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Following the hip-hop musical’s special message to the US vice-president elect, here’s a selection of great American shows that could enlighten him and his bossEveryone knows what happen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonFears that digital technology would upstage the actors are scotched in this RSC production starring Simon Russell BealeSimon Russell Beale’s r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMRoyal Court, LondonIn EV Crowe’s teasing tale, the suspicion and rebellion among rural women in 1700s England lead to troubling questions about the modern worldEV Crowe tends to write abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMUnion theatre, LondonThe story of Women’s Institute members fighting to decriminalise sex work did not deserve the Carry On treatmentThere is a good show to be written about the 10-year ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMGate, LondonJonas Hassen Khemiri’s disturbing, topical exploration of what it’s like to be a foreigner in the aftermath of a terrorist attack is stalled by a series of flashbacksWhat mus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMNew London TheatreWhen Lloyd Webber and Julian Fellowes let down their hair, the results are hardly anti-establishment. But the kids are genuinely talented and this is good-natured entertain…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonClaire van Kampen mixes story and song superbly in a tale about the celebrated castratoPlays about mad kings are always popular. After Alan Bennett’s portrai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMChichester festival theatreEverything slots perfectly into place in this glorious evocation of American vaudeville’s tackinessIf proof were needed of the power of the traditional Broadway …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonMatt Grinter’s play vividly captures the pressure to conform as a girl in an isolated fishing community tries to prevent a devastating mythical ritual The Papata…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMKing’s Cross theatre, LondonDavid Bowie and Enda Walsh’s sequel to The Man Who Fell to Earth is staged with visual sophistication by Ivo van Hove but it’s rarely emotionally engagingHe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMJermyn Street theatre, LondonTwo short plays by the Swedish dramatist show that his female characters can be just as varied and vivid as the menThe title sounds like a provocation, given Str…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PMPark theatre, LondonJonathan Maitland’s new work about an ambitious runner and her coach shows that there is no such thing as a level playing field in sportJonathan Maitland, as a journali…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMMinerva, ChichesterThis return to star-driven Shakespeare has in Frank Langella a commanding Lear still driven by a craving for loveWe are used to director’s Shakespeare. This production, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMTheatre Royal, BathDavid Haig, like the late Nigel Hawthorne, follows an acclaimed performance in Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III by playing Shakespeare's deranged monarch. But, alt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12PMOld Vic, LondonJackson ends a 25-year absence with a ferocious, unflinching performance that transcends gender and puts her among the best LearsHelp fund our journalism by becoming a Guardia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMVaudeville, LondonKatherine Parkinson is hilarious in Terry Johnson’s revival of his 1994 drama about a group of emotionally deficient comedy obsessivesImages of Frankie Howerd, Tommy Coop…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonWhat are the hottest tickets in London theatre? Patrick Stewart's Macbeth, Ian McKellen's Lear and what will now be known as Chiwetel Ejiofor's Othello. For director …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48PMBirmingham RepMcDiarmid delivers the paradoxical politician’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech in Chris Hannan’s new play which switches between the 1960s and the 90sThe Rep seems the right …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonPatrick Marber is not the first person to give Molière's comedy a makeover. Only two years ago Neil Bartlett transposed the action to a belle-époque hotel. But, whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMWyndham's Theatre, LondonArt is not a competition. Since, however, this is the second Much Ado in five days, comparisons are inevitable. And, while Jeremy Herrin's version at Shakespeare's G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31PMThe Boston Globe’s initiative to fund a classical music critic by nonprofit groups raises troubling questions for arts critics on both sides of the AtlanticAll critics cherish their indepe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PMFound111, London Shepard’s 1983 play about incestuous love – revived with Adam Rothenberg and Lydia Wilson – has lost something of its visceral powerSome plays grow richer with time. I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMFinborough, LondonHoward Brenton’s play about the ringleader of a chaotic squat is given a timely revival by Josh RocheHoward Brenton’s play dates from 1973: a period when Britain was ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMOlivier theatre, London Musicians are thrust centre stage to epic effect in Michael Longhurst’s revival, and Lucian Msamati is excellent as the composer locked in battle with the divinePet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMHoward Davies, who has died aged 71, was one of the great post war theatre directors, teasing new messages from old plays and drawing career-defining performances from Alan Rickman, Helen Mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:01AMTheatre Royal Stratford East, LondonGreer’s play adds modern politics to Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, following the divided, upper-class black owners of a Michigan hotel during the US e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMAfter drawing up a long list of names, I've picked my candidate. Can you guess who it is? And which director would you nominate?And the winner is ... Who would you place in the spotlight? Ph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31AMOlivier Theatre, LondonForget Boris Karloff with a bolt through his neck. Forget even Peter Boyle as the new, improved monster singing Puttin' On The Ritz in the Mel Brooks pastiche. What yo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02PMActor who excelled at playing women of strength, wit and charmSheila Allen, who has died aged 78, was an actor of extraordinary range and power, and a delightful, independent-minde…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28PMArcola, London Five actors take turns to portray a woman with schizophrenia in this imaginative, disquieting Belarus Free Theatre adaptation of a bold memoirJust over a decade ago, Belarus F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:21AMBristol Old Vic Circus freaks, puppets and soaring songs collide in a new adaptation that deftly walks a tightrope between romantic and grotesqueYou can see why Victor Hugo attracts the make…
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