Sunday, February 5, 2023
Royal 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 05:30AMSunday, January 29, 2023
Lyric 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 05:30AMSunday, January 22, 2023
Almeida; 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 05:30AMSunday, January 1, 2023
Ambassadors; 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 05:30AMSunday, December 18, 2022
Thirties 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
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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 06:24AMSunday, December 11, 2022
Garrick; 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 05:48AMSunday, November 27, 2022
Sam 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 06:42AMSunday, November 20, 2022
Battersea 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 09:48AMSunday, November 13, 2022
Royal 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 05:54AMSunday, November 6, 2022
Jermyn 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 06:06AMSunday, October 30, 2022
Almeida, 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 09:03AMSunday, October 23, 2022
Barbican, 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 06:03AMSunday, October 16, 2022
Harold 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 06:55AMSunday, October 9, 2022
Lyttelton; 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 07:43AMSunday, October 2, 2022
Bridge; 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMSunday, September 11, 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe, London; Royal Exchange, Manchester; Donmar Warehouse, LondonIsobel Thom’s non-binary Joan of Arc blazes on to the stage in Charlie Josephine’s eye-opening new play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:43AMSunday, September 4, 2022
Minerva, Chichester; Theatre Royal BathChristopher Shinn’s new play of post-Trump politics finds complex characters lost in ego and addiction, while Terry Gilliam and Leah Hausman’s take…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMSunday, August 28, 2022
Festival theatre; the Hub; Leith Academy; Studio, Potterrow, EdinburghThe hurt is all too real in Ivo van Hove’s visceral staging of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestseller; Liz Lochhead’s Scots…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMSunday, August 21, 2022
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe ‘dinosaur’ generation is put on trial in Dawn King’s near-future new play, graced by some nicely nuanced performances from its youthful cast
The Trials is f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, August 14, 2022
Dorfman; King’s Head, LondonDisablism, austerity and therapy-speak fuel Francesca Martinez’s jolting drama, while Mark Farrelly channels Derek Jarman in a rush of memories
There are star…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMSunday, July 24, 2022
Lyttelton; Olivier, London; Chichester festival theatreShakespeare’s comedy is the gift that keeps on giving; Mrs Malaprop’s a loose cannon in Richard Bean’s Battle of Britain take on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMSunday, July 17, 2022
Almeida, London; Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath; Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonTom Hollander excels in Peter Morgan’s incisive oligarch drama; Deborah Warner directs a fine Tempest; an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMSunday, July 10, 2022
Harold Pinter; Bridge, London; RSC, Stratford-upon-AvonThe action’s all in the detail in Jamie Lloyd’s spellbound Chekhov; Alex Jennings excels as a vicar refusing to find the common tou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSunday, July 3, 2022
Crucible/Lyceum/Studio theatre, Sheffield; Hampstead theatre, LondonTiming is everything in Chris Bush’s theatre-hopping trio of Sheffield plays; the same goes for Roy Williams’s ill-sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, June 26, 2022
Donmar; Old Vic, LondonLucas Hnath’s sequel to the Ibsen classic is intriguing rather than revelatory; but August Wilson’s taxi-stand drama has developed new flavour with age
Ibsen’s A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMSunday, June 19, 2022
Royal Court, London; Orange Tree, RichmondA revelatory drama about identity theft is let down by its thriller plot, while translator Martin Crimp adds wit to an outsized Marivaux comedy
The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMSunday, June 5, 2022
Duke of York’s; Kiln; Arcola, LondonAmy Adams’s star power fails to illuminate underpowered Tennessee Williams; Eileen Walsh burns bright as Clytemnestra; and Barbara Flynn and Robin Soa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMSunday, May 29, 2022
Olivier, London; Theatre Clwyd, Mold; Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonGandhi’s murderer turns on the charm in an extraordinary production; the ladies of Llangollen come to vibrant …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, May 22, 2022
Almeida; Coliseum; Hampstead, LondonAnne-Marie Duff’s aspiring singer transfixes in a didactic family saga; My Fair Lady feels strangely vacant. Plus, a stifling tale of dysfunctional sibl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMSunday, May 15, 2022
Young Vic, London; Brighton festival; Bush, LondonRodgers and Hammerstein’s first musical is roughed up; dreamthinkspeak amble around Brighton; and a first for Amharic on the British stage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM 
