Wednesday, March 30, 2022
The actor will share the role with Danish dancer Johan Christensen in a new production this summer
Sir Ian McKellen is to play Hamlet for the third time in his career in a production this su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMTuesday, March 29, 2022
Dorfman, LondonJude Christian’s funny and suspenseful adaptation for children draws them into the heart of Shakespeare’s story
Who hasn’t occasionally wished Hamlet was a bit shorter? …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMFriday, March 25, 2022
London venue to stage a reading of Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s drama Bad Roads, which will also be livestreamed on the Guardian website
The Royal Court theatre in London is to present a day of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMThursday, March 24, 2022
Local heroes including screenwriter Jimmy McGovern and comedian Johnny Vegas will take stage at Shakespeare North Playhouse this summer
A new Shakespearean theatre is to open in Merseyside t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMThursday, March 17, 2022
Premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s play will reunite the film and theatre stars who appeared in The Equalizer
The American blockbuster stars David Harbour and Bill Pullman are to share the stage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMWednesday, March 16, 2022
The first Russian to leave the company over her country’s invasion of its neighbour will join the Dutch National Ballet
Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates
The prima ballerina Olga Smirnova…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMFriday, March 11, 2022
Bristol Old VicWith brilliant performances, eye-popping visuals and a gloriously profane script by Ross Willis, this is an unforgettable tale of adolescence
Here is an audaciously inventive,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThursday, March 10, 2022
Winner Karis Kelly, writer of Consumed, had previously been considering a ‘complete career change’ as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic
A playwright who was considering a “complete car…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMMercury theatre, ColchesterHandsomely staged, Mark Ravenhill’s version of Charles Bennett’s 1920s thriller includes pertinent concerns about policing and the abuse of power
An artist is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMonday, March 7, 2022
The actor who passed out on stage said he had ‘a bruised ego but I’m fine’ and would be back to perform on Monday night
The actor Taron Egerton has said he will return to the stage “…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMThursday, March 3, 2022
Curve, LeicesterMolly-Grace Cutler is in fine voice in this jukebox musical but the story shortchanges the singer-songwriter’s achievements
Like her 2012 memoir, A Natural Woman, this juke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42PMTuesday, March 1, 2022
In a new monthly roundup, we pick 10 of the best shows to enjoy from home – including Shakespeare filmed in a church, a lavish musical and Gabriel Byrne’s return to Dublin
With three new…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMTuesday, February 8, 2022
Barn theatre, CirencesterLee O’Reilly and Sam Denia prove deft and daft in a mystery spoof that is crammed with ideas
The question in this nimble murder-mystery spoof is not so much whodun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMWednesday, February 2, 2022
Gaiety theatre, DublinThe actor adapts his impressionistic memoir for the stage, giving life to the characters he observed as a boy in the ‘theatre of the street’
Gabriel Byrne’s 2020 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMMonday, January 31, 2022
Tempest’s National Theatre play, Amanda Wilkin’s Shedding a Skin and Benedict Lombe’s Lava all shortlisted for major playwriting award
A reworking of Sophocles’s tragedy Philoctetes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMSunday, January 30, 2022
Known for his pioneering blaxploitation cinema, the late film director also created Don’t Play Us Cheap, a goofy but soul-stirring Broadway hit that should not be forgotten
When Melvin Van…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMTuesday, January 25, 2022
Actor aims to tell the Scottish poet’s story ‘using my whole body’ in a production at the 75th Edinburgh international festival in August
Alan Cumming will play Scotland’s national b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMThe actor, who is taking on a one-off role as a detective, is ready for an all-singing, all-dancing production next
He has played a wizard, a supervillain and the great Shakespearean leads �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMFriday, January 21, 2022
Show scored by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary is set to become summer’s hot ticket and will premiere in Cheltenham in July
After all those weekly showstopper challenges, it was perhaps inev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMTuesday, January 18, 2022
Available onlineStephen Joseph theatre’s filmed seasonal offering is a proper winter warmer with some off-the-wall touches
Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph theatre had to cancel almost half …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMMonday, January 17, 2022
Rambert dance company and writer Steven Knight team up for an ‘inspiring and uplifting’ touring production
The upcoming sixth series of blockbuster BBC drama Peaky Blinders will be the l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMThursday, January 6, 2022
‘Blighted’ by pandemic, Rufus Norris’s festive production will end current run without a press night but return in November
The National Theatre has cancelled the official opening nigh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMWednesday, December 15, 2021
Dramas by Bryony Lavery, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Stephen Jeffreys also feature in readings to mark the venue’s 50th birthday
A pint-sized theatre that opened in the backroom of a London…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMTuesday, December 14, 2021
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonLove Island’s Amber Davies tops a charismatic cast, including Olympic gymnast Louis Smith, in a spirited show co-created by the Hamilton man
Before Hamilton, Li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMTuesday, December 7, 2021
Curve, LeicesterA gifted company has the chops to do the 1975 New York musical proud, saluting an imperilled industry with an irresistible revival
‘I’m a dancer: a dancer dances,” says…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMSaturday, December 4, 2021
Tributes paid to British dramatist acclaimed for dramas including German Skerries, Across Oka and A Breakfast of Eels
Robert Holman, the playwright’s playwright who was revered for his fin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMFriday, December 3, 2021
Antony Sher was not only a superb performer but also an insightful observer on the craft of acting and the theatre – as shown in these extracts
Antony Sher, celebrated actor, dies aged 72…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMHis vivid and moving performances, including an Olivier award-winning Richard III, made Sher one of the world’s most respected theatre actors
Michael Billington: ‘A man of staggering ver…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThursday, December 2, 2021
Europe’s in-demand theatre director is also an avid cinephile. A dizzying exhibition joins the dots between his adaptations of arthouse movies – by Antonioni, Bergman, Cassavetes and oth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMSaturday, November 27, 2021
Internationaal Theater AmsterdamIsabelle Huppert stars in a shrewd staging of Tennessee Williams’ autobiographical memory play, to be livestreamed from the ITA
Is this a latecomer weaving …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMIn these extracts from interviews published in the Guardian and the Observer, the musicals maestro – who has died aged 91 – talks about rhyme, reviews and risk
People say I always write …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AM 
