Royal 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 07:10AMGielgud 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 03:18PMGielgud 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 11:26AMLyric 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 07:04AMLyttelton, 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 08:37AMOrange 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 11:22AMKing’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 09:37AMRickman, 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 02:04AMShakespeare'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 03:49PMIn his latest production, Battlefield, the 90-year-old theatre director focuses on a single episode from the great Indian epic that lies at the heart of his careerI’m lucky. I’ve twice s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:22AMThe cast of King Charles III recently held an Equity meeting about whether to share the stage with an auction winner. Are such sales all in a good cause, or do they set a worrying precedent?…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56AMUnion theatre, LondonBertolt Brecht is often thought to be preachy and simplistic, but these plays prove otherwise, offering a complex montage of life in Nazi Germany Brecht wrote this colle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PMFinborough theatre, LondonRed-star-crossed young lovers, estranged by a socially stratified regime, attempt to escape oppression in a traditional-yet-original romanceYou wait years for a pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonHigh Society meets What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? in this look back at a socialite mother and daughter’s downfallLike Richard Greenberg’s The Dazzle, current…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMSavoy theatre, LondonWith outstanding leads and fizzing choreography from Carlos Acosta, the classic gambling musical is staged with elanIt seems fitting that the Chichester production of Gu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AMPark theatre, LondonTwo siblings in an isolated farmhouse role-play traumatic episodes from their childhood in this flesh-creeping metaphor for colonial declineThis play certainly delivers w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AMComedy Theatre, LondonThere's only one question to which everyone wants the answer: can Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss cut the mustard? The short answer is that they prove as potent a co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonJosie Rourke directs a fine revival of Christopher Hampton’s adaptation, where two jealousy-fuelled aristocrats stumble into the confusions of true loveHas there ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:21AMOld Vic, LondonDavid Greig’s anarchic take on the ecological analogy – where greed increases the need for ‘thneeds’ – is full of verbal wit and social purpose Related: How the Lora…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AMFound 111 theatre, LondonThis story of two society brothers turned recluses is an extraordinary real-life American gothic – but the underlying message is quietly troublingThere’s a long …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AMBush theatre, LondonAn unremittingly emotional play focuses on a family torn apart by the British empire’s practice of shipping UK children abroad to cover labour shortagesTom Holloway’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AMImelda Staunton bustled brilliantly through Gypsy and Shaw’s Superman soared. But it’s a celebrity hangman who tops our theatre critic’s pick of this year’s best showsMartin McDonagh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AMImelda Staunton bustled brilliantly through Gypsy and Shaw’s Superman soared. But it’s a celebrity hangman who tops our theatre critic’s pick of this year’s best shows Continue read…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:08AMLet's have more black Hamlets and white Othellos - not to mention some Queen Lears.Patrick Stewart does Othello in Jude Kelly's "photo-negative" production in Washington. Photograp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46PMHampstead theatre, LondonTom Stoppard’s science-meets-espionage thriller makes for an excellent revival, as public savvy catches up with its testing dual structureAttention must be paid to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:45AMRoyal Court Upstairs, LondonTwo starving sisters flee across the border with very different results in this brilliantly designed, superbly disorientating dramaLike Lucy Kirkwood’s Chimeric…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09AMMarlowe, Canterbury Simon Mendes da Costa’s lively comedy has fun exploring the etiquette of modern dating for dithering middle-aged men and sexually assertive divorceesHaving undergone a …
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