Friday, August 17, 2018
Theatre Royal, BathMiller’s 50-year-old play emerges as one of his best, as two estranged brothers learn the cost of dividing the family spoilsOn its Broadway debut in 1968, Arthur Miller…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:36AMThursday, August 16, 2018
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe supposed dark lady of the sonnets is transformed into a convincing symbol of exploited women through the agesWhat do we know of Emilia Bassano? That she live…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:33AMWednesday, August 15, 2018
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonFiona Laird’s production provides wheelie-bins, estuary accents, physical comedy and a first-rate Falstaff, but loses the sense of small-town …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:32AMFriday, August 10, 2018
Donmar Warehouse, LondonOverly abstract production lifted by first-rate performances in an engrossing tale of decaying culture and rocky relationships As Translations closes at the National,…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:54AMThursday, August 9, 2018
Ustinov Studio, BathThe writer gets a mystery visitor in Joanna Murray-Smith’s smartly self-referential salute to her riveting crime tales‘The most important crime novelist in practice,…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:42PMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Southwark Playhouse, LondonWith numbers co-written by the award-winning Hamilton creator, the real gem is the show’s scoreBetween creating In the Heights and Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda c…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:06AMFriday, August 3, 2018
Vaudeville theatre, LondonMichael Fentiman’s coarse production robs Wilde of his decorum, swapping subtleties and satire for screaming and sexThis is one of those occasions when, in the wo…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:32AMThursday, August 2, 2018
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonRylance is a fascinating and nihilistic Iago and André Holland exudes majestic dignity as Othello in Clare van Kampen’s lively and unsettling productionAny pr…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:06AMThursday, July 26, 2018
Courtyard, Stratford-upon-AvonIt is no exaggeration to say that this King Lear is long-awaited. Critics, in fact, have been waiting impatiently for nine weeks to get a glimpse of a productio…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:54PMOlivier, LondonIfans’ performance shows he’s ready for the big Shakespeare roles, though Ionesco’s absurdist drama is considerably less compellingFor its first foray into the world of …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:36AMWednesday, July 25, 2018
Menier Chocolate Factory, London This fast-moving spoof of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical seems torn between admiration and scepticismFor the past 36 years, Gerard Alessandrini has been …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:24AMFriday, July 20, 2018
Minerva, ChichesterCharlotte Jones’s drama pitches a non-violent religious community on to the Napoleonic wars’ spiritual frontlineCharlotte Jones is an unpredictable dramatist. In her m…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:18AMThursday, July 19, 2018
Royal Court, LondonRory Mullarkey’s unfocused drama of a Britain collapsing in apocalyptic chaos is not helped by the production’s aural and visual overkillI guess this new play by Rory …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
The Bridge theatre, LondonPatients’ singalongs and Bennett’s stinging wit light up a state-of-the-nation play set on a geriatric ward Hospitals make good theatre. Shortly after Alan Benn…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:04PMMother Clap's Molly HouseNational Theatre, London Rating: ****Mark Ravenhill clearly likes to have it both ways. In this wonderfully exuberant new musical play at the Lyttelton, he celebrat…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:24AMNational Theatre, London· Picture gallery: images from the productionNothing is more tempting than the apparently impossible. But, although director Nicholas Hytner and his creative team di…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:24AMAlan Bennett’s new play is not just about history - it makes history. Michael Billington hails a masterpieceSchool shapes our ends - almost literally so in the case of the more sexually pr…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:18AMTuesday, July 17, 2018
Old Vic, LondonSally Cookson delivers an exhilarating production of Patrick Ness’s story about a lonely boy coping with grief, bullying and a monster in a yew treeSometimes it is good to g…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:54PMSaturday, July 14, 2018
Adelphi, LondonDirected by Rupert Goold, this stage version of the film suffers from its caricatures, relentless jokiness and functional score • Ford fiesta: Made in Dagenham musical opens…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:18AMFriday, July 13, 2018
National, London"Only an artist can understand religion." So says the emperor Nero at the end of Howard Brenton's new play about Saint Paul.But, even if Nero's point is debatable, Brenton's …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:32AMLyttelton, LondonThis engrossing play about the banking family provides a history of western capitalism and an acting masterclass from Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles and Adam GodleyWhat an a…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:12AMThursday, July 12, 2018
Open Air theatre, Regent’s Park, LondonOlivia Vinall and Edward Hogg light up a production whose pleasures outweigh its preachinessMax Webster’s production of Shakespeare’s comedy sets…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, July 11, 2018
Charing Cross theatre, LondonThere are jaunty tunes and fine performances but this musical about mummification starts to decompose halfway throughThey seem to have a penchant for musicals ab…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, July 6, 2018
Playhouse theatre, LondonThis vivid recreation of life in the sprawling refugee camp is a priceless piece of theatre that enlarges our understanding while appealing to our emotionsThis is th…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:36AMThursday, July 5, 2018
Finborough, LondonIn a wan year for new writing, Dawn King's play shines out like a beacon. Winner of the Papatango playwriting competition, it may display the influence of Arthur Miller's T…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:24AMWednesday, July 4, 2018
Noël Coward theatre, LondonThe Poldark star gives an excellent performance in a first-rate revival of Martin McDonagh’s brutally funny playPoldark fans turning up to see Aidan Turner in M…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:12PMRoyal Court, LondonLaura Wade's new play is highly topical: it is about the sense of entitlement to power of a privileged, wealthy, public school and Oxbridge elite. But while I'm glad to se…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:32PMThe Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonClare Burt passes on the trademark cap to six other actors who all share the role of the pioneering director in Sam Kenyon’s engaging musical tributeAs a nomad…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:18AMTuesday, July 3, 2018
London PalladiumThe Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical comes to the West End with fine acting, handsome staging and inescapable overtones of western imperialismThis 1951…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:24PMMonday, July 2, 2018
The choreographer brought her classical training, dramatic eye and vitality to bear on hits such as Cats, Phantom of the Opera and Chitty Chitty Bang BangGillian Lynne, who has died aged 92,…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:36AMSunday, July 1, 2018
Jermyn Street theatre, London Boo Killebrew cleverly evokes the havoc of Hurricane Katrina through her doctor father’s memories of the disaster and the imperilled characters they recallHow…
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