Saturday, September 22, 2018
Royal Exchange, Manchester; Theatre Royal East Stratford; Trafalgar Studios, LondonJade Anouka is compelling in Jeanie O’Hare’s bold take on Shakespeare and the life of Margaret of Anjou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMSunday, September 16, 2018
Battersea Arts Centre; Kiln; Hampstead, LondonMissing reappears three years after fire interrupted its run at the Battersea Arts Centre, while the Kiln opens with some topical grievancesThes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMSunday, September 9, 2018
Almeida; Regent’s Park Open Air theatre; the Scoop, LondonAdults act up as children in Clare Barron’s acute new study of adolescence. And a man-eating plant, played by a drag queen, feel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMSunday, September 2, 2018
Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon; Olivier, LondonMarlowe’s bloody tyrant and Shakespeare’s banished prince both get a rare chance to strut in two very effective productionsHot on the big-sandal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSunday, August 26, 2018
Lyceum; Studio, EdinburghPeter Brook’s meditation on justice is imprisoned by its own virtues, while Édouard Louis’s powerful teenage memoir translates vividly to the stageWhen better t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSunday, August 19, 2018
Theatre Royal, Bath; Donmar, LondonPatricia Highsmith’s most famous creation comes back to haunt her, while the ghosts are closer to home in revivals of Miller and FrielShe liked to watch …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMSunday, July 29, 2018
Olivier; Royal Court; National Theatre, LondonRhys Ifans ages well in Patrick Marber’s update of Ionesco’s classic, while Rory Mullarkey’s homage often palls. Plus tales of the River S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSunday, July 22, 2018
Bridge; Lyttelton; Old Vic, LondonAlan Bennett is on song – and on the attack. Plus, an epic tale of capitalist catastrophe and a tale of grief that overwhelms“I am,” says Alan Bennett…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04AMSunday, July 15, 2018
Festival theatre, Chichester; Theatre Royal, Bath Timeworn tropes work their magic as Chichester does the Lambeth Walk, while a knockout Katherine Kingsley overcomes a galumphing script in D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04AMSunday, July 8, 2018
Aidan Turner brings swagger to the Irish Troubles, a tribute to Joan Littlewood lacks her revolutionary spirit, and there’s a twist in the Globe’s Winter’s TaleSeventeen years after it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSunday, July 1, 2018
Young Vic; Royal Court; Greenwich and Docklands international festival, LondonAcclaimed cartoonist Alison Bechdel comes to life in a remarkable new musical, a stranger menaces liberal London…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32AMSunday, June 24, 2018
LIFT Crossness Pumping Station, London; LIFT Royal Court, London; Dorfman Theatre, London; LIFT King’s Cross, LondonDuke Riley’s illuminated pigeons are a soaraway success, while Anna De…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSaturday, June 16, 2018
Donmar; Lyttelton; Almeida; all LondonLia Williams makes the role of Miss Jean Brodie her own, while Vanessa Kirby’s Julie is a wild party girl in Polly Stenham’s vicious, witty update o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMSunday, June 10, 2018
Laura Linney is utterly assured in a fine adaptation of the bestselling novel, but fellow Hollywood star Orlando Bloom fails to convince in Killer JoeWhat fascinates me about the rise of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMSunday, May 27, 2018
Shakespeare’s Globe; Playground, LondonMichelle Terry’s reign as the Globe’s artistic director begins with an assured double bill; and Shirley Porter’s dark deeds are nicely skewered…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSunday, May 20, 2018
Wyndham’s; Gate, LondonMark Rothko’s work and mind are brilliantly evoked in a revival of John Logan’s 2009 play. And Weimar Germany is alive and kicking…Red: for rage and fire – a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSunday, May 13, 2018
Ustinov Studio, Bath; The Bridge; Vaudeville, LondonA morbidly obese man is trapped with his regrets and his furious daughter in the Ustinov’s superb revival of Samuel D Hunter’s The Wha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMSunday, May 6, 2018
Artist and producer fight over a song in Joe Penhall’s intricate new drama, a revival of Chess makes all the wrong moves, and a party of mourners lifts the spiritsThe lens through which we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSunday, April 29, 2018
A thrillingly shifting feminist drama will send audiences out of the theatre arguing, but a plunge into postwar Soho is stiflingElla Hickson’s new play is an assault on the stage. The Writ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMSunday, April 22, 2018
Aldwych, London; Everyman, Liverpool; Royal Court, LondonAdrienne Warren is a knockout as Tina Turner, droog culture rules in Liverpool. Plus, how to build a flat-pack childThe two most sign…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMSunday, April 15, 2018
Donmar Warehouse; Southwark Playhouse; Old Red Lion, LondonTwo biting Restoration dramas conjure contemporary echoes, and a boy with a ‘face like a fist’ reacts with fury to school bulli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, April 8, 2018
Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon; Soho theatre, LondonMary Pix’s forgotten 1700 play fills the stage with defiant energy, while Ali Taylor’s remake of Cathy Come Home hits hardIs it a clus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, April 1, 2018
Young Vic; Battersea Arts Centre, LondonMatthew Lopez’s seven-hour, Forster-inspired epic of New York gay life rewards patience. Plus, BAC’s thrilling beatbox Mary Shelley remake“You c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, March 11, 2018
Almeida; Olivier, LondonPatsy Ferran shows her dramatic range in a Tennessee Williams revival, but Rory Kinnear’s Macbeth is one-dimensionalSummer and Smoke must make Rebecca Frecknall’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:35PMSunday, March 4, 2018
Old Vic, London; Gate, LondonPerceptions are challenged in a new Ingmar Bergman adaptation and a state-of-the-world addressShould the theatre reflect the outside world, or be a refuge from i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMSunday, February 25, 2018
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London; York Theatre RoyalA big week for Bryony Lavery sees a revival of her 1998 missing child play, Frozen, and the premiere of her fine Graham Greene adaptationTh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, February 18, 2018
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court; Donmar Warehouse, LondonAlone on stage for an hour and a half, Carey Mulligan is extraordinary in Dennis Kelly’s gripping new play. Plus, a dream d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, February 4, 2018
The Bridge; Young Vic, London; Hull Truck, HullNicholas Hytner’s outstanding production reconfigures Julius Caesar in more ways than one. Plus, James Graham and Moonlight’s Tarell Alvin …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, January 28, 2018
Dorfman; Vaudeville theatre, LondonTension builds subtly in Annie Baker’s unmissable John at the National, while Kathy Burke has a hectic take on Oscar WildeWhat counts as action in the th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, January 21, 2018
Harold Pinter theatre; Gate, London Harold Pinter’s ‘ravings’ make perfect sense 60 years on in his seaside dreamscape, and one woman brings vivid life to 1992’s LA riotsNearly 60 ye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, January 14, 2018
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, LondonThe naturally comic Patsy Ferran shines in Anoushka Warden’s punchy autobiographical monologue about growing up the child of a cult followerAno…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM 
