Sunday, May 3, 2015
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonSean Holmes’s ebullient production avoids the pitfalls of staging Alan Parker’s film, offering a punchy opening show at the beautifully redesigned Lyric Continue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AMOlivier, LondonRufus Norris begins his directorship at the National with Chiwetel Ejiofor starring as a superb Everyman in Carol Ann Duffy’s take on the 15th century morality play Continue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, April 26, 2015
Royal Court, LondonA clear-sighted appraisal of our ailing NHS emerges with verve, humour and candour from Michael Wynne’s timely verbatim playThere are occasions when only naturalism and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMYoung Vic, LondonEugene O’Neill’s haunting prequel to Long Day’s Journey Into Night has a star in the making in George MacKaySometimes the more strange, the more realistic. Arthur Mill…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMAlmeida, LondonSimon Stephens’s 3D dramatic deconstruction of Carmen will go on reverberatingThe sound can be heard right across London. Theatrical classics are being cracked open. That ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, April 19, 2015
Tobacco Factory, BristolSheridan’s classic is given a modern twist in Andrew Hilton’s pitch-perfect production Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMNational Maritime Museum, LondonPunchdrunk’s seafaring show for children is earnest but brings the past brilliantly to lifeThe astounding feature of a Punchdrunk show is the amount of stuf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMRoyal Court, LondonWalsh’s ‘mischievous’ dialogue and plot additions largely obscure Dahl’s nimble, knockabout nastinessThis is not what the Roald Dahl estate wants to hear. Billy, s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, April 5, 2015
Swan, StratfordJustin Audibert’s striking new production is a reminder that at his best, Marlowe can give Shakespeare a really good run for his money Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonSher is at his most meticulous and fiery as Willy Loman in Gregory Doran’s accomplished stagingArtistic director Gregory Doran is in no doubt.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, March 29, 2015
Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop, Shaftesbury Avenue, LondonThere’s gore galore in Bill Buckhurst’s ingenious stripped-down, pie-shop SondheimNext week, Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson wil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMPrint Room at the Coronet, LondonRobert Holman’s new play, especially written for its two actors, is a precise and subtle picture of a family crisis Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMDorfman, National Theatre, LondonWords and mash fly in Sam Holcroft’s sharp domestic farce, brilliantly directed by Marianne Elliott Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, March 22, 2015
Southwark Playhouse, LondonMichael Hastings’s richly detailed 1973 drama finally reaches the stage in a production so exact you can smell it Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMOrange Tree, RichmondPaulette Randall’s enterprising revival of Mustapha Matura’s 1974 play is vivid and humorousOne of the best plays staged last year was Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Appa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMNottingham PlayhouseHans Christian Andersen’s mermaid discovers trainer envy and bulimia in Polly Teale’s 21st-century rewrite Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, March 15, 2015
New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Bram Stoker’s novel become an all-round sensory experience in this fine adaptation by Theresa HeskinsThe creatures dangle and spin upside down from the rafter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThe Langham, LondonBen Ellis’s site-specific drama could have made more of its historic hotel setting Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMSunday, March 1, 2015
Donmar Warehouse, London Patrick Marber’s finely wrought 1997 play about the brutal business of falling in and out of love holds good in David Leveaux’s smooth if safe revival Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe healing power of music is made real in Clare van Kampen’s irresistibly genial play about the great 18th-century castratoThere is an irresistible genialit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMLyttelton, LondonSimon Godwin’s whirling revival of Shaw’s loquacious 1903 play proves fashion wrong in emphatic styleMuch is said about the responsibility of the National Theatre to fin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, February 15, 2015
Royal Court, LondonPeake is the one bright spark in Zinnie Harris’s muddled state-of-the-world drama Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThis account of the scientist’s romantic life fails to sparkle, despite Cathy Tyson’s expressive lead Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMJohn Cleland’s 18th-century erotic romp is given a well-judged modern edgeExcellent. The 18th century is sweeping over Bristol’s theatres. In April the Tobacco Factory puts on The School…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, February 8, 2015
Jermyn Street, LondonA headstrong heroine scarpers from the family pile with a baby in tow in St John Hankin’s prophetic 1908 play, now staged for the first time in public Continue reading…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AMHampstead theatre, LondonTV’s young Inspector Morse is the only good thing about this predictable love story Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThe star dazzles in this madcap revival of Peter Barnes’s blunt 1968 satire Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, February 1, 2015
Dorfman theatre, LondonConsciousness is the subject of Stoppard’s first full-length work in nine years but the play lacks his usual intellectual rigourYou could measure out a theatre-going…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, January 25, 2015
Young Vic, LondonMike Bartlett’s follow-up to Cock is a masterclass in the workings of collusionSusannah Clapp reviews the ChangelingSusannah Clapp reviews Fever Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMMay Fair hotel, LondonWallace Shawn’s denunciation of capitalism hits home – up to a pointSusannah Clapp reviews The ChangelingSusannah Clapp reviews Bull Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, London Gore, humour and Hattie Morahan cut to the quick in Dominic Dromgoole’s whip-sharp production of The ChangelingSusannah Clapp reviews Bull at the Young VicS…
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