Sunday, November 8, 2015
It's already a smash hit, but this telly-hyped Oliver! just reheats tired clichés that belong in the 1960sOliver!Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London WC2 Roaring TradeSoho, London Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMHampstead theatre, LondonRoger Allam and Nancy Carroll hit all the right notes in David Hare’s play about the founders of GlyndebourneThe soprano in David Hare’s new play has nothing of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMJW3, LondonLaz’s struggles with his wasting limbs are especially poignant in this adaptation by the late Christopher LeithThis year, the Suspense festival of puppetry has included an adapt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMOlivier, LondonPolly Findlay’s ingenious reimagining of Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy is a visual and aural delightAs You Like It? Absolutely. But not as it has been seen before. Polly F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMSunday, November 1, 2015
Dorfman, London Characters burst into vivid life in Marianne Elliott’s powerful evocation of DH Lawrence’s mining townTo make an audience feel it is watching not just one uncurling episo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMRoyal Court, London Troubling notes emerge on contemporary American life, complete with Hound Dog, pig shark and Thelma and LouiseRoosevElvis is the latest time-hopping, gender-mashing, genr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMOld Vic, LondonEugene O Neill’s 1922 anti-capitalist drama gains extra muscle from Bertie Carvel’s superb performance as the wounded, inarticulate stoker, YankAs manufacturing industry …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMFriday, October 23, 2015
Chichester Festival theatreDavid Hare’s vibrant reboots of three early plays bring out the wilder side of ChekhovThis is a season of theatrical marathons. At Kingston, The Wars of the Rose…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:28AMTricycle theatre, LondonMarcus Gardley’s reworking of Molière’s Tartuffe has spark, but lacks driveTwo or three speeches in A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes have a rare sumptuousness, a lip-sm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:28AMSunday, October 18, 2015
Young Vic, LondonA fast and furious staging of one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem’ plays retains a dark heart despite its comic toneThe opening scene of Joe Hill-Gibbins’s staging of Meas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:41AMFormer Central St Martins School of Art, LondonThe Soho site of the Sex Pistols’ first gig provides the perfect venue for this storming revival of Barrie Keeffe’s trilogy on troubled you…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:41AMBristol Old VicA fiery new production of Arthur Miller’s masterpiece returns to the stage of its 1954 British premiereIn the centenary year of Arthur Miller’s birth, his play about the S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:41AMSunday, October 11, 2015
Wyndham’s, LondonFlorian Zeller’s study of dementia continues to enthralHow could I have forgotten the kiss? I thought each skewering moment of The Father was indelibly registered. But t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:20AMRose theatre, Kingston upon ThamesTrevor Nunn’s staging of the RSC’s bold 1960s Shakespeare adaptation lacks the original’s daring, though there are some fine turns in the lead rolesWh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:20AMSunday, October 4, 2015
Everyman, LiverpoolSimon Armitage and Nick Bagnall’s time-slip take on the Greek epic makes some topical political pointsThe Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead claims Homer as the bard of shif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:43AMAlmeida, LondonKate Fleetwood stuns in the title role of Rachel Cusk’s fierce and intelligent adaptationHas Homer become our new Shakespeare? Are the ancients our new contemporaries? As th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:43AMLyric Hammersmith, LondonLaura Wade’s adaptation of Sarah Waters’s best-selling lesbian love story lacks ardour in both its politics and songsThere is a carnival of talent in Tipping the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:43AMSunday, September 27, 2015
Royal Court, LondonMartin McDonagh’s first play in more than a decade, with electric performances from David Morrissey and Reece Shearsmith, should be the Royal Court’s new JerusalemMart…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:22AMLyttelton, LondonSally Cookson’s bold, tumultuous reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s novel is a feast for the sensesSally Cookson presents a picture of exultant feminism in Jane Eyre. Fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:09AMHampstead, London Simon Russell Beale is a delight as the one-legged 18th-century dramatist who turned fame into an art form in Richard Eyre’s rumbustious productionYou don’t often see a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:09AMSunday, September 20, 2015
Noël Coward, LondonNicole Kidman’s precise, contained performance as Rosalind Franklin and Michael Grandage’s vivid production make the most of a sketchy playNot so much theatrical Viag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMAdelphi, LondonThe costumes and choreography are full of brio, but a dull central character drags down this tale of transformative footwearAt the end, Kinky Boots comes together, in a battal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMSunday, September 6, 2015
Dorfman, London SE1The extraordinary Denise Gough electrifies as a raging, terrified addictThis is the week when a tremendous actor gets the recognition she deserves. It is not that Denise G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:43AMShoreditch town hall, London EC1The life of the colourful Duchess of Argyll is marvellously evoked through a series of underground installations, but the human absence is palpableThese days,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:43AMSunday, August 30, 2015
Cumberbatch is a strikingly eloquent Hamlet in an evening of fitful illuminationI don’t think I have ever seen a more rational Hamlet. When Benedict Cumberbatch tots up his bodkins, whips,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04AMSunday, August 9, 2015
Donmar Warehouse, London Seething resentments surface amid opulent surroundings as four women sit out a revolutionPlaywrights are usually praised for their compassion. But every now and then…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonGreta Garbo and Sally Bowles stalk Thom Southerland’s full-tilt production of the 1989 musicalAt Southwark Playhouse, Thom Southerland has done sterling work in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSaturday, August 8, 2015
In nearly 20 years reviewing theatre for the Observer Susannah Clapp has seen 24 wildly different interpretations of Hamlet. Benedict Cumberbatch had many examples to study before offering h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33PMSunday, August 2, 2015
Almeida, LondonThere is tremor not terror – but tremendous acting – in James Macdonald’s overly ingenious reworking of EuripidesOn the one hand Ben Whishaw. Wandlike – or thyrsos-lik…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:16AMRegent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonThere are beards and gingham and high kicks galore in Rachel Kavanaugh’s pitch-perfect production Seven Brides for Seven Brothers could have been ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:16AMPlatform theatre, Central Saint Martins, LondonThis clever co-production of Stevenson’s great story really is a tale of two halvesHow appearances can deceive. Jekyll and Hyde is an intrigu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:16AM 
