Thursday, May 18, 2023
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonA young woman offers her life to save an unworthy aristocrat in a passionately sung fable of Caribbean history
A tragic tale rollicking with positive …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, May 7, 2023
Orange Tree, Richmond Strong emotions rule in a candid and well-judged Somerset Maugham comedy twisting romantic fates across generations of squabbling society
Elizabeth (Olivia Vinall), the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMWednesday, May 3, 2023
Queen’s theatre, HornchurchFearing the playwright’s works will be lost to history, former colleagues enact a rescue plan in Lauren Gunderson’s generous-hearted comedy
Less giddy than S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMTuesday, May 2, 2023
Russell Tovey, Simon Fisher Turner, Travis Alabanza and Neil Bartlett are teaming up to reimagine the director’s final film – a narrated meditation over a static blue screen – as a ‘…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMMonday, March 13, 2023
The actor, better known as a TV cop, is portraying Julius Caesar’s assassin in a first for the RSC. She reveals why she’s been studying revolutionaries, from Mexican Zapatistas to Welsh …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMThursday, February 23, 2023
Playground theatre, LondonWriter Richard Norton-Taylor and director Nicolas Kent’s almost anti-theatrical play uses residents’ testimonies and gives the bereaved a much-needed voice
Stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
Tracy-Ann Oberman’s Shylock, who has been relocated to 1930s Britain, is inspired by her tough great grandma – while Henry Goodman felt shame after losing himself in Shakespeare’s most…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PMFriday, February 17, 2023
Orange Tree theatre, LondonTara Fitzgerald plays the former violinist in a restaging of Tom Kempinski’s play that pits patient against doctor in a furious battle of wills
Change one elemen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AMTuesday, January 10, 2023
The Rev Simon Grigg, a former stage director, welcomes our writer to St Paul’s in Covent Garden, where the stars worship
“She’s a very good Christian soul, but not the dynamic person t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:09PMMonday, December 12, 2022
As Hellman’s 1941 play is revived at the Donmar Warehouse in London, director Ellen McDougall and dramaturg Emma Jude explain how it remains a call to arms
“We’re shaken out of the mag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMMonday, December 5, 2022
Garrick theatre, LondonIn Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s wild-goose chase through time, Corrin shines as the hero who falls asleep as a man and wakes as a woman
Emma Corr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMThursday, December 1, 2022
Wilton’s Music Hall, London Piers Torday’s update of the children’s classic brings Kenneth Grahame’s animals to modern-day London
Kenneth Grahame had terrifying nightmares about lyin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMThursday, November 24, 2022
Ustinov Studio, BathDickie Beau offers a merry miscellany, featuring stories from Ian McKellen and Fiona Shaw, in a meditation on theatre that is closer to possession than parody
Dickie Beau…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
Arcola, LondonFrank McGuinness conjures the bizarre but real encounter between TS Eliot and the Marx brother in a leaden piece a talented cast can’t save
Unlikely as it seems, TS Eliot and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThursday, October 20, 2022
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonGill weaves an intricate, poignant picture of London’s queer history as two elderly men ruminate on the long-gone loves of their youth
Two elderly men sit side…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMThursday, October 13, 2022
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonIvy Tiller: Vicar’s Daughter, Squirrel Killer by Bea Roberts and Nina Segal’s O, Island! offer cartoonish satire that lacks sting
The RSC has been sit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
As Kenneth MacMillan’s classic returns, his widow Deborah and Edward Watson – celebrated for dancing the lead role – reflect on preserving the spirit of this seamy beast of a ballet
It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AMFriday, October 7, 2022
Donmar Warehouse, LondonWhen an Egyptian orchestra accidentally tips up in a sleepy Israeli backwater, lives are changed in the quietest of ways
‘Nothing is as beautiful as something you d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Marylebone theatre, LondonPeter Oswald’s take on Friedrich Schiller’s unfinished tragedy shows Russia’s recurrent turn towards tyranny
When Friedrich Schiller died aged 45 in 1805, he …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Misogynist gags? Ancient puns? Unethical bed tricks? Theatre-makers discuss how they tackle the Bard’s trickier works
Earlier this year, I spoke to the actor Natasha Magigi, a regular at S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMFriday, September 30, 2022
Chichester Festival theatreJenna Russell stars in Alan Ayckbourn’s exploration of mental illness with an accomplished cast of supporting characters ably adding to the anguish
It’s clear …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMFriday, September 16, 2022
Park theatre, LondonA mourning woman looks back on her life in Martin Sherman’s ethereal yet uneven drama about history, heritage and memory
Rose doesn’t believe in the future. It’s ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
Coliseum, LondonChoreographer Alexei Ratmansky and a company featuring exiled dancers deliver a moving production with an urgent tone
This production is little short of a miracle. The United…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMSunday, September 11, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA crusader and a Saracen have a fateful encounter in this richly layered work by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, set to Monteverdi and a plangent score by Syrian-American co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMSunday, August 21, 2022
The Studio, EdinburghShihya Peng and Marco di Nardo bicker ceaselessly through movement in a child-friendly exploration of cultural misunderstanding
Will these two dancers find any common gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMSaturday, August 20, 2022
Zoo Southside, EdinburghThe sweat and the groove are all that matters in Emma Martin’s mesmerising dance sequences, which capture the power of getting lost in your own rhythms
Sweat pools,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMThursday, August 18, 2022
Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, EdinburghUsing their own bodies as gymnastic apparatus, the Australian troupe perform an immensely skilful and physical show about trust and control…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PMAssembly George Square Studios, EdinburghFeeling flows and solidifies between the characters in Isabella Waldron’s mature and tender love story
Isabella Waldron’s delicate play stages an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMWednesday, August 17, 2022
Summerhall, EdinburghComposer Greg Sinclair’s ingenious musical palette provides variety and charm in this performance by a young local cast
The most striking visual image in this show is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMFriday, August 5, 2022
Dorfman theatre, LondonPersonal, political and polemical, this intensely moving play about disability and austerity challenges preconceptions
As Francesca Martinez’s urgent, funny and inte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMMonday, August 1, 2022
Watermill theatre, NewburyNew production reshapes the 1996 original set in rural Louisiana as a taut fable of faith and fear
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most recent musical, Cinderella, morphed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM 
