197 stories by "Ryan Gilbey"
Arcola theatre, London Edoardo Erba's two-hander takes up a position at the margins of the Anders Breivik massacre but leaves his characters disappointingly generalised
Durin…
Almeida theatre, LondonKendall Feaver's play dissects white privilege and a university's #MeToo moment that begins when a student speaks out after being sexually assaulted
"A terrible thing …
Minerva theatre, ChichesterJustin Audibert's revival nails the playwright's humour better than his despair while Ian McDiarmid brings a balletic grace to the stage
How would an estate agent …
Riverside Studios, LondonIn this adaptation of André Carl van der Merwe's novel, Kai Luke Brümmer puts in a formidable performance as the South African conscript beset by homophobia
Closet…
Turbine theatre, LondonAdequate songs are not enough to fill out Jonathan Harvey's flimsy clubbers' romance, though Frances Ruffelle provides some welcome razzle dazzle
In four decades of dr…
Arcola, LondonThe acting from Ellena Vincent, Peter De Jersey and Daniel Francis-Swaby is riveting but this play gets tied down in gothic horror and psychodrama
A tattered US flag hangs from…
It was the film about end of the silent era that scooped five Oscars, made $133m and beguiled the world. But can the movie work on stage? And how will its real star, a frisky parson russell …
They are comedy sparring partners from Green Wing. Can the duo play stricken lovers in The Deep Blue Sea, the eviscerating play Rattigan poured his own heartbreak into? Warning: contains spo…
Soho theatre, LondonSet entirely within the stained walls of a men's public toilet, Sam Grabiner's award-winning play is an ambitious, hallucinatory series of vignettes dramatising the gamut…
Bush theatre, LondonTherapists will love this drama about neonatal strains with all its flashbacks to childhood battles. Shame the focus is all on the father, leaving the women looking like …
Jerry Seinfeld calls him 'the most idolised comedian ever'. Yet after five decades at the top, success still makes him cringe. He discusses doubting himself, starring in a documentary " and …
Eight years after spectacularly crashing and burning out of the West End, the Olivier-winner is now playing an actress trapped in the same nightmare. Can she face down her demons?
It is late…
Arcola theatre, LondonThis nimble play sets up a shocking scenario yet somehow it slaloms along " thanks to some Pirandellian trickery and three cheerful ghosts
On a raised disc bristling wi…
As she hits the stage in an anarchic comedy about a family in freefall, the once-Oscar-nominated actor talks about her 2019 fraud conviction, why she'd never play a trans woman again " and b…
The actor's suggestion in a roundtable interview is more common sense than provocation, the phrase speaking to a homophobic media that no longer calls the shots
Andrew Scott is capable of ma…
Almeida, LondonLuke Thallon and Anya Chalotra are the lovers in this adaptation of Paweł Pawlikowski's 2018 film, with Polish folk music and Elvis Costello songs
In Conor McPherson's fir…
Award-winning stage, film and TV actor who had memorable roles as meddling mothers in Cheers and Sex and the CityWith her shrewd blue eyes and twitching dormouse nose, the actor Frances Ster…
The trio are about to fall out violently in the shocking yet hilarious play, featuring beheaded priests and the ghost of Bobby Sands. They talk woke fever, big pharma and playing chimpanzees…
Drama teacher who started a theatre school for young people in north London, producing future stage and screen starsThe Anna Scher theatre in Islington, north London, was responsible for pro…
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonDream cast and exuberant staging brings the genre's dusty rules to a whole new frontier
A sleepy US town in the late 19th century: the husbands are away, th…
Bristol Old VicEveryone gets their chance to shine in Nancy Medina's expressive staging of this drama about sparring prep-school students
Some of the shine has come off Moonlight, the Oscar-…
The comic, who has survived cancer and once sleep-jumped through a closed hotel window, is bringing his Broadway smash about mortality to the UK. 'I guarantee you'll laugh,' he says
For some…
Summerhall, EdinburghMax Percy's physical theatre show mixes ideas on sex, power dynamics and homophobia into an audacious reflection on generational trauma
Putting a shirtless young man on …
After routines about orgies from the perspective of an 'awkward English twit', the comedian returns with an unironic and open account of carnal pleasure
It is nearly midnight at a packed the…
Riverside Studios, LondonSpattered with blood and brains, this blend of cabaret and cosplay brings together Quentin Tarantino's career highlights with flashes of divine inspiration
Children …
