Thursday, September 23, 2021
Available onlineThere are spirited performances as Roy Williams explores activism, parenthood and sexuality in this audio drama about black British identity spanning 40 years
Roy Williams’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMWednesday, September 22, 2021
Coronet theatre, LondonThere’s an intriguing story about sibling betrayal buried among the distracting subplots in Robert Holman’s play
Robert Holman’s play contains some great riches.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06PMMonday, September 20, 2021
New albums, new TV series, and actual live shows – the culture taps might have run dry during the pandemic, but this autumn they are switching on again at last. Our critics give their pick…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMFriday, September 17, 2021
Old Vic, LondonTeenage passion meets Nazi ideology in Bess Wohl’s play, inspired by a real-life summer camp in the US
It is 1938 and two American teenagers are at a themed summer camp on L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMRoyal Court, LondonTarantinoesque bloodshed meets Greek tragedy in Aleshea Harris’s daring drama about a voyage of vengeance
It is not often that a play manages to resemble a Tarantino fil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMWednesday, September 15, 2021
Kiln theatre, LondonMoira Buffini, Roy Williams and Suhayla El-Bushra deliver a trio of powerful immigrant stories set in the London borough
NW Trilogy comprises three short plays with one o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMTuesday, September 14, 2021
Available onlineFehinti Balogun’s show uses hip-hop and spoken word to explore the ways people of colour have been excluded from environmental activism
There is a moment in Fehinti Balogun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMMonday, September 13, 2021
Adelphi theatre, LondonThis is a splashy theatre-film mashup, with gravity-defying effects, cute quirks and offbeat gags
How does a car speed at 88mph on stage? That must have been the bigge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMBirmingham RepAyub Khan Din’s comedy still resonates in its depiction of a hostile environment – Salford in the 70s – while its sharp wit and warm characterisations are exhilarating
Tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMFriday, September 10, 2021
Minerva theatre, ChichesterThis tale of a claustrophobic mother-daughter relationship takes contrived turns, but the starkly moving performances remain compelling
Much has changed in Ireland…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMBloomsbury theatre, LondonBarry Reckord’s sexually charged play about freedom and rebellion is drowned out by chaotic comedy
The Jamaican playwright Barry Reckord broke several boundaries …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMWednesday, September 8, 2021
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonBeyond the visual thrills and powerful ballads, this adaptation brings an unexpected depth to the relationship between two tortured sisters
This musical extr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMMonday, September 6, 2021
The resurgence of Black Lives Matter has given fresh potency to the theatre company’s production – an earthquake of sound and dance
We have been encouraged to bring our “rags and flags…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMFriday, September 3, 2021
Dorfman theatre, LondonA tidal wave of plotlines, ideas and characters embraces past and present in a production where playfulness meets cruelty
Winsome Pinnock’s leviathan of a play opens…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMSunday, August 29, 2021
Old College Quad, EdinburghThis lightweight cabaret-style set sells its subject short, even if Cumming can belt out a power ballad convincingly
The promise is that Alan Cumming will talk abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMFriday, August 27, 2021
Almeida theatre, LondonAdrian Edmondson plays a psychopath in Josh Azouz’s nuanced tragicomedy about Jewish-Arab relations in 1942
A man is buried up to his neck with only a geometrical de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMThursday, August 26, 2021
Cush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMTuesday, August 24, 2021
Available onlineIn her audio play, Frances Poet nimbly entwines Sophia Jex-Blake’s groundbreaking battles with the story of her biographer
Sophia is the story of Scotland’s first female …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMInspired by a Guardian article, the theatre’s surreal and spellbinding show AI is a collaboration between humans and the system GPT-3
Last autumn, a deep-learning computer programme wrote …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMThursday, August 12, 2021
Olivier theatre, LondonLesley Sharp stars in a tragedy that interrogates notions of military machismo and the performance of masculinity
Kae Tempest’s reworked Sophoclean tragedy is the st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMWednesday, August 11, 2021
Prince of Wales theatre, LondonThe sharp Channel 4 comedy becomes a lumbering stage show sending up King Charles and a band of boo-worthy buffoons
For fans of the TV series, watching The Win…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMTuesday, August 10, 2021
Globe Theatre, LondonImaginative directorial tweaks and an expert cast bring out the full effects of a text stuffed with double-meanings, gender-swapped disguises and dextrous language
Post-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMRegent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonTimothy Sheader’s production relocates the musical from New England to the north of England and dismantles the fatal romance at its heart
It is no s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMMonday, August 9, 2021
Her career has taken her from pop success to Strictly and the stage. She discusses the pain of racist comments, the joy of duetting with Beyoncé – and the enduring influence of her late m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMTuesday, August 3, 2021
Palace theatre, LondonThis confusing concoction of cabaret, holiday camp entertainment, panto and pub act fails to showcase its talented illusionists
The first thing to say about Wonderville…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMSunday, August 1, 2021
Young Vic, LondonKwame Kwei-Armah’s adaptation of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem is ambitious and visually stunning, but Ben Okri’s script is too broadbrush
Two towering pyramids dominat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMFriday, July 30, 2021
Turbine theatre, LondonDespite heartfelt intentions and some energetic performances, this production doesn’t do justice to the brilliance of Kevin Elyot’s 1994 script
Kevin Elyot’s 199…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMThursday, July 29, 2021
Old Vic, LondonEmma Rice’s version of the 1987 movie is an outrageously sentimental ode to friendship and oddballs meeting amid Californian tumbleweed
Just as Wim Wenders’ road movie p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMWednesday, July 28, 2021
London PalladiumAlexandra Burke, Jason Donovan and Technicolor coat-wearer Jac Yarrow are among a cast whose performances ooze personality and mischief
While Andrew Lloyd Webber bumpily stee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMTuesday, July 27, 2021
Hampstead theatre, London
Tennessee Williams’s play within a play uses ingenious artifice, as its actor brother and sister perform their way into madness, but locks out the audience
There …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMThursday, July 22, 2021
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonThis rousing Gin Lane musical by April De Angelis and Lucy Rivers has working-class women at its heart
Gin Craze! enacts a lesser-remembered piece of 18th-cent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM 
