Sunday, 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 06:06AMMonday, March 30, 2020
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMSunday, March 22, 2020
Lyttelton, LondonRobert Lepage’s extraordinary, seven-hour fusion of horror, romance and French farce made for a fitting final show before London’s theatres went into lockdown
This was t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSunday, March 15, 2020
Trafalgar Studios; Royal Court, London; Theatre Royal BrightonSebastian Barry’s tale of two cellmates succeeds despite plausibility issues, while Katherine Parkinson is magnetic in a flims…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMSunday, March 8, 2020
Leeds Playhouse; Stratford East; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonOliver is both deaf and poor in a sign-language version of Dickens’s tale that speaks to 21st-century London. And Frantic As…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSunday, February 23, 2020
Bridge; Olivier, London; Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonCloned siblings cast fleeting shadows in a vivid Caryl Churchill revival, while Lesley Manville dazzles in an unwieldy revenge drama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSunday, February 16, 2020
Wyndham’s; Dorfman; Donmar Warehouse, LondonTom Stoppard explores his Jewish heritage in what may be his final play; Rafe Spall delivers a career-changing study in rage; and Caryl Churchil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, February 2, 2020
Harold Pinter, London; Leeds Playhouse; Lyric Hammersmith, LondonToby Jones and Rosalind Eleazar make light work of Ian Rickson’s overfreighted new Chekhov. Plus, wall-to-wall zombie horro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMSunday, December 29, 2019
There was fearless new work, revelatory sound design and a seismic shift in the tussle between Chekhov and Ibsen. The Observer’s theatre critic introduces her 10 best shows of the year
My …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, December 22, 2019
Dorfman; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Donmar Warehouse, LondonA Neil Gaiman adaptation delivers spooky childhood spectacle; and the teenage years of Elizabeth I and Richard III
Sometimes it is n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, December 15, 2019
Playhouse; Almeida; Lyttelton, LondonGone is the big nose, while the fighting’s a poetry slam in Martin Crimp’s ingenious new rapping Cyrano. Plus, The Duchess of Malfi reimagined, and T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSunday, December 1, 2019
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Bush; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonA new musical adaptation of David Walliams’s book scores on all counts; director Bijan Sheibani makes a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMSunday, November 24, 2019
Noël Coward; Duke of York’s; Arcola, LondonA dazzling West End debut lights up a newly arrived Broadway hit, while Joe Simpson’s Andes ordeal is all too real on stage, and a jailed repo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSaturday, November 9, 2019
Boulevard; Turbine; Kiln, LondonTwo recently opened London theatres make their mark, with love and loss round the camp fire, and a sparky reworking of High Fidelity that just needs a few goo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMSunday, November 3, 2019
Royal Exchange, Manchester; Dorfman; Hampstead, LondonSarah Frankcom signs off in Manchester with elegiac Simon Stephens and a little bit of Jarvis Cocker. Plus, Annie Baker’s latest and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMSaturday, October 26, 2019
Donmar Warehouse; Old Vic; Almeida, LondonAlice Birch searches for hope in the criminal justice system, Claire Foy and Matt Smith bring wit to eco angst, and Siobhan Redmond makes a fine Gor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMSaturday, October 19, 2019
Leeds Playhouse; Lyric Hammersmith; Royal Court, LondonA powerful verbatim portrayal of women’s lives during the Yorkshire Ripper years; a sci-fi classic reborn; and a musical imperialism …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSunday, October 6, 2019
Lyttelton; Young Vic, London; Chichester Festival theatreAthol Fugard’s masterly apartheid drama still shocks, while compatriot Yaël Farber is transfixed by Marina Carr’s lyrical Irish …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, September 29, 2019
Royal Court, London; Curve, LeicesterCaryl Churchill conjures four short, sharp, unconnected plays that add up to one remarkable whole. And a new spin on an 80s film classic
What a rapt, int…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMSunday, September 22, 2019
Dorfman; Hampstead; Bush, LondonAusterity bites at the National in Alexander Zeldin’s intense community centre drama, while a Chinese whistleblowing thriller is lost for words
Alexander Ze…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMSunday, September 15, 2019
Old Vic; Lyric Hammersmith, London; Minerva, Chichester Lucy Prebble’s take on the Litvinenko murder swivels brilliantly between tragedy and farce, while Ibsen’s women still have much to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMSunday, September 8, 2019
Lyttelton; Duke of York’s; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAlex Jennings and Lindsay Duncan snipe to perfection as an 80s Tory MP and his wife in a debut play that isn’t quite so sharp. P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSunday, September 1, 2019
Wyndham’s; Donmar Warehouse, London; Queen’s theatre, HornchurchPhoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag returns in singularly brilliant fashion. Plus, more electrifying drama from Branden Jacob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSunday, August 25, 2019
Almeida, London; Festival theatre, EdinburghRobert Icke concludes his dazzling run at the Almeida with another masterstroke. Plus, Stephen Fry’s one-man Greek myths
Robert Icke’s time as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMSunday, July 21, 2019
Two star performances breathe life into Tennessee Williams, Vanessa Redgrave’s memories could do with an edit, while Jasmine Lee-Jones is someone to watchTennessee Williams can make the st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMSunday, July 14, 2019
Manchester international festival; Olivier, LondonTree is less exciting than the row about its authorship, Lolita Chakrabarti works wonders with Italo Calvino’s tricky text, and David Hare…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSunday, July 7, 2019
Donmar Warehouse; Royal Court, London; Curve, LeicesterDavid Greig’s play on continental movement still resonates, while the makers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child can’t summon the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMSunday, June 30, 2019
Almeida; Old Vic; Barbican, LondonYoung performers shine in a riveting adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg’s film about a falsely accused teacher. And Andrew Scott is a Noël Coward natural
It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, June 23, 2019
Our critic reflects on the exciting developments sweeping our stages and below, some of the top new recruits share their stories and ways of working
British theatre is in the process of a ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMGarrick; Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire; Bush, LondonJohn Malkovich cannot save David Mamet’s lame post-Weinstein satire. Thank heavens for Giffords’ groovy circus spectacular
Any sex play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMSunday, June 9, 2019
Ambassador, Bradford; Trafalgar Studios; Young Vic, LondonThe short but vibrant life of playwright Andrea Dunbar is vividly recreated by an all-female cast, while the joys and trials of 90s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AM 
