Friday, 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 10:01AMTuesday, November 25, 2014
The 30 brief scenes in the writer’s new book blur the boundaries between his work for stage and page Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
G is for The Goat, L is for lizards and U is for umbrella As A Delicate Balance returns to Broadway, dip into our guide to the great American playwright Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFriday, November 7, 2014
As his Iron Curtain Trilogy opens in London, the playwright reflects on depicting the last 50 years of British life on the stage Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30AMFriday, October 31, 2014
Life with Father, about a sexist patriarch and submissive wife, holds the record for the longest-running non-musical play in New York. Now, 75 years after it premiered, Mark Lawson…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMWednesday, October 29, 2014
From a re-imagining of The Wild Duck to differing interpretations of The Master Builder, Ibsens plays are challenging source material. The New Penguin Ibsen aims to get to grips with the ori…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:51AMFriday, October 3, 2014
Dramatic triptychs from Aeschyluss Oresteia to Rona Munros James plays are expensive to stage and bum-numbing to watch. Do they deliver three times the pleasure? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AMWednesday, October 1, 2014
One Man Two Guvnors is a box office phenomenon, and the man behind it has another five plays on stage this month. Richard Bean talks about legal wrangles, dodgy gags and why success has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMTuesday, September 23, 2014
From Maxine Peakes Hamlet to David Suchets Lady Bracknell, cross-casting is all the rage. But sometimes it can be more problematic than enlightening Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:58AMSunday, September 21, 2014
One of Britain's hardest-working dramatists, Thorne has nine TV projects in various stages of production. Mark Lawson meets him Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMTuesday, September 16, 2014
The artistic director of Northamptons Royal and Derngate explains why he is overseeing a production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof that will also be seen in Manchester and Newcastle Continue readi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:37AMFriday, September 12, 2014
Imelda Marcos, Anna Nicole Smith and Eva Perón are all the subjects of musicals or operas this autumn. Mark Lawson considers what makes a life to sing about Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMSunday, September 7, 2014
Mike Bartlett's mock-Shakespearean take on constitutional crisis over Prince Charles proves an attraction Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:20PMThursday, September 4, 2014
Richard Bean's newspaper farce is leaving the National, with Lucy Punch taking up the role of red-top editor Paige Britain. Some transfers, though, thrive without their biggest names Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:05AMFriday, August 29, 2014
Two years ago she delivered her standup routine to 10 people in a strip club. Now shes a star of the Edinburgh Fringe and touring the country. She talks biros, big families and why the new p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PMIt's fairly easy to bag Chekhov's quartet of masterpieces, but getting to see productions of all the Shakespearean canon is a much bigger challenge Michael Billington reviews The Two Gentlem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMIt's fairly easy to bag Chekhov's quartet of masterpieces, but getting to see productions of all the Shakespearean canon is a much bigger challenge• Michael Billington reviews The Two Gent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMFriday, August 22, 2014
Chichester Festival theatreChoreographer Carlos Acosta and director Gordon Greenberg fill the dice-rolling musical with rapturous energy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMWednesday, August 20, 2014
The playwright talks about his monologue Title and Deed, the influence of Beckett, and not being deliberately enigmatic Title and Deed review a devastating monologue Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:14AMThursday, August 14, 2014
Current shows The Importance of Being Earnest and The Play That Goes Wrong use the conceit of provincial players biting off more than they can chew. It's a trope with a venerable history Con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AMMonday, August 11, 2014
Getting the ticket for the show is the easy bit it's finding the right queue in the Edinburgh labyrinth that can be tricky Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:59AMThursday, August 7, 2014
Loyalty and distrust with gags and wordplay feature strongly in this year's line-up as Scotland's independence vote looms Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:35AMTuesday, August 5, 2014
Christie's material about yoghurt-advert rape fantasies and female genital mutilation is astonishingly complex and uproariously funny Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:44AMMonday, July 28, 2014
The female lead in David Mamet's play, previously portrayed by Madonna and Elisabeth Moss, is ideal for actors with little stage experience Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AMThursday, July 17, 2014
Feisty, quick-witted actor and singer acclaimed as the 'first lady of Broadway'During her seven decades as an actor and singer, Elaine Stritch, who has died aged 89, became indelibly associa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:21PMTuesday, July 15, 2014
Oliver Cotton and Nick Payne have joined the exclusive club of dramatist-performers whose past members include Noël Coward and Harold PinterDramatists who act in their own plays form one of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44AMTuesday, July 8, 2014
Putting new lyrics to songs from living musicals, this long-running hit is relentlessly, cleverly, breathtakingly funny A male Wicked, a female Billy Elliot? It's West End Recast Although Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMFriday, July 4, 2014
Sophie Okonedo is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed actors but most of her job offers come from the US, where last month she won a coveted Tony award for a Broadway role. So …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMTuesday, July 1, 2014
Rapid-response theatre is phenomenally difficult. How did the National's Great Britain, which stars Billie Piper as a tabloid journalist, pull it off? Read Michael Billington's review of Gre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:27AMSaturday, June 21, 2014
If Mr Burns, a provocative vision of post-apocalyptic America, has been slammed, it's because theatre critics know more about Homer than Homer Simpson. More fool them.One of the most tantali…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMWednesday, June 18, 2014
An early hit can be both a blessing and a curse for celebrated young writers such as Polly StenhamThe word "promise", as anyone who has been a partner or a parent knows, always ris…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM 
