Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Egg theatre, BathThe puppet star of a popular children’s show has been multiplied for this entrancing new adventure
The Egg theatre has made a tradition of festive plays about inquisitive …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMTuesday, December 2, 2025
Inspired by the series of irreverent comic books by the Captain Underpants creator, the show will run at the Southbank Centre in 2026
Dog Man, the half-canine crimefighter dreamed up by Capt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMMonday, December 1, 2025
Rufus Sewell, Christine Baranski, Susan Wokoma, Toby Jones and Harriet Walter share their unforgettable encounters with a theatrical giant
I worked with Tom when I was quite young, on Arcadi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMUnicorn theatre, LondonThis exuberant adaptation of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen’s picture book moves with the rhythm of a child’s racing imagination
Never mind what’s hidden inside the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMGigglemug’s musical revisits 1991’s cake-or-biscuit VAT dispute, John C Reilly gets romantic and Beauty and the Beast rock out
Is it a cake or is it a biscuit? That’s the juicy questio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMThursday, November 27, 2025
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme A fresh telling of Hans Christian Andersen’s story deploys circus skills and inventive design to create a memorable merworld
The Little Mermaid is big…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMTuesday, November 25, 2025
Stephen Poliakoff’s 1991 film Close My Eyes, about incestuous siblings, echoes as the actors return in David Eldridge’s End, playing a couple facing a cancer diagnosis
First there was Be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMFriday, November 21, 2025
The West End show’s former lead actors will travel back in their careers to share the role with its current star for the 1985 film’s anniversary
Audiences at the West End musical Back to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMTuesday, November 18, 2025
From Chicago to Stan & Ollie, the Oscar-nominated actor has sung on screen for years. Now he arrives on stage – inside a trunk – to serenade the audience
In one of Hollywood’s nice…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThe actor will appear opposite British film star Noah Jupe in a production directed by Robert Icke opening in March
Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink is to make her West End debut next year in R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMFriday, November 14, 2025
Royal Court theatre, London Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s drama toggles between digital and physical worlds as it traces a scholar’s grim compulsion
‘It’s not that deep,” Ani’s friend a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMMonday, November 10, 2025
Speaking at a screening of hit play The Fifth Step, the actor reveals he is ‘not comfortable at all on camera’
Slow Horses star Jack Lowden has said it was a “relief” to return to th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMOld Laundry theatre in Bowness-on-Windermere will change its name next year and premiere show to mark 10th anniversary of comedian’s death
A theatre in the Lake District is to be renamed f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, November 7, 2025
The Space Man singer said he was honoured to take lead in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera, due to open at the London Palladium next summer
The singer-songwriter Sam Ryder, best known for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMQueen Elizabeth Hall, LondonInitially buckling under the world’s weight, seven dancers shed fear and hold on to joy as they replace climate anxiety with collective action
Eulogising a show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMSunday, November 2, 2025
Passenger reworks songs from his hit musical while Tanika Gupta gives Ibsen a Hollywood makeover and TikTok becomes a stage for young playwrights
When Rachel Joyce’s bestseller about a ret…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMThursday, October 23, 2025
The hit Scottish comedy about suburban neighbours will move from screen to stage next year at Glasgow’s Hydro
Two Doors Down, the BBC comedy series about a suburban Scottish couple with co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMWednesday, October 22, 2025
The Hollywood actor will star in a new version of the Chekhov classic by writer-director Simon Stone at the Bridge theatre from July
Star Trek’s Chris Pine will boldly go to the Bridge nex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMFriday, October 17, 2025
New Wolsey theatre, IpswichA couple mourn the loss of their daughter in an adaptation that is far better at conveying sadness than suspense
Daphne du Maurier’s 1971 story Don’t Look Now …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMWednesday, October 15, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonA young officer becomes the de facto carer of a vulnerable inmate in Evan Placey’s well-observed play about a stretched Prison Service
A decade ago, play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMTuesday, October 14, 2025
Soho Theatre Walthamstow, LondonThe performance artist’s first solo show in five years considers the plight of our planet, with a compelling mix of standup, songs and folk horror
It may co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMMonday, October 13, 2025
Charing Cross theatre, LondonFeaturing 20 of the band’s disco-funk songs, this jukebox musical has sparkle but comes with an infuriating concept and little depth of characterisation
Fifty …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMThursday, October 9, 2025
The OC star will take the role made famous by Barbara Stanwyck in James M Cain’s classic noir tale of murder and deceit, touring the UK in early 2026
Mischa Barton is to make her UK stage …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMTuesday, September 30, 2025
Curve theatre, LeicesterIn a moving memory play, Anna Jordan charts the course of a relationship which begins with the sharing of a mobile hotspot
Most of us simply dig up memories but the c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMMonday, September 29, 2025
Kontakthof is a 1978 show full of tenderness, violence and horror. Now, in a spectacular production, its first performers are bringing it back. But would Bausch have approved?
Theatres are h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMPerformance of the once controversial poem was planned for its 40th anniversary but will now double as a tribute to writer who died last week
Tony Harrison’s state-of-the-nation poem V is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMFriday, September 26, 2025
The Other Palace, LondonGeorgina Castle and Josh St Clair make a likable couple who endlessly replay their first meeting but this adaptation needs more emotional punch
Perhaps it’s unfair …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMThursday, September 25, 2025
Old Red Lion theatre, LondonPuppetry and silent cinema techniques are used to retell Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel and its film version in a show played for laughs rather than thrills
Rep th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMWednesday, September 24, 2025
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonMatthew Xia directs a consummate adaptation of the 1972 Jamaican thriller, whose irresistible soundtrack is bolstered by new songs
Scene-setting doesn’t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, September 21, 2025
Everyman theatre, LiverpoolEllie Hurt directs a dynamic production that boasts sensational lead performances by Zoe West and Alicia Forde
Romeo and Juliet is a play that lives or dies by the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMFriday, September 19, 2025
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonAlmost 30 years on, the Irish playwright’s intimate drama brims with painful memories and comedy – brought to dazzling effect by a flawless cast
Conor McPher…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM 
