Hampstead theatre, LondonThis revival of Harold Pinter’s two-hander about a pair of Beckettian hitmen raises questions for the age of strongman politics There is an “amusing story” abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48PMBridge theatre, LondonSimon Russell Beale stars in an economical Dickens adaptation that reminds us of the richness of live theatre What has made this Victorian tale of child poverty, stalki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMThe Big House, LondonA mixture of surrealism and satire renders Maggie Norris’s production both unnerving and puzzling Covid-19 dramas have kept us afloat during lockdown. There have been …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48PMThe award has been won by Ahlam and Amy Trigg, who beat more than 1,000 other entries, in initiative to dismantle stereotypes about women’s writing The inaugural Women’s Prize for Playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMAvailable onlineThe experience of black frontline workers in the Covid crisis is brought to harrowing life in these plays based on interviews with a teacher and mental health worker As the C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMAvailable onlineAlan Ayckbourn plays a man looking for answers about the death of his musical prodigy daughter in an audio version of his 1994 work that keeps us guessing till the end When A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMAvailable onlineIn an intimate and often traumatic one-woman performance, Pepa Duarte explores her hostile relationship with cravings, calorie-counting and identity, as a bean soup bubbles o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMThe playwright and activist formerly known as Eve Ensler changed the world with The Vagina Monologues. Her next project hopes to be just as empowering – but this time she’s listening to,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMAvailable onlineGet that blindfold on! Morpheus’s interactive horror is scary – but teaming up with strangers is fun We have been told to bring a blindfold and headphones for a “terrif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMAvailable online Staffordshire’s Anglo-Saxon booty inspires a host of short plays by writers including April De Angelis and Darren Sharp A metal detectorist from the West Midlands lists hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMAvailable onlineThe Queen’s theatre in Hornchurch seeks to set the record straight on the county’s much maligned image with four monologues that fizz When Mike Leigh situated his social …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMAvailable onlineLouise Orwin whispers monstrous imaginings into your ear in an aural interrogation of the horror genre that touches on pandemic fears ‘What’s your favourite scary movie?�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMMike Bartlett’s monologue brings us the inner life of a despotic public figure and Luke Barnes’s over-the-phone drama is profoundly creepy A powerful man has broken the rules of lockdown…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMAvailable onlineThese bite-sized, beautifully written short plays give a powerful voice to aggrieved heroines from Greek and Roman mythology This three-part series enters the hearts and mind…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMAvailable onlineJuliet Stevenson, Linda Bassett and others bring to life a fantasy dinner party thrown as the Nazis overrun France All does not go smoothly at Steven Carl McCasland’s fanta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMOlivier theatre, LondonMichael Balogun delivers this monologue – a sequel to Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ Death of England – with deftly controlled energy ‘There have been other mome…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMCrucible, Sheffield/onlineA three-woman cast powerfully captures the shifting fortunes of a Nigerian family down the decades, from Ibadan to Britain With a cast of three on an almost bare st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMChichester Festival theatre/onlineDirector Tinuke Craig gives Sarah Kane’s one-act play an edge-of-the-seat tension as the four characters move between hope and despair Crave was the one-a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMOnlineBeginning at the end, Jonathan Coe’s novel about the scheming Winshaws is turned into an audacious investigative whodunnit Jonathan Coe’s satirical novel about the venality of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMNottingham Playhouse; ZoomThe actor was joined by Adrian Scarborough for a seasonal dose of phone calls from the other side and undead criminality ‘The oldest and strongest emotion of mank…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMRose theatre, KingstonWilly Russell’s play works well in a socially-distanced staging, and the questions it asks about the value of arts and education feel more pertinent than ever This 40…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMShe went from rave diva with Nomad to winning her third Olivier award on Sunday for Death of a Salesman. Yet the London actor isn’t immune to the storms battering theatre Sharon D Clarke w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMWatermill theatre, NewburyThis powerful, affecting drama ranges over the pioneering aviator’s adventurous career and her final terrible moments Amy Johnson is, in many ways, still the epit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMNottingham PlayhouseIn James Graham’s Covid romcom, a couple who have just met decide to quarantine together, while in a parallel narrative they face isolation alone The playwright James G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMImmersive LDN A revitalised, socially distanced version of the F Scott Fitzgerald novel keeps the jazz age alive with song, dance and spectacle Last year, in the “before”, The Great Gat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMThis funny, tragic and deeply unsettling one-woman tour de force shows who the US constitution serves – and who it lets down. The statistics alone are horrifying Heidi Schreck tells us she…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMBridge theatre, LondonTamsin Greig and Maxine Peake play long-suffering women, gravely put-upon by the men in their lives, in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads The first monologue in this doubl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMBridge theatre, LondonThere are fine performances by Imelda Staunton and Lucian Msamati in this pair of Talking Heads The latest two live instalments of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMTristan Bates theatre, London, and online In her lockdown romance, playwright Gemma Lawrence explores desire, isolation and homophobia A remote love story seems so fitting for our times. Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PMNew general secretary Paul Fleming says that amid this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, the union received spike in reported cases of racist behaviour Equity, the UK trade union for c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMThe explosion of digital productions of all sizes has shown great creativity and made hit shows more accessible – but is it all financially sustainable? In the past six months, theatre has…
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