Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Jermyn Street Theatre, LondonThe fictional island of Sirene is home to a tangled web of lovers in this fun and frolicking adaptation of Compton Mackenzie’s novel featuring a fantastic cast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMTuesday, July 29, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonHollering songs, cartoonish characters and dire dialogue mar this well-intentioned true story of the first all-female crew to attempt the Whitbread ocean …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMSunday, July 27, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonAlex Urwin’s warm drama tells the story of Simon Parkes who at just 23 bought the Brixton Academy for a pound and turned it into a mainstay of the UK mus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMFriday, July 25, 2025
Chichester Festival theatreTwinkly eyed Phillip Attmore and silky-singing Lucy St Louis have natural chemistry in this stylish, witty adaptation of the mistaken identity drama
It looks like …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMWednesday, July 23, 2025
James Ijames was told Shakespeare wasn’t for the likes of him. Yet his Hamlet revamp electrified Broadway and scooped up Tony nominations. As Fat Ham hits the UK, he talks violence, vengea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonYaël Farber’s production manages the problem play’s shift from dark to light well, but is often opaque in meaning
Male sexual jealousy driv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMTuesday, July 22, 2025
Savoy theatre, LondonThis adrenalised adaptation of the 2010 film is stuffed with superb voices and sensational moves
What a tremendous breath of fresh air. Amid the indefatigable rise of mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42PMLady Macbeth Played Wing Defence combines comedy, songs and athleticism as a young netball player reckons with her own ambitions against an electro-pop score
A spate of Macbeths will hit the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, July 20, 2025
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThe stage version of John Carney’s film stays bright-eyed despite the darker turns in this tale of teenage pop, poverty and fractious families
This stage adaptatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMFriday, July 18, 2025
Dorfman theatre, LondonShaan Sahota’s play sets a British-Sikh politician’s schemes against his family betrayal – a tremendous debut from a writer of huge promise
Adeel Akhtar has beco…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMThursday, July 17, 2025
Orange Tree theatre, LondonCasting two Netflix stars in this funny and astute modernisation of the life of Saint Clare of Assisi shows that the gulf between rich and poor never changes
Chiar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMKeighley & Worth Valley Railway, West Yorkshire Stupendous set design brings E Nesbit’s children’s classic to new life as a wealthy Anglo-Indian family is forced to adjust to reduced…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMTuesday, July 1, 2025
London PalladiumZegler excels as Eva Perón and the crowds outside are used to capture the hypnotic appeal of populism but the narrative takes a backseat in his staging of Andrew Lloyd Webbe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMSunday, June 29, 2025
Malta festival, PolandThis updating of Agnieszka Holland’s 1981 film about a struggling single mother suggests life under capitalist consumerism is no easier than it was under communism
Ag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMFriday, June 27, 2025
Stara Rzeźnia, PoznańThis outdoor offering, part homage and part reimagining of Shakespeare’s text, has visual spectacle, a magnificent score and a cast undeterred by an actual storm
Out…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMThursday, June 26, 2025
Almeida theatre, LondonRebecca Frecknall’s usually bold directorial hand seems stilled in a glacially paced revival co-starring Michael Shannon and David Threlfall
Rebecca Frecknall has gi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMTuesday, June 24, 2025
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonLuke Brady is the hero navigating between godliness and humanness in a show that’s big on booming numbers yet short on emotion
Four years ago, Disney brough…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMSunday, June 22, 2025
Kiln theatre, LondonIman Qureshi’s play starts as a good, old-fashioned underdog story before exploring sexuality, homophobia and trans identity
A group of women convene around a piano in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMFriday, June 20, 2025
Arcola theatre, LondonOn a quest to visit all 54 African nations, a band of travellers explore personal, political and social history – but it can be hard to work out what’s happening
Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThursday, June 19, 2025
Royal Court theatre, LondonKane’s emotionally unswerving gifts as a writer are on full display in a 25th-anniversary production reuniting the original cast
What must it have felt like to w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMSunday, June 15, 2025
Chichester Festival theatreNatalie Dormer is exceptional in the title role with Phillip Breen’s clever production reflecting the full scope of the novel’s ambition
The stampede of acto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, June 12, 2025
Deptford Storehouse, LondonWhile Liana Patarkatsishvili’s gargantuan immersive show looks spectacular, too many ideas are thrown about without being tethered to a story
The disused warehou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMTuesday, June 10, 2025
Brixton House, LondonMojisola Adebayo’s play deftly navigates light and heavy subject matter as its hero embarks on a quest to feel the earth move
Do not underestimate the gravity of the m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMNewly arrived in the West End, Disney’s demigod is the latest mythological A-lister to knock out showtunes. Why are deities such as Hermes and the ‘half-blood’ Percy Jackson having a m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMSunday, June 8, 2025
Teatro Carlo Goldoni, VeniceIn an extraordinary theatrical feat, two agile actors play 23 characters populating the seemingly ordinary working day of a central couple
A day in the life of a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMTese dei Soppalchi, VeniceBetween smashing glasses and reading conceptual index cards, Dafoe and Simonetta Solder neglect to locate this two-hander’s drama – or its heart
Long before Wil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMLazzaretto Vecchio, VeniceOn the site of a hospital for leprosy patients, audience members are invited to wander in near darkness among twitching body bags into a choreographed scene of ritu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMWednesday, June 4, 2025
Orange Tree theatre, LondonAmelia Sears’ production of Terence Rattigan’s knotted drama contains warmth – and love – beneath the disappointments of married life
Terence Rattigan dist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTuesday, June 3, 2025
Hampstead theatre, LondonSarah Ruhl’s stage adaptation of the book she wrote with her former student Max Ritvo, who died of cancer at 25, is smartly written if emotionally distant
Sarah Ru…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMSunday, June 1, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonTim Firth’s 2013 musical about domestic dysfunction and redemption seems a little twee by today’s standards but the songs and sentimental ending will …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMFriday, May 30, 2025
★★★★☆ / ★★★★★Theatro Technis, LondonPainful yet joyous and with pitch-black humour, these plays are as good as testimonies to the horrors happening in Gaza, capturing imm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM 
