Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Orange Tree, RichmondEmily Schwend’s play about a mum with two jobs, three kids and a feckless husband pays homage to female enduranceWatching Emily Schwend’s prize-winning play about th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
Finborough, LondonDavid Heneker and Warner Brown’s musical captures the heady excitement of the burgeoning movie businessPre-talkies Hollywood constantly seduces musical-makers. This forgo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMLyttelton theatre, LondonExposing the myth of the happy nuclear family has long been a staple of American drama. If Tracy Letts's play, in a magnificent Chicago Steppenwolf production by Ann…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04AMMonday, June 4, 2018
Trafalgar Studios, London This revival of Tracy Letts’s violent play about a grotesquely dysfunctional family keeps the audience uncomfortable Even with a big movie star, Orlando Bloom, in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04PMJermyn Street theatre, LondonThe novelist’s debut play depicts the true story of Lady Anne Tree’s determination to bring needlecraft to prisoners The novelist Esther Freud (Hideous Kinky…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMFriday, June 1, 2018
Bush theatre, LondonThree decades since its debut Winsome Pinnock’s pioneering portrayal of the lives of black Britons feels shockingly contemporaryIt is more than 30 years since Winsome P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMThursday, May 31, 2018
Olivier, LondonBrian Friel’s play about the infinite mysteries of language is richly realised in a meticulous Ian Rickson production, with excellent performances from a strong castBrian Fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMDuke of York's, LondonForget all the hype about Polly Stenham, at 21, being the youngest West End debutant since Christopher Hampton.What matters is that her 90-minute play, first seen at th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMNational Theatre, LondonThe ideas get lost in this violent thriller that explores the political legacy of colonialismBe careful what you wish for. Reviewing Polly Stenham's last play, No Qua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMWednesday, May 30, 2018
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonChristopher Hampton’s erratic California-set adaptation features strong performances by Audrey Fleurot and Paul Anderson, but its lack of coherence is not ju…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Arcola, LondonJack Gamble directs a first-rate revival of DH Lawrence’s even-handed account of a conflicted marriageThree years ago, the National Theatre pointlessly conflated DH Lawrence�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSunday, May 27, 2018
Playground theatre, LondonGregory Evans’ staging of the 1986 ‘homes for votes’ saga is enlightening and enjoyably foul-mouthed – but ducks key political questionsTwo of my favourite …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMFriday, May 25, 2018
Grand theatre, LeedsOpera North present a deft revival of the 1949 Cole Porter show mixing The Taming of the Shrew with showbiz shenanigansWhat is the best musical based on a Shakespeare pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMWednesday, May 23, 2018
Menier Chocolate Factory, London Four applicants undergo a gruelling selection process while tricks are played on the audience in Jordi Galceran’s dramaSince its Barcelona premiere in 2003…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMMonday, May 21, 2018
Trafalgar Studios 2, LondonThe comedian’s debut play gives a double portrait of mother-daughter relationships on the eve of a weddingIt comes as a shock to walk into the theatre and be con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMFriday, May 18, 2018
Noel Coward, LondonHoward Davies has a gift for revitalising Coward's comedies. Having put the sexuality back into Private Lives, he now visually redefines Hay Fever and pulls off the daring…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe new artistic director’s ensemble give fine performances but this pairing raises questions about staging ShakespeareIn this pairing of two plays performed b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMThursday, May 17, 2018
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsJoe Murphy directs an adaptation of the 2015 thriller with Jill Halfpenny playing an amateur sleuth drawn to the case of a missing womanSurveying an elliptical…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMWednesday, May 16, 2018
Birmingham RepCalixto Bieito’s intense theatrical collage brings together four first-rate actors and the miraculous Heath QuartetCalixto Bieito, as anyone who has seen his productions of C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMTuesday, May 15, 2018
Wyndham’s, LondonMichael Grandage directs a well-judged revival of John Logan’s play about the artist and his assistant ‘Make something new,” the painter Mark Rothko urges his young …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42PMUstinov Studio, BathIonesco’s imperfect study of a power-crazed monarch facing death is helped by a powerful performance from Alun ArmstrongIn early plays such as The Bald Prima Donna and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMThursday, May 10, 2018
Her Majesty's, LondonWe have had some pretty grim experiences in musical theatre in recent years. We have seen people turned into roller-skating ciphers, dwarfed by laser-beams and sententio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33PMHampstead theatre, LondonRajiv Joseph’s ambitious three-hour drama features an outstanding performance from David BirrellIt is tough luck on Rajiv Joseph that his play, first seen in Houst…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMWednesday, May 9, 2018
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London Sergey Kuryshev shines as a nuclear scientist stuck in a moral maze in this vivid staging of Vasily Grossman’s sprawling novelConsciously modelled on War an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Bridge theatre, LondonClaire Skinner is outstanding as a bereaved mother trying to save her farm in Barney Norris’s poignant new play, but the venue overwhelms the drama’s delicacy All t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMMonday, May 7, 2018
Park theatre, LondonThe president’s war on illegal immigrants is taken to its logical conclusion – a heartening sign that dramatists are responding with something stronger than lampoonsH…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMNational, LondonThis is an odd evening: one in which Brian Cox gives us a dramatised reading of Vladimir Nabokov's novel in a potted, two-hour version by Richard Nelson. It prompts two quest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMSunday, May 6, 2018
Donmar Warehouse, LondonPlays about painters are fraught with difficulty. Either the hero preaches about art without practising it, or the Bohemian lifestyle supersedes the work. But John Lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMFriday, May 4, 2018
Vaudeville, LondonEdward and Freddie Fox, as a father and son, are the star turn in this stylish revival of Wilde’s send-up of a money-mad societyRailing against fashionable society’s ov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMThursday, May 3, 2018
Old Vic, London A row over intellectual property is at the heart of a fascinating and topical drama starring Ben Chaplin and Seána KerslakeJoe Penhall is very good at showing how a crisis c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThere are strong performances in Eric Whyman’s swift production but it doesn’t solve the problems of the playIn 1845, the American Charlotte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM 
