Wednesday, 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 07:48AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Dorfman, LondonNatasha Gordon’s impressive debut about living between two cultures gains extra resonance in the light of the Windrush scandalThere’s a key moment in Natasha Gordon’s hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMFriday, April 27, 2018
Roger Michell’s film Nothing Like a Dame brings four legends together – and evokes decades of brilliant performancesSometimes the best ideas are the simplest. The wheeze of bringing toge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMChichester festival theatrePlayed as a broad farce, Sean Foley’s revival starring Rufus Hound ignores Noël Coward’s faultless verbal stylingsRufus Hound, whose recent roles include Mr T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThursday, April 26, 2018
Lyttelton, LondonJoe Hill-Gibbins gives Rodney Ackland’s drama the full expressionist works in a production full of visual bravuraAt the curtain call for this revival of Rodney Ackland’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Almeida, LondonElla Hickson’s riveting play about a writer exploring the sexual revolution boasts a shining performance from Romola GaraiElla Hickson struck gold with her last play, Oil (2…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
Piccadilly, LondonWill Young entertains in a sequined catsuit but this laborious version of the charming film is a step in the wrong directionI don’t know if it’s been spotted already, b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PMNational, LondonThe easy word to describe Brian Friel's Aristocrats is "Chekhovian". The decay of a great Georgian house, the decline of a once-powerful Catholic family, the eventual expulsi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMFriday, April 20, 2018
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonThis shattering revival draws out the playwright’s sexual candour and grim humour – and deserves a far longer runIt is the fashion these days to strip Ib…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMThursday, April 19, 2018
Rose theatre, KingstonThe star plays Beatrice opposite John Hopkins as Benedick in a lively production set in a luxury Sicilian spa full of mafiosiThe Rose theatre marks its 10th anniversary…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMTuesday, April 17, 2018
Aldwych theatre, LondonPhyllida Lloyd’s musical is a heady celebration of triumph over adversity, with an astonishing turn by Adrienne WarrenThis terrific show is billed as the “untold�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PMSunday, April 15, 2018
Royal Court, LondonBonnar and Horrocks are excellent as parents attempting to replace their dead son with another straight from the box in Thomas Eccleshare’s quirky dystopian dramaThomas …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:21AMThursday, April 12, 2018
Duke of Yorks, LondonThis is a rich, funny, touching play about the opera house and the extraordinary marriage of its co-founders, John Christie and Audrey MildmayIt has taken two and a half…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMWednesday, April 11, 2018
Phoenix theatre, LondonKander and Ebb’s show about crime and celebrity is faithfully recreated but is beginning to resemble an animated corpseIf this Kander and Ebb musical feels as if it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMTuesday, April 10, 2018
Barbican, London There are shades of Casualty as Cheek By Jowl’s briskly ingenious production confines the entire action to a hospitalHow do you give unity to Pericles? It has a rambling n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:23AMSunday, April 8, 2018
Old Red Lion, LondonKenneth Emson’s fascinating play has its characters speaking in jagged rhyme, but it rests on some questionable assumptions about its settingThis curious 70-minute play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMFriday, April 6, 2018
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJames Macdonald’s revival offers clarity and hilarity, with Haydn Gwynne on brilliant form as an amorous widowThis is the kind of production one had almost given up…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonThere are good moments in Luke Fredericks’s revival – but relocating the action to the 1920s is an unnecessary, frustrating fiddleLuke Fredericks prefaces this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:05AMWednesday, April 4, 2018
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonMary Pix’s 1700 comedy about a rich widow’s wayward social ascent becomes theatrical gold in Jo Davies’s scintillating productionMary Pix is hardly a name …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMMonday, April 2, 2018
Finborough, London Two white couples lock horns over their prejudices in Bruce Graham’s powerful tale of racial dividesPlays about race often exude a liberal optimism. This pungent, abrasi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMThursday, March 29, 2018
Arts theatre, LondonAn over-the-top paean to stage ambition ends up in thrall to the world it tries to parodyCamp, says one of the gay men in Matthew Lopez’s new play, The Inheritance, is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMWednesday, March 28, 2018
Young Vic, LondonStephen Daldry directs a stellar cast, including Vanessa Redgrave, in a rollercoaster epic about gay men in New YorkThis is quite something: a two-part, seven-hour play by M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMMonday, March 26, 2018
Silk Street theatre, LondonGuildhall School of Music and Drama students deliver a stirring revival of Odets’ forgotten state-of-the-union storySpurned by the New York critics in 1935, Clif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PMBush, LondonArinzé Kene’s one-man show rejects the urban jungle cliches in a heartfelt but too playful exploration of the role of the artistAs we know from One Night in Miami and Girl fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFriday, March 23, 2018
Royal Court, LondonMixing poetry and politics, Yorkshire-based rapper Testament has created a witty, innovative piece that says a lot about British identity and racial historyThis is that ra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMThursday, March 22, 2018
Northern Stage, NewcastleWith rousing anthems and purposeful politics, this tale of Thatcher-era shipbuilders launches anew in home watersHaving bombed on Broadway, this musical by Sting abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AMWednesday, March 21, 2018
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonChristopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack star in an RSC production that moves at a lick but sometimes lacks subtletyProductions of Macbeth come th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMHe took the shonky British musical and made it a global phenomenon. As the composer celebrates his birthday with a new memoir, our theatre critic looks back at the hits – and flopsI first …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMTuesday, March 20, 2018
Dorfman, LondonFrancis Turnly’s drama drills to the heart of the harsh politics and complex emotions surrounding a series of historic abductions of young Japanese peopleSometimes a play gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AMFriday, March 16, 2018
Hampstead theatre, LondonAmy Ng’s second play is given a crisp, clear and well-acted production, but it tries to compress a few too many big issuesThere are few topical concerns that don�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
Royal Exchange, ManchesterBlending gothic horror and moral parable, this adaptation is skilfully stitched together by April De Angelis and Matthew XiaThere are said to be more than 55 theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01AM 
