2,878 stories by "Lyn Gardner"
Soho theatre, LondonCasey (Katy Stephens) is a hard-nosed football agent who has managed to put together a deal to save the East End club she loves. She is smart enough to kno…
From the opening of the new Bush Theatre in London to Glasgow's Glasgay! festival, it's an exciting week aheadLondonThere's plenty to take your pick from over the coming week. If you didn't …
Ustinov, BathDon Juan is in love with Leonor, but their midnight trysts are discovered by her jealous sister, Beatriz. So Don Juan calls on the help of his love-'em-and-leave-'em friend, Don…
Bradbury Studios, LondonMad has always been the word for performance artist Bobby Baker, and she would be the first to say it " and she has, in a string of shows as well as the extraordinary…
Duke of York's, LondonDoes London need another jukebox bio musical? No, and it doesn't get one either in this intelligent, multilayered and often touching account of the Beatles' early days …
The Irish capital has seen an explosion in edgy, new work " much of it inspired by the country's financial and spiritual tremorsOn Saturday, writing in the Irish Times, Fintan O'Toole sugges…
Gate theatre, DublinFor young Hanni, living in Ireland in the 1950s, childhood is more confusing than usual. His mother is German, his father Irish; he wears lederhosen, topped with an Aran …
Abbey, DublinJuno at the Abbey should be quite something. It was at the old Abbey that the second play in Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy premiered in 1924. It was a contemporary play respondi…
Peacock, DublinMarina Carr's plays are often dark and boggy, but this long evening attempts to shine a light on the life " though rather less the work " of Chekhov. He is played by Patrick O…
Rose, KingstonWithout the actor, director and playwright Harley Granville-Barker we would not have today's theatre. He was a natural revolutionary who ran against the prevailing theatrical t…
Saved, Uprising and Blackbirds lead a busy week of theatre in London, while Bath, Bristol and Glasgow are no slouches eitherThe sun may have gone but theatre continues to shine, particularly…
Birmingham Old Rep / Rose, KingstonTo see one production of Oscar Wilde's most famous play may be regarded as excellent fortune; two in less than a week could be rather too much of a good th…
Lowry, SalfordThe Library theatre seems to be enjoying a new lease of artistic life since its enforced departure from its old premises, and Ayub Khan-Din's story of a dysfunctional family is…
Drum, PlymouthIt's not often that you hear mass sobbing in the theatre, but it's all sniffles during the latter stages of this new Frantic Assembly show. It's hardly surprising: Abi Morgan's…
Theatre Royal, BathBig issues require big theatrical responses, and our plundering of the planet receives an epic treatment from playwright Mike Bartlett and an audacious production from dir…
Why is National Theatre Wales running a scheme to nurture new critical voices? Because theatre cannot flourish without critics " and vice versaTheatre criticism does not exist in a vacuum. I…
Birmingham RepTom Stoppard's 1974 play is rarely revived, and it's not hard to see why. It's complicated " very. Mind you, it's as sharp as a fop's trouser crease and self-consciously cuckoo…
A spate of big openings might be grabbing the headlines but a number of smaller shows deserve your attention this weekConor McPherson's The Veil at the National, Marc Warren in Cool Hand Luk…
Greenwich theatre, LondonA romantic hero and a ge ntleman of the highway who danced with his victims in the moonlight? Or a petty thief and horse-stealer who raped and tortured his way acros…
Bristol Old Vic StudioNatalie McGrath's three-hander, set in a dead-end seaside town in the late 1980s, begins with a great crash of waves and explodes in a dazzling firework shower of words…
Theatres are rushing to collaborate with new artists, but relationships need to be on an equal footing if they are to lastAnyone with half an eye on theatre over recent months will have noti…
Point, EastleighWhen Jane and Victoria move into the seaside home on the Norfolk coast they intend to run as a B&B, the sea view is obscured by a row of bungalows. They joke how wonderful it…
Union, LondonIt's probably not just the English taste for a sliced white loaf over a fresh warm French baguette that accounts for the failure of Stephen Schwartz's West End musical 21 years …
Tim Pigott-Smith prepares to storm Leeds with King Lear, while Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon take over Belfast. Plus there's plenty more besidesAnother rather brilliant seven days ahead ful…
As the Bush theatre moves to a new home after 40 years, is it possible to take theatrical magic with you into a new venue?Wandering around the backstage spaces of the Bush theatre earlier th…
