Tuesday, 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 09:42AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghCovid and the climate crisis are the subjects of a smart and fun two-hander that processes disaster through drama
Edinburgh is bustling again this summer, with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMTuesday, August 9, 2022
Underbelly, EdinburghIrresistibly gleeful celebration of the enduring popularity of Mr Brightside, the Killers’ 2004 debut anthem still in the charts today
Vegas rockers the Killers have j…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PMMonday, August 8, 2022
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonBottom, Quince, Flute and Patience make the young audience feel right at home in this affably silly show that puts Shakespeare in a spin
Last summer, Shakespea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMSunday, July 31, 2022
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes highlights from the world’s biggest arts jamboree and startling fresh takes on Charlotte Brontë and Henrik Ibsen
“I was struck by her spir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PMFriday, July 29, 2022
The British choreographer’s programme includes beguiling digital dance created by Tobias Gremmler, a reckoning with desire from Rocío Molina and seven visions of vice
Leonora Carrington i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMTuesday, July 12, 2022
Tower Bridge Quay, LondonA teacher and his unruly student host a family tour of the capital’s river with scatological gags and gory stories aplenty
They’ve conquered cinema, telly and st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMMonday, July 4, 2022
Jonathan Spector’s 2018 play Eureka Day, about the social disarray after an outbreak of mumps, will receive its European premiere in September
Helen Hunt is to star in a “wince-inducing�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMThursday, June 30, 2022
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes international festivals, Gemma Arterton in The Duchess of Malfi and Christopher Plummer in The Tempest
When Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PMTuesday, June 28, 2022
The RSC’s version of the Japanese classic has smashed box office records – before the curtain’s even gone up. We meet the Jim Henson puppeteers bringing Studio Ghibli’s beloved fluff…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMWednesday, June 22, 2022
Mark Taper Forum, Los AngelesRajiv Joseph’s play conveys the elation and heartbreak of sporting obsession, seen through the eyes of two friends
The king in this new American play is basket…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:29AMMonday, June 20, 2022
Geffen Playhouse, Los AngelesPrivacy, religion, abuse of power and the spotlight of Instagram are all explored in Anna Ouyang Moench’s darkly comic tale
A group of women wield retribution …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMDmitry by Peter Oswald at the Marylebone theatre completes a drama by the German writer that offers a complex historical perspective on Russia
A new London theatre, based in the Grade II-lis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMSunday, June 19, 2022
LA Dance Project, Los AngelesBenjamin Millepied’s charismatic company shine in a performance shrewdly set to Caroline Shaw and Andy Akiho’s rich compositions
Dancing to music is one thin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMWednesday, June 15, 2022
Jupp will play opposite Justin Edwards in adaptation of the classic Ealing comedy set to tour the UK this autumn
Graham Linehan revived The Ladykillers in 2011, Stephen Mangan became The Man…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMMonday, June 13, 2022
The musician, actor and producer joins an elite group of US entertainers after winning an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and now a Tony award
The performer and producer Jennifer Hudson has joined …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMComposer penned a letter read out at the final performance, praising ‘superb’ team but prompting criticism from some audience members
A letter from Andrew Lloyd Webber, read on stage at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMFriday, June 10, 2022
Winged intruder ‘put in a fantastic performance’ after arriving in Sadler’s Wells auditorium amid a staging of The Rite of Spring
Audience members at Sadler’s Wells theatre in London…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMRoyal and Derngate, NorthamptonJudith Kerr’s warm-hearted children’s book is faithfully realised with a vivid and gently ingenious tale of family life
Who could forget about Judith Kerr�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMTuesday, May 31, 2022
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes political plays, an assortment from the Brighton fringe, an epic rehearsal at the RSC and a musical about a guide dog
It started out as an onli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMMonday, May 30, 2022
Medina, who set up the Bristol School of Acting, takes over next spring as Tom Morris steps down after more than a decade
Bristol Old Vic has appointed Nancy Medina as its new artistic direc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, May 25, 2022
The circus star turns singer in his new show, Room, which is designed to embrace chaos. He talks about the mystery of theatre and his movie missions
In James Thierrée’s beguiling stage sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMThursday, May 12, 2022
A Night at the Kabuki, which shifts the star-crossed lovers to 12th-century Japan, will visit London on an international tour
A Night at the Opera, the classic rock album by Queen, has inspi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMWednesday, May 11, 2022
‘Dynamic pricing’ sees ticket costs fluctuate wildly for the acclaimed production’s final performances in the West End
The West End play Cock has faced criticism for operating a “dyn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMTuesday, May 10, 2022
Revival of Arthur Miller’s allegory is part of a new season featuring The Boy With Two Hearts and a 40-week tour of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The National Theatre in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMFriday, May 6, 2022
Patriots will open at the Almeida in London and star Tom Hollander as Boris Berezovsky, with Vladimir Putin and Roman Abramovich among the characters
Peter Morgan, the Oscar-nominated screen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMThursday, May 5, 2022
The Old Vic theatre says its much-anticipated production of 4000 Miles, co-starring Eileen Atkins, will no longer go ahead
It was one of London’s hottest theatre tickets for 2020: a Pulitz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMWednesday, May 4, 2022
Minack theatre, PorthcurnoBased on Italo Calvino folk tales, Kneehigh founder Mike Shepherd’s bounteous show features burning instruments, puppetry and political outrage
Once upon a time? …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM 
