Sunday, 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 03:36AMThe Vaults, LondonFrom the Great Gatsby to Martian odysseys and life in a refugee camp, south London plays host to worlds of possibilitySince 2011, the traditionally torpid theatrical weeks …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMDuke of York’s, London Kate O’Flynn is outstanding in John Tiffany’s beautiful staging of Tennessee Williams’s breakthrough play about a fragile girl and her gentleman callerIs there…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMThursday, February 9, 2017
Royal Exchange, ManchesterThe gender switches in Sarah Frankcom’s Hamlet may unsettle for a moment but they do not distort the play• At her Peake: a stage career in pictures• Michael B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, February 5, 2017
Charing Cross theatre, LondonEven musical maestro Thom Southerland’s gifts can’t help this flight of fancy rise above its silly premiseThom Southerland has made himself a master of the u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMHome, ManchesterLizzie Nunnery’s play with music captures bittersweet memories of the North Atlantic convoys as documentary meets melancholy balladNarvik is not like anything else I have h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSunday, January 29, 2017
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonOnly the row over an all-white cast, in a tale set in ancient China, quickens the pulse of this arduous playThe Print Room has been in the middle of a “yel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04AMDorfman, LondonCarly Wijs’s 2016 Edinburgh fringe hit tells the story of the 2004 Russian school siege with clear-eyed audacityUs/Them: hostages and captors; Russians and Chechens; childre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMGate, LondonA young woman’s conversion to Catholicism in 19th-century Rhodesia speaks volumes in Danai Gurira’s bold tale of oppression and identityThe Convert is enough to give historic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMSunday, January 22, 2017
Orange Tree, Richmond, SurreyA silver-tongued visitor is not what he seems in Roland Schimmelpfennig’s subtle exploration of the rise of the new rightWinter Solstice is, in a way, the perf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMLyceum, EdinburghA vivid adaptation of the classic Australian tale about the disappearance of a group of schoolgirls in 1900When Joan Lindsay wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock in 1967, she create…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSunday, January 1, 2017
Old Vic, LondonRufus Sewell is poised and sleek in Yasmina Reza’s tale of three friends and a very expensive white canvasIn 1998, Yasmina Reza won a Laurence Olivier award for Art. The pri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSavoy theatre, London Amber Riley, of Glee fame, leads three wronged women in a show that packs a punchOnce upon a time, it was romance that roused the audiences in musicals. In Dreamgirls i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMMonday, December 26, 2016
Royal Court, LondonCaryl Churchill’s magnificent new play unleashes an intricate, elliptical, acutely female view of the apocalypseSo which is the best moment in Caryl Churchill’s sizzli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMSunday, December 18, 2016
Almeida, LondonLia Williams and Juliet Stevenson switch roles seamlessly at the toss of a coin to play warring queens in Robert Icke’s explosive productionLast year Robert Icke made Oreste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMLyttelton, London Its star and writer cannot be faulted, but Ivo van Hove’s production could do with a change of paceRuth Wilson has brought a new dimension to Hedda Gabler. I have seen co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMSunday, December 11, 2016
Young Vic, London… but the star turns are elsewhere in this thin adaptation of the 1930 satire on the Hollywood talkiesOnce in a Lifetime? That’s about right. Twice is pushing it. Moss H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMOlivier, LondonSally Cookson tumbles expectations in a fine production that’s true to JM Barrie’s sadly twisting storyIt was one of the most extraordinary revelations that has ever burst…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonMatthew White’s exquisite, light-on-its-feet revival of the 1963 musical delights one audience member in particular…The lyricist Sheldon Harnick, 92, was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMSunday, December 4, 2016
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonPhilosophical larks and anglers’ musings charm in a surreal, glacial dreamscapeOn the one hand, readings from Moby-Dick. On the other a miniature world of pupp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMRoyal Court, LondonBaby-boomer guilt goes nuclear in Kirkwood’s ingenious new play, with fine performances from Francesca Annis, Ron Cook and Deborah FindlayBaby boomerism. Is it the last …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMHome, ManchesterThe melodrama is kept at bay in Polly Findlay’s fine production of David Watson’s new versionHere is a measure of what an actor Niamh Cusack is, how viscerally, totally s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMIt was a year of Lears, spellbinding women and memorable migrant tales• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in fullIt has been – at last – a good year for women on stage. It began …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSaturday, December 3, 2016
Over 10 highly successful years, the Observer’s theatre critic helped transform the ailing British theatre and reinvent the role of the reviewer• Click here for more on the Observer at 2…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31PMSunday, November 27, 2016
Donmar at King’s Cross, LondonHarriet Walter is the linchpin in the Donmar’s momentous, all-female staging of Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The TempestThe use of new skills or the unearthi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSunday, November 20, 2016
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, LondonEV Crowe explores the disorienting effects of technology in her cryptic new playEV Crowe’s new play, The Sewing Group, is a sly thing. It begin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMNew London theatreLloyd Webber delivers a rabble-rousing musical with a big heart and the best drilled young actors this side of MatildaHere is the family Christmas outing solved. Andrew Llo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMBattersea Arts Centre, LondonPeople from elsewhere who have made London their home speak openly in an immersive experience that touches heartsThe young woman serving home-made coconut cake i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSunday, November 13, 2016
King’s Cross theatre, LondonDavid Bowie’s creative end note feels like a stylish, trance-like pop videoDavid Bowie called it “a play with my songs”. When Lazarus opened off-Broadway …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31AMOld Vic, LondonLess is more as Glenda Jackson exudes command in Deborah Warner’s fitfully brilliant productionSandpaper voice; gliding movement; complete, ferocious concentration. Glenda J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31AMSunday, November 6, 2016
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonChastity, family guilt and fairyland antics make a rich brewIn the uproar about the Globe, little has been said about its offshoot, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse…
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