Garrick 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 06:36AMWyndham’s, LondonAnne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham are excellent in an immaculately designed production of Simon Stephens’ fable about love and physics This production has an impressiv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMRoyal Court, LondonSharon Duncan-Brewster and Jonjo O’Neill star in Chris Thorpe’s play which offers a bleak view of the world as a desolate wasteland This apocalyptic piece by Chris Tho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonReal-life couple Samantha Bond and Alexander Hanson star in this shrewd companion piece to The Truth, as a pair whose marriage is a labyrinth of deceit Floria…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMJimmy Porter takes on class, religion, politics and the press in Osborne’s classic 1956 play – but its real revolution lay in its thrilling linguistic exuberanceIn the summer of 1955 an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMBarbican, LondonA revival of the Japanese director’s 1985 production, filled with cherry blossom, poetically explores the obsession for power – and its emptinessThis production by Yukio …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMYoung Vic, LondonErin Doherty emerges as one of the year’s great discoveries with a stunning performance as the young American desperate to rectify the world’s injusticesTime changes thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMChichester Festival theatre Blanche McIntyre’s mordantly comic revival of the 1973 trilogy spotlights the plays’ sadnesses along with their orgiastic frenzies Related: Blanche McIntyre: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMCottesloe, LondonWith plays such as My Child and Contractions, Mike Bartlett has established a reputation as a theatrical miniaturist. Now he has written a big, epic, expansive play about cl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMNoël Coward theatre, London Martin Freeman and Tamsin Greig give sparkling performances as a reforming MP and his constituency agent fighting through Labour’s fluctuating fortunes James G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMRoyal Court, LondonThe Chilean dramatist’s new show about urban violence explores the tensions between two young anarchists and a veteran bomb-makerThe Royal Court’s international progra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMAt 92, the visionary director refuses to slow down. He talks about how to silence audiences, the trouble with doing Shakespeare in French, the difference between Olivier and Gielgud, and why…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMOlivier, LondonSimon Russell Beale is magnetic and unorthodox in an exceptional production that mixes the epic and the intimateAnother day, another Lear. But, although this is the third prod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04PMMinerva, ChichesterJonathan Munby’s smart, lucid production features plenty of pomp and circumstance, and a superbly detailed performance by McKellenIan McKellen knows his way round Lear. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMBarbican, LondonThe Swedish auteur’s tales of actors are directed by Ivo van Hove at his most lucid and ostentatious, featuring fine performances and a pulsating tempest****/***‘Can you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMThe surefire playwright, director and actor is an inspired choice as the Young Vic’s new artistic director – he has proved himself time and againThe appointment of Kwame Kwei-Armah as th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMTrafalgar Studios, LondonStephen Clark’s puzzling drama about a man planning to either seduce or murder his dinner guest comes across as both morbid and exploitativeSex and death are the t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMBush theatre, LondonThe Scottish coast is the setting for Sophie Wu’s witty play about crustacean-loving Jim, his girlfriend and his kooky exLike many actors who turn to writing, Sophie Wu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre/The Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon This well-matched pair of tragedies in the RSC’s Rome season give us strong images, unforgettable lines, probing psychology – and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMO2 Arena, LondonThe statistics alone for this show are mind-boggling. It requires 620 tonnes of sand, involves a cast and crew of 400 and a total of 46 horses, donkeys and ponies. But specta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42PMYoung Vic, London Performing 360-degree loops, pummelled by voices and piecing together her shattered speech, Stevenson goes bravely to the limit in this high-concept showJuliet Stevenson mu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMViaduct, Halifax Blake Morrison transposes a corrupt, covetous 18th-century Paris to 1920s Yorkshire in a lively satire directed by and starring Barrie RutterNorthern Broadsides have made a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMAdelphi, LondonThere is much to enjoy in Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical. The score is one of the composer's most seductive. Bob Crowley's design and Jack O'Brien's direction have a beauti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12PMLyttelton, London In JT Rogers’ engrossing play on a historic moment in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in 1993, we are reminded that diplomacy requires duplicityJT Rogers is an Amer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMHampstead theatre, LondonLindsay is magnetic as the celebrated cinematographer, who looks back over his life from Alzheimer’s-affected old age in Terry Johnson’s moving playJack Cardiff,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonMcKee brings an imposing stillness to Tristan Bernays’s play about the ancient British queen whose uprising is crushed by the RomansGina McKee plays Boudica, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMJermyn Street theatre, London The Swedish dramatist’s life is shown to echo his plays in a new production about his obsession with alchemy and his relationships with three women‘Death to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMIn conversations with Hall over 40 years, I encountered a creative powerhouse who exuded confidence yet could be a strangely solitary figurePeter Hall was a man of infinite contradictions. I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04AMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterBlanche McIntyre is one of the flotilla of female directors coming to the forefront of British theatre. But, although she's assembled a cracking cast for this reviv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMCreator of the Royal Shakespeare Company who built up the National and championed regional playhousesSir Peter Hall, who has died aged 86, was the single most influential figure in modern Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMOrange Tree, Richmond In this revival of Storey’s 1989 play, set during the Thatcher era, a poignant celebration subtly turns into a state-of-the-nation drama There could no better tribute…
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