Tuesday, July 28, 2020
In their lack of chanciness and spontaneity, Trump's rallies are a systematic negation of the theatrical spirit, writes Paul Taylor. And so they constitute, by default, an eloquent defence o…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:36AM[SHARE]Friday, December 13, 2019
Ella Hickson has joined forces with director Natalie Abrahami, whose production shifts between grimly gleeful anachronism and historical empathy
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 8, 2019
A season of Jamie Lloyd productions at the Playhouse kicks off with an inspired revival... even if McAvoy's modestly over-endowed nose could be a tad more bulbous
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 28, 2019
David Walliams's best selling children's book is given a theatrical makeover by the Royal Shakespeare Company for its main-stage Christmas attraction
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Sam Tutty gives a star-making performance in a story of grief, deception, and the conscienceless juggernaut of the internet
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2019
Playwright Annie Baker has been rightly praised for the ways in which this anticipates the age of Trump and the #MeToo movement
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2019
First seen at this address 15 years ago, the production arrives after a spate of works have complicated and enriched the Mary Poppins phenomenon, writes Paul Taylor
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Siobhan Redmond shines in this disgracefully funny adaptation of Maxim Gorky's 1910 play
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2019
Churchill's approach has her distinctively inspired stamp in its almost laconic outrageousness
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Attempts to give theatrical space to the #MeToo movement have not been encouraging, writes Paul Taylor. Could 'Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.' be the answer?
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
As his leaving present to the Almeida, Robert Icke brilliantly re-imagines Arthur Schnitzler's Professor Pernhardi
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2019
In an era of virulently born-again 'white supremacy' in the US, we have Nicholas Wright to thank for coming to the topic of Othello, show business, and race anew
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Jason Robert Brown's musical take on this beloved story is beautifully orchestrated and occasionally sublime
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Starring Clive Owen and directed by James Macdonald, this is a brilliant reminder of what an extraordinary feat Tennesse Williams pulled off here
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2019
James McArdle is dazzling in this laugh-out-loud, feel-bad production of Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 4, 2019
Moving through three decidedly awkward family dinners over the course of three decades, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany's new play is both satire and celebration
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2019
This production, which reunites the team responsible for last year's smash hit 'Julius Caesar', stars Gwendoline Christie from 'Game of Thrones' as Titania
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2019
The actors play characters that range from laugh-out-loud funny to twisty, wrong-footing ambivalence
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2019
It has been 12 years since the dame last appeared on stage " but now she's back with 'A German Life', a one-woman play about Goebbels secretary Brunhilde Pomsel. Paul Taylor charts the actor…
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2019
Both Caryl Churchill's classic and Ibsen's 'A Doll's House' woke their audiences up to the necessity of a feminist movement and also to the pain inescapable from progress
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Recent theatre productions starring mature singers have inspired theatre critic Paul Taylor to pay tribute to the nuances and joys " rather than fear " to be found in ageing voices
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2019
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Jamie Lloyd directs an exceptionally thoughtful and searching revival of this time-reverse play
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2019
As 'Betrayal' returns to the stage, starring Tom Hiddleston, Paul Taylor looks at the vast body of art in which people are shown living their lives backwards " to arresting and revealing eff…
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2019
Monday, February 18, 2019
It would be impossible to imagine a more complete antidote to Neil LaBute's 2002 play 'The Mercy Seat' than this warm musical by Irene Sankoff and David Hein
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2019
The supporting cast are hit-and-miss, but Anderson and Lily James deliver strong performances in production of Joseph Mankiewicz's 1950 masterpiece
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2019
It's hard to credit the profusion of top talent that has been involved in this project over the past six months
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
While Harington impresses, it's Johnny Flynn whose comic perfection elevates this wonderfully warped production
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:36AM[SHARE] 
