Friday, October 3, 2025
Lyttelton theatre, LondonHiran Abeysekera brings humour to the tragedy and Francesca Mills steals the show as Ophelia but this staging pulls its emotional punches
Last week, Indhu Rubasingha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMThursday, October 2, 2025
Park theatre, LondonPainter Lee Krasner’s rivalry with her husband is laid bare in an affecting play about a relationship both loving and riddled with hostility
Art history is littered wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMTheatre Royal Haymarket, London Maxim Didenko delivers Wilde’s version of the biblical tale with a blingy design, topless men in hoods and yodelling
Is it morally acceptable to host an Isr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMWednesday, October 1, 2025
The great performance artist reveals all about her new four-hour Balkan Erotic Epic – a wild reinvention of ancient rituals that is sure to shock, move and amuse audiences
Marina Abramovi�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMSunday, September 28, 2025
Hampstead theatre, London Will Lord’s exciting new play adds a neurodiverse inner voice to the Mamet-like rivalry between ambitious debt collectors chasing financial success
The most dange…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMFriday, September 26, 2025
Barbican theatre, LondonCaroline Guiela Nguyen’s epic drama explores global labour and personal suffering with moments of haunting power
A three-hour durational show with a three-minute pa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMThursday, September 25, 2025
Olivier theatre, LondonThis eccentric take on Euripedes by Nima Taleghani is a striking yet often frustrating opening statement
It takes courage and some flamboyance to launch an inaugural p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMWednesday, September 24, 2025
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonDirector Emily Burns puts a laser focus on the moral rot and hypocrisy of men in power with this streamlined and superbly performed version
Shak…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMTuesday, September 23, 2025
Rose theatre, Kingston upon ThamesAva Pickett’s modern-day adaptation of the novel adds pop music, farce and clowning but lacks gimlet-eyed observations
An early blast of Lady Gaga’s Bad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMFriday, September 19, 2025
Dorfman theatre, LondonDirected by Stephen Daldry, David Lan’s historical drama has a revelatory performance by Artie Wilkinson-Hunt
David Lan’s play takes us into a fascinating corridor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMThursday, September 18, 2025
Bridge theatre, LondonIbsen’s mysticism and mermaids are thrown out as director Simon Stone amps up the 1888 play’s psychological intensity with his eco-focused update
Writer-director Si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PMSunday, September 14, 2025
Bush theatre, LondonBoth screen stars captivate in Emma Dennis-Edwards’s tale of Gen Z Erica and emotionally distant Joyce
Two screen stars blaze on stage in this mother-daughter drama: Le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMFriday, September 12, 2025
Marylebone theatre, LondonRussian director Alexander Molochnikov’s play within a play raises vital questions about the cost and creativity of exile but is undone by its own cleverness
This…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMUstinov Studio, BathAs a pair of wisecracking vaudevillian entertainers, the stars balance the comedy and desolation in Lindsay Posner’s production
This desolate masterpiece by Samuel Beck…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMThursday, August 28, 2025
Andrea Riseborough and Sarandon deliver a decade-hopping drama, superstar standups hit the road and Shobana Jeyasingh rewrites Shakespeare
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMWednesday, August 27, 2025
Donmar Warehouse, LondonMike Bartlett’s invigorating play becomes a state-of-the-world drama about whether it is possible to live responsibly in our age of toxic capitalism
Mike Bartlett�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMFriday, August 22, 2025
Theatre Royal BathThe actor’s minimal staging of the Shakespeare comedy favours stillness and feeling over comic fizz, with moving performances from Gloria Obianyo and Amber James
Ralph Fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMWednesday, August 20, 2025
Globe theatre, LondonRobin Belfield’s staging of Shakespeare’s comedy has plenty of charm, but its darker undertones are glossed over
It is festival time in Illyria, with masked revelrie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMAssembly Roxy, EdinburghEmma Maye Gibson’s outre alter ego conjures a bacchanalian helter-skelter of burlesque moments that never quite cohere
This experimental act from Australia knows ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMThursday, August 14, 2025
Ustinov Studio, BathAllen is convincing as the bored newlywed but Matthew Dunster’s version gets lost between our time and Ibsen’s
It is not through any shortcomings of the cast that Mat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48PMTuesday, August 12, 2025
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonThis version of Lerner and Loewe’s musical has plenty of energy – bagpipes, big voices, drumming galore – but surely it needed more of a story u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMCowbarn at Underbelly, Bristo Square, EdinburghThe two titans of tech are parodied in a thoroughly fun send-up of the competition between Apple and Microsoft
This musical comedy about billio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMTraverse, EdinburghOliver Ayres tucks you in for an intimate account of his diagnosis with a severe and chronic immune condition, and the effect of transphobia
This is a one-to-one show that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48AMSunday, August 10, 2025
Traverse theatre, EdinburghIn Hannah Moscovitch’s powerful play, a journalist’s triggered memories of abuse are voiced by a man
This two-hander about consent, abuse and the doubt cast ov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AMSaturday, August 9, 2025
Summerhall, Edinburgh Beth Paterson leads us through her discovery that the grandmother who berated her as a child was a Holocaust survivor
This story, told by Beth Paterson, is about her �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PMFriday, August 8, 2025
Lyceum, EdinburghPerformers dig up the stage, roll in the sack and merge with machines in Belgian theatre collective FC Bergman’s arresting show
Belgian theatre collective FC Bergman’s t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMAssembly George Square Studios, Edinburgh Robert Daws stars as the great comic author in this one-man show but is let down by lukewarm humour
Robert Daws has lots of previous form on PG Wode…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThursday, August 7, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWith brilliant one-liners, dazzling music and two formidable performers, this fringe highlight sees a cute newcomer end Earth’s 750m-year stint of singledom
D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMWednesday, August 6, 2025
Big Yin at Gilded Balloon Patter House, EdinburghA joyful ensemble channels the spirit of 70s counterculture with dazzling costumes and cheeky choreography in a flawed show
This riotous ense…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32PMPentland theatre, Pleasance at EICC, Edinburgh Voices swirl in Andreas Constantinou’s medium-like performance as he struggles still with his dad’s response to his sexuality
This is a sho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMMonday, August 4, 2025
Traverse theatre, EdinburghBuried trauma surfaces at a family reunion in Karis Kelly’s darkly funny Northern Irish drama that attempts to capture a broader history of violence
Karis Kelly�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PM 
