WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Lyttelton, National Theatre
WHEN: 1/6, press night 7/6, runs to 8/9/18
RUN TIME: 90 minutes without interval
Hopes are high for this August Strindberg adaptation not least because star Vanessa Kirby won a Best Supporting Actress BAFTA last month for her turn as Princess Margaret in Netflix’s much-admired The Crown.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Bush Theatre (Press review night ticket)
WHEN: Press night 31/5, runs to 30/6/18
RUN TIME: 2 hours and 10 minutes (including interval)
What was it like to have been born and raised in Jamaica in the last century and to move to the UK for a new life?
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: National Theatre (Olivier)
WHEN: 26/5, press night 30/5, runs to 11/8/18
RUN TIME: 2 hours 35 minutes (including interval)
Brian Friel’s 1980 masterpiece Translations is set in Ireland in 1833 and is about the power of language as the English seek to map the country so they can better tax its people.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Southwark Playhouse
WHEN: 25/5/18, press night 29/5, runs to 23/6/18
RUN TIME: 2 hours and 20 minutes (with interval)
Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera starred in the original Broadway production of this Kander and Ebb (Chicago and Cabaret) musical and we wonder whether they had as much fun with it as Caroline O’Connor and Gemma Sutton do here.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Trafalgar Studios 2
WHEN: 17/5 (matinee), press night 17/5, runs to 9/6/18
A grandmother, a mother and her daughter meet in a hotel suite the night before one of them is to be married for an evening of alcohol and home truths.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Menier Chocolate Factory
WHEN: 14/5/18, press night 22/5, runs to 7/7/18
Four job applicants arrive for an interview for a top management position in a big company and find the selection procedure will be an unconventional series of mind games.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Palace Theatre
WHEN: 9/5/18, booking to 7/4/19
We count ourselves as lucky to have been invited to see this double bill and attribute that to our ATG membership.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Wyndhams Theatre
WHEN: 5/5, press night 15/5, runs to 28/7/18
There’s a sense of unfinished business about this production which opened at the Donmar in 2009, transferred to Broadway where it won six Tonys but never made it to the West End.
WORTH A LOOK?: **
WHERE: Old Vic
WHEN: 30/4, press night 1/5 runs to 16/6/18
We groaned when Rhys Ifans was cast in the lead here because he had been so unexpectedly right as Scrooge in this venue’s production of A Christmas Carol that we weren’t sure we wanted to see him quite so soon in something else.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Other Palace
WHEN: 21/4 runs to 6/5/18
‘I was nude on Broadway at 48,’ remembers this screen legend during a two-hour-plus show of songs and stories which reveal what an interesting character Kathleen Turner is
