Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonVirtuoso percussionist Evelyn Glennie provides a soundscape for Gregory Doran’s futuristic production Expectation whirls me round, to borrow a…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:33AMDorfman, LondonPlaying a single woman determined to have a child, Claudie Blakley lights up a new play by the Consent dramatistA character in Nina Raine’s vibrant new play points out that …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:54AMGielgud theatre, London Rosalie Craig and Patti LuPone star in Marianne Elliott’s reimagining of the musical about marriage and the single lifeA gender change can work wonders. It is no se…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:36PMNatural History Museum, LondonCharles Darwin’s adventures aboard the HMS Beagle are told through engrossing puppetry and painterly projectionsThis is an unusual enterprise. The museum’s …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:04AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonJosie Rourke directs an ingenious production starring Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden, giving us Shakespeare’s play twiceThere are no half measures in Josie Rourke’…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:18AMLyttelton, LondonHare’s state-of-the-nation drama pricks the mind and is supported by strong performances but it lacks momentumDavid Hare has acute antennae and in his 17th new play for th…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:18AMWyndham’s, LondonJonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins excel in Florian Zeller’s beautifully elusive play, translated by Christopher HamptonThe one sure fact about a play by Florian Zeller is…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:12PMYoung Vic, LondonThe artistic director opens his first season with a festive, expertly choreographed production but it misses Shakespeare’s blend of laughter and sadnessKwame Kwei-Armah op…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:24AMSmock Alley, Dublin Annie Ryan provides a new perspective on Arthur Miller’s short story and film in this brooding, intelligent showAnnie Ryan, who successfully adapted A Girl Is a Half-Fo…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:36AMGate/Abbey theatre, DublinYaël Farber’s Hamlet offers freshly minted thrills, while Aaron Monaghan brings demonic glee to the role of Richard IIIShakespeare, unusually, dominates the two …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:24AMWilton’s Music Hall, LondonGraham and eight previously unproduced writers present stories that capture the oddity and excess of the capital Inspired by Charles Dickens’ Sketches by Boz, …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:33AMMenier Chocolate Factory, London Finty Williams excels in the role first played by her mother, Judi Dench, in Hugh Whitemore’s slow-burning spy storyThis slow-burning play by Hugh Whitemor…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:04AMRose theatre, KingstonKeith Allen excels as the embittered old painter in the second of Nick Dear’s two plays following the life of William HogarthThere is a palpable irony to the umbrella…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:36AMHarold Pinter theatre, London Antony Sher, David Suchet and Hayley Squires are among the cast for a compelling set of works by the master playwrightJamie Lloyd has had the bold, bright idea …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:18AMOlivier, London Simon Godwin directs a terrific and epic National Theatre production, filled with passion and delusionThis is the third production of Shakespeare’s tragedy on the Olivier s…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:48AMBirmingham RepCharles Lawson is on fine form as a retired John Rebus but the novelist’s Edinburgh underworld is missingYou can see the temptation to bring Ian Rankin’s rumpled sleuth Joh…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:48AMPark theatre, LondonKaren Archer gives a fine performance as a woman experiencing cognitive difficulties in Sharr White’s playHow do you dramatise dementia? Not easily. But Sharr White, in…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:36AMTwo productions in Manchester rework five Shakespeare plays so as to put his female characters centre stageFemale writers and directors, impatient with male-dominated Shakespeare, are offeri…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06AMThe Swan, Stratford-on-AvonThis striking new take on Molière by the writers behind Citizen Khan sends up religious phoniness and secular pretensionThese days, every classic play seems to be…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:54PMOld Vic, LondonThis hip-hop-infused story of Sylvia Pankhurst’s struggle and socialism has the audience on its feet in acclamation If you create a musical about (British) history with a pr…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:48PMTara theatre, LondonA survivor of the 1988 uprising meets the ex-reporter to whom he leaked information – for which action he was jailed – in this vital, fascinating dramaPlays in which …
Linked From The Guardian at 05:42AMTheatre Royal, Stratford East, LondonAnya Chalotra is compelling as a 16-year-old who leads the women in her Indian village to stand up to Art Malik’s sadistic, tyrannical cop Nadia Fall b…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:42AMNST City, SouthamptonAristophanes’ neglected classic The Assemblymen, which proposes economic and sexual communism – is given an uneven musical updateNo fewer than seven female writers a…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:18PMEvents at Westminster Abbey and National Theatre honour RSC founder who died last yearExactly one year to the day after his death, Peter Hall has been given a double-headed, star-studded tri…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:54PMKiln theatre, London Alexis Zegerman’s comedy exposes middle-class hypocrisy as couples battle to get their children into the top local primaryProtesters gathered outside this handsomely r…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:04AMFinborough, London This all-female revival of Harrison’s 1992 piece exploring scientific morality is expressively directed and performed‘Duality reigns,” says the German-Jewish chemist…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:36PMRoyal and Derngate, NorthamptonSome of the heartbreak is lost but this adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel, in which a murder victim watches events from the afterlife, is a mesmerising spec…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:48AMHampstead theatre, LondonThe Broadway cast of Stephen Karam’s award-winning play shine, but horror movie tropes detract from real-life fearsStephen Karam describes his play, which arrives …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:24AMNottingham PlayhouseA strong score, fresh choreography and a spirited cast save Fellini-inspired musical from feeling irredeemably datedI sometimes worry that our regional theatres are over-…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:24AMAlmeida, LondonClare Barron lifts the curtain on American unease in a show packed with energy, sly satire and first-rate performancesClare Barron’s prize-winning American play is the theat…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:24AMIndhu Rubasingham has overseen a rebrand for the north London theatre but her exciting programme doesn’t suggest a radical break from its rich history. So why the new moniker?What’s in a…
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