Wednesday, 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 08:01AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Orange Tree, Richmond Astrophysics and simmering family tensions come to the boil in this superb revival of Charlotte Jones’s household dramaCharlotte Jones’s prizewinning play, to which…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09AMMonday, March 12, 2018
The veteran’s linguistic prowess, outlandish appearance and musical smarts could tickle any audience into a state of collective ecstasyThe death of Ken Dodd not only leaves the nation a sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, March 11, 2018
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonWH Auden and Christopher Isherwood’s satire on 1930s nationalism has a topical pungency but can’t match the gravity of the subjectThis political satire by WH…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AMFriday, March 9, 2018
The Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon The front row are given protection for the second half of Maria Aberg’s RSC staging of Webster’s Jacobean tragedy – a brutal tale of female defianceThe RS…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:47AMThursday, March 8, 2018
Almeida, LondonPatsy Ferran proves she is one of Britain’s most exciting actors in a major and wrongly neglected work by the great playwrightAs it is so rarely seen, this early play by Ten…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:51AMWednesday, March 7, 2018
Olivier theatre, LondonRory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff star in a vigorous production that shows scant regard for the rhythms of the languageYou have to admire Rufus Norris’s chutzpah. For…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMTuesday, March 6, 2018
Playhouse, LondonMartin Shaw and Maureen Lipman star in an entertaining 1960 drama set during a Democratic party conventionIt has taken Gore Vidal’s highly entertaining drama about US pres…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMMonday, March 5, 2018
Finborough, LondonA Palestinian couple return to their former home to be confronted by its new Israeli owner in this unsentimental, gently political family dramaCommissioned by New York’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:02AMThursday, March 1, 2018
Old Vic, LondonPenelope Wilton leads a top-notch cast in this gothic family drama that only fleetingly captures the brilliance of the filmYou can see the temptation to turn Ingmar Bergman’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00PMTuesday, February 27, 2018
Gate, LondonThe exuberant pessimism of Falk Richter’s play might be hard to swallow, but Jude Christian’s production is an extraordinary mix of the political, the personal and the pantom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMFriday, February 23, 2018
Barbican, LondonThe myth about a group of schoolgirls who go missing on Valentine’s Day is hauntingly realised by a versatile cast and impressive special effectsI initially assumed, like m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:26AMThursday, February 22, 2018
York Theatre RoyalBryony Lavery’s adaptation underplays the classic novel’s religious theme and focuses on the pleasure-seeking IdaBy a strange quirk of fate, Bryony Lavery’s adaptatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London The performances match the intensity of the writing in Bryony Lavery’s drama, which asks if some people are born evilFirst seen 20 years ago, Bryony Lavery�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00PMFriday, February 16, 2018
NST City, SouthamptonThe Luftwaffe’s destruction of a Spitfire factory sparks vivid tensions between local people and the state in this Southampton-set playAn expansive new arts complex in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35AMThursday, February 15, 2018
Royal Court, LondonMulligan is a joy to watch as she brings her expressive powers to bear in Dennis Kelly’s flawed but compelling one-handerCarey Mulligan has had quite a week. First she s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
Donmar Warehouse, LondonRobert Hastie’s excellent revival of Gill’s 2001 play about class, sex and divided loyalties brings out its poetryThe intersection of class and sex has long fasci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMFriday, February 9, 2018
Barbican, LondonSidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s visually spectacular adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s manga is philosophical about our relationships with robots, but lacks a human heartIn 1920, Karel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMThursday, February 8, 2018
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonRelocating Dryden’s tale of love and dynasty in 17th-century India to an English mill, Rutter’s final show for Northern Broadsides is at its best when it d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31AMTuesday, February 6, 2018
Wyndham’s, LondonRichard Eyre’s production arrives in the West End, bringing out the dizzying contradictions in Eugene O’Neill’s masterpieceTime works wonders. When Richard Eyre’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59PMLan, who ran the theatre for 18 years, reached out to bold, dynamic directors from across the globe – and they repaid him with spectacular showsI often recall a remark made by David Lan, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMFinborough, LondonHJ Byron’s 1868 play sparkles with wit, while Henry Darke delivers a timely message about Cornwall’s housing crisis The Finborough Arms in Earl’s Court is 150 years o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:14AMFriday, February 2, 2018
★★★☆☆/★★★★☆Hampstead theatre, LondonHayley Atwell plays a ruthless capitalist while Georgia Christou shows promise with tale of a teenager and her feckless fatherHayley A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
The playwright juggles satire and farce in a knockabout celebration of Hull’s tenure as UK city of cultureSatire is one thing, farce another, and the two forms prove hard to reconcile in t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09AMTuesday, January 30, 2018
Bridge theatre, LondonBen Whishaw and David Morrissey star in Nicholas Hytner’s promenade production, which shows putative dictators can be populistsLike Shakespeare’s Mark Antony, Nicho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMMonday, January 29, 2018
The Questors, LondonA deliberately unromantic view of the second world war as experienced by one family provides an antidote to current idealised versions on screenThis play by the late, muc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:23AMFriday, January 26, 2018
Hoxton Hall, London Lil Warren’s scattershot musical about a turf war between all-female tribes in the capital has echoes of Sarah Waters’ Tipping the VelvetThis handsomely restored venu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThursday, January 25, 2018
Dorfman, LondonBaker’s play, set in a boarding house close to a battlefield, is a piece of American gothic that taps into universal emotionsAnnie Baker is one of the most singular talents …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26AMThursday, January 18, 2018
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonToby Jones, Zoë Wanamaker, Stephen Mangan and Pearl Mackie do rich justice to the playwright’s strange and captivating psychodrama“The first test of any wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMShoreditch Town Hall, LondonTim Cowbury’s play avoids the usual harrowing style associated with its subject and is swift, clear and well-actedThere is a growing body of theatre about the a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMTuesday, January 16, 2018
Gate, LondonNina Bowers delivers a nimble account of testimonies gathered in the wake of the unrest sparked by King’s televised beatingI recently suggested that, while one-person shows cou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM 
