Thursday, December 8, 2022
Troubadour Wembley Park theatre, LondonThis show about young New York paper-sellers has stirring anthems and screwball energy, even if it lacks emotional and political depth
Newspaper hawker…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMPatsy Ferran will take over from Lydia Wilson when the London production opens a week late, alongside co-stars Paul Mescal and Anjana Vasan
London’s Almeida theatre has cancelled the first…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMWednesday, December 7, 2022
The star formerly known as Cheryl Tweedy will play Jenny, who believes her new home is haunted, in the hit play by Danny Robins
The former Girls Aloud singer Cheryl is to follow in the foots…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Ivo van Hove’s epic, boisterous family fun and a dance fable for Christmas
“I never think about the audience until the last days before we …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03PMTuesday, November 29, 2022
Polka theatre, LondonCharles Way’s farce has squabbling siblings, festive karaoke and a cranky rodent as a family tries to keep their pet shop afloat
In children’s theatre, little ideas …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMMonday, November 28, 2022
Unicorn theatre, LondonPlaywright Yasmin Joseph and director Ola Ince team up for a drama that captures the warmth of a family reconnecting in Jamaica
Here’s a new play with so many fun id…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMThursday, November 24, 2022
Dominion theatre, LondonChoreographed candy cane twirling and funny moments from the Will Ferrell film don’t save this show from being a bland corporate Christmas experience
Son of a nutcr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMWednesday, November 23, 2022
Author Hanya Yanagihara and director Ivo van Hove adapt ‘mesmerising’ story about effects of child abuse for London stage
An adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestselling novel A Little…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
She starred in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights while eight months pregnant and played Cinderella’s stepmother in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s abruptly closed musical. Now Hamilton-Barritt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMWritten by Jack Thorne and directed by Sam Mendes, The Motive and the Cue is about the famous 1964 production of Hamlet and will open at the National Theatre
Johnny Flynn is to play Richard …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMMonday, November 21, 2022
The festival will celebrate 40th anniversary in 2023 with London shows featuring the actor talking to Rob Delaney, plus host of standup acts
Just for Laughs, the comedy festival that began i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMFriday, November 18, 2022
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterEuphoric songs are delivered with splendour as the duo’s musical finally gets its European premiere, with a fantastic lead performance by Grace Mouat
A foot in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMWednesday, November 16, 2022
In our third set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding round, we hear from Eclipse in Leeds, Oldham Coliseum and Hexham’s Bloodaxe Books
Organisation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMMonday, November 14, 2022
In our second set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding decisions, we hear from Balbir Singh Dance Company, Britten Sinfonia and Little Bulb
Organisati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMHer cat-tastic stage show is a riff on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical that swerves into emotionally raw territory. The Edinburgh fringe sensation talks about trauma, taboos and the importan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMThursday, November 10, 2022
In the first of a series of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding decisions, we consider the view from the Watermill theatre, Welsh National Opera and Pai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMTuesday, November 8, 2022
The actors will bring a revival of Sam Steiner’s 2015 play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons to London, Manchester and Brighton, directed by Josie Rourke
Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMTuesday, November 1, 2022
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Alan Ayckbourn’s 87th play, live performance from Ukraine and lost showtunes
The Bridge theatre’s big Christmas show from 2021, based on Ph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
The production, beginning next February, will be directed by Dominic Cooke for @sohoplace in London
Sophie Okonedo is to star as Medea at the new West End theatre @sohoplace in a production…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55AMEveryman theatre, Cheltenham This adaptation of the postwar caper has its moments but lacks the adroit humour and tautness of the film
Ealing Studios’ 1951 comedy of bowler-hatted banking …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55AMMonday, October 17, 2022
MJ the Musical, based around the making of the singer’s 1992-93 Dangerous world tour, won four Tony awards in New York
A new musical about Michael Jackson that has been feted in New York y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMFriday, October 14, 2022
Vaults, LondonAn exuberant but baggy Stranger Things parody hardly turns its source material upside down
It has a pulsating synth soundtrack and brought Kate Bush an overdue No 1 so why not …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03AMFriday, October 7, 2022
Finborough theatre, LondonGeorg Kaiser’s century-old call for a societal reset may not always hit the mark, but it is given an invigorated panache by Collide theatre company
What a day, as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMMercury theatre, ColchesterAn uneven new play from Mischief Theatre skews darker than their hit comedies, with jarring tragedy amid the clowning
The Play That Goes Wrong’s Mischief Theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMMonday, October 3, 2022
Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a Tony award-winning musical, international dance and a radical dramatisation of the crucifixion story
Broadway stage sensation Audra McD…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMTuesday, September 20, 2022
The set, costume, video and lighting designers of Disney’s London production – now in its second year in the West End – break the ice about its frocks, crystals and astonishing effects…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:25PMMonday, September 19, 2022
Italian actor, who often worked with his wife Kathryn Hunter, was a co-founder of Complicité, a gifted clown and a voiceover artist for Pingu
Tributes have been paid to the actor Marcello M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AMTuesday, August 16, 2022
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghSamuel Barnett is remarkable in Marcelo Dos Santos’s one-man play which analyses joke-craft and a comedian’s compulsions
Towards the end of this enthral…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMMonday, August 15, 2022
Underbelly, EdinburghAlex Howarth’s hugely moving play has plenty of humour and a homemade aesthetic, while asking tough questions about parenting and the law
When Cassie and her younger s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSunday, August 14, 2022
Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh The Bruce Willis action film has had a big impact on superfan Richard Marsh. He retells the story in rhyme, with his finger for a gun
Richard Marsh has clearly seen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMWednesday, August 10, 2022
Summerhall, EdinburghThe pressures faced by elite athletes are explored in a dynamic show presented as part of the fringe’s Belgian Selection
A gun is fired and the agonised figure before …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM 
