832 stories by "Susannah Clapp"
Hampstead theatre, LondonRoger Allam and Nancy Carroll hit all the right notes in David Hare's play about the founders of GlyndebourneThe soprano in David Hare's new play has nothing of the …
JW3, LondonLaz's struggles with his wasting limbs are especially poignant in this adaptation by the late Christopher LeithThis year, the Suspense festival of puppetry has included an adaptat…
Olivier, LondonPolly Findlay's ingenious reimagining of Shakespeare's pastoral comedy is a visual and aural delightAs You Like It? Absolutely. But not as it has been seen before. Polly Findl…
Dorfman, London Characters burst into vivid life in Marianne Elliott's powerful evocation of DH Lawrence's mining townTo make an audience feel it is watching not just one uncurling episode, …
Royal Court, London Troubling notes emerge on contemporary American life, complete with Hound Dog, pig shark and Thelma and LouiseRoosevElvis is the latest time-hopping, gender-mashing, genr…
Old Vic, LondonEugene O Neill's 1922 anti-capitalist drama gains extra muscle from Bertie Carvel's superb performance as the wounded, inarticulate stoker, YankAs manufacturing industry disa…
Chichester Festival theatreDavid Hare's vibrant reboots of three early plays bring out the wilder side of ChekhovThis is a season of theatrical marathons. At Kingston, The Wars of the Roses …
Tricycle theatre, LondonMarcus Gardley's reworking of Molière's Tartuffe has spark, but lacks driveTwo or three speeches in A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes have a rare sumptuousness, a lip-smacki…
Young Vic, LondonA fast and furious staging of one of Shakespeare's 'problem' plays retains a dark heart despite its comic toneThe opening scene of Joe Hill-Gibbins's staging of Measure for …
Former Central St Martins School of Art, LondonThe Soho site of the Sex Pistols' first gig provides the perfect venue for this storming revival of Barrie Keeffe's trilogy on troubled youthIt…
Bristol Old VicA fiery new production of Arthur Miller's masterpiece returns to the stage of its 1954 British premiereIn the centenary year of Arthur Miller's birth, his play about the Salem…
Wyndham's, LondonFlorian Zeller's study of dementia continues to enthralHow could I have forgotten the kiss? I thought each skewering moment of The Father was indelibly registered. But the e…
Rose theatre, Kingston upon ThamesTrevor Nunn's staging of the RSC's bold 1960s Shakespeare adaptation lacks the original's daring, though there are some fine turns in the lead rolesWhile Gr…
Everyman, LiverpoolSimon Armitage and Nick Bagnall's time-slip take on the Greek epic makes some topical political pointsThe Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead claims Homer as the bard of shifti…
Almeida, LondonKate Fleetwood stuns in the title role of Rachel Cusk's fierce and intelligent adaptationHas Homer become our new Shakespeare? Are the ancients our new contemporaries? As the …
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonLaura Wade's adaptation of Sarah Waters's best-selling lesbian love story lacks ardour in both its politics and songsThere is a carnival of talent in Tipping the Vel…
Royal Court, LondonMartin McDonagh's first play in more than a decade, with electric performances from David Morrissey and Reece Shearsmith, should be the Royal Court's new JerusalemMartin M…
Lyttelton, LondonSally Cookson's bold, tumultuous reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's novel is a feast for the sensesSally Cookson presents a picture of exultant feminism in Jane Eyre. Forg…
Hampstead, London Simon Russell Beale is a delight as the one-legged 18th-century dramatist who turned fame into an art form in Richard Eyre's rumbustious productionYou don't often see a pla…
Noël Coward, LondonNicole Kidman's precise, contained performance as Rosalind Franklin and Michael Grandage's vivid production make the most of a sketchy playNot so much theatrical Viagra…
Adelphi, LondonThe costumes and choreography are full of brio, but a dull central character drags down this tale of transformative footwearAt the end, Kinky Boots comes together, in a battal…
Dorfman, London SE1The extraordinary Denise Gough electrifies as a raging, terrified addictThis is the week when a tremendous actor gets the recognition she deserves. It is not that Denise G…
Shoreditch town hall, London EC1The life of the colourful Duchess of Argyll is marvellously evoked through a series of underground installations, but the human absence is palpableThese days,…
Cumberbatch is a strikingly eloquent Hamlet in an evening of fitful illuminationI don't think I have ever seen a more rational Hamlet. When Benedict Cumberbatch tots up his bodkins, whips, f…
Donmar Warehouse, London Seething resentments surface amid opulent surroundings as four women sit out a revolutionPlaywrights are usually praised for their compassion. But every now and then…
