Sunday, 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 03:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 skeweredWhy does…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 " and Mark …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 WhaleTh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 Writer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 03:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 bulliesRe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 cluster,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 can't a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 nam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 02:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 dou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 McCr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 thea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 years ago,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 followerAnous…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, LondonAfter all the controversy surrounding this revival of Andrea Dunbar's memorable play, it adds nothing that's newRita, Sue and Bob Too comes to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 24, 2017
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJames Norton and Imogen Poots paint an intense picture of a couple in a violent but entirely predictable marriage crisisDoors are battered, blood is spattered, a per…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Young Vic, LondonTestimony from Calais refugees makes vital drama in a compelling but unsentimental document of our timesThe Jungle is one of the most vital productions of the year. Desperat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Victoria Palace, LondonLin-Manuel Miranda'a smash Broadway musical about one of America's founding fathers now breaks new ground in the West EndYes it is. Worth the wait. Yes it does. Speak …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 17, 2017
National Theatre, LondonThe almost-real boy and adorably annoying cricket win hearts and minds in John Tiffany's skilful, subtle adaptationIt is easy to draw up a list of items that make Pin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonRobert Harris's trilogy springs fully to life in Mike Poulton's two-part epic " but where are the meaty parts for women?There are, well, a legion of reasons for goin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Almeida, LondonThe supernatural stories of the mid-20th century TV show have lost some of their bite in adaptation, but none of their deadpan charmCan irony and fear coexist in the theatre? …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 10, 2017
Young Vic, LondonAn Edinburgh fringe hit, this spangled tale of the cross-dressing fifth marquis of Anglesey charms even as it cajolesI bet most of the audience in How to Win Against History…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonMarcus Brigstocke stars in a revival of the Broadway musical that brings the big top to fire-eating life, if not the showman himself"Humbug" at this time of y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM[SHARE]Hot-off-the-press plays thrust the personal and the political centre stage, while Bob Dylan had a moment' Observer critics' reviews of the year in fullWhat a terrific turnaround year. At the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 26, 2017
Apollo, LondonThere's wit and heart galore in Tom Macrae and Dan Gillespie's musical inspired by a teenage boy who wanted to dress in girls' clothesWho could resist Everybody's Talking About…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM[SHARE]Young Vic, LondonAeschylus speaks directly to us in David Greig's electrifying adaptationFierce and crystal-clear, The Suppliant Women arrives in London like an arrow shot into the hear…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 19, 2017
Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffCardiff's fabled docks are given the Les Mis treatment in a hulking, lacklustre new musical graced by some exceptional voicesIt is my favourite place name. Ti…
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