832 stories by "Susannah Clapp"
The Vaults, LondonFrom the Great Gatsby to Martian odysseys and life in a refugee camp, south London plays host to worlds of possibilitySince 2011, the traditionally torpid theatrical weeks …
Duke of York's, London Kate O'Flynn is outstanding in John Tiffany's beautiful staging of Tennessee Williams's breakthrough play about a fragile girl and her gentleman callerIs there a bette…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterThe gender switches in Sarah Frankcom's Hamlet may unsettle for a moment but they do not distort the play' At her Peake: a stage career in pictures' Michael Billing…
Charing Cross theatre, LondonEven musical maestro Thom Southerland's gifts can't help this flight of fancy rise above its silly premiseThom Southerland has made himself a master of the unexp…
Home, ManchesterLizzie Nunnery's play with music captures bittersweet memories of the North Atlantic convoys as documentary meets melancholy balladNarvik is not like anything else I have hea…
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonOnly the row over an all-white cast, in a tale set in ancient China, quickens the pulse of this arduous playThe Print Room has been in the middle of a "yello…
Dorfman, LondonCarly Wijs's 2016 Edinburgh fringe hit tells the story of the 2004 Russian school siege with clear-eyed audacityUs/Them: hostages and captors; Russians and Chechens; children …
Gate, LondonA young woman's conversion to Catholicism in 19th-century Rhodesia speaks volumes in Danai Gurira's bold tale of oppression and identityThe Convert is enough to give historical d…
Orange Tree, Richmond, SurreyA silver-tongued visitor is not what he seems in Roland Schimmelpfennig's subtle exploration of the rise of the new rightWinter Solstice is, in a way, the perfec…
Lyceum, EdinburghA vivid adaptation of the classic Australian tale about the disappearance of a group of schoolgirls in 1900When Joan Lindsay wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock in 1967, she create…
Old Vic, LondonRufus Sewell is poised and sleek in Yasmina Reza's tale of three friends and a very expensive white canvasIn 1998, Yasmina Reza won a Laurence Olivier award for Art. The prize…
Savoy theatre, London Amber Riley, of Glee fame, leads three wronged women in a show that packs a punchOnce upon a time, it was romance that roused the audiences in musicals. In Dreamgirls i…
Royal Court, LondonCaryl Churchill's magnificent new play unleashes an intricate, elliptical, acutely female view of the apocalypseSo which is the best moment in Caryl Churchill's sizzling n…
Almeida, LondonLia Williams and Juliet Stevenson switch roles seamlessly at the toss of a coin to play warring queens in Robert Icke's explosive productionLast year Robert Icke made Oresteia…
Lyttelton, London Its star and writer cannot be faulted, but Ivo van Hove's production could do with a change of paceRuth Wilson has brought a new dimension to Hedda Gabler. I have seen comp…
Young Vic, London… but the star turns are elsewhere in this thin adaptation of the 1930 satire on the Hollywood talkiesOnce in a Lifetime? That's about right. Twice is pushing it. Moss Har…
Olivier, LondonSally Cookson tumbles expectations in a fine production that's true to JM Barrie's sadly twisting storyIt was one of the most extraordinary revelations that has ever burst on …
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonMatthew White's exquisite, light-on-its-feet revival of the 1963 musical delights one audience member in particular…The lyricist Sheldon Harnick, 92, was at…
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonPhilosophical larks and anglers' musings charm in a surreal, glacial dreamscapeOn the one hand, readings from Moby-Dick. On the other a miniature world of puppet…
Royal Court, LondonBaby-boomer guilt goes nuclear in Kirkwood's ingenious new play, with fine performances from Francesca Annis, Ron Cook and Deborah FindlayBaby boomerism. Is it the last ac…
Home, ManchesterThe melodrama is kept at bay in Polly Findlay's fine production of David Watson's new versionHere is a measure of what an actor Niamh Cusack is, how viscerally, totally she c…
It was a year of Lears, spellbinding women and memorable migrant tales' Observer critics' reviews of the year in fullIt has been " at last " a good year for women on stage. It began with a v…
Over 10 highly successful years, the Observer's theatre critic helped transform the ailing British theatre and reinvent the role of the reviewer' Click here for more on the Observer at 225Ra…
Donmar at King's Cross, LondonHarriet Walter is the linchpin in the Donmar's momentous, all-female staging of Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The TempestThe use of new skills or the unearthing o…
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, LondonEV Crowe explores the disorienting effects of technology in her cryptic new playEV Crowe's new play, The Sewing Group, is a sly thing. It begins …
