Sunday, February 14, 2016
Almeida, London Its setting in rural England is problematic, but Robert Icke’s modernised version of Chekhov’s masterpiece is rich in psychological detailRobert Icke seems on a personal …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:22AMFriday, February 12, 2016
Apollo, LondonJessica Swale’s play about the orange-seller turned actor cannily mixes Carry On gags with an explicitly feminist messageIt is tricky to transfer a play from the noisily inte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07PMThe Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonOliver Ryan and Sandy Grierson share the roles of the doctor and the demon in Maria Aberg’s darkly inventive, richly psychological productionIt is fascinating …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AMThursday, February 11, 2016
Playhouse, LondonThe actor best known as Chandler Bing returns to the London stage with a self-written confessional drama that feels like an extended sitcomMatthew Perry is a likable actor w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMWednesday, February 10, 2016
Nottingham PlayhouseKefi Chadwick’s play about an undercover police officer infiltrating a protest group is a powerful exploration of the corrosiveness of informingThe case of police spies…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:14AMTuesday, February 9, 2016
Gate, LondonNina Segal turns a baby’s nursery into an arena where an anxious couple explore private nightmares and global catastrophesIn Sarah Kane’s Blasted, a Leeds hotel room opens up…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56AMSunday, February 7, 2016
Young Vic, LondonThe director’s new work based on the ancient text is one of aesthetic beauty and great skill, if less convincing as a parable of our times Three decades ago, Peter Brook�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:08AMFriday, February 5, 2016
Hampstead theatre, LondonClaire Skinner and Tom Goodman-Hill play a couple struggling to cope with their son’s death in a play handled with finesse by director Edward HallThis 2006 play by…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThursday, February 4, 2016
Gaskill, who was Royal Court artistic director at a time that was rich, bloody and embattled, helped to hasten the demise of stage censorship in BritainWilliam (“Bill” to everyone in the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PMWednesday, February 3, 2016
Ibsen’s play about an architect jealous of rivals and haunted by guilt presents a searing self-portrait for a magnetic actorYou come out of most classic theatre these days discussing the d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40PMWay Upstream once flooded the National. As the play is revived, Michael Billington takes a look at great theatrical disastersTheatre is a disaster area: a world of precarious illusion in whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMLyttelton theatre, LondonThis big, bold piece about 1920s race relations is a play of passion and power, starring a majestic Sharon D Clarke as the bisexual singerAugust Wilson’s play has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTuesday, February 2, 2016
Garrick, LondonLester’s magnificent acting makes you nostalgic for a vanished gestural style in this welcome revival of Lolita Chakrabarti’s play about racial prejudicePlays about theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:39AMMonday, February 1, 2016
Whether playing charismatic leaders or acting as a fine foil to Olivier, Finlay brought a robust intelligence and grace to his stage rolesLike a lot of northern actors – think of Albert Fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44AMThe Guardian’s new series of performance videos catch the intricate thought processes behind Shakespeare’s lines How do you make Shakespeare instantly available? One answer is to film st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMThursday, January 28, 2016
Royal Court, LondonLinda Bassett, Kika Markham, June Watson and Deborah Findlay deliver pitch-perfect performances in Churchill’s apocalyptic and compassionate conversation piece Related: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19PMWednesday, January 27, 2016
Tricycle, LondonMcKee gives a first-rate performance in Florian Zeller’s play about a woman floundering between hostility and gaiety as her family falls apartIt is important to remember th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58AMTuesday, January 26, 2016
St James, LondonMona Golabek’s original solo show tells of her mother’s steadfast desire to be a concert pianist, in spite of the Holocaust, evacuation and warThis solo show with music m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16AMRoyal Court, LondonAnna Jordan’s prize-winning play faultlessly captures the mix of violence and virtue at the edge of society with acting of absolute convictionThe good thing about this B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMMonday, January 25, 2016
Gielgud Theatre, LondonForget all the prurient press speculation about Harry Potter's private parts. The revelation of this revival is that Daniel Radcliffe really can act, proving that his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMSaturday, January 23, 2016
Gielgud Theatre, LondonThe first night of Yasmina Reza's new play was disrupted by a power failure. At one point Cameron Mackintosh, the theatre owner, appeared to explain: "I haven't s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26AMFriday, January 22, 2016
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThis expressive revival of Simon Stephen’s graphic play about teenage barbarity underplays social factors in favour of grotesque animal horrorSimon Stephens’s pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Lyttelton, LondonConor McPherson has in the past shown a genius for investing the melancholy of modern Irish life with a sinister undertow. Now he has thrown caution to the winds by setting …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:21PMPark theatre, LondonA coma patient’s mother and lover perform a primal tug of war for his soul in a deftly acted if somewhat cautious playThe nature of memory has long magnetised dramatist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Orange Tree, LondonThe impact on one Ugandan family of the country’s homophobic legislation is a rich premise explored with visible passion in Chris Urch’s playBig issues alone don’t m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AMSunday, January 17, 2016
King’s Head, LondonThe conflict between black servants and white employers at the height of the US race struggle is explored in Paul Minx’s taut, though narrowly focused playPaul Minx’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Rickman, who came to the fore in the RSC’s 1980s golden period, was an actor blessed with a voice that could caress language with laidback seductivenessFor all his later fame as the creepy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMBattersea Arts Centre, LondonRidiculusmus find comedy in their Beckettian take on treating post-traumatic stress disorder with ecstasyMuch research has evidently gone into this production, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:58AMNational, LondonYou can see what Katie Mitchell as director and Martin Crimp as translator are trying to do in this new version of The Seagull: strip away the varnish and escape the linen-su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:34AMTheatre Royal, LondonOnce upon a time musicals drew their inspiration from books, plays or even real life; now they seem to be based on animated movies. But, although Shrek stems from the 20…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMWednesday, January 13, 2016
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe last Macbeth we saw at this venue was a pop-culture Polish production in which the transvestite witches assiduously fellated the hero. No such excesses ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49PM 
