2,878 stories by "Lyn Gardner"
The Kite Runner comes to the stage in Nottingham, there's an all-male Wuthering Heights in Glasgow, Chichester opens its season with The Pajama Game and Forest Fringe takes over the Gate in …
The Kite Runner comes to the stage in Nottingham, there's an all-male Wuthering Heights in Glasgow, Chichester opens its season with The Pajama Game and Forest Fringe takes over the Gate in …
Nuffield theatre, SouthamptonOral sex and Anton Chekhov might seem improbable bedfellows, but they turn out to be highly compatible and excitingly combustible in John Donnelly's startli…
Arts theatre, LondonThe number of gay couples in the audience is testament to how much has changed since Jonathan Harvey's gay teenage love story premiered at the Bush theatre, London, in 19…
Shoreditch Town Hall, London"I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy," declared the late 18th-century US president, John Ada…
Alan Cumming says he has no truck with theatrical superstition " but his producers are taking no chancesThere's an episode of The Simpsons in which Homer and the family visit London. Walking…
Roundhouse, LondonAriele Ebacher trips along the tightwire in a red sundress and dark glasses, showing an insouciant disregard for the drop beneath. Soon she is discarding the hat and blonde…
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonI've just been arrested outside Shoreditch Town Hall in east London. A group of passersby look on but make no attempt to intervene as a man who appears to be a po…
Mike Bradwell returns to Hull Truck to explore sex tourism in Egypt in Queen of the Nile, farmers' woes are examined in Tir Sir Gar in Carmarthen and Chekhov is renamed in CoventryScotland a…
Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing, getting a 20th anniversary revival, had an unforgettable first night. Tell us your favouritesThere are few more thrilling things in the theatre than hearin…
Palace, WatfordSporting no-hopers from Humberside are clearly a dramatic draw. But while Tom Wells's new play owes a big debt to John Godber's Up 'n' Under, it also confirms the flair for co…
Sir John Mills, IpswichMelody is a mental hospital psychiatrist treating a patient who sometimes thinks he's Neil Diamond, but mostly thinks he's the 19th-century poet John Clare. The poet …
Arcola, LondonIt is not quite a whale of a tale, but the bright, young ensemble Simple8 live up to their name with this spare and atmospheric staging of Herman Melville's story. There m…
The best reason for teaching students of acting about theatre criticism is preparing them for failure " and failing betterI've just finished a stint of teaching. But it wasn't a journalism c…
Young Vic, LondonThis two-man show is the oddest of mixes: part trawl through the life and times of the classical actor Edward Petherbridge, part Shakespeare recital, part theatrical in-joke…
The Pit, LondonOften, the time spent looking forward to a party and getting ready for it is as enjoyable as the event itself. So it proves in this musical theatre evening, which takes its in…
Dennis Kelly tots up Love and Money in Cardiff, Stan's Café bring their monumental rice installation home to Birmingham and The Arrest of Ai Weiwei takes place in LondonScotland and Norther…
Soho theatre, LondonFifty-eight-year-old Eric Argyle is one of the quiet ones. His grave mistake was to try to save time by crossing the road without looking. Now he is dead and the cou…
Queuing for theatre tickets, or day seats for sold-out shows, doesn't have to be a chore. Some people actually enjoy itI'd rather stab myself in the eye than queue outside a shop for the Box…
Finborough, LondonMartha (Jenny Lee) is elderly, arthritic and lives with only her budgie for company in a damp Glasgow tenement. In the next-door flat, Amie (Eileen Nicholas), is equally al…
Arcola theatre, LondonThe accused are innocent until proven guilty, though the dead can't defend themselves. But who would blame security forces for foiling a terrorist attack by shooting th…
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A new book attempts to bury the endless disputes over who he really was. But surely it's the plays, not their author, which deserve attention?Phew, what a relief. It seems that the Royal Sha…
Unicorn, LondonEating children is wrong, but the attempt turns out to be gloriously ghoulish fun in Christopher William Hill's mouthwatering fantasy for the over-eights. It's a feverish stew…
Simon Callow plays Jesus in Belfast, the National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch marches back to Glasgow, and the Spill festival makes a splash in LondonScotland and Northern IrelandThe B…
