Sunday, May 21, 2017
Young Vic, London Brendan Cowell brings Brecht’s rebel scientist to combative life in Joe Wright’s coruscating productionHow to see what’s really going on? How to recognise interesting…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMSunday, May 14, 2017
Olivier, National Theatre, LondonYaël Farber’s turgid take on the biblical story leaves some fine actors stranded in the desert“It begins at the end.” You might be warned from the sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMTheatre Royal, Stratford East, LondonEmma Donoghue’s acclaimed novel makes the leap to the stage, with a little help from young Harrison WildingEmma Donoghue has written eloquently about h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMHull Truck theatre, HullMat Fraser is genially terrifying as the dastardly king in Northern Broadsides’ urgent 25th anniversary performanceMat Fraser, who hosted the 2012 Paralympics openi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMSunday, May 7, 2017
Lyttelton, LondonGaudy and unflinching, Tony Kushner’s 90s Aids drama still resonates in this bold, starry revival directed by Marianne ElliottYou can tell when a show is bound for success…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMRoyal Court, London Magic runs through Butterworth’s brilliant new play, directed by Sam Mendes, with a fine stage debut from Paddy ConsidineJez Butterworth’s plays shoulder their way on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMSunday, April 30, 2017
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe lovers alone convince in Daniel Kramer’s bewildering productionEmma Rice’s last season in charge of the Globe opens with loud defiance. Daniel Kramer’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMBarbican, LondonNo amount of writhing and roaring can enliven Ivo van Hove’s self-absorbed take on ViscontiIn one corner David Hare: the least likely of dramatic Brexiters, suspicious of c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMLyric Hammersmith, LondonA visually dazzling staging by 59 Productions is missing a human dimensionJames Fenton, trenchant former theatre critic of the Sunday Times, once described his job a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMSunday, April 23, 2017
Bush theatre, LondonBrilliantly designed, Rajiv Joseph’s philosophical, whimsical play brings immensity to a small space at the refurbished west London theatreThe rejigged, refreshed Bush …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMUstinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath; Trafalgar Studios, LondonPlaywright Christopher Hampton’s talents are illuminated in two clever satires skewering the literary and academic lifeWho wou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMSunday, April 16, 2017
Coliseum, LondonKatherine Jenkins and Alfie Boe sound as good as you might expect, but ‘semi-staged’ here signifies a woeful lack of acting talentThe English National Opera has said that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMBarbican, LondonCheek by Jowl rise to Shakespeare’s challenge, including a wonderful awakening for Hermione. But the beast scares no oneThe Winter’s Tale is a series of dares for a direc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSunday, April 9, 2017
Dorfman, LondonNina Raine adroitly tackles barristers’ struggles with the truth as the audience becomes the jury in a rape caseMore than Consent. Heartfelt approval. It is hard to overemph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMTheatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonIf it’s a real musical you’re after, this is the one to watchForget La La Land. If you want to see hot hoofing, go to Mark Bramble’s production of 42nd …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMTheatre Royal, HaymarketDamian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo do their best with Edward Albee’s provocative play, but it is too knowing for its own goodIn the seven months since Edward Albee die…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMSunday, March 19, 2017
Dorfman, London Rufus Norris and Carol Ann Duffy’s verbatim drama includes a variety of voices but is already out of date in our bitterly divided nationOne of Rufus Norris’s aims since h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMRose theatre, Kingston upon ThamesCatherine McCormack and Niamh Cusack ignite April De Angelis’s five-hour staging of Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan sagaWhat a nerve. To think that Elena Fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMGarrick, London Heavily laboured jokes sink Griff Rhys Jones and Lee Mack in this 17th-century comedy of mannersIt may be that, all unwittingly, I have had a farsectomy. I – mostly – app…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMSunday, March 12, 2017
Old Vic, LondonDaniel Radcliffe and Joshua McGuire’s split-second timing ensures this well-judged production of Stoppard’s classic fizzes with lifeWhen as a schoolgirl I saw Rosencrantz …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMHarold Pinter, LondonPrepare for a high-wire showdown in James Macdonald’s fine production of Albee’s caustic classicNo one is going to accuse Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? of being …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonOutstanding performances, including Roger Allam as Roy Jenkins, enliven a timely drama about the birth of the SDPIt was an Alice Through the Looking Glass press night…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSunday, March 5, 2017
Hull Truck theatre, HullMark Addy and Caroline Quentin star in Richard Bean’s gag-heavy satirical tale of a 17th-century city governor navigating the outbreak of civil warThere is exemplar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMAlmeida, LondonScott brings total empathy to the title role in Robert Icke’s inspired production Robert Icke is one of the most important forces in today’s theatre. He blew the dust from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMSunday, February 26, 2017
Tobacco Factory, BristolPowerful performances from fine young actors bring fresh power to this sensual, subtle reinventionRichard Twyman is not resident at the Tobacco Factory. Yet his marve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMYoung Vic, LondonIt’s all mire, ire and menace in Joe Hill-Gibbins’s heavy-going productionMud sticks. The most immediately striking feature of Joe Hill-Gibbins’s staging of A Midsumme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMOlivier, LondonTamsin Greig is a magnetic Malvolia in an extravagant production that gleefully refocuses Shakespeare’s comedyShe is a 21st-century puritan: her religion is herself; her bod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSunday, February 19, 2017
Barbican, London Simon McBurney’s fizzing take on the novel that inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel transcends language barriers… and can still be seen onlineBefore I was a theatre critic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMBarbican, LondonLars Eidinger is a visceral, manipulative monarch in Thomas Ostermeier’s explosive German-language productionThomas Ostermeier has been director of Schaubühne Berlin since…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMApollo, LondonTom Hollander proves wonderfully potty in Stoppard’s 1974 play, given a startling new lease of life in this age of alternative factsEarly Tom Stoppard plays are having a stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSunday, February 12, 2017
Hampstead theatre, LondonDespite fine performances, Laura Eason’s 2009 play about two writers having a fling is too rooted in its timeLaura Eason’s Sex With Strangers was first staged by…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AM 
