Duke of York’s; Almeida; Hampstead, LondonMatt Smith heads a rousing adaptation of Ibsen for a bruised world; Danny Sapani and co lean into the storm in Yaël Farber’s liberating Lear. P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMHarold Pinter theatre; Lyric Hammersmith; Palladium, LondonDreams of fame trap and inspire in Jez Butterworth’s female-centred, Blackpool-set new play; Lemn Sissay takes a personal approac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMDorfman; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Savoy, LondonBeth Steel’s battling Notts wedding guests are a treat; Ola Ince’s Met police Othello makes horrible sense; and Matthew Broderick and Sarah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMOrange Tree, Richmond; Marylebone theatre, LondonZoe Cooper’s vivaciously queer take on Jane Austen will make readers and audiences think twice. And Nicolas Kent distils a Holocaust fable …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMPark theatre; Lyttleton, LondonIns Choi’s disarming Korean corner store comedy makes a timely return to the stage; a show of migrant stories feels more like ritual than chronicle; and a ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMAmbassadors; Yard; King’s Head, LondonCatherine Tate and David Threlfall are stranded in a scarily dull ghost story; the end of a love affair looms over a lively two-hander; and the new Ki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMIn a thin year for musicals and political drama, an 11th hour Blanche DuBois, a flurry of young actors, two James Graham plays and a pair of Macbeths were among the standouts Read the Observ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMDonmar Warehouse; Phoenix theatre; Riverside Studios, LondonDavid Tennant and Cush Jumbo wire you into the Macbeths’ innermost thoughts; Stranger Things takes theatrical spectacle to the n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMThe Lucky Chance, Frome; Almeida; Soho theatre, LondonThere’s a puppet but no happy ending at Emma Rice’s fine new Somerset venue; Elvis Costello soundtracks a postwar Polish love story;…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMDorfman; Young Vic; Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonChronic illness is captured to extraordinary effect in Annie Baker’s slow yet absorbing new play. Elsewhere, snarling Pinter lacks bite,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMThe Depot, Liverpool; Lyttleton, London Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma are magnetic murderers in Simon Godwin’s bleakly immersive warehouse production, while Harriet Walter commands the st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMFinborough; Hampstead; Royal Court, LondonAn exemplary staging of short plays by overlooked Ena Lamont Stewart; Alun Armstrong is at his hangdog best in Richard Bean’s warm retirement dram…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMDuke of York’s, London; RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon; New Diorama, LondonThe puns ricochet between Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans in a frisky royal tale of mistress and servant; merriment disp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AMWyndham’s; Harold Pinter; Battersea Arts Centre, LondonKenneth Branagh savours Lear’s words rather too much; Kristin Scott Thomas and co are left high and dry in Cornwall; but at BAC, a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMDonmar Warehouse; Lyttelton, London; Theatre Royal BathLynn Nottage wires us into American life with her all-consuming truck-stop cafe drama; Alexander Zeldin weaves slow magic from his moth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMBristol Old Vic; Almeida; the Yard, LondonMoonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney’s elite school drama hits all the right notes; Marina Carr’s intense Irish play finds its ideal director.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AMNational Theatre; Savoy theatre, LondonThe fourth in Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation play series is precise, fierce and moving, while Nicole Scherzinger hammers home the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AMGielgud; Theatre Royal Haymarket; Royal Court, LondonAn all-star tribute to the acid genius of the late composer offers a terrific medley of hits, Michael Frayn’s clever farce also proves …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMLiverpool’s Royal Court; Duke of York’s; Kiln, LondonAlan Bleasdale’s 80s TV classic about jobless workers hits home in James Graham’s adaptation; Andrew Scott is not alone in his on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMMinerva theatre, Chichester; Lyric Hammersmith, LondonAn evening of drinking turns dangerous in the sharply funny debut play from The Guilty Feminist’s Deborah Frances-White. And the set i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AMAlmeida; Donmar Warehouse, LondonSam Holcroft’s unsettling new play about censorship features a menacing performance from Jonny Lee Miller, while a musical drama exploring bipolar disorder…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMLyttelton, London; Finborough, LondonJamie Lloyd galvanises Lucy Prebble’s drama about two patients who on a drug trial, while a trilogy of pre-first world war playlets captures a forgotte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AMShe cancelled her honeymoon to star in A Streetcar Named Desire with four days’ notice – then won the 2023 Critics’ Circle best actress award. She talks to the Observer’s theatre cri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55AMTraverse; Lyceum; Studio, EdinburghNat McCleary’s new play gets to grips with Scottish identity; a French-language take on Lars von Trier glides between stage and screen; and dinner is ser…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55AMMinerva, Chichester; Garrick, LondonThe wit and sharpness of the 70s TV series about a pioneering all-female band is partially captured in a spirited stage adaptation. As for Simon Nye’s n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMSecret location, Milton Keynes; Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court; Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London Catalan company Kamchàtka create an enticing piece of site-specific theatre in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:13AMHome; Versa Manchester Studios; Royal Exchange, ManchesterThe rigidity of othering is blown away, along with Asian stereotypes. Plus, a mixed reality celebration of Ryuichi Sakamoto and a wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Theatre Royal Stratford East; Hampstead theatre, London Seasoned actors turn Shakespeare’s romcom on its head in an enchanted RSC production…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AMOlivier theatre; Duke of York’s theatre; Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonJoseph Fiennes scores as Gareth Southgate in a rousing football drama; Lily Allen glimmers in a low-voltage Martin …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMTwo people who watched the actor and Labour politician closely remember her desire to get to the truth that made her so powerful on stage, screen and in parliament I thought I had seen Glen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMAlmeida; Donmar Warehouse; Old Vic, London Danger stalks the radiant lovers in Rebecca Frecknall’s tumultuous, twilit Romeo and Juliet; a 1920s battle for the soul of BBC radio couldn’t …
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