Friday, November 15, 2024
Bush theatre, LondonAs east London entrepreneurs Manny and Abdul try to get rich, Daniel Bailey’s energetic production bounces around but lacks any dramatic conflict
Can tales from the cry…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMWednesday, October 23, 2024
Stanley Kubrick’s pitch-black comedy about nuclear armageddon was once called ‘sick’. Iannucci explains why – in the age of Trump, Putin and Musk – this madcap story is as relevan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMWednesday, October 16, 2024
Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonJohn Wilkes Booth’s killing of Abraham Lincoln is skilfully examined in an absorbing play about the cyclical nature of political violence
‘Why did you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMTuesday, October 1, 2024
He has done frothy romcoms and weighty epics such as Tony-winning The Inheritance. Now the US playwright is revisiting the drink-fuelled drama that terrified him as he wrote it
In 2008, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMWednesday, September 18, 2024
Watford Palace theatreStage version of TV movie offers impressive impersonations of the Beatles stars but is more like fan fiction than drama
What went down during the penultimate face-to-fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMThursday, August 29, 2024
Theatre Royal, BathSpruced up for its 20th anniversary, Alan Bennett’s beloved play now has 80s musical numbers, but its blase attitude to teachers with wandering hands remains dated
Just …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMFriday, August 16, 2024
Arcola theatre, London Edoardo Erba’s two-hander takes up a position at the margins of the Anders Breivik massacre but leaves his characters disappointingly generalised
Dur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:50AMThursday, July 4, 2024
Almeida theatre, LondonKendall Feaver’s play dissects white privilege and a university’s #MeToo moment that begins when a student speaks out after being sexually assaulted
“A terrible …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMFriday, June 14, 2024
Minerva theatre, ChichesterJustin Audibert’s revival nails the playwright’s humour better than his despair while Ian McDiarmid brings a balletic grace to the stage
How would an estate ag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, June 9, 2024
Riverside Studios, LondonIn this adaptation of André Carl van der Merwe’s novel, Kai Luke Brümmer puts in a formidable performance as the South African conscript beset by homophobia
Clos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMWednesday, June 5, 2024
Turbine theatre, LondonAdequate songs are not enough to fill out Jonathan Harvey’s flimsy clubbers’ romance, though Frances Ruffelle provides some welcome razzle dazzle
In four decades o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Arcola, LondonThe acting from Ellena Vincent, Peter De Jersey and Daniel Francis-Swaby is riveting but this play gets tied down in gothic horror and psychodrama
A tattered US flag hangs from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMMonday, May 20, 2024
It was the film about end of the silent era that scooped five Oscars, made $133m and beguiled the world. But can the movie work on stage? And how will its real star, a frisky parson russell …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMTuesday, May 7, 2024
They are comedy sparring partners from Green Wing. Can the duo play stricken lovers in The Deep Blue Sea, the eviscerating play Rattigan poured his own heartbreak into? Warning: contains spo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMSunday, April 21, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonSet entirely within the stained walls of a men’s public toilet, Sam Grabiner’s award-winning play is an ambitious, hallucinatory series of vignettes dramatising the g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMFriday, April 19, 2024
Bush theatre, LondonTherapists will love this drama about neonatal strains with all its flashbacks to childhood battles. Shame the focus is all on the father, leaving the women looking like …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMFriday, March 22, 2024
Jerry Seinfeld calls him ‘the most idolised comedian ever’. Yet after five decades at the top, success still makes him cringe. He discusses doubting himself, starring in a documentary �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMWednesday, February 21, 2024
Eight years after spectacularly crashing and burning out of the West End, the Olivier-winner is now playing an actress trapped in the same nightmare. Can she face down her demons?
It is late…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMTuesday, February 13, 2024
Arcola theatre, LondonThis nimble play sets up a shocking scenario yet somehow it slaloms along – thanks to some Pirandellian trickery and three cheerful ghosts
On a raised disc bristling …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMMonday, February 5, 2024
As she hits the stage in an anarchic comedy about a family in freefall, the once-Oscar-nominated actor talks about her 2019 fraud conviction, why she’d never play a trans woman again – a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMTuesday, January 16, 2024
The actor’s suggestion in a roundtable interview is more common sense than provocation, the phrase speaking to a homophobic media that no longer calls the shots
Andrew Scott is capable of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMWednesday, December 13, 2023
Almeida, LondonLuke Thallon and Anya Chalotra are the lovers in this adaptation of Paweł Pawlikowski’s 2018 film, with Polish folk music and Elvis Costello songs
In Conor McPherson’s fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMMonday, December 4, 2023
Award-winning stage, film and TV actor who had memorable roles as meddling mothers in Cheers and Sex and the CityWith her shrewd blue eyes and twitching dormouse nose, the actor Frances Ster…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMMonday, November 27, 2023
The trio are about to fall out violently in the shocking yet hilarious play, featuring beheaded priests and the ghost of Bobby Sands. They talk woke fever, big pharma and playing chimpanzees…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42AMWednesday, November 15, 2023
Drama teacher who started a theatre school for young people in north London, producing future stage and screen starsThe Anna Scher theatre in Islington, north London, was responsible for pro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMWednesday, October 25, 2023
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonDream cast and exuberant staging brings the genre’s dusty rules to a whole new frontier
A sleepy US town in the late 19th century: the husbands are away, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AMThursday, October 19, 2023
Bristol Old VicEveryone gets their chance to shine in Nancy Medina’s expressive staging of this drama about sparring prep-school students
Some of the shine has come off Moonlight, the Osca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMTuesday, August 22, 2023
The comic, who has survived cancer and once sleep-jumped through a closed hotel window, is bringing his Broadway smash about mortality to the UK. ‘I guarantee you’ll laugh,’ he says
Fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04PMThursday, August 10, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghMax Percy’s physical theatre show mixes ideas on sex, power dynamics and homophobia into an audacious reflection on generational trauma
Putting a shirtless young man o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:13PMMonday, August 7, 2023
After routines about orgies from the perspective of an ‘awkward English twit’, the comedian returns with an unironic and open account of carnal pleasure
It is nearly midnight at a packed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMWednesday, June 28, 2023
Riverside Studios, LondonSpattered with blood and brains, this blend of cabaret and cosplay brings together Quentin Tarantino’s career highlights with flashes of divine inspiration
Childre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AM 
