Alexander Zeldin’s new play Care, making its UK premiere at the Young Vic is a hard one to categorise and its effect on audiences will be hard to gauge. It has a story about life in a care home filled with older people living out their days looked after by two nurses but there are […]
Theatre is always moving, looking to the future as much as the past, so as the Royal Court celebrates its 70th anniversary with a year-long programme of work it is significant that the venue also offers something for the years ahead with a blend of new writing and new performers along with big star names […]
CulturePlayReviewTheatreAlmeida TheatreAlmeida Young CompanyBrinkcapitalcultureFifteen MinutesHalf TimeJosh ElliottKilo Foxtrot NovemberLondonMartha LoaderMum Dad Trad FamreviewRupert GooldSeb GardnerStefanie Reynolds
The Almeida Young Company have really gone from strength to strength, and in a period in which Rupert Goold’s 13-year tenure is being celebrated ahead of his departure from the venue, it is likely that the brilliant Young Company performances in response to main house shows might be overlooked given they usually run for only […]
CultureLondonPlayReviewTheatreAdeel AkhtarAmerican dramaCarrie CracknellcultureDonmar WarehouseFran KranzLindsay MarshallMassMonica DolanPaul HiltonState of the nation drama
American theatre usually explores it national characteristics, its State challenges, dilemmas and restrictions through the vehicle of family drama and in Fran Kranz’s blistering new play Mass arriving at the Donmar Warehouse, several different kinds of family are created and deconstructed as two grieving sets of parents come together to mourn their children and seek […]
CultureLondonPlayReviewTheatreAmerican dramaArthur MillercapitalcultureElliot CowanFaye CastelowHenry GoodmanJohn HopkinsJonathan MumbyMarylebone TheatrereviewThe PriceTwentieth Century Drama
How do you measure the value of a life and can you ever be sure you’ve done enough? Arthur Miller’s 1967 play The Price, revived at the Marylebone Theatre, places three perspectives on that value in contention as a 50-year old policeman considering retirement tries to sell his father’s effects to a furniture dealer interrupted […]
CultureMusicalReviewTheatreAlan CummingcapitalcultureEdinburghEdinburgh Festival TheatreForbes MassonJohnny McKnightNational Theatre of ScotlandPatrick RyecartreviewSiobhan RedmondThe High Life: The Musical
You’re probably feeling rather tedious and life is seriously mediocre, but good news for theatre fans that The High Life, the one series 1990s sitcom, is back in musical form, a chance to reboard that Boeing going high. Performing on tour in Scotland with layovers in Dundee, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Inverness, original writers Alan […]
