Dorfman, LondonOlivias Williams and Colman give a spellbinding account of sibling strife in this wonderfully ambitious play set during the Higgs boson breakthroughLucy Kirkwood has proved, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMNovello, LondonWhat difference does it make that Tennessee Williams's play is performed by a black cast in Debbie Allen's Broadway production? It undoubtedly gives the work a new dynamic. Bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMApollo, LondonBenedict Andrews’s radical update of the classic delivers emotional intensity shot through with humour – and a blistering performance by Jack O’ConnellThis is a classic e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMThe Globe’s new artistic director may have little directing experience. But as an actor, she had a huge range, a fierce intelligence and a profound understanding of Shakespeare’s languag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMMinerva Theatre, ChichesterDeborah Bruce’s play follows the fallout of a friendship between a young boy and an autistic, eccentric hoarder as police, press and property hunters prey on the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMDuke of York's, LondonIt's a well-known fact that Peter Nichols's play, which first appeared in 1981, forms part of an unofficial trinity of dramas about infidelity: it came after Pinter's B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04AMMick Lally theatre, Galway Mark O’Rowe’s three-hander turns the Irish idyll into a seething mass of lust, junkies, pimps and wimpy husbandsDramatists from JM Synge to Martin McDonagh hav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMBlack Box, GalwayThe anguish and torment of Büchner’s tragedy and Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise are fused to brilliant effect in this pioneering piece of music-theatre Georg Büchne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonOliver Cotton’s explosive new play explores wealth and morality as a luxurious dinner party is interrupted by an intruderOliver Cotton is not afraid to tackle bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMPark theatre, LondonIn his final play, which takes place over three summers, Elyot explores passions and pressures before and after the decriminalisation of homosexuality Related: Kevin Elyo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMYoung Vic Studio, London Rating: **Sam Shepard was once regarded as the quintessential American playwright. But, on the evidence of the recent revival of the rambling A Lie of the Mind and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06PMRegent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonCharles Dickens’ 1859 novel simply does not lend itself to a modern-day reinterpretation featuring border police and demonstrationsIt is part of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMRoyal Court, LondonThis family drama confronts a host of dilemmas but is at its best when it allows a fine cast to express the characters’ strained relationshipsVivienne Franzmann has in t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMTheatre Royal Haymarket, LondonHelen Edmundson’s account of the power struggle between the pious monarch and her ambitious friend Sarah Churchill is a rousing hymn to female agencyRomola G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMIt’s true that plays often defy instant analysis but Mamet’s attempt to prevent post-show discussions perpetuates the notion of theatre as a sanctified templeIt would be easy to mock Dav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMHome, ManchesterThe Homeland star impresses in Thomas Ostermeier’s engrossing staging of a memoir about political change and the left’s disregard of the working classThe title suggests a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMAudiences struggled to relate to the 50-year-old Profumo scandal. Lloyd Webber needs to focus on passionate love• Matt Trueman: Stephen Ward to close after four months• Xan Brooks: Steph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12PMThis thrilling play about three sons who go home to their dads – and their childhoods – shows verbatim theatre’s power to heed the forgottenThe scene: a wine-bar close to the Royal Exc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonA terrific cast give a masterclass in power and paranoia in this tremendous modern-day revival of Shakespeare’s tale of revengeBlanche McIntyr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMDonmar Warehouse, London Singing MPs grill charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh and chair Alan Yentob in a show that’s as melodramatic as Tosca – though not as tunefulIs there anything …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMFinborough theatre, LondonThis tale of an idealistic teacher in a Scottish mining village wears its enjoyably scathing politics on its sleeveAs an outpost for Scottish drama, the Finborough …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMHampstead theatre, LondonIn Andrew Keatley’s powerful play, a life is destroyed by a pupil’s allegation of sexual assault, and shameful secrets are exposed‘Is the accuser always holy n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMLondon Palladium Toad, Badger, Mole and Rat are joined by new female characters in a fast-moving musical which ranges in style from Gilbert and Sullivan to raucous rockKenneth Grahame’s 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMWyndham’s, LondonSix-time Tony award-winner McDonald captures the style and spirit of the legendary jazz singer, but Lanie Robertson’s play wallows in her declineOne legend gets to play …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMStoryhouse, ChesterIn Loveday Ingram’s swaggering production, Caesar bids to ‘make Rome great again’ then poses for selfies at a rock festivalHedging his bets, Henry James described Ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMA new show, Terror, restores drama to its classical function by asking us to make a moral decision. But it doesn’t go nearly far enoughDrama invites judgment. One of the oldest plays in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PM"Sawyer, you're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star." So Ruby Keeler was famously told by Warner Baxter in the movie of 42nd Street. And that classic line about understu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMHampstead theatre, LondonThere are shades of Neil LaBute’s In the Company of Men in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ merciless modern satire, set in the offices of a Manhattan magazineNothing can…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMCourtyard, Stratford-upon-AvonAs a director Lucy Bailey is clearly at home in ancient Rome: she gave us a blackly sardonic Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe; now she comes up with a vi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMThe Kids Company inquiry becomes a musical, Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams star as sisters, Sienna Miller and Jack O’Connell hit the roof and rhinoceroses rampage through Edinburgh• S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AMMinerva, ChichesterO’Brien has revised her 2011 stage adaptation of her evocative novel about two friends who move from rural Ireland to DublinRitually burned in the grounds of her local p…
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