Sunday, April 11, 2021
National Theatre/Sky ArtsBuckley and O’Connor head a terrific cast in this imaginatively pared down, made-for-TV production
What an accomplished example of pandemic-style drama: a sleek fu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, March 28, 2021
Pitlochry Festival theatre; Crucible Sheffield; podcast; all available onlineMark Ravenhill tenderly explores his mother’s life; monologues and music from Sheffield; and actors talk about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSunday, March 21, 2021
RSC onlineA motion-captured Puck and computer-generated forest of fairies hint at possible futures for live performance
At 7pm on Tuesday more than 7,000 people were watching. At a later per…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMSunday, March 14, 2021
Old Vic, London; available onlineJade Anouka sprints through American history, while all is calmly, inexorably revealed in Kiri Pritchard-McLean’s subtle play about gaslighting
The Old Vic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSunday, March 7, 2021
Old Vic, London; available onlineSolo voices reverberate in these archive performances of Maxine Peake’s play about a woman in prison, and Ella Hickson’s roaming story of escape
I have o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThe actor on his pandemic poetry jukebox, life lessons of the Moomins, the pros and cons of Twitter, and how to reboot regional theatre
Samuel West, 54, one of the best verse speakers of his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, February 28, 2021
Almeida, London; Soho theatre, London; both available onlineAdrian Lester and Danny Sapani work as one in Lolita Chakrabarti’s brilliantly realised study of male friendship. And a breathle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSunday, February 21, 2021
MZG Theatre Productions; available onlineJanie Dee impresses in a smart production of a Terence Rattigan solo work bound up in class issues
Terence Rattigan has long been rescued from the th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSunday, February 14, 2021
Original Theatre; available onlineSian Clifford and Nikesh Patel rehearsed for two days on Zoom before being filmed in a studio in Lorien Haynes’s impressively naturalistic bereavement sto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, January 31, 2021
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, live streamPlaying multiple roles – and all the music – four young actors dazzle in Eline Arbo’s superb staging of Édouard Louis’s brutal coming-of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, December 27, 2020
Royal Court, London, online; Bristol Old Vic onlineMore than 60 writers and 200 freelancers get to work on the Royal Court’s inspired latest venture, while the Bible gets a Bristol twist
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMSaturday, December 26, 2020
Our critic looks back on dazzling state-of-the-nation monologues and valiant virtual reimaginings, Ovid and Oliver Twist
Dance: Sarah Crompton’s five best of 2020
The Observer critics’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMSunday, December 20, 2020
Noël Coward; Lyric, London A brisk new backstage farce was overtaken by events, while Henry VIII’s splendid singing wives were silenced once more as London entered tier 3
All gone. And at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSaturday, December 19, 2020
It can be a role as career-defining as Hamlet. Dan Leno, who starred at Drury Lane every Christmas from 1888 to 1904, was the first great pantomime dame: a tiny ex-clog dancer with a top-kno…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMSunday, December 13, 2020
Almeida; Bridge; Big House; Hampstead, LondonAs theatres ease into the new normal, the Almeida and Big House celebrate connection and isolation, while Nicholas Hytner’s A Christmas Carol d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSunday, November 15, 2020
Jermyn Street theatre onlineThe aggrieved women of the poet’s Heroides speak loud and clear in 15 bristling new monologues by top playwrights, scorchingly delivered by 15 leading actors
He…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, November 8, 2020
Olivier, London; Chichester Festival theatre; live streamThe sequel to Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s Death of England, plus works by Sarah Kane and Steven Carl McCasland, evoke rage and pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSunday, November 1, 2020
Nottingham Playhouse; Apollo; Bridge, LondonOpposites attract in James Graham’s typically astute new two-hander; Adam Kay’s surgical wit lights up the West End; and an asylum story with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMMonday, October 19, 2020
The pandemic supercharges the atmosphere in this film version of Ian Rickson’s recent stage production
Here is an extraordinary, transfiguring leap from stage to screen. Ian Rickson’s pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMSunday, October 11, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonTamsin Greig flutters while Maxine Peake is uproarious in a fiendish double bill from Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series
What a cunning double bill this is. The late…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMMonday, September 21, 2020
The newly formed Musical Theatre Factory creates bespoke musicals for any occasion; for our critic, a potentially barnstorming show about her predecessor...
Like all good ideas, it looks obv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMSunday, September 13, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonThe wide-open space of the Bridge is commanded with riveting intimacy in one of four Talking Heads double bills
The sheer success of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads mak…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMSunday, September 6, 2020
Bridge, London; Troubadour, Wembley ParkDavid Hare’s explosive, first-hand coronavirus monologue, delivered by Ralph Fiennes, hits every target. And Kimberley Walsh and Jay McGuinness carr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, August 23, 2020
Alan Cumming puts his trademark drollery to diabolic effect in this exhilarating twist on Little Red Riding Hood
Each week through these Covid months the National Theatre of Scotland has bee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMSunday, August 16, 2020
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThere is no escape for a socially distanced audience all wearing headphones from Simon Stephens’s powerfully menacing adaptation of José Saramago
Every now and the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, August 9, 2020
Garden theatre, London SE11; onlineTwo singing, dancing Victorian cross-dressers give the kiss of life to London’s fringe theatre. And by Zoom to 2070 and Wonderland
Here are some chinks i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, July 26, 2020
Black writers shared feelings they had kept to themselves for years in a quietly explosive week of tension and tears
The words of My White Best Friend (and Other Letters Left Unsaid) hit act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, June 28, 2020
Urgent new perspectives on George Floyd’s death and the slave trade’s place in art; pastoral meditations from David Rudkin and an unforgettable wartime soundscape
Every week, a new catas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMEyebrows were raised over the casting for the young Prince of Denmark, but it could give the play new life
At first it seems preposterous. Aged 81, Ian McKellen has announced he is to play H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMSunday, June 21, 2020
With real life now the biggest show in town, our theatre critic reflects on the catastrophic effects of lockdown, and talks to industry insiders about navigating a way back
Kitty Empire: ‘…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, June 7, 2020
Outstanding Zoom drama from New York, a deluge of monologues from Dublin and an astonishing solo performance by Andrew Scott
The theatres have been dark – in that terrible, expressive phra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM 
