Sunday, November 21, 2021
Leeds Playhouse and touringThe arrest of a man outside a shop provides the framework for a dramatic investigation of black people’s experiences
Nana-Kofi Kufuor’s new two-hander opens wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMSunday, November 7, 2021
Royal Lyceum theatre, EdinburghWils Wilson delivers a high-energy version of the 17th-century play about a monstrous prince faced with the ultimate question
Edinburgh’s Lyceum has reopened…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMSunday, October 31, 2021
Leeds PlayhouseA strong cast and the world-weary Pittsburgh cab drivers they portray are all battling circumstances beyond their control in this overly busy production of Wilson’s 1982 pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, October 24, 2021
Salisbury Playhouse and touringIan McDiarmid wryly contemplates mortality in his engaging new adaptation of two Julian Barnes short stories
“Among the Chinese, the lemon is the symbol of d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, October 17, 2021
Dundee RepA powerful overhaul of An Enemy of the People weaves texts and emails seamlessly into the action
Kieran Hurley’s take on Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People was about to go i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, October 10, 2021
Leeds PlayhouseImitating the Dog’s technical marvel of a show turns an updated version of Bram Stoker’s novel into a live-action graphic novel
New Year’s Eve; a police interrogation ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMSunday, October 3, 2021
Crucible Theatre, SheffieldClean Break theatre company and the Crucible join forces in Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s worthwhile if underpowered play featuring the music of the Slits
Typical Girls…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMSunday, September 26, 2021
Theatr Clywd, MoldThe love triangle is gone, the wounds of war still raw in Kaite O’Reilly’s alternately intense and laboured adaptation set in Wales in 1921
Kaite O’Reilly’s new ada…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMSunday, September 19, 2021
York Theatre RoyalTonderai Munyevu’s semi-autographical show addresses Zimbabwe’s traumatic history with honesty and humour
Clothes hang in broken rows above the bare stage (Nicolai Hart…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMSunday, September 12, 2021
Curve, LeicesterAnthony Almeida’s staging is driven by Peter Forbes and Oliver Johnstone, magnificent in the roles of Big Daddy and Brick
In this new production of Tennessee Williams’s P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, September 5, 2021
Barn theatre, CirencesterMichael Morpurgo’s story of a family fleeing Dresden in 1945 resonates today, animated by Alison Reid’s uncanny acting
Michael Morpurgo’s 2010 story presents a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, August 29, 2021
Pitlochry Festival theatreAlan Watt is superb in an adaptation of two Chekhov short stories in this pioneering theatre’s fine new outdoor space
Pitlochry Festival theatre has been much in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, August 22, 2021
Traverse 1, Edinburgh; Newhailes House and Gardens, Musselburgh; Pleasance; Assembly Roxy, EdinburghDomhnall Gleeson is outstanding in Enda Walsh’s revelatory new play about attitudes to m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMSunday, August 15, 2021
Coole Park, County GalwayDruid Theatre’s fine production of Thomas Kilroy’s adaptation finds rich resonance in the grounds of Lady Gregory’s Coole Park estate
Druid Theatre Company is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, August 1, 2021
Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Garden theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonPhillip Breen’s RSC romp lacks a feel for Shakespeare’s text and fails its female characters – but this new open-air venue …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, July 25, 2021
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonApril De Angelis and Lucy Rivers bring 18th-century London to scabrous life in their boozy new musical satire with an excellent ensemble
The opening number i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, July 11, 2021
Crucible, SheffieldWood’s trademarks are all in place in her talent-show debut drama, first performed at the Crucible in 1978, though it feels somewhat dated now
The talents that made the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSunday, July 4, 2021
Watermill, NewburyA green adaptation of Shakespeare’s romcom focuses on the climate crisis, but takes its time to get the blood stirring
Duke Senior, banished by his usurping brother, prai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSunday, June 27, 2021
Grosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterNeither too Disney nor too Kipling, this witty staging also carries an ecological message
Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera – Kipling may have created them b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMSaturday, June 19, 2021
Piece Hall, Halifax; now touringAmanda Whittington’s new play is a stirring account of a Yorkshire women’s football team playing on despite FA opposition in the 1920s
The sky above the e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMSaturday, June 12, 2021
Two sets of neighbours from 2020 and 1942 interact in an entertaining tale of love and endurance
If the title leads you to expect hallmark Alan Ayckbourn split set and inventive staging, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMSunday, June 6, 2021
Theatre Royal Bath and touringThe actor and director gives a compelling performance of the poet’s wartime epic in this solo show
What an achievement! Simply to recite TS Eliot’s 1943 poe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMSunday, May 30, 2021
Barn, CirencesterCat Goscovitch’s gripping play explores the Russian troll factory that used social media to manipulate the Brexit vote
Manipulation of public opinion to political ends is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSunday, May 23, 2021
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughJulie Hesmondhalgh recounts a tale of rediscovery and romance in a solo show perfect for live theatre’s return
Somewhere in outer space, the Actor tells …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMSunday, May 16, 2021
Available onlineBased on a fin-de-siecle novel loved by Oscar Wilde, this satanic stage musical has snappy songs and a devilish wit
This light, witty, devilishly well delivered “play with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSunday, May 2, 2021
Mick Lally theatre, Galway; available onlineDrawing on her early writings, Colm Tóibín captures the essence of the late Irish poet in this transformative livestreamed production
Eavan Bo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMSunday, January 24, 2021
Available onlineAs this year’s event goes virtual, five newly commissioned videos showcase the diversity of its artists
My heart went out to Jonathan Agnew, having to commentate on England…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, December 6, 2020
Eva O’Connor’s piece about ‘madness, heartbreak and condiments’ loses its bite in this online performance
Writer-performer Eva O’Connor describes her latest play, Mustard, as a “…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMSunday, November 8, 2020
Crucible, SheffieldThree fine actors portray more than 35 characters over decades in Mojisola Elufowoju’s impressive production of Oladipo Agboluaje’s new play
The bad news is: a second …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSaturday, October 24, 2020
Leeds PlayhouseA fun-filled tale of local authority corruption
This new, outdoor show from the innovative company imitating the dog (ITD) is a sanguinary tale of local authority corruption �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMSunday, September 27, 2020
Old Vic, LondonMichael Sheen, Indira Varma and David Threlfall are magnificent in Matthew Warchus’s enthralling livestreamed production of Brian Friel’s 1979 play
Does faith healing come…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM 
