Friday, December 12, 2025
Lyttelton theatre, LondonCoughlan plays a barmaid, alongside Derry Girls co-star Siobhán McSweeney, in JM Synge’s 1907 classic
Every woman loves a bad boy, or so the cliche goes. Here it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMBridge theatre, London Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s fairytale adventure follows its archetypal characters into real-world emotion, brilliantly drawn and sung
Can Stephen Sondheim an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02AMThursday, December 11, 2025
Young Vic theatre, LondonA powerful blend of VR, testimony and theatre exposes the human toll of benefit cuts – and asks what justice looks like in a new political era
David Cameron did no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMWednesday, December 10, 2025
Young Vic theatre, London Rajiv Joseph’s tale of a captive animal that returns from the dead after the 2003 invasion is bracingly unconventional
There is an exciting wildness to the Europe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMMonday, December 8, 2025
As bombs fell on the capital, a Bengal tiger was left all alone – until a US marine shot it. Rajiv Joseph explains why he brought the beast back from the dead for his Pulitzer-nominated dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSunday, December 7, 2025
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonHuman drama and witty direction as the RSC stages an adaptation of John Galsworthy’s dynastic shenanigans
Long before the upstairs/downstairs drama of Down…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PMThursday, December 4, 2025
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonJanie Dee and Alexandra Gilbreath are excellent as wives preparing to meet an old flame in an entertainingly directed play that builds to comic chaos and a ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWednesday, December 3, 2025
Sherman theatre, CardiffAlice is a boring grownup at the start of this intelligent and catchy Christmas musical – then she’s whisked off to Wonderland again
What has happened to Alice? W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTuesday, December 2, 2025
Arcola theatre, LondonThis riff on Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories has flashes of promise but its comedy and purpose never land
Shouldn’t that be Flat 2b? Then again, there are bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, November 30, 2025
Savoy theatre, LondonState-of-the-art animatronics, imaginative staging, fabulous performances and some marvellous songs about marmalade make for an evening that will fill you with joy and m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06PMThursday, November 27, 2025
Riverside Studios, London The madcap sci-fi tale is retold on a lavish scale, complete with in-show merch, but it never really blasts off
Douglas Adams’s sci-fi comedy about Earth’s dest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMWednesday, November 26, 2025
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonAbigail Pickard Price’s stripped-back staging conjures ghost stories, seaside dreams and Dickensian tragedy through three performers’ dazzling transformation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMSunday, November 23, 2025
Tara theatre, London A young, gay Indian man learns steps to Britishness from a phantom vision of the Tory politician, but the result is less sinister a satire than it should be
Remember Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMFriday, November 21, 2025
Wyndham’s theatre, LondonBryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Paapa Essiedu and Hayley Squires achieve theatrical alchemy in Ivo van Hove’s superb production
In 2014 Ivo van Hove’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMDorfman theatre, London David Eldridge’s two-hander depicts the difficult conversations that follow one partner’s cancer diagnosis
David Eldridge’s trilogy has travelled across the ear…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMWednesday, November 19, 2025
New Diorama, LondonTwo stories, centuries apart, are used to chart climate disaster in this ambitious musical with bitty scenes and cumbersome lyrics
This climate disaster musical takes plac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMThursday, November 13, 2025
Kiln theatre, LondonThe accused of the Pendle witch trials are given a voice but this glib production fails to do them justice
Rebecca Brewer and Daisy Chute’s musical, inspired by the Pen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMWednesday, November 12, 2025
Troubadour Canary Wharf theatre, LondonEye-popping visuals and a strong lead performance energise Matthew Dunster’s production – but the emotion gets lost amid the action
A luminous bow …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PMSunday, November 9, 2025
Hampstead theatre, LondonOverbearing life coach Winston and reluctant daughter Joy take a road trip through repression and half-spoken feelings
Nancy Farino’s debut play looks at the fault…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMSaturday, November 8, 2025
Theatr Clwyd, MoldThis could have been a powerful play about rebellion but a busy plot and flatly drawn central character make it a missed opportunity
John Jones’s life is ripe for dramati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThursday, November 6, 2025
Park theatre, LondonAlliances and enmities form among a crew of butchers who are trying to shape new lives after prison despite ICE, addiction and the financial lure of criminality
Busy kitc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMTuesday, November 4, 2025
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London Harewood is captivating alongside Toby Jones and Caitlin FitzGerald but Tom Morris’s stylish staging could probe greater depths
David Harewood was the first…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12PMFriday, October 31, 2025
The Japanese version of the pop-rock phenomenon about the six ill-fated wives caused a sensation in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. As that production now hits the UK, we go behind the scenes (and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMThursday, October 30, 2025
Barbican theatre, LondonThe RSC production of Ella Hickson’s feminist take on JM Barrie’s tale has grown into quite the theatrical monster, big on lights, waves and clashing cutlasses
Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMWednesday, October 29, 2025
Almeida theatre, LondonJack Holden has elegantly adapted Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker winner about class envy, gay culture and political scandal in 80s Britain
How to adapt a novel as big an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMTuesday, October 28, 2025
Park theatre, LondonThe bonhomie curdles as an otherwise unconnected group of women set out to scatter someone’s ashes in a promising setup that flounders despite a beautiful set
Sarah Ric…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMMonday, October 27, 2025
Arcola theatre, London Two flat-earthers’ quest for truth in Antarctica descends into a mishmash of conspiracy theories, in Jessica Norman’s sparky yet heroically flawed debut play
That …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMWednesday, October 22, 2025
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThere are superb performances in this screen-saturated staging of Jean Genet’s play, updated for the influencer age
Screens were essential to Kip Williams’ one-wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMTuesday, October 21, 2025
Royal Court theatre, LondonMarianne Elliott directs Nick Payne’s tonally uneven play about a missing son that comes with ill-fitting moments of comedy
Nick Payne is an exemplar of this the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMSunday, October 19, 2025
Minerva theatre, ChichesterJamie Bogyo’s debut play recounts the renaming of a Yale University college with broadstroke humour and some exquisitely sung a cappella interludes
What happens …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AMWednesday, October 15, 2025
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonKatherine Moar’s bold and taut drama about the kidnapping of a fictional heiress explores the toxic inheritance of the 1970s
Katherine Moar’s riveting drama …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PM 
