Sunday, May 15, 2022
Young Vic, London; Brighton festival; Bush, LondonRodgers and Hammerstein’s first musical is roughed up; dreamthinkspeak amble around Brighton; and a first for Amharic on the British stage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, May 8, 2022
Dorfman; Harold Pinter; Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonA couple struggle to connect – or touch – in David Eldridge’s latest; Jodie Comer owns the courtroom; and Lucy Bailey directs a spa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AMSunday, May 1, 2022
Apollo; Lyttelton; Donmar Warehouse, LondonSpellbinding Mark Rylance returns as the anarchic Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron; Nicola Walker hits the mark in Dominic Cooke’s brilliant Emlyn Will…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMSunday, April 24, 2022
One Cartridge Place; Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThe immersive theatre trailblazers return with an all-consuming vision of the siege of Troy, while Mike Bartlett’s neo-Restoration farce can�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, April 17, 2022
Various venues, Coventry; Old Vic; Royal Court, LondonA site-specific quest gets to the heart of George Eliot’s novel; Mike Bartlett makes a Shakespearean tragedy of Trump; and six young b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, April 10, 2022
Almeida; Kiln; Hampstead, LondonJeremy O Harris’s trance-like study of power play sizzles; Chinonyerem Odimba tells a complex sibling story; and Robert Lindsay stars in a predictable famil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, April 3, 2022
Gielgud, London; Barn, Cirencester; Park, LondonRafe Spall is a fine Atticus in Aaron Sorkin’s somewhat awkward spin on Harper Lee; Jessica Daniels steers a sublime adaptation of Michael M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMSunday, March 27, 2022
Bridge; Harold Pinter theatre, LondonRalph Fiennes is firing on all cylinders in David Hare’s new play about a New York highway builder; and Ruth Wilson is beguiling in an unsubtle staging…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, March 6, 2022
Donmar Warehouse; Dorfman, LondonKit Harington’s a natural as Shakespeare’s military monarch, while Alecky Blythe’s long-awaited new verbatim play captures five years of teenage intros…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, February 27, 2022
Young Vic; King’s Head, LondonWarhol and Basquiat prove fertile inspiration for writer Anthony McCarten, while a rare airing of an early play by Victoria Wood reveals more than a glimpse o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:13AMSunday, February 20, 2022
Orange Tree, Richmond; Lyric Hammersmith; Hampstead; Almeida, LondonA Hindu schoolgirl challenges all around her; Toby Stephens and Gina McKee star in Florian Zeller’s sketchy new play; an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSunday, February 13, 2022
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThough standup George Fouracres brings pugnacious energy to the role, Shakespeare’s tragedy is rendered way too glib
The best thing about Sean Holmes’s cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMSunday, February 6, 2022
Old Vic; Royal Court, LondonLennie James and Paapa Essiedu illuminate Caryl Churchill’s great cloning play, while a fine cast lift Alistair McDowall’s wordy new dystopia
It is proving to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSunday, January 30, 2022
Bristol Old Vic; Riverside Studios, LondonMark Rylance mines more drama from the 19th-century doctor driven mad by his work on hygiene than Elizabeth McGovern finds in the faded glamour of A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, January 23, 2022
Piccadilly theatre; Young Vic, LondonA razzle-dazzle take on Baz Luhrmann’s Parisian pop jukebox triumphs through force of glitz, while a new play about race gets lost in abstraction
There…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSaturday, December 25, 2021
Little Amal stirred hearts, Chaucer hit Willesden, Cush Jumbo was a perfect prince, and once again James Graham said it all
Read the Observer critics’ review of 2021 in full here
It was a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, December 19, 2021
Playhouse; Young Vic; National Theatre, LondonRebecca Frecknall’s Weimar glamfest with Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley goes big and nails it (nearly); James Graham brilliantly revives a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMSunday, December 12, 2021
Bridge; Wyndham’s; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe familiar and the fantastic are as one in the Bridge’s Philip Pullman spectacular; more puppet magic powers Life of Pi; and a coolly …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, December 5, 2021
Finborough, LondonThis crackling production of David Ireland’s caustic portrait of a troubled former gunman is close up and in your face
Hurrah for the first London staging of this play by…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, November 28, 2021
Lyttelton; Garrick; Criterion, LondonRising tides and clunking dialogue overwhelm Moira Buffini’s new play; Beverley Knight and co excel in the latest jukebox musical. Plus, the joys of ka…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, November 21, 2021
Kiln; Royal Court, LondonThe Wife of Bath is wonderfully at home in 21st-century Brent in Zadie Smith’s inspired reworking of Chaucer. Meanwhile, the troubles of the Royal Court’s big ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMSunday, November 7, 2021
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Soho theatre, Hampstead theatre, LondonThe RSC’s Christmas spectacular lacks a little magic touch, while two maternally themed plays offer v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, October 31, 2021
Various venues, London; Bristol Old VicLittle Amal makes human hearts beat faster, while compassion fuels Emma Rice’s great whirl of a Brontë adaptation
In Arabic, Amal means “hope”. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, October 24, 2021
Lyric; Tabernacle; Donmar Warehouse LondonMagnetic Arinzé Kene as Bob Marley powers the West End’s latest jukebox musical. And a verbatim play drawn from the Grenfell inquiry bears unstin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, October 17, 2021
Royal Court Upstairs; Almeida; Bridge, LondonLucy Kirkwood’s raw response to the murders of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard captures a moment of terrible rage. And Saoirse Ronan commands as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, October 10, 2021
Young Vic; Gielgud; Royal Court, LondonCush Jumbo is a perfect prince, Ben Miles bows out as Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell, while Caryl Churchill gets to the heart of love and loss in under 20 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, October 3, 2021
Olivier; Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonLarry Kramer’s 1985 response to the Aids crisis resonates with new force. And Dublin ghost stories unfurl slowly in a fine Conor McPherson revi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSunday, September 12, 2021
Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Dorfman, LondonWill the West End ever let go of this glinting new adaptation of the beloved Disney film. Back in the real world, a telling historical mashup from Wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, September 5, 2021
Almeida, LondonMirth and menace fight it out in Josh Azouz’s play of shifting alliances, with Adrian Edmondson on fine form as a knitting Nazi officer
The action is tragic; the dialogue fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, August 29, 2021
Royal Court Upstairs, LondonAs delivered by the Dutch singer Wende, the diffuse nature of assorted words that “can only be sung” take on the force of nature
I often wish I had been in Pa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, August 22, 2021
Gillian Lynne theatre; Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonAndrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical, sparkily scripted by Emerald Fennell, goes to the ball at last. And Carousel gets a salty …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM 
