Monday, August 12, 2019
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghWarping the conventions of theatre, this exhilarating play lays waste to the sky-high expense of the festival of which it is a part
At once a love letter and a massi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMSaturday, August 10, 2019
Underbelly, Cowgate, EdinburghThe National Youth Theatre’s dynamic and maximalist meditation on social media puts the Facebook CEO on trial – and makes him tap dance
In a recent New York…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMAssembly George Square Gardens, EdinburghIn this intimate show backed by a live harp, the effortlessly charming comedian expounds on platonic, brotherly and romantic love
At one end of St P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMLeith theatre, EdinburghThe performance poet absorbs all of the uncertainty and anger of our times, and pours it into ferocious, apocalyptic music that both wounds and heals
Rarely can a roo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMFriday, August 9, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghTheir script adapted from interviews with young carers, a young trio trade heartbreaking stories of unpaid and unsupported custody of their parents
Brutal but beautifull…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMThursday, August 8, 2019
Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh The unflinching artist skewers prejudice against working-class people as he puts the audience through an uncomfortably abrasive hour of soul-searching
This is a deli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghDespite a solid solo performance from McLean Peterson, there’s little funny about the president’s refusal to act on gun control
Is Trump not yet beyond satir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMMonday, August 5, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghLucy McCormick rips up the rulebook with Post Popular, a hedonistic history lesson that is trashy, volatile ... and honest
Utterly indelicate and completely unp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, August 4, 2019
Underbelly, EdinburghBarrel Organ are on the trail of something in this bewildering piece of devised theatre, but something’s not right
My notes are full of question marks. In a retreat fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMSaturday, August 3, 2019
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghOn display like a bust in a museum, Breffni Holahan is superb in this Beckettian monologue by Margaret Perry
Breffni Holahan gives a searing performance as Essie in M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMWednesday, July 31, 2019
King’s Head, LondonA tentative tale of lesbian love is unengaging, but the fraught story of a cross-dressing queen and a sailor is shattering and compelling★★☆☆☆/★★★★☆
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMThursday, July 25, 2019
Secret location, LondonBest experienced in a group, this immersive dining experience is exquisitely designed - if the food seems an afterthought
As a hairy monster swells towards me in its …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMWednesday, July 10, 2019
She unleashed Phoebe Waller-Bridge on the Edinburgh fringe. The former actor with the Midas touch tells us her recipe for a hit show
‘We had wine. It was late.” Producer Francesca Moody …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMMonday, July 8, 2019
The sun shines on the revels at Shakespeare’s Globe, while cruelty and creepiness rule at Regent’s Park Open Air theatre
The modern-dress mechanicals look ready to rave in Sean Holmes’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMThursday, June 27, 2019
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon A melancholic exploration of music and love changes key to explore astrology and the occult
The first half of Robin French’s Crooked Dances is a love l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMSunday, June 23, 2019
Various venues, LondonRobotic alien puppets ran riot in south London to open a festival that tackled issues of gender, disability, race and Brexit
Stories are scattered like confetti across …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Roundhouse, LondonThis festival gives voice to up-and-coming performers, from poetry slam winner Rakaya Esime Fetuga to the painfully funny Jack Rooke
The Last Word festival is a celebration…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMTuesday, June 4, 2019
London PalladiumThe exhilarating comedian known for her hit Netflix series puts on an addictive night of comedy and song
American comedian Rachel Bloom gets musical theatre tropes drunk and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, June 2, 2019
Shakespeare’s Globe, London Jealousy and lechery divert the idle rich in Elle While’s production of the Shakespeare romcom, but well-dressed schemings lack chemistry
Director Elle While …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMMonday, May 27, 2019
New Diorama, LondonAn abundance of wit and one-liners can’t make up for the lack of directorial focus in SpitLip’s antiwar satire
With whip-smart humour and a stellar soundtrack, SpitLip…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Various locations, GlasgowThis performance art festival serves up brazen tests of audience exploitation, a TV sleepover and feminist futurism
How much would you have to be paid to make a foo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMMonday, May 20, 2019
Chronic fatigue has left Amy Rosa ‘watching life through glass’. Her new show urges viewers to make vulnerability a radical act
‘We’re not taught how to process difficult emotions,�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
They were a couple doing a performance about women, sex and bodily fluids. Then they broke up – and made it more explicit. Meet the duo behind Hotter
The pants arrived today. They’re bri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AMMonday, May 13, 2019
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonMichelle Terry is revelatory as Hotspur and Sarah Amankwah makes a majestic Henry in a valiant if uneven trilogy
‘A good heart,” says Shakespeare’s Henry V…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
The Warren, BrightonFrom nappy challenges to a grotesque clown show about carehomes, this year’s theatre festival is full of surprises
The two performers rush behind the vulva-esque velvet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMFriday, May 3, 2019
Exeter NorthcottIt’s all for one and one for all in an enthusiastic if haphazard riot of dad jokes, dodgy accents and gleeful gallivanting
The cast of The Three Musketeers tell us they hav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMThursday, May 2, 2019
Barbican, LondonPeake’s anguished Woman goes through six rounds of fertility treatment in Julia Leigh’s adaptation of her own memoir
As part of the Barbican’s first Fertility Fest, Jul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMFriday, April 12, 2019
New Diorama, London Jesse Fox’s play about the perils of surveillance is at its best when observing the bond between sparring siblings
What makes technology scary are the unknowns: our ina…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMWednesday, April 10, 2019
Derby theatreThe tales of Mowgli, Baloo and Bagheera are inventively staged with integrated sign language and a community cast
Accessibility is too often treated as an afterthought in theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:17AMTuesday, March 19, 2019
Above the Stag theatre, LondonChoreographer Jack Cole’s vitality is lost in Liam Burke’s play that tackles issues of ownership of women’s bodies
All high kicks and hip swings, Jack Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMSunday, March 17, 2019
Liz Richardson’s new show explores the transformative qualities of a freezing cold dip. She takes us to the source of her inspiration
‘I want to jump in right now,” says Liz Richardson…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PM 
