Almeida; Donmar Warehouse; Old Vic, London Danger stalks the radiant lovers in Rebecca Frecknall’s tumultuous, twilit Romeo and Juliet; a 1920s battle for the soul of BBC radio couldn’t …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AMNoël Coward; Royal Court; Jermyn Street, LondonPeter Morgan’s oligarch drama transfers to the West End with added historical weight; Kate O’Flynn evokes the mastery of Billie Whitelaw; …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMYoung Vic; @sohoplace; Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonRuth Wilson mesmerises in a 24-hour breakup with 100 different actors; tender moments illuminate a faithful yet distanced adapt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMFortune, London; Minerva, Chichester; Orange Tree, RichmondSplitLip honour as well as spoof with their all-conquering espionage musical. Elsewhere, Eileen Atkins at her most subtle, and a ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMBush theatre, London; Theatre Royal Brighton; Chichester Festival theatreIn his powerful debut play, Lenny Henry draws his audience deep into the life – and its shattering – of a Windrus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMLyttelton; Barbican; Jermyn Street; Omnibus, LondonSam Mendes reignites Gielgud and Burton’s Broadway Hamlet; a climate crisis play is powered by bikes and eco-shaming; Timberlake Wertenba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMKiln; Almeida; Dorfman, LondonIn his quickfire new McCarthy-era play, For Black Boys… creator Ryan Calais Cameron speaks his mind; a civil rights musical buzzes with potential; and Deborah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMOlivier theatre; Donmar Warehouse, LondonBrian Friel’s thoughtful 1930s drama remains absorbing, while Noel Coward’s classic has fine cigarette work but fails to ignite This is a product…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSwan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Orange Tree; Finborough, LondonShakespeare’s wife moves centre stage in Lolita Chakrabarti’s pivotal adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, while…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMHarold Pinter; Hampstead, LondonJames Norton elevates Ivo van Hove’s knotty adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestseller. And to the sea as Cordelia Lynn’s breezy new play sets a family…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMStone Nest; Royal Court; Young Vic, all London An intimate venue brings Baldwin and Buckley’s clash back to life; Danny Lee Wynter falls foul of a caped crusader (and too much exposition);…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMAlmeida; Dorfman; Duke of York’s, LondonDirector Rupert Goold and co have a field day with Lulu Raczka’s elusive new Jacobean folk horror; star-crossed Cardiff teenagers snare hearts and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMPlayground; @sohoplace; Donmar Warehouse, LondonRichard Norton-Taylor and Nicolas Kent’s second Grenfell drama is a shocking dissection of negligence; Sophie Okonedo breathes fire as Medea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMLyttelton; Old Vic; Olivier, LondonJanet McTeer is mighty in Simon Stone’s electric remaking of myth; dance, not speech, powers Kate Prince’s suffragette musical; and Richard Hawley’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Hampstead; Gillian Lynne, LondonAlex Kingston’s fine Prospero weathers an RSC concept storm; the 21st century erupts into a tale of 18th cen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMRoyal Court; Harold Pinter theatre, LondonTravis Alabanza and friends joyously return drag to its radical roots, while Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman keep it brief in Sam Steiner’s social …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMLyric Hammersmith; Criterion; Park theatre, LondonBrute force speaks volumes in Frantic Assembly’s breathtaking Othello; Steven Moffat and co flirt with farce; and the story of Windrush bo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMAlmeida; Donmar Warehouse, LondonPaul Mescal, Patsy Ferran and Anjana Vasan captivate in Rebecca Frecknall’s headlong take on Tennessee Williams. And Lillian Hellman’s 1941 call to arms …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMAmbassadors; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Alexandra Palace, LondonLiz Kingsman’s zinging take on Fleabag goes beyond parody. Elsewhere, a gutsy, all-female Arabian Nights, and splurge guns at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMThirties Harlem and the siege of Troy rocked, along with Joan of Arc, Orlando and the Ladies of Llangollen, to be greeted by funding cuts across the board Read the Observer critics’ review…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMSohoplace; Young Vic; Dorfman, LondonThe many voices of Josie Rourke’s fresh As You Like It are led by Rose Ayling-Ellis, signing the part of Celia; a new Mandela musical can’t do the gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMGarrick; Olivier, LondonCorrin shape-shifts to perfection in Neil Bartlett’s zestful take on Virginia Woolf’s novel, while a bad fairy casts a spell on Rufus Norris’s Sleeping Beauty m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse; Wyndham’s, London; Ustinov Studio, BathOliver Johnstone mesmerises as Henry V, Vardy and Rooney go head to head, and Dickie Beau lipsyncs a swarm of voices, from H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMBattersea Arts Centre; Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonJavaad Alipoor gets meta with an investigation into investigations, while Terry Johnson leaves little to the imagination What timing. J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMRoyal Court; Finborough; Soho theatre, LondonQuestions of who can speak for whom animate both Martin Crimp’s new AI work and David Ireland’s brilliant Belfast dialogue. And a star is bor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMJermyn Street theatre, London; Wilton’s Music Hall, LondonPeter Gill’s subtle new play finds the power of love in the smallest of details, while David Farr explores strained family bonds…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMAlmeida, London; Bristol Old Vic; Soho Place, LondonKatie Brayben nails the title role as Tammy Faye in a musical otherwise lacking edge, Billy Howle makes a princely Hamlet and an all-new …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMBarbican, London; Minerva, ChichesterA beloved Studio Ghibli anime is brought to magical life in Phelim McDermott’s new RSC production, while the 1983 film Local Hero finds fresh resonance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMHarold Pinter; Donmar Warehouse; Dorfman, LondonAs a mild-mannered German academic who drifts into becoming an SS officer, David Tennant is transfixing; a vibrant oddball musical bridges the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMLyttelton; Olivier; Royal Docks, LondonThirties Harlem is vibrantly alive at the National, while mob rule meets Little House on the Prairie in an assured revival of The Crucible. Elsewhere, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMBridge; Old Vic, LondonSimon Russell Beale is doubly commanding as Ibsen’s charismatic banker in a problem-raising revival, while a new anti-vax satire needs more than a shot of Helen Hunt…
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