenging, and begs the question: what shall we as viewers do?The title will make Anglo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:28PMSunday, August 9, 2015
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghBizarre miscasting and stodgy dialogue scupper this account of a meeting between the master illusionist and the Sherlock Holmes creatorIn the teeming marketplace of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMAssembly George Square Studios, EdinburghJim Cartwright’s raucous, lively study of living for the weekend has the feel of another crossover work from the author of the Rise and Fall of Lit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31AMSaturday, August 8, 2015
Underbelly Potterow, EdinburghMargaret Ann Bain sculpts her body and voice to become a cast of dozens in this story of an East German woman forced to take over her dead husband’s identity …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AMFriday, July 24, 2015
From radical reinventions of the proscenium arch, to productions that march outside of the theatre altogether, the boards of the British stage are dissolving under a wave of innovationFootba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMFriday, July 10, 2015
Actor defied early rejections from drama schools to become one of Britain’s most exciting stage names, winning plaudits for her roles as well as her personalityIt is a mark of the boldness…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMThursday, July 2, 2015
The Oresteia starts with a child sacrifice – and then gets darker. But it managed to cheer me up even more than the tremendously funny Rules for LivingDoes theatre, as the Greeks believed,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PMFriday, June 19, 2015
After a painful failure with Spider-Man, Taymor has bounced back with stage and now film versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Here she talks about why there are still few female director…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PMThursday, June 18, 2015
Patrick Marber has scored a hit with The Red Lion at the National Theatre. Here’s a first XI of stage dramas inspired by the beautiful gameAlthough football is England’s most popular tea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38AMMonday, June 8, 2015
New York’s theatre community put aside tribal loyalties to crown British stars Helen Mirren, Richard McCabe and Alex Sharp at this year’s Tonys• Alex Sharp and Helen Mirren head roll-c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PMFriday, June 5, 2015
A Streetcar Named Desire is one of several landmark works that failed to win best play at past Tonys ceremonies. Which other classics have been snubbed at prizegivings?A remarkable 34 of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThursday, May 28, 2015
Both the National and Bush theatres are putting on plays with sweary titles this year. But how will they promote them? And what should journalists call them? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMMonday, May 18, 2015
Minerva, ChichesterJeremy Sams directs his own vivacious translation of Jean Anouilh’s smart comedy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
The UK has become an experimental studio for risk-averse Broadway – but that shouldn’t detract from the great British talent nominated for this year’s Tonys Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:41PMSunday, April 26, 2015
Damian Lewis and John Goodman, in American Buffalo, are the latest Hollywood stars to tread London’s boards, in a deal that benefits both theatre and film Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMThursday, April 23, 2015
Recent announcements at the National, the Garrick and the Old Vic show that casting the management is as important as contracting the actors In theatre companies, as in all organisations, a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09AMSaturday, April 18, 2015
As Stoppard and Shaw plays at the National debate the likelihood of God, Shakespeare’s King John is revived in a church and the St Paul’s Occupy protests are staged, Mark Lawson asks why…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
From Harvey’s six-foot white rabbit to Mike Leigh’s hard-partying Abigail, some of the biggest characters around never set foot on stage. Mark Lawson raises a toast to absent friendsWith…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02AMThursday, March 26, 2015
In the run-up to 7 May, British TV will become a no-go area for plays relevant to the election. Thankfully, theatre has the courage to provide our fix Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:17AMWednesday, March 18, 2015
Stoppard’s The Hard Problem became richer when I read the script, but the playtext of Game lessens the experience of the Almeida’s unsettling stagingBuy a programme for Mike Bartlett’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00PMFriday, February 20, 2015
Alan Howard, who has died aged 77, was the quintessential Shakespearian monarch, capable of a vast range of interpretation. But it was his voice was the core of his greatness Obituary: Alan …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFriday, February 13, 2015
Friends suggest that playing Martin Luther King has heightened the actor’s sense of public duty and quiet rage Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMSaturday, February 7, 2015
The Europe-raised playwright is hoping for a rapprochement with her American roots with her new play about Thomas Jefferson – but she thinks the founding father has a lot to answer forHavi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThursday, February 5, 2015
Most productions cut a whole act from Man and Superman. But Ralph Fiennes and director Simon Godwin plan to unleash its full Nietzschean powerAlthough it may be little consolation, Ralph Fie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AMWednesday, February 4, 2015
With the adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s novel for the RSC and the BBC, we have a rare opportunity to compare acting choicesRegular theatregoers accumulate comparisons between actors in cla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:44AMMonday, February 2, 2015
The revivals of Cats, Assassins and City of Angels have thrown the spotlight on one of the trickiest aspects of musical theatreBritish theatre listings are rarely short of musical revivals, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMTuesday, January 27, 2015
Playwrights of the past are easily forgotten, but thanks to his unique, black-comedy skewering of historical figures, Barnes has found a new champion in James McAvoyWith several generations …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMTuesday, December 23, 2014
Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge stunned at the Young Vic, Sondheim’s Assassins satirised with success, King Charles III did nothing, magnificently, and a startling Anything Goes i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59AMFriday, December 12, 2014
The ingenious ghost story – and GCSE set text – is now the second longest-running play in the history of the West End. So why does it continue to pack audiences in, after 25 years?Althou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AM 
