Friday, September 16, 2016
The 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 08:09AMWednesday, September 14, 2016
Donmar, LondonTennessee Williams's play is so inexhaustible that it is always worth seeing. With Rachel Weisz playing Blanche DuBois there is also no doubt this production will be a popular …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:58AMTuesday, September 13, 2016
Young Vic, LondonAlthough this modern update of Tennessee Williams's play isn't always plausible, this is a powerful production'Anderson is utterly compelling' – Susannah Clapp's reviewAme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27PMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterMaxine Peake excels as Blanche Dubois in a nightmarish production of the Tennessee Williams classicMaxine Peake is not automatic casting for the role of Blanche Dub…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08PMOrange Tree, RichmondZoe Cooper’s skilful and touching account of an unlikely teenage friendship brings to mind The Catcher in the Rye Zoe Cooper’s play, co-produced with Farnham Malting…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AMNational Theatre, LondonYou can see Tennessee Williams's Blanche DuBois in one of two ways: as an embodiment of the poetic spirit destroyed by crude reality or as a southern snob tragically …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:22AMJermyn Street theatre, London Before writing children’s classics, Milne was a popular dramatist. His 1922 comedy about eloping lovers gets an excellent revival by Nichola McAuliffeLondon�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AMMonday, September 12, 2016
Aldeburgh, SuffolkTwo short new plays skilfully compress stories of cultural power in Boko Haram-ravaged Nigeria, and an agile and eloquent mountaineering romanceNow celebrating its 10th yea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:56AMFriday, September 9, 2016
Young Vic, LondonHunter is a strutting minister one minute and the emperor’s pillow-bearer the next in this shrewd and resonant account of Haile Selassie’s fall from graceThis is not the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20AMThursday, September 8, 2016
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonOliver Ryan and Sandy Grierson share the roles of the doctor and the demon in Maria Aberg’s darkly inventive, richly psychological productionIt is fascinating …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10PMHampstead theatre, LondonBeth Steel’s play about the 1980s Latin American debt crisis is staged with a hurtling energy that propels us through the intricacies of international bankingBeth …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:39AMRegent's Park, LondonFollowing stage versions of works by William Golding, EL Doctorow and Harper Lee, this novel-hungry venue now brings us a new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in time f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:28AMWednesday, September 7, 2016
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London This imagined encounter between Jesus and a crazed Roman emperor is deeply flawed but is given a strong, clear productionYou have to go back to Shaw’s Saint…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49PMFriday, September 2, 2016
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonGregory Doran’s Arthur Miller production skilfully contrasts a bitter old man with his dapper younger self, as Harriet Walter touchingly revea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PMRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonAntony Sher is unbearably moving as the volatile king, in Gregory Doran’s stellar production full of standout performancesThis year, we may be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMRoyal Shakespeare TheatreIt works. That's one's instant verdict on the transformed Royal Shakespeare Theatre. And it succeeds precisely because it feels new and strangely familiar. The old a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:27AMThursday, September 1, 2016
Found 111, LondonNiamh Cusack and Matthew Lewis are part of a quartet of characters whose unfulfilled lives throw them together in Owen McCafferty’s play about infidelityOwen McCafferty, i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AMTuesday, August 30, 2016
He was one of theatre's most daring stars, whose best films bear witness to a talent many never had the chance to see on stage• Picture from the past: Dalí paints Olivier in 1955It's a sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33PMGarrick, LondonBranagh is highly watchable as the music-hall veteran Archie Rice, but John Osborne’s portrait of a collapsing culture is undercut in a misjudged productionKenneth Branagh h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMCardiff goes all in for Roald Dahl, David Bowie falls to Earth in London, and David Hare’s new play takes a tramp through the Connecticut snow. Plus, Glenda Jackson does Lear, and McKellen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:34PMFriday, August 26, 2016
Park theatre, LondonJB Priestley never reconciled the comic and serious elements in this 1931 play, which gives a glimpse of what Auden dubbed ‘a low, dishonest decade’Can drawing-room c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMThursday, August 25, 2016
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonBlanche McIntyre’s RSC debut underscores the erotic strangeness of Shakespeare’s jointly authored final play – but doesn’t solve all its problemsThirty y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:27AMWednesday, August 24, 2016
Almeida, LondonAdam Brace’s ambitious show addresses the paradox of celebrating a country’s culture while ignoring its political realitiesYou have to admire the ambition of Adam Brace. I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:55AMMonday, August 22, 2016
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-AvonWhat to do with this endlessly problematic play? Directors such as Peter Zadek and David Thacker set it in the stock exchange. But Rupert Goold, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMFriday, August 19, 2016
Minerva, ChichesterJohn Galsworthy’s play about industrial action at a Welsh tinplating firm, directed by Bertie Carvel in his debut, is more than a century old, and as relevant and vivid …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, August 18, 2016
Finborough, LondonThe award-winning playwright uses YouTube as a medium to explore body anxiety and racial tension in this punchy two-handerBola Agbaje has written a number of very good play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AMTuesday, August 16, 2016
Old Vic, LondonThe team behind Matilda the Musical reunite for a clever, eye-catching show based on the Bill Murray movieMusicals based on hit movies are two-a-penny, but this one comes with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:50PMSunday, August 14, 2016
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThom Southerland directs the European premiere of this musical about an Everyman’s dilemma, but it’s too detached from the wider story of AmericaIt is a shock …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMFriday, August 12, 2016
This year’s crop of Dreams – taking in Blitz spirit and colonial India – shows how Shakespeare’s comedy is fertile ground for infinite interpretation. But it is Benjamin Britten’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AMMonday, August 8, 2016
Traverse theatre, EdinburghRoss Dunsmore’s play is strong on compassion, but it raises questions that it fails to answer about a society that drives people to the brink Related: Edinburgh …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:17AMTraverse, EdinburghRochelle Bright’s ‘play with songs’ starts out as a promising love story but despite vigorous performances and a lively band it never quite bloomsSubtitled “a play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AM 
