Sunday, August 7, 2016
Lyttelton, LondonHis powerful female characters redeem this handsome but hackneyed revival of Seán O’Casey’s great 1926 playThe Plough and the Stars is now most famous for causing a rio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AMBattersea Arts Centre, London A spoof on Victorian melodrama from the Little Bulb troupe makes a perfect debut for BAC’s new outdoor arenaBattersea Arts Centre is the only theatre in Londo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AMSunday, July 31, 2016
Royal Court, LondonCaryl Churchill takes just 15 minutes to skewer intolerance in Africa with a challenge to both prejudice and the conventions of political theatreOnce again Caryl Churchill…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01AMPalace theatre, LondonEmotional punch, rich suspense and dazzling effects make for all-round magic in the latest twist in Harry Potter’s taleOK, I’ll keep the secrets. After all, I’m w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMSunday, July 24, 2016
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonDanny Braverman conjures magic from a shoebox in his affectionate, unsparing portrait of a Jewish family in 20th-century east LondonIn Wot? No Fish!! at Batterse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49AMMinerva, ChichesterAnne Reid stars as a reluctant activist, but the plum role goes to the fracking company’s ‘horribly recognisable’ PR manOutside the Minerva, a woman from the Chiches…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49AMSunday, July 10, 2016
Bush Hall, LondonDespite a lovely lead performance, this all-female satire of women’s struggle to survive in a man’s world is feebleThere is a neglected theatrical treasure in Boys Will …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:27AMYoung Vic, LondonThirteen Syrian women bring Euripides up to date with unforgettable personal testimoniesIt is not only irrelevant but impudent to give a star rating to Queens of Syria. This…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:27AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonKneehigh’s captivating production is both playful and sombre as it conjures up the Chagalls’ intense relationshipMandolin, accordion, trumpet. Washes of ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:27AMSunday, July 3, 2016
Open Air theatre, Regent’s Park, LondonMichelle Terry shines in Rob Hastie’s muted productionThe important thing in cross-gender casting is not just the tremendous leads but the default …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:28AMDonmar Warehouse, London Stephen Dillane, Gina McKee and Ron Cook excel in Lyndsey Turner’s tremendous revival of Brian Friel’s 1979 playBrian Friel makes it look like the most natural t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:28AMBristol Old Vic‘Albion comes to great confusion’ as Timothy West’s thoughtful Lear presides over a nation dividedA map of the British Isles cracks into pieces. In front of it two tribe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:28AMSunday, June 26, 2016
Hampstead theatre, London NW3This edgy tale of a Snowden-type whistleblower is over-reliant on its stagey finaleMike Bartlett is one of our most protean playwrights. On telly: Doctor Foster;…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:16AMLes Nuits de Fourvière, LyonRobert Lepage pulls no punches as he revisits the notorious marquis in the asylumRobert Lepage is the Marquis de Sade. In pigtailed perruque and high heels, turn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:16AMSunday, June 19, 2016
Barbican, LondonIsabelle Huppert sparkles intermittently in an incoherent attempt to yoke together different versions of the Greek mythAs a showcase for the translucent talent of Isabelle Hu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:34AMAlmeida theatre, London N1Ralph Fiennes is a masterly, transfixing Richard, while Vanessa Redgrave curses with quiet convictionHe seduces like a basilisk. Sheer force of self-belief concentr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:34AMChichester festival theatreA first-rate Joseph Fiennes saves the day in Terence Rattigan’s timid drama based on TE LawrenceThese days a theatre critic measures out her life in the Fiennes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:34AMSunday, June 12, 2016
Trafalgar Studios, LondonActor/playwright Jesse Eisenberg is terrific as the rich narcissist in a witty and constantly surprising pieceJesse Eisenberg’s The Spoils has some of the ingredie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:51AMLyttelton, LondonHelen McCrory brings steel and gusto to the role of Terence Rattigan’s scorned 1950s loverAfter the whirling excitement of her production of A Doll’s House, I half-expec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:51AMSunday, June 5, 2016
Dorfman, LondonAlexi Kaye Campbell’s new work has plenty of political comment but little to say on the state of present-day GreeceThe theatre, one character proclaims in Alexi Kaye Campbel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:52AMYoung Vic, LondonJoe Penhall’s dissection of racism and mental health in modern Britain is still compelling, thanks in part to an outstanding central performanceBlue/Orange does not startl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:52AMOlivier, LondonA new translation of Brecht and Weill’s dark comedy fails to hit its satirical targets but still makes for a good musical“Fake it to seem real,” a would-be beggar is adv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:52AMBarbican, LondonA mesmerising production from Katie Mitchell recounts the harrowing legacy of German chemist Fritz Haber as seen by his wife and granddaughterOne of the best things the theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:52AMMonday, May 30, 2016
Coliseum, LondonA glittering Glenn Close is ready once again for her close-up as Norma DesmondIt is more than 20 years since Glenn Close first starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boule…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:45AMSunday, May 29, 2016
Royal Exchange, ManchesterHattie Naylor’s beautifully deft adaptation springs Sarah Waters’s bestseller on to the stage in a pitch-perfect productionWhat a haunting, unusual thing Hattie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:46AMGarrick, LondonLily James and Richard Madden certainly look the part, but are doomed by their dictionIt’s easy to think the famous golden lines, the swift, sad arc of Romeo and Juliet will…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:46AMWednesday, May 25, 2016
Young Vic, LondonBenedict Andrews's revival of the Tennessee Williams classic steams off the revolving set of the Young Vic• Gillian Anderson in Streetcar – in pictures• From Anderson …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:14AMSunday, May 22, 2016
Orange Tree, LondonGeorge Bernard Shaw’s satirical attack on the divorce laws (and the medical profession) rather outstays its welcomeThe Philanderer, written in 1893, is a prescient play.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:21AMYork Theatre RoyalThis adaptation of the novelist’s prescient 1909 short story is impressively nimbleA woman looks into a screen showing the face of her faraway son. Electronic music ping …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:21AMWednesday, May 18, 2016
Chichester Festival theatre, West SussexA vivid revival of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus christens a newly refashioned Chichester Festival theatreChichester Festival theatre reopens this summer, n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56AMSunday, May 15, 2016
Royal Court, LondonAbout half a mile down from the Little Chef on the A14, a giant chats about building Stonehenge. In a Wiltshire glade at dawn, teenage girls tumble bug-eyed and doped-up f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:21AM 
