Friday, February 10, 2017
Duchess, LondonLenny Henry has won his spurs as a Shakespearean actor in Othello and The Comedy of Errors. Now he takes on the titanic role of Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences which won…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03PMBarbican, London With dazzling virtuosity, this Complicite/Schaubühne staging of Stefan Zweig’s novel brilliantly evokes a doomed romance and the imminent horror of warBalzac, about whom …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, February 9, 2017
Royal Court, LondonLinda Bassett, Kika Markham, June Watson and Deborah Findlay deliver pitch-perfect performances in Churchill’s apocalyptic conversation piece Related: Here We Go review …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32PMWednesday, February 8, 2017
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonA black dancer meets police prejudice and industry stereotyping as she bids to make it on Broadway in a lively, inventive storyIt has taken 17 years for t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Stage and screen actor known for his role as the assiduous sleuth in the Hitchcock film FrenzyAlec McCowen, who has died aged 91, was an actor of dazzling technical brilliance whose career e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonAlex MacKeith’s debut play deals with the nuts and bolts of a test-driven education system and acts as a metaphor for other hard-pressed professionsPlays about s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMFinborough, LondonTitas Halder’s strange one-man play, starring Ben Aldridge, looks to the urban fox to illustrate a life in free-fallA fascination with foxes runs through our literature, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMFriday, February 3, 2017
Hampstead theatre, LondonEmilia Fox and Theo James star in Laura Eason’s two-hander about an implausible relationship between writers in a Michigan B&BThe title is certainly titillatin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThursday, February 2, 2017
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonGemma Arterton brings beauty, determination and moral goodness to one of the great female rolesA new theatre is often a challenge. Until weathered and worn by …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAnnie Ryan’s production does full justice to the sinewy, aphoristic language in Webster’s sinister portrait of corruptionWebster’s dark Jacobean tragedie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Theatre 503, LondonMichael McLean gets under the skin of his characters’ lives in Skelmersdale but his play skimps on the bigger pictureWhat happened to the social utopias of the 1960s, bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMMonday, January 30, 2017
The NT usually manages a balance between revivals and new work. Now, classic plays are disappearing from its stages – and from regional reps tooDavid Hare has made the headlines with a dam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMSunday, January 29, 2017
Hurt, who has died aged 77, was a superb, if too infrequent, stage actor. In plays by Beckett, Pinter and Stoppard, he had an intuitive understanding of outsidersI last saw John Hurt six mon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMThursday, January 26, 2017
Arts theatre, LondonRichard Marsh and Katie Bonna’s verse romcom is a wry, sweet-natured account of a totally believable relationshipHaving started out as a 10-minute pub poetry duet in 20…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWednesday, January 25, 2017
Dorfman, London Emmet Kirwan stars in his play about rave-addicted Dublin youths, which displays a lust for language but offers little more than a sensory impressionWords, words, words. That…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMYoung Vic, LondonCarrie Cracknell's production certainly puts a new spin on Ibsen's 1879 classic. As if to remind us that this is a play about domestic revolution, Ian MacNeil's design revol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Charing Cross theatre, LondonThom Southerland gracefully directs this strange musical, but the delightful songs and touching performances merely decorate a story that lacks biteLove is as st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMSunday, January 22, 2017
Gate theatre, LondonChristopher Haydon ends his Gate reign on a high note with gripping story of a young African woman’s conversion to CatholicismChristopher Haydon’s final production at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSaturday, January 21, 2017
Royal Court, LondonAs someone who bemoans the dearth of political drama, I welcome the arrival of Anders Lustgarten's polemical bombshell. But while the play has bags of vigour and offers a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMThursday, January 19, 2017
Orange Tree, LondonA middle-class family accept a stranger for Christmas, but is he what he seems? This radical, transfixing play is about Germany but has universal relevanceThe timing is pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMRoyal Court theatre, LondonTim Crouch's show explores our obsession with artists' lives, but occasionally lets the form get in the way of its message• Playwright Tim Crouch: 'Avoiding the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Southwark Playhouse, London A revival of Neil Simon’s adaptation of the Billy Wilder classic, with songs by Bacharach and Hal David, is well performed but gratingly anachronisticThis music…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMTuesday, January 17, 2017
Arcola, London A cast of 18 bring the Russian writer’s drifters and derelicts vividly to life in a production that captures his blend of compassion and crueltyMaxim Gorky’s 1902 play is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMFriday, January 13, 2017
Theatro Technis, LondonTayo Aluko’s tribute to Tunji Sowande mixes politics, music and cricket for a tuneful portrait of a legal pioneerTayo Aluko wrote and performed the remarkable Call M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMThursday, January 12, 2017
Trafalgar Studios, LondonStuart Slade’s play about a survivors’ group recalling a horrific incident is a thoughtful, arresting and blackly funny study of how we cope with tragedyHow woul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
Finborough, LondonA Vietnam vet plots to kill the US president in a tense three-hander that trains a spotlight on human rights abuses and ex-soldiers’ mental healthDonald Freed’s play wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMTuesday, January 10, 2017
Wyndham’s, LondonMatthew Spangler’s workmanlike adaptation of the bestselling novel about Afghanistan does a decent job but reduces it to a series of chronological eventsIt’s an old pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMSaturday, January 7, 2017
Royal Court, LondonEcstatically received on the Edinburgh fringe, Fiona Evans's play has been expanded here. First, we get a close-up study of a female teacher-boy pupil relationship during …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33PMHamilton comes to London, Sherlock villain Andrew Scott adds Hamlet to his CV, Damian Lewis falls in love with a goat, and Ivo van Hove directs Jude Law in a tale of lust, greed and murder M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMFriday, January 6, 2017
As Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire opens in the West End, we celebrate a writer with a strong social conscience who saw the human condition – especially his own – as faintl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PMFinborough, LondonTony Harrison’s collision of high and low art fashions a Greek satyr play into a barbed comment on the lack of imagination in contemporary cultureMy abiding memory of Ton…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM 
