Tuesday, June 7, 2022
You don’t have to shell out to enjoy the best in music, film, theatre, art and comedy – from a Francis Bacon in Aberdeen to Notting Hill’s unique and spectacular carnival
Music Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMKing’s Head theatre, LondonA mixture of ghoulish horror and atmospheric history, Mark Ravenhill’s play vibrates with frights and fury
The jump scares are perfectly placed in Mark Ravenhi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMMonday, May 23, 2022
New Diorama, LondonDeafinitely Theatre’s evocative and tender show was inspired by real stories of abuse against deaf women and non-binary people
In British Sign Language, the sign for a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, May 20, 2022
Finborough, LondonHunger and disease stalk Russia in the aftermath of conflict in this play based on a story by Andrey Platonov
This is a glum, plodding production depicting a grim, hard-hea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, May 18, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonMelissa Johns articulates how she learned to navigate an ableist world as a woman with one and a half arms
Bullies sneak in at the sidelines of this story, but Melissa Jo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMMonday, May 16, 2022
Two friends delighted half a million kids with a tiny production in a cardboard box. Now they’re sizing up the much-loved bulbous bear for the Little Angel theatre
‘We made nearly half a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, May 12, 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonLess a tense examination of a failing republic, or even of women in power, there is little electricity or danger here
The Globe’s audience serve as the easily …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMTuesday, May 10, 2022
Pioneering female entertainers, including a 1930s clown and a Wall of Death stunt rider, are celebrated in a show by a fearless group of performers
Female performers in British variety acts …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48AMMonday, May 2, 2022
After seeing how moved gay men were by The Inheritance, the playwright wanted to write something that would strike a chord with women – so came up with The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs
A gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMMonday, April 11, 2022
Southwark Playhouse, LondonSecrets bite and speeches overlap as we realise musician Max has been grooming Alice since she was 16
The tension is like a tidal wave in Flora Wilson Brown’s da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PMSunday, April 3, 2022
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonMemes and the personal drama of worn-out celebrity take centre stage as an energetic trio of C-listers unite to fight the climate crisis
A wealth of ideas have be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWednesday, March 23, 2022
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonThis fantasy ceremony for the modernist couple is too preoccupied with the famous men cavorting around them
Attempting to combine absurdist farce, genuine traged…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMThursday, March 17, 2022
Orange Tree theatre, RichmondFranz Xaver Kroetz’s play is a sharp exploration of the way finances wriggle their way into the existing rifts of everyday life
What quiet, splintering perform…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMThursday, March 10, 2022
Omnibus theatre, LondonUnnerving but surprisingly funny two-hander inspired by ‘consensual cannibal’ Armin Meiwes
I’m loth to kink-shame, but I’m not sure I can get behind consensua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
With gags, tunes and dance, The Family Sex Show celebrates sexual pleasure, equality and independence. What is there to be embarrassed about, asks theatre-maker Josie Dale-Jones
‘I remembe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMThursday, March 3, 2022
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAbigail Graham trims and reshuffle’s Shakespeare’s play with glitzy gameshow scenes and a brutal, lonely reckoning
A stained, lidless plastic container res…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMThursday, February 10, 2022
Is it a play? Or is it a film? There are two sides to director Hope Dickson Leach’s ambitious staging of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale
“Cinema is about change,” says Hope Dic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMMonday, February 7, 2022
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s new play is a story of sisters, pain and the gruelling long-distance swim to cross the Channel
Grief, says playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, is an endurance test. “…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMFriday, January 28, 2022
Royal Court, LondonAlistair McDowall’s enthralling meditation on time and mortality features a sword-fighting knight and a Victorian medium
With a slowly unravelled mystery at its centre, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMThursday, January 27, 2022
Will it be Miss Scarlett with the lead pipe? Or that horrid Colonel Mustard? Mark Bell explains why the board game’s enduring appeal makes it ideal for the stage
”There are always moment…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMThursday, January 20, 2022
Piccadilly theatre, LondonWith pyrotechnics, a looming elephant, scenery to die for and a cast with energy to burn, this revival only falters when it tries to update the tunes
At the end of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMWednesday, January 19, 2022
As Covid hit casts, understudies suddenly found themselves needed everywhere – with little warning. We meet these unsung heroes, including a Beanstalk Jack who took on three other last-min…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMTuesday, December 14, 2021
A triple bill of Sleeping Beauty, Jack & the Beanstalk and Dick Whittington brings giggles, cheer, glitter galore and, well, a bit of a headache
My head is filled with nothing but glitte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMThursday, December 9, 2021
Bush theatre, LondonElla Road’s remarkable play, directed by Monique Touko, is a tender and intimate story of teenage friendship and athletics
A pair of talented teenage runners are dangli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMMonday, December 6, 2021
Frank Wedekind’s banned 19th-century classic, now a youth rock musical, is back on stage – with a young cast who came of age in the pandemic
No one saw Spring Awakening for the first 15 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMWednesday, November 24, 2021
The Big House, LondonThis immersive show creates a raucous energy as Maz runs away from her care home and tries to carve her place in the music scene
Every year there are new immersive shows…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMThursday, November 18, 2021
Kiln theatre, LondonThe author’s debut play lets one of Chaucer’s most revolutionary characters loose in modern-day Kilburn in a celebration of community and a life well-lived
For her de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMWednesday, November 17, 2021
Royal Court, LondonEverything here is plot as Al Smith’s play speeds over many huge issues with little time to register their impact
In Al Smith’s ambitious and cynical new play, everybo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMThursday, October 21, 2021
Two years after its first staging, Gaiman’s dark fairytale has returned, this time to the West End. The author, cast and creative team discuss bringing the eldritch magic of childhood to l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMMonday, October 18, 2021
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThree senators at a hearing in Washington DC try to find out where all the fish have gone in Marek Horn’s smart but deliberately frustrating one-room play
Tuna h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMWednesday, October 13, 2021
Theatre 503, LondonDexter Flanders’ tender debut about a fractured family shows the tensions and compromises faced by Black gay men
Through the story of one beautiful, fractured family, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PM 
