Thursday, 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 09:18AMRoyal Court, LondonThere are echoes of Sarah Kane in Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s powerful play exploring the collateral damage suffered by women during Ukraine’s conflictTheatre can sometimes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Octagon, BoltonStella Feehily's passionate, urgently topical play captures the mix of care and chaos in wards up and down the countrySince the NHS is never out of the headlines and directly …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMThursday, November 16, 2017
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonHoward Brenton’s new adaptation of the Swedish master’s tragedy is given a classy staging that strikes the right note of intimate realismWe endlessly revive …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMMonday, November 13, 2017
National Theatre, LondonThe Breaking Bad star is magnetic as a raging anchorman in writer Lee Hall and director Ivo van Hove’s extraordinary version of the prophetic satireI am normally wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMSunday, November 12, 2017
Minerva, ChichesterIn resurrecting the case of a trio convicted of trying to defraud Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, James Graham reminds us we live in a quiz-obsessed cultureTheatre has oft…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMFriday, November 10, 2017
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThis take on the classic comedy plays too heavily on its Victorian setting but delivers rapturous speeches, splendid sets and some clever ideasC…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThursday, November 9, 2017
Playhouse, London A tip-top cast play David Mamet’s desperate salesmen turned robbers in his scorching condemnation of the dangers of male ego-driven capitalismHow well does David Mamet’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMWednesday, November 8, 2017
The Other Palace, LondonGrammer’s turn as a dad with a penchant for tall tales is the best part of this middling paean to narcissistic fantasy, based on Tim Burton’s movieAnyone drawn to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMThe Playground, London Terry d’Alfonso’s study of the painter and his serial infidelities is staged on a circular sandpit at a smart new London theatreGiven the economic climate, it is e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMTuesday, November 7, 2017
Orange Tree, RichmondLot Vekemans’ play about a separated couple forced to relive a traumatic past makes for uncomfortable but compelling viewingWatching this prize-winning play by the Dut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMMonday, November 6, 2017
Old Vic, LondonKevin Spacey has lately enjoyed an excellent run of form at the Old Vic. It comes to an abrupt halt, however, with this ham-fisted American political thriller by Joe Sutton.Si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonEnergetic Denise and stuck-in-his-ways Harry bond during a series of brief encounters in a community centre, in Stewart Pringle’s prize-winning play Oldsters are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSunday, November 5, 2017
David Hare's trilogy was an incisive portrait of British society in 1993, but is it still relevant, asks Michael BillingtonIn 1993 David Hare's trilogy about contemporary Britain at the Nat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMSaturday, November 4, 2017
With a gag for every occasion, the tattyfilarious comic clocks up 50,000 miles a year performing his epic standup shows. He talks about stage fright, playing Yorick for ‘Sir Kenneth All-Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMTuesday, October 31, 2017
After 10 years, Spacey is stepping down from the London theatre he called home. There have been some resounding flops but he delivered the goods – and was a delight to watch on stageWhen i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMFriday, October 27, 2017
Tom Stoppard's fierce, unrelenting opposition to the abuse of human rights makes him the ideal recipient of the Pinter/PEN prizeIn Antonia Fraser's book, Must You Go?, detailing her life wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMThursday, October 26, 2017
The Bridge, LondonLondon’s first commercial theatre for 80 years opens with a pugnacious comedy about the early days of the political visionary – and shameless sponger Given the abundanc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
Almeida, LondonLynn Nottage's play arrives in London laden with American honours. And rightly so, since it offers a graphic portrait of women as perennial victims of war. More than that, it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMMonday, October 23, 2017
County Hall, LondonLucy Bailey’s production of Agatha Christie’s ingenious courtroom drama fits perfectly in this debating chamberWe seem to be going back in time. Oscar Wilde’s A Woma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMSunday, October 22, 2017
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonThe quiet life of an elderly Jewish musician is disrupted by an aristocratic German woman in this exploration of guilt, reparation and rootlessnessWhat does it m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMThursday, October 19, 2017
Donmar Warehouse, LondonNikki Amuka-Bird is superb in a production that transposes the story to the Caribbean in the 1950s and is directed with panache by Kwame Kwei-ArmahIbsen can benefit f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMWednesday, October 18, 2017
Almeida theatre, LondonVictoria Hamilton is on breathtaking form as a grieving mother in the Doctor Foster writer’s richly layered play inspired by Chekhov’s The Cherry OrchardGardens of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMMinerva, ChichesterIt would be nice to think that Caryl Churchill's 1982 play, written during the rise of Thatcherism, now looks dated. In fact, it seems terrifyingly topical in its portrait…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Vaudeville, LondonBest brings fierce emotional intensity, Eleanor Bron is a velvet-voiced aristo and Anne Reid delivers Victorian ballads in Dominic Dromgoole’s fine revivalA West End Osca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMAn exhibition of highlights from the NT’s archive triggers memories of striking productions and shows how the poster imprints a play on the public’s imaginationTheatre posters are by def…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMFriday, October 13, 2017
National Theatre, London David Eldridge’s new play is a poignant real-time examination of relationships with two damaged people reaching out at the end of a partyTwo lonely, damaged people…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMThursday, October 12, 2017
Olivier theatre, London Rory Mullarkey pits the knight of folklore against the tyrannies facing Britain in three eras of history – and finds today’s foe is the hardest to pin downThe Nat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMWednesday, October 11, 2017
Vaudeville, LondonThe unfairly talented actor recalls a career that has taken him from Olivier’s National to British film comedies and Broadway in this exuberant solo showCan it be true? T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMLyttelton, LondonIn 1746, Carlo Goldoni wrote a classic comedy normally translated as The Servant of Two Masters. Richard Bean has used it for a riotous farce combining the original's struct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMGarrick theatre, London The horror-movie spoof is gleefully reanimated for the stage with even more jokes, superb set-pieces and barnstorming parody songs that stick a pitchfork into good ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM 
