Minerva, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMCottesloe, LondonHaving written plays about the Suez crisis and Thatcher's childhood, James Graham now turns his attention to the Labour government's precarious ability to survive a hung par…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PMJermyn Street theatre, LondonAnthony Biggs directs the British premiere of Maxim Gorky’s chaotic and overloaded 1907 play with a bullying Russian patriarch at its centre Written in 1907 in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTwo US companies have pulled their sponsorship from a New York production of Julius Caesar because it depicts a Trump-like character – grisly ending and all. But the bard has other charact…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMRoyal Court, LondonAlice Birch’s radically experimental play, directed by Katie Mitchell, tests the theory that trauma can pass across three generations of womenWhat determines our charact…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMChichester Festival theatreHarden is excellent in a sprawling yet skilful production of Tennessee Williams’s Gulf Coast melodramaThis is a strange play to find on the sprawling Chichester …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThe Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonOwen Horsley’s inventive production sheds little light on what it means to be gay today, but highlights Wilde’s passionate, transgressive textEveryone curren…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMDorfman theatre, LondonInua Ellams’s invigorating and richly enjoyable drama, set in six hairdressers in two continents, offers sharp debate on family, politics, race and sportBijan Sheiba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMOlivier, LondonAnne-Marie Duff shines in a rich, strange and often baffling drama that shows the privatisation of land as a pivotal moment in our nation’s history‘We are not here for rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMPiccadilly theatre, LondonAn ingenious jigsaw-like design and strong performances lift this revival, but the main draw, Miranda Hart, is just too likable and the politics seem datedAt the cu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PMRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThis, of all Shakespeare's plays, badly needs a shot in the arm – and it receives a powerful one in this production by Gregory Doran, the RSC'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMFinborough, LondonAn Iranian teacher is confronted by one of her former pupils in Matt Parvin’s claustrophobic two-hander about social and racial prejudiceMatt Parvin is a young, Dorset-bo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMOrange Tree, RichmondBranden Jacobs-Jenkins’s extraordinary play is both an adaptation of a 19th-century melodrama and a dazzling postmodernist critique of itIf I say that this bizarrely b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMShakespeare’s Globe, London Sailor-suited dancers and a disco soundtrack add a party atmosphere to Shakespeare’s comedy but drown out its melancholyThe peremptory treatment of Emma Rice …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMOld Vic, LondonWhereas Georg Büchner’s original masterpiece allows audience to fill in the blanks, Thorne’s adaptation piles the pressure on the title characterThis production has a lot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMAttenborough Centre, BrightonRichard Nelson prophetically captures sense of unease as early as first play when character asks: “Do you feel like something really bad is about to happen?”…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMThe Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonPhil Porter’s take on Plautus’s bombastic farce is a crowdpleasing show that reminds us of the ancient playwright’s immense influence on modern comedyThe R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonMaureen Lipman’s brisk bureaucrat is a perfect complement to Felicity Kendal’s gutsy exhibitionist in a revival of Peter Shaffer’s heritage satireYou mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMYoung Vic, LondonThe Atonement director presents the story of the astronomer with a kaleidoscopic theatricality that increasingly detracts from Brecht’s textIt is a sign of Bertolt Brecht�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMSwan, Stratford-on-AvonA reactionary pope dies, only to be succeeded by a seeming liberal who soon reverts to institutional conservatism. You could hardly have a more topical play than this.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMOctagon, Bolton Cathy Tyson stars in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s ambitious play which debates the choices politicised women face, from ancient Athens to modern BritainTimberlake Wertenbaker�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMArcola theatre, LondonHicks has the power to give individual words a wealth of meaning in his portrayal of a villain driven by infantile dreams and private demonsHot on the heels of an accla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMMinerva, ChichesterA Jewish boy and his family’s black maid are at the heart of this witty, pulsing musical that takes in everything from klezmer to Tamla MotownSince this musical has book…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMApollo, LondonFriends of Dorothy may be diverted by this musical prequel to The Wizard of Oz. But, although it has been a hit in New York, it seems all too typical of the modern Broadway mus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMTheatre Royal Stratford East, London A moving adaptation of the award-winning novel, with added songs, explores the mental toll on an abducted woman and her childMy queasiness about the subj…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMWyndham’s, LondonTim Pigott-Smith gives the performance of his career in Mike Bartlett’s intelligent meditation on the pressures and purpose of monarchy today• King Charles III: a West…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMOlivier, LondonThe celebrated writer-director’s attempt to radically update and reclaim the story is hamstrung by a terrible text and an over-complex stagingIt’s not been a great month f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:05AMHampstead Theatre, LondonMore symbolist poem than play, Oscar Wilde's once-banned Salome invites a strong directorial concept. But where Steven Berkoff memorably gave us a stylised, slow-mot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMHampstead theatre, LondonThis adaptation shows the nightmarish conflicts faced by Stewart as a provincial governor in Iraq but fails to connect with the bigger political pictureThere have be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMJermyn Street theatre, LondonIn his debut as a playwright, Stephen Unwin explores the fate of disabled youths in Nazi Germany and creates an engrossing moral debateThere is an obvious diffic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMJoan Littlewood's pioneering 1963 musical about the first world war not only changed attitudes towards the conflict, it remade British theatre. As the show gets a loving revival, Michael Bil…
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