Sunday, November 10, 2024
Ambassadors; Finborough; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonJethro Compton’s folky Cornish musical sweeps into the West End with fiddles and fudge; writer Ché Walker plays a fiery ex-con on a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMSunday, November 3, 2024
Noël Coward; Duke of York’s; Barbican Pit, LondonIn a week of underused talent, Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley merely recreate Kubrick’s biting cold war satire; Lily Coll…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
Her acting has seen her as the Roy family matriarch, an assassin in Killing Eve and in no fewer than 21 Shakespeare theatre roles. In her new book she imagines what the Bard’s female chara…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMSunday, October 27, 2024
Park theatre, London; Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonOver five hours, John Galsworthy’s family epic unfolds with intimate clarity on an almost bare stage. At the RSC, Emilia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMSunday, October 20, 2024
Wyndham’s; Donmar Warehouse; Trafalgar, LondonMark Strong and Lesley Manville transfix as Robert Icke wires Sophocles into the present; Adrien Brody excels in a sharp prison drama; and how…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMSunday, October 6, 2024
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court; Almeida, LondonJohn Lithgow is magnificent as Roald Dahl in Nicholas Hytner’s production of an extraordinary debut play; Morfydd Clark finds her vo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, September 29, 2024
Theatre Royal Haymarket; Olivier; Young Vic, LondonBen Whishaw and Lucian Msamati add star power to James Macdonald’s thoughtful Beckett; David Oyelowo’s Coriolanus is dwarfed by epic st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMSunday, September 8, 2024
Royal Court Upstairs, London; Minerva, Chichester; Old Vic, LondonReality is up for debate in Tife Kusoro’s rapid-fire new drama, David Eldridge’s nuanced take on John le Carré, and Tom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSunday, September 1, 2024
Theatre Royal, Bath; Sadler’s Wells, LondonFresh talent shines, though nuance could try harder, in a 20th anniversary revival of Alan Bennett’s glinting schoolroom comedy, while the Broa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, August 25, 2024
Royal Lyceum; Church Hill; Underbelly; PleasanceJack Lowden and Sean Gilder compel in David Ireland’s crackling new AA drama; Amy Liptrot’s wild addiction memoir somehow works on stage; …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, August 18, 2024
Boat Inn, Kidlington; Regent’s Open Air theatre; Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonGroundbreaking Labour MP Jennie Lee is given her due in Mikron’s vibrant new touring show; the 60-year-old m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMSunday, August 11, 2024
Almeida, London; Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonExtraordinary performances from five actors all playing the writer Annie Ernaux add up to a five-star adaptation of her Nobel prize-winning book. An…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMSunday, August 4, 2024
@sohoplace; Lyttelton, London; Gulbenkian Arts Centre, CanterburyThomas Coombes and Paapa Essiedu grip in an all too timely revival of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation mon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMSunday, 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 06:12AM 
