Dom: The Play is nowhere near as clever as it thinks it is
This twee, smug, lowest-common-denominator political satire is not just bad: it’s mindless.
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A new musical proves it – Sylvia Pankhurst is the feminist icon we need
While her mother Emmeline has traditionally been the most famous Pankhurst, the Old Vic’s new show is just the latest…
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After a visit to the theatre I feel more of a Brightonian than I did the day before
I’d never been to the Theatre Royal before, but its a delightful, old-school place.
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Jews. In their Own Words is a sharp illustration of how the oldest hatred is still with us
Jonathan Freedland’s play considers the prejudicial myths fuelling anti-Semitism today, and how the Royal Court became complicit.
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Tom Stoppard’s new play Leopoldstadt is inseparable from its author’s biography
There is no separating the artist and the art in Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt, which draws directly on his life as a…
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The light and shade of Shostakovich
Igor Levit brings dramatic contrasts to his performance of the preludes and fugues in their entirety, which marked the beginning…
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The relentlessly gynaecological joys of The Welkin
Set in 1759, this play is messy, ambitious and genre-bending.
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Joyous and devastating: Melly Still’s Rusalka caps a season of supernatural tales at Glyndebourne
Glyndebourne has just ended its 2019 season with a radical version of The Magic Flute (is there any other kind,…
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What’s worse, being jealous or crazy? This Cleopatra is both
The National’s Antony and Cleopatra is not Concept Shakespeare; news that many prospective audience members will greet with relief.
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The Jungle: an urgent play gives a voice to refugees
The squalor - and hope - of the lives of asylum seekers has never been better portrayed.
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Why Nina Raine’s Consent left a sour taste in my mouth
In this play, rape matters only for how it affects the plot – not the victim.
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Sex With Robots and Other Devices explores what happens when AI meets shagging
Imagining a future where our sex tech genuinely looks and feels like us.
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The Old Vic’s Mood Music hums with disquiet about the gender dynamics of the music industry
Joe Penhall’s new play features a dispute over songwriting credits.
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Quiz is a fast-paced, hi-tech retelling of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? cheating scandal
This tale of the “coughing major” is a nostalgic romp through the rise of reality television.
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Sound and fury: why Macbeth is having a resurgence in the age of Trump and Brexit
Five performances of Macbeth are on offer in Britain this spring: along with a ballet, a movie, and a novelisation…
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An inspired ode to Bob Dylan, Girl from the North Country turns pop into a work of art
Playwright and director Conor McPherson is always dancing with Dylan but never stepping on his toes.
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Rarely is theatre’s fourth wall broken so jaggedly as in Bryony Lavery’s play, Frozen
Ralph, a serial rapist and murderer of children, chattily soliloquises about the corpses and torture-porn videos stored in his lock-up garage.
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Carey Mulligan is oddly unemotional in Dennis Kelly’s powerful new play, Girls & Boys
If you intend to see Girls & Boys, don’t read this review.
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Tremendous new plays Beginning and John offer differing looks at our desperation for connection
David Eldridge and Annie Baker’s works use contrasting tactics of realism and surrealism.
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Kathy Burke’s Lady Windermere’s Fan needs more edge to its gooey marshmallow centre
Any sense of danger under the frills and frocks has been lost in this production.
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