Tuesday, 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 09:54AMSunday, January 14, 2018
Southwark Playhouse, London A pharmaceuticals team juggle views on the global health threat posed by antibiotic resistance with pep, though Glenn Waldron’s prognosis is gloomyWhat poses th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AMFriday, January 12, 2018
The fashion for solo shows is easily explained – they’re cheap, infinitely adaptable and highlight great acting – but does truly profound drama need multiple voices?In the space of a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:49AMThursday, January 11, 2018
Royal Court theatre, LondonAndrea Dunbar’s unflinching portrait of a world of limited horizons still seems chillingly resonantThis production has had an eventful history. It was yanked out…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMWednesday, January 10, 2018
Royal Court, LondonPatsy Ferran is a puckish delight as an emotionally abandoned daughter in Anoushka Warden’s candid account of teenage wounded furyEyebrows might be raised at the Royal C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59PMTuesday, January 9, 2018
Finborough theatre, LondonSet in the seaside town that registered one of the highest Brexit votes in the UK, Sue Healy’s ebullient play has some lively performancesThe English seaside town…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:26AMMonday, January 8, 2018
Arcola theatre, LondonSam Potter’s sharp play, about a woman who finds out her daughter is not hers, raises big questions and is performed superbly by Sophie Khan LevyThere is a long histo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMFriday, January 5, 2018
Finborough, LondonChristopher Chen’s sombre piece explores how the writing of her bestseller The Rape of Nanking, about a mass killing in 1937, affected Iris ChangIt is a critical cliche t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMThursday, January 4, 2018
Terry’s first season at the theatre promises to dismantle hierarchies but how easy is it to stage Hamlet without one director in charge?Michelle Terry’s first season as artistic director…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AMMonday, January 1, 2018
Brace yourself for The Birthday Party, an EasyJet love story, Sting’s shipyard musical and Ben Whishaw as BrutusToby Jones, Zoë Wanamaker and Stephen Mangan star in a revival of a Pinter …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:05AMFriday, December 29, 2017
The destructive nature of unchecked power-lust and political ambition in Shakespeare’s play speaks to us urgently still today“A drum! A drum! Macbeth doth come.” So say Shakespeare’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMThursday, December 21, 2017
Victoria Palace, LondonLin-Manuel Miranda’s rollercoaster of a show boasts outstanding performances and charts the life of the US founding father with political passion and nimble witA Hol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMHonoured at a ceremony in Rome, the stars gave a supreme version of Ashes to Ashes – after a rather frosty reading of Albert Camus’s love letters to María CasaresThere was no lack of dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PMWindsor CastleMarley’s ghost narrates a nightmarish account of Scrooge’s transformation in the castle’s sumptuous state apartmentsWindsor Castle’s state apartments, at first sight, m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMFriday, December 15, 2017
Imelda Staunton simmered, Sondheim’s showgirls sizzled, Bryan Cranston gave us a cathode-ray Lear, and Jez Butterworth found love in the time of hunger-strikes• More of the best culture …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonAmy Herzog’s tale of uprooted Americans sinks into melodrama but is elevated by a central pair who reveal all the nuances of a marriage in crisisAmericans in Paris …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMThursday, December 14, 2017
Lyttelton, London The puppetry is ingenious and the songs are a joy as Dennis Kelly and John Tiffany carve a morality play out of Carlo Collodi’s original storyThe challenge in staging thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMWednesday, December 13, 2017
Almeida, London Anne Washburn has adapted the TV show for an inventive production featuring tales of vanishing children, amnesiac teachers and alien interlopersAnne Washburn is clearly haunt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Orange Tree, Richmond Shaw’s 1909 play about class and feminism moves skilfully from disquisitory drama to anarchic comedy in this intellectually stimulating production This indispensable …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMMonday, December 11, 2017
Park theatre, LondonPaulette Randall imaginatively revives Denise Deegan’s parody with a lively cast but this two-and-a-half-hour spoof is relentless in its gaietyDenise Deegan’s parody …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMWilton’s Music Hall, London Matthew Kelly plays good and evil spirits in a magical, visually arresting adaptation of John Masefield’s classic children’s book Related: Long before Harry…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMFriday, December 8, 2017
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonMike Poulton’s two-part adaptation of Harris’s trilogy is an exhilarating and timely political drama about a democracy descending into tyrannyRome wasn’t b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMThursday, December 7, 2017
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe uneasy relationship between convicted traitor George Blake and the anarchic Irishman who helped him escape Wormwood Scrubs is exposed yet still enigmatic in Simo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMThere are problems in paradise in Richard Bean's ingenious look at a failed attempt to create an island utopiaRichard Bean has hit upon a good subject: Fletcher Christian's attempt to create…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon David Edgar’s lively adaptation for the RSC foregrounds the tale’s reforming message and features Phil Davis as a grotesquely good ScroogeT…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Rare revivals of plays by Israel Zangwill, Jerome K Jerome and JM Barrie give lie to the idea that only a precious few classics deserve revisitingOne of the hoariest critical cliches is that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMFriday, December 1, 2017
Royal Court, LondonLiwaa Yazji’s play is named after the animals that Syrian villagers were given as an inadequate, absurd compensation for the loss of family membersThe last time we saw a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMThursday, November 30, 2017
Ustinov Studio, BathGreg Hicks plays an ailing father who cruelly mocks his wife, children and brother in Will Eno’s acid examination of family lifeJust when you thought the American famil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Old Vic, London Jack Thorne’s superb retelling mines the ghosts of Scrooge’s past in a timely production brimming with love and affectionTwo months after Dickens’s story first appeared…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PMTuesday, November 28, 2017
Theatre in the Park, ChichesterChichester has acquired a 25-metre-high big top to stand in for the temporarily closed Festival theatre. It would seem appropriate that it opens with a revival…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMThursday, November 23, 2017
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAnders Lustgarten plays fast and loose with history in his tale of the espionage network surrounding Elizabeth I, but the result is vivid and pungentHistory pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM 
