832 stories by "Susannah Clapp"
Coliseum, LondonGlenn Close plays Norma Desmond with as much panache as she did more than 20 years agoIt is more than 20 years since Glenn Close first starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset…
Old Vic, LondonCompelling performances from Timothy Spall, Daniel Mays and George MacKay fail to elevate Matthew Warchus's production of the Pinter classicHere is an idea about The Caretaker…
Royal Court, LondonJessica Raine proves herself a stage natural in Alistair McDowall's ingenious but taxing tale of future humanity adrift in despairX is another of Alistair McDowall's dysto…
Found111, LondonKate Fleetwood's magnetic performance in this paranoia play continues this tiny pop-up space's run of terrific performancesEvery now and then a particular theatre turns into …
National theatre, LondonA new version of Lorraine Hansberry's play about unrest in colonial Africa is a compelling mix of atmosphere and argumentAudiences at the National don't often applaud…
Eugene O'Neill's partly autobiographical play of family dysfunction careers towards its tragic outcome with terrific energyLong Day's Journey Into Night? No. It is the speed of Richard Eyre'…
Garrick, LondonKenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon labour for laughs as hotel guests thrown together by circumstanceGradually the stage is picking to pieces accepted ideas about the 1960s. Martin…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Paapa Essiedu paints a young and striking Hamlet, torn by indecision in an African military state, in Simon Godwin's stirring interpretationAt …
Trafalgar Studios, LondonUzo Aduba, Zawe Ashton and Laura Carmichael make a striking cast, but the declamatory dialogue is heavy-handedAt Trafalgar Studios, Uzo Aduba steams and storms: a ba…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJean Anouilh's slight tale of a amnesiac soldier claimed by a host of different families gets a colourful 1950s treatmentJean Anouilh's 1937 comedy Le voyageur sans b…
National Theatre, LondonJack Thorne's play about a couple struggling to come to terms with tragedy is unflinchingI can't remember when I last saw a play that was at once so forthright and so…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe Globe director's farewell production casts its spell in the candlelit space that crowns his time thereDominic Dromgoole says goodbye to the Globe with the …
Southwark Playhouse, LondonKathryn Hunter plays the lovelorn French nobleman in this all-female production, but nothing is gained by the gender swapWhat is the point of an all-female Cyrano …
Dorfman, LondonIt may be too gruesome much for some, but Sarah Kane's 1998 horror show feels depleted in Katie Mitchell's protracted revivalTheatres love people walking out. Sometimes it see…
Almeida, LondonUncle Vanya is snapped into focus in a fine-tuned new version by the remarkable writer-director Robert IckeRobert Icke has been giving the British stage electric shocks for th…
Noël Coward, LondonAn adorable heroine played by Emma Williams and a fine score from George Fenton and Simon Chamberlain are the only saving graces hereThere are two reasons for seeing Mr…
Apollo, LondonGemma Arterton's megawatt charm lights up Jessica Swale's brocaded romp-comArguments about the theatre are being put into period costume. Many of these arguments are accusation…
Garrick, LondonLolita Chakrabarti's powerful play about the 19th-century African American actor Ira Aldridge is now where it should be…In 1833 the African American actor Ira Aldridge took …
Old Vic, LondonFiennes gives lustre to Ibsen's preposterous autobiographical tale of an ageing architect battling irrelevanceYou may catch Ralph Fiennes in an obscure play; never in an insig…
Lyttelton, LondonSharon D Clarke as the 'mother of the blues' leads a superb cast in Dominic Cooke's knockout productionWhat are the great American plays of the late 20th and early 21st cent…
Lyric Hammersmith, London Young Max Gill is terrific in a new production of Simon Stephens's meditation on bullyingSean Holmes has pulled off a terrific smash and grab on Herons. His product…
Royal Court, LondonThe hit team behind Pomona turn Anna Jordan's gritty play into something specialTwo years ago Ned Bennett (director), Georgia Lowe (designer) and Polly Bennett (movement d…
Royal Court, LondonChurchill's magnificent new play unleashes an intricate, elliptical, acutely female view of the apocalypseSo which is the best moment in Caryl Churchill's sizzling new pla…
The company whose huge mechanical elephant triumphed last year is using puppets in the shopfronts of Nantes to tell more tall talesLa Révolte des Mannequins Shop windows, Nantes, Fran…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe border between Ellen and Eileen is permeable in Atkins's extraordinary one-woman show"Sixty-three and on one-night stands." Ellen Terry, the loved Victoria…
