Sunday, March 16, 2025
Barbican theatre; Young Vic, LondonCate Blanchett is magnetic – and maddening – as faded actor Arkadina in Chekhov’s supreme play about writers. Plus, James Graham’s bracing real-lif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, March 9, 2025
Lyttelton; Royal Court, LondonA black British tailor dreams big in Michael Abbensetts’ 70s comedy, made new by director Lynette Linton and designer Frankie Bradshaw. Plus, a one-woman show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSunday, March 2, 2025
Almeida theatre, London; Donmar Warehouse, LondonChris Bush’s insightful take on the trans experience drifts into the fantastical; Tamsin Greig and Celia Imrie spar as discomfited daughter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, February 23, 2025
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Bridge, LondonLuke Thallon is a compelling, all-at-sea Hamlet, Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston sizzle as Beatrice a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, February 16, 2025
Garrick, London; Orange Tree theatre, RichmondErin Doherty, Stephen Mangan and Nicola Walker rise to the challenge in Mike Bartlett’s witty dissection of a throuple. And Roger Allam makes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, February 9, 2025
Old Vic; Duke of York’s, London In a busy week for Sophocles and star casting, Rami Malek is the weak link in a radical new Oedipus with dancing chorus, while Brie Larson’s snarling Elek…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSunday, February 2, 2025
Wyndham’s; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonSteve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith turn into their own live tribute act; plus, a bold attempt to make sense of Shakespeare’s wayward late trag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, January 26, 2025
Bristol Old Vic; Royal Court; Barbican, LondonThe spirit of Duke Ellington pulses through a glorious musical spin on Twelfth Night; neighbourliness has its limits in Amy Jephta’s South Afr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMSunday, January 19, 2025
Gielgud; Southwark Playhouse, London Lionel Bart’s great musical is a gift for Matthew Bourne; a nifty reworking of Shaw’s comedy would surely have pleased him; and a fresh start for Wel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMSunday, December 29, 2024
Almeida; Young Vic; Hampstead theatre, LondonDaisy Edgar-Jones is on the prowl; Anne-Marie Duff channels Bette Davis; and Simon Russell Beale gleams in the literary afterlife
It is fascinati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMMonday, December 23, 2024
Kudos to five Annie Ernauxs, a memorably storm-lashed Lear and that Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial musical, while Oedipus reigns supreme
1. OedipusWyndham’s, London; October (runs until 4 Janua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, December 22, 2024
Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Donmar Warehouse; secret location, LondonSigourney Weaver’s Prospero is all at sea in Jamie Lloyd’s overblown West End Shakespeare; War and Peace the musical re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMMonday, December 16, 2024
Olivier; Lyttelton; Dominion; Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonAt the National, Noel Streatfeild’s classic flies while Oscar Wilde’s wit is gorgeously unleashed. Elsewhere, a slavishly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMSunday, December 1, 2024
Bush; Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London An on-off romance is all tumbling dialogue and tiny details in Eleanor Tindall’s agile new play. Plus, a grooming scandal tale seen thro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, November 24, 2024
Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon; Bush, LondonThe shoes do the talking, eventually, in the RSC’s handsome yet overpolite take on Andersen’s grisly fairytale. And action outruns plot as two Bow …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMSunday, 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 05:42AM 
