Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe acting is outstanding and the issues are timely in Kwame Kwei-Armah’s production of Kemp Powers’ passionate playIt may be a flawed play, but it is still a gre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMMonday, October 10, 2016
Palace theatre, LondonDerren Brown begs us all, journalists included, not to reveal anything he has done in the course of two-and-a-half hours. Seeing him for the first time, however, I feel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:17PMThe Royal Court hosted a moving celebration of Arnold Wesker. His early works such as Roots are well known – let’s rediscover the rest of his 44 playsIf there is an ideal place to stage …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMJermyn Street theatre, London A strong cast imbue Lillian Hellman’s 1951 play with a keen malaise, though they are shackled by the author’s enervating attitude towards her charactersA gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AMFriday, October 7, 2016
Ustinov Studio, BathTwo nursing-home visitors watch their ailing parents strike up a romance in a play that explores the mysteries of the human heartIs sex the exclusive property of the unde…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PMTheatre Royal, BathAs the complex chaperone Charlotte Bartlett, Kendal is a pleasure to watch, but her presence unbalances this rich tale of middle-class self-discoveryThe presence of Felici…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58AMThursday, October 6, 2016
Director Ivo van Hove’s production has a sombre aesthetic beauty while Binoche avoids the easy path of pathosTeam Juliette Binoche with Ivo van Hove, director of A View from the Bridge, in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMWatford Palace theatreTwo soldiers square up over an heiress in Brigid Larmour’s production of this 1894 play that hints teasingly at Shaw’s mature styleWhy would most producers rather c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMWednesday, October 5, 2016
Menier Chocolate Factory, London Political and artistic revolutions collide in a sprightly revival, directed by Patrick Marber, highlighting the emotion as well as the erudition of this bril…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AMTuesday, October 4, 2016
Old Vic, LondonDwan’s vocal range is astonishing in her adaptation of Beckett’s Texts for Nothing, but the ingenious staging still struggles to give physical life to mysterious proseLisa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AMSunday, October 2, 2016
Finborough, LondonElmer Rice’s 1923 satire about a browbeaten wage slave gets added musical spice in this savagely comic adaptationEuropean expressionism had a big impact on American theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31AMFriday, September 30, 2016
The French playwright’s comedy has been packing audiences in worldwide for 20 years. What is the secret of its success?Twenty years ago Yasmina Reza’s Art opened at the Comédie des Cham…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMThursday, September 29, 2016
The play that burned down the Globe theatre in 1613, after a stage cannon ignited the thatch, is a potent farewell to this seriesIt seems strange to end this series of favourite Shakespeare …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PMWilton’s Music Hall, LondonThere are some striking performances in this musical about an explorer stuck underground, but too many of the lyrics are incomprehensibleA musical about a hero t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, September 28, 2016
Young Vic, LondonThe director’s new work based on the ancient text is one of aesthetic beauty and great skill, if less convincing as a parable of our times Three decades ago, Peter Brook�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26PMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonCooper commands the stage as the Restoration rebel John Rochester in Stephen Jeffreys’ portrait of debauchery and self-destructionDominic Cooper follows in t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55PMSunday, September 25, 2016
Shakespeare’s Globe, London EastEnders actor Maddy Hill brings gutsy toughness as the heroine of this refocused Shakespeare adaptation, but Matthew Dunster’s violent setting seems at odd…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMGarrick, London This 1950s courtroom drama is an efficient piece of entertainment but is beginning to show its ageReginald Rose's script has had an incredibly long life. It first surfaced on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:28AMFriday, September 23, 2016
Royal Court, LondonPerformed by an excellent cast, Suzan Lori-Parks’s trilogy about the US civil war is riddled with Homeric allusions and seamlessly incorporates songs into the action Rel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AMPrince Edward theatre, LondonThe opposing forces of communism and capitalism carry strange visual echoes in this production by Laurence ConnorSo how does Boublil and Schönberg's musical sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33AMThursday, September 22, 2016
Rose, KingstonJohn Malkovich’s immaculately staged version of Zach Helm’s clever play about drug dependency and genius doesn’t quite escape its sentimental conclusion John Malkovich is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMTuesday, September 20, 2016
Theatre Royal HaymarketIt's a sign of how much our theatre has changed that Beckett's masterpiece, once seen as a subversion of West End theatre, now occupies one of its iconic temples. But …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56PMWyndham’s theatre, LondonSean Mathias’s production shows the comedy and bleakness in the story of a pub potman invited to a writer’s luxurious homeWhen Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:44PMTara theatre, LondonTara’s new theatre is an enticing venue for this adaptation of a medieval tale, with topical lessons, about lovers manipulated by religious ideology This vital multicul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AMMonday, September 19, 2016
Theatre Royal, BathClare Higgins and Tim Pigott-Smith trade blows with relish, but Adrian Noble's revival brings little fresh insight to Albee's classicWhen Peter Hall ran the Bath summer se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13AMSunday, September 18, 2016
Lyric HammersmithThis strongly cast British/Australian collaboration is a pleasure to watch but glibly assumes the strains of domestic life are the same the world overThe fraught family has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:23AMThe film, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, led Edward Albee’s play to be remembered as a boozy marital slugfest. But it is as much about America itselfEdward Albee occasionall…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:57AMSaturday, September 17, 2016
A new tranche of Harold Pinter’s letters, written to lifelong friends, has been made public. We take a first glimpseHarold Pinter was a born letter writer. In later years his com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMApollo, LondonTruth versus illusion is the great theme of American drama: think of O'Neill, Miller and Williams. And, since it lies at the core of Edward Albee's ritualistic 1962 drama, it i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMFriday, September 16, 2016
Almeida, LondonTragedy, we are often told, is dead: an impossibility in an age that believes all problems are socially remediable. But Edward Albee has boldly defied convention by writing an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20PMThe Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonA cavalier meets his match among strong women in Loveday Ingram’s carnivalesque production of Aphra Behn’s 17th-century comedyAphra Behn is acclaimed as the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AM 
