832 stories by "Susannah Clapp"
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonA traumatised war veteran gets out of his box " and into it " in a vivid new play by two-man company RidiculusmusIt is one of the best of phoenix stories. Last M…
Soho theatre, LondonA genial Rob Newman rubbishes theories about the brain in his mindful new showSometimes I wish the word "comedy" were abolished. I can't be the only person who tenses up …
Southwark Playhouse, LondonJackie K's aunt and cousin are joyfully on song in a tale of Long Island squalor and co-dependency, while a fine new Pericles rules the wavesIt is the theatrical p…
Little Angel, LondonThree puppet animals excel as window cleaners in this visually ingenious production of Roald Dahl's paean to sweetsSurely the obesity police will soon be summoned to the …
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonShakespeare's tale of incest and hazardous sea crossings resonates powerfully in Dominic Dromgoole's intimate stagingIt is unnerving to see Pericles these days…
Olivier, LondonDamon Albarn's didactic musical has an interesting premise but fails to translate online curiosities into stage magicHard to believe but true. The most surprising moment in wo…
Found111, LondonAndrew Scott, Joanna Vanderham and David Dawson excel in a riveting true-life play about obsessive sibling hoardersFound111 is proving to be an inspiring dramatic place. Firs…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonA tight script, beguiling design and Converse trainers instead of glass slippers make this Cinders a winnerThe Lyric's Cinderella is its own mixture of saucy and swe…
Liverpool PlayhouseAnthony Neilson's enjoyable production doesn't fully translate Shirley Jackson's astonishing prose into stage actionThe Haunting of Hill House is a play spooked by a ghost…
Old Vic, LondonYou'll want to save the trees, hug the fish and bellow rude rhymes in this buoyant, fully environmentalist musicalThe timing could not be better. In the week of agreement in P…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonMcTeer revels in the role of the cruel Marquise in Josie Rourke's staging, opposite Dominic West's curiously languid partner-in-crimeLes Liaisons Dangereuses is one o…
Cheers all round for a resounding chorus of Greek tragedies, marathon performances, the return of Martin McDonagh and show-making female designersObserver critics' reviews of the year in ful…
Young Vic, LondonShakespeare's most exciting play is hampered by too much visual distractionIn the last three years the Young Vic has become a dramatic nut-cracker. It has continually prised…
Noël Coward, LondonJim Broadbent can't help but exude cheer as Dickens's curmudgeon in a sparkling if shambolic take on the seasonal classicThere is an extraordinary moment towards the en…
Old Vic, BristolSally Cookson splices the traditional story with a Romany folk tale, reverses the genders, and introduces a flock of sheepThe trouble with the Sleeping Beauty, remarked Angel…
Lyttelton, LondonCharacters discuss their own demise and flickering moments are captured in this short, idiosyncratic work by Caryl ChurchillNearly 20 years ago, the RSC put on a collection …
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonSmith redefines 'funny' as Broadway pizzazz feels the pinch in the Menier's fastest-selling show everOh, what a double-take can do. When Sheridan Smith's Fann…
Royal Court, LondonPenelope Skinner's play about the invisibility of older women is fierce and rousing, and certainly doesn't suffer from the loss of original lead Kim CattrallIt is not ofte…
Trafalgar Studios, LondonHarold Pinter's study of power and sex has lost none of its ferocityFor all the difference in idiom, you can see echoes of Ibsen in the ferocious power-and-sex play …
Almeida, LondonLydia Leonard excels in Ibsen's masterly study of how unhappiness corrodesHenrik Ibsen is routinely described as the father of realism and the father of modern drama. It is no…
Tricycle, LondonPatrick Barlow follows up his hit adaptation of The 39 Steps with a pocket-sized interpretation of the 50s biblical film epicPatrick Barlow's adaptation of The 39 Steps, at t…
Shaftesbury, London This garish sleight-of-hand variety show would work better on the tellyOh, the difference there can be between magical and magic. The Illusionists is a sleight-of-hand va…
Temporary theatre, National Theatre, London Jon Klassen's children's story takes to the stage with just a touch of gore and much joyful audience participationI am not sure what my best bit w…
Barbican, LondonOliver Ford Davies as Chorus outshines Alex Hassell's restrained Henry in Gregory Doran's measured productionThere is a kind of conjuring in Gregory Doran's production of Hen…
It's already a smash hit, but this telly-hyped Oliver! just reheats tired clichés that belong in the 1960sOliver!Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London WC2 Roaring TradeSoho, London Continu…
