Sunday, July 14, 2024
Noël Coward; Donmar Warehouse; Almeida, LondonJeremy O Harris’s gloves-off Broadway hit is overladen yet thought-provoking; sound design speaks loudest in a wordy Detroit story; and a las…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, July 7, 2024
Olivier; Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonComplicité’s extraordinary 1999 play proves a little more forgettable second time round; an al fresco Secret Garden remakes the story in s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, June 30, 2024
Old Vic, London; Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon; Savoy theatre, LondonJames Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin struggle for urgency in Joe Penhall’s drama about a threatened female MP; climate cris…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMSunday, June 23, 2024
Shakespeare’s Globe; Barbican, London The possibility of pleasure is everywhere in Sean Holmes’s summer crowd-pleaser, while Adrian Dunbar tackles his first musical role in Cole Porter�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, June 9, 2024
One Cartridge Place; Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonPunchdrunk guide us through a gothic tale with ingenious lighting and Helena Bonham Carter’s whispers; while Dominic West is terrific as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMSunday, June 2, 2024
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court; Trafalgar theatre, London Katie Mitchell directs and Ben Whishaw stars, while David Byrne’s new reign at the Royal Court gets off to a cool start. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, May 26, 2024
Duke of York’s, Shakespeare’s Globe; Young Vic, LondonJamie Lloyd’s youthfully intense staging gives us a Juliet for the ages; Michelle Terry’s king rises above the disability row; a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMSunday, May 19, 2024
Birmingham Rep; Coliseum; Barbican; Soho theatre, LondonBruce Robinson’s new adaptation of his cult film is too theatrical by half; the latest staged Studio Ghibli fantasy is more effects …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMSunday, May 12, 2024
Donmar Warehouse; Lyric Hammersmith; Jermyn Street, LondonThe aged servant steals the show in a fast-paced 21st-century Chekhov, Max Webster’s dystopian sci-fi dazzles the eye but skips th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, May 5, 2024
Swan; Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonA new era at the RSC opens with a potent staging by Emma Rice and Hanif Kureishi of his classic everyman tale and a clever take on Shakesp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, April 28, 2024
Old Vic; Battersea Arts Centre; Bush theatre, LondonRichard Jones’s supercharged staging of Sophie Treadwell’s 1920s masterpiece hits like a fist; Emma Rice subverts a dark fairytale wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMSunday, April 21, 2024
Lyttelton; Almeida; Royal Court Upstairs, LondonAll of London life doesn’t quite materialise in an epic take on Dickens with music by PJ Harvey; a university reunion digs deep at the Almei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMSunday, April 14, 2024
Noël Coward; @sohoplace; Dorfman; LondonIan McKellen reigns supreme in Robert Icke’s Henry IV mashup; Tyrell Williams’s coming-of-age football drama is bang on target; and the Brontë s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSunday, April 7, 2024
Wyndham’s London; Ustinov, Bath; Hampstead, LondonBrian Cox and, especially, Patricia Clarkson shine as dysfunctional parents in Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play, David Morrissey…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, March 17, 2024
Bristol Old Vic; Orange Tree theatre, RichmondBamber goes to Bristol in a buoyant musical of David Nicholls’s University Challenge romcom, while Trevor Nunn’s impeccably traditional Chek…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMSunday, March 10, 2024
Olivier; Jermyn Street; Lyric, LondonLarkiness overtakes Tim Price’s hallucinatory new play about the founder of the NHS; Roy Williams’s adaptation of Sam Selvon’s great Windrush novel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, March 3, 2024
Bush theatre; Donmar Warehouse; Young Vic, LondonBenedict Lombe’s new play about two almost-lovers is alive and unpredictable; Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport have a glimmering brief encou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, February 25, 2024
Duke of York’s; Almeida; Hampstead, LondonMatt Smith heads a rousing adaptation of Ibsen for a bruised world; Danny Sapani and co lean into the storm in Yaël Farber’s liberating Lear. P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, February 11, 2024
Harold Pinter theatre; Lyric Hammersmith; Palladium, LondonDreams of fame trap and inspire in Jez Butterworth’s female-centred, Blackpool-set new play; Lemn Sissay takes a personal approac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSaturday, February 3, 2024
Dorfman; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Savoy, LondonBeth Steel’s battling Notts wedding guests are a treat; Ola Ince’s Met police Othello makes horrible sense; and Matthew Broderick and Sarah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMSunday, January 28, 2024
Orange Tree, Richmond; Marylebone theatre, LondonZoe Cooper’s vivaciously queer take on Jane Austen will make readers and audiences think twice. And Nicolas Kent distils a Holocaust fable …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMSunday, January 21, 2024
Park theatre; Lyttleton, LondonIns Choi’s disarming Korean corner store comedy makes a timely return to the stage; a show of migrant stories feels more like ritual than chronicle; and a ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, January 14, 2024
Ambassadors; Yard; King’s Head, LondonCatherine Tate and David Threlfall are stranded in a scarily dull ghost story; the end of a love affair looms over a lively two-hander; and the new Ki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, December 24, 2023
In a thin year for musicals and political drama, an 11th hour Blanche DuBois, a flurry of young actors, two James Graham plays and a pair of Macbeths were among the standouts
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMDonmar Warehouse; Phoenix theatre; Riverside Studios, LondonDavid Tennant and Cush Jumbo wire you into the Macbeths’ innermost thoughts; Stranger Things takes theatrical spectacle to the n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, December 17, 2023
The Lucky Chance, Frome; Almeida; Soho theatre, LondonThere’s a puppet but no happy ending at Emma Rice’s fine new Somerset venue; Elvis Costello soundtracks a postwar Polish love story;…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMSunday, December 10, 2023
Dorfman; Young Vic; Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonChronic illness is captured to extraordinary effect in Annie Baker’s slow yet absorbing new play. Elsewhere, snarling Pinter lacks bite,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, December 3, 2023
The Depot, Liverpool; Lyttleton, London Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma are magnetic murderers in Simon Godwin’s bleakly immersive warehouse production, while Harriet Walter commands the st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, November 19, 2023
Finborough; Hampstead; Royal Court, LondonAn exemplary staging of short plays by overlooked Ena Lamont Stewart; Alun Armstrong is at his hangdog best in Richard Bean’s warm retirement dram…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, November 12, 2023
Duke of York’s, London; RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon; New Diorama, LondonThe puns ricochet between Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans in a frisky royal tale of mistress and servant; merriment disp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AMSunday, November 5, 2023
Wyndham’s; Harold Pinter; Battersea Arts Centre, LondonKenneth Branagh savours Lear’s words rather too much; Kristin Scott Thomas and co are left high and dry in Cornwall; but at BAC, a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM 
