Thursday, May 22, 2025
Garrick theatre, London Filial tangles, played with the actor’s real-life daughter Bessie Carter, bring George Bernard Shaw’s once-banned drama to life
This is not the first production o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonDirector Ola Ince brings absurdist comedy to Arthur Miller’s classic drama of Salem witch-hunting, now told partly through song
There is never a time when Arth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMWednesday, May 21, 2025
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonIbrahima Balde’s desperate journey to find his brother should make for essential theatre, but this production lacks the emotional intensity of the book
Ibrahim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, May 18, 2025
Pleasance theatre, LondonJamie Sykes’ queasily entertaining play dramatises the contemptible views found in ‘incel’ forums – but also elicits sympathy for its characters, whose loath…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMFriday, May 16, 2025
Minerva theatre, Chichester Mark Addy plays the Bunyanesque everyman whose trip to the postbox becomes a spiritual journey set to glorious foot-stomping songs
The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
Bush theatre, London Laith Elzubaidi’s autobiographical one-man play explores the lingering pain of his family’s flight from Iraq with a standup’s humour
In the w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThursday, May 8, 2025
Lyttelton, LondonThis energetic look at the charmed lives of the 1% features some signature sparks, but the class satire is not potent enough in the composer’s swansong
Stephen Sondheim’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMSunday, May 4, 2025
Globe theatre, LondonDirector Sean Holmes’s high concept production shows that the frontier works surprisingly well as Shakespeare’s fractious Verona
The warring Houses of Montague and C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMThursday, May 1, 2025
Royal Court theatre, London Singaporean Joel Tan’s play revolves around the fate of an ancient statue, in disparate scenes of thrilling complexity played by a zesty cast
Controversies ove…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMWednesday, April 30, 2025
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonEchoes of Gaza and Guantanamo ripple through the violence of Shakespeare’s paradoxically poetic play, immaculately staged by the RSC
It is not just heads t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMTuesday, April 29, 2025
Wyndham’s theatre, LondonIbsen is moved to the Hamptons in Lila Raicek’s play, co-starring Kate Fleetwood and Elizabeth Debicki, about the destruction wreaked by adultery
Henrik Ibsen’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PMWith star names, a Hamlet in shades, orgiastic murder and a miners’ strike musical, Indhu Rubasingham promises something for all. But can she attract newcomers while keeping diehards happy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMMonday, April 28, 2025
Booker-nominated writer Deborah Levy is thrilling audiences with her play about a psychoanalyst dealing with a very unusual patient, seized with anxiety about modern life. She explains how i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMSaturday, April 26, 2025
York Theatre RoyalOldman gives an emotional encounter with his past selves as he single-handedly directs, set-designs and performs Samuel Beckett’s existential monologue
Gary Oldman’s de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMFriday, April 25, 2025
Old Vic, London Terrific performances from Chris O’Dowd and Rosie Sheehy lead a populous family drama hinging on a broken-down country farmhouse
Conor McPherson’s family dysfunctional dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMThursday, April 24, 2025
Coliseum, London F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic jazz age novel ought to be the perfect basis for a musical, but no amount of Charlestons from a fine cast can put the fizz into this
There is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32PMWednesday, April 16, 2025
To survive in acting, she thought she had to nail received pronunciation. Then she remembered Port Talbot’s extraordinary lineage, reverted to her native accent – and everything changed
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMMonday, April 14, 2025
Can you imagine starring in Mamma Mia! for 10 years? Or The Lion King for 17? Or Blood Brothers for 26? Theatre’s epic endurance performers reveal how they keep the magic alive night after…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMSunday, April 13, 2025
Bush theatre, LondonMohamed-Zain Dada’s play set at a speed awareness course bristles with humour and snarls with home truths about the bigotry experienced by British Asians
Representation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, April 11, 2025
Kiln theatre, LondonAmy Ng’s ‘untold true story’ of two friends, who become China’s foremost theatre director and Mao Zedong’s wife, is a story of survival and a play of ideas
It b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMThursday, April 10, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonWhile the story of broken dreams and desperation can’t make the leap to an all-singing all-dancing setting, there are great moments among the bleakness
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
The celebrated actor has long struggled with the murder and dismemberment at the heart of Titus Andronicus. Now, at 64, he is finally tackling a play that ‘teeters on the edge of acceptabi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, April 6, 2025
New Diorama, LondonWriter-director Alan Fielden and his talented performers explore people smuggling, ancient imperialism and the sound of globalisation
It starts off with single words being…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMFriday, April 4, 2025
Wilton’s Music Hall, LondonEvery character is distinct in this bewitching solo performance by Mark Lockyer, a masterclass in pacing and emotional clarity
Shakespearean performance has been…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThursday, April 3, 2025
Theatre Royal WindsorWhile it might have been revealing to 1970s audiences, this domestic drama featuring cliche characters and a wavering tone fails to pack the same punch
Watching Alan Ayc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMWednesday, April 2, 2025
Almeida, LondonDespite some delightful clowning, Omar Elerian’s version of this timely tale of conformity has too many ideas and lacks focus
Omar Elerian clearly has an aptitude, and appet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMTuesday, April 1, 2025
King’s Head theatre, LondonA dysfunctional brood gather at a wedding-cum-funeral in actor-writer Rosie Day’s dark comedy
A wedding is repurposed into a funeral in writer-actor Rosie Day�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMFriday, March 28, 2025
Theatre Royal BathDespite its cleverly conceived monochrome set and some compelling songs, this series of stories from the master of suspense is a letdown
Alfred Hitchcock had confirmed his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThursday, March 27, 2025
York Theatre RoyalFun, intelligent and powered by Rice’s joyful whimsy, this playful take on the spy movie is a crowd-pleaser
Mistaken identity fires Alfred Hitchcock’s Kafkaesque 1959 s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMWednesday, March 26, 2025
Was the second wife of Henry VIII really guilty of the crimes she was beheaded for? Pickett’s award-winning new play takes a sideways look at her downfall – by imagining its impact on ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMSunday, March 23, 2025
Orange Tree theatre, LondonCamaraderie, comedy and a love of the trade shine through in April De Angelis’s group portrait of Nell Gwyn and the other female actors who were the first to be …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM 
