Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Trafalgar theatre, LondonThe Olivier award-winner returns to her role as an actor in rehab in Duncan Macmillan’s brutally powerful play
Duncan Macmillan’s 2015 play about addiction is a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMTuesday, May 14, 2024
Hampstead theatre, LondonStrong performances and jibing humour propel this exuberant but flawed revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2014 play about racism in the New York police force
This r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMFriday, May 10, 2024
Nottingham PlayhouseA teenager kills a trainee paramedic with a single strike on a night out in Nottingham in this deftly directed play based on a real story
Take note: this is not a play ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMThursday, May 9, 2024
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonA mix of songs, dance, glitter and camp, this ancient-modern mashup is derailed by bland debates and a convoluted script
An ancient Greek love story, this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMWednesday, May 8, 2024
Coliseum, LondonHayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece is brought to life with imaginative puppetry, wondrous music and moments of delicate poetry
Food and cooking feature prominently in the films o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMSunday, May 5, 2024
Royal Court, LondonFour south London girls tell stories during detention at a mosque in Sabrina Ali’s play, which ends before we know much about them
Four British Somali girls are thrown t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMGlobe theatre, LondonThere’s no whiff of stuffiness in a Sean Holmes’ production characterised by warm summer euphoria, Elizabethan-era magic and entrancing music
The Globe so often come…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMFriday, May 3, 2024
Donmar Warehouse, LondonNina Hoss stars in a kookily immersive production but the devastating hammer blow of the Russian tragicomedy is not lost in translation
It is initially hard to fathom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMWednesday, May 1, 2024
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonEmma Rice directs an ebullient RSC version of the landmark 1990 story of sex, music, class and racism
Hanif Kureishi’s 1990 debut novel was so cool that it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMTuesday, April 30, 2024
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonMax Webster and David Haig’s ambitious female-led stage version of the sci-fi thriller is overwhelmed by its own optics
This ambitious co-production was always goi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMSunday, April 28, 2024
Chichester Festival theatreMike Poulton’s adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s novel shows how the sisters refuse to be passive victims
Wife Number 2 to serial husband, King Henry VIII, firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, April 26, 2024
Southwark Playhouse, LondonAdam Scott-Rowley struts, writhes and jiggles his way from ancient Celt to Hieronymus Bosch wretch in this potent cross between physical theatre and performance ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMThursday, April 25, 2024
Arcola theatre, LondonAndrée Bernard’s solo show is a bizarre representation of one woman’s love life, minus depth and character development
This solo musical opens with a sex scene. A …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMSunday, April 21, 2024
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonTalk of street parties, barbecues and book clubs gives way to politics in this work about authoritarianism, colonialism and how history gets rewritten
The histor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMFriday, April 19, 2024
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonEmily Burns’ modern-day romcom, set on a Pacific island retreat, ramps up the silliness and makes accessible the text’s cloud-parting power …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMThursday, April 18, 2024
National Theatre, LondonWith its heavy mood and gnomic song lyrics, this updated reimaging of Our Mutual Friend is like a 19th-century noir
Period drama is given some sharp edges in this ada…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMMonday, April 15, 2024
A string of seven awards for Sunset Boulevard was hardly radical, and many more daring theatrical successes went unrewarded
The triumph of Jamie Lloyd’s reinvented Sunset Boulevard at this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMSunday, April 14, 2024
Almeida, LondonFive American friends gather to catch up in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ new play. It’s a portrait of midlife malaise, but also a subtle meditation on post-Covid life
A group …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThursday, April 11, 2024
Noel Coward theatre, LondonMutating from head criminal in a gothic thriller to slippery music hall entertainer, showman McKellen has centripetal force in Robert Icke’s slick, modern dress …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMWednesday, April 10, 2024
Birmingham RepExpressive performances and arresting effects heighten this mother-son tragedy, primarily told through British Sign Language
This drama opens with a lilting evocation of summer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMSunday, April 7, 2024
Royal Court Upstairs, LondonLydia Higman, Julia Grogan and Rachel Lemon’s play set around a 1604 witch trial is a vital and exciting piece of gig theatre full of improvisational spirit and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMFriday, April 5, 2024
National Theatre, LondonA dislikable version of Charlotte, jockeying for prominence and yearning to be as immoral as Byron, is the surprising focus of this quick-witted drama
As a drama abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMWednesday, April 3, 2024
Wyndham’s theatre, LondonCox is thrilling as an overbearing patriarch but it’s Clarkson who steals the show in Eugene O’Neill’s agonising family drama
The overbearing patriarch in Eu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSunday, March 31, 2024
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonPaul Grellong’s gripping dialogue makes a brisk plot and unlikable characters immensely watchable as a Harvard professor invites a white supremacist for a d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMFriday, March 29, 2024
Hampstead theatre, LondonThere are shades of Blackadder in April De Angelis’s play about the great tragedian of 18th-century British theatre
There is a certain chutzpah to writing a comedy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, March 28, 2024
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, BathBourgeois boredom is pervaded by fantasy and betrayal in these one-act plays with an astute cast including David Morrissey and Mathew Horne
Truth, lies and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10PMTuesday, March 26, 2024
Gielgud Theatre, LondonSmith plays a Broadway star in the midst of a mental crisis in Ivo van Hove and Rufus Wainwright’s glittering and extravagantly original musical adaptation of the Ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMFriday, March 22, 2024
Aviva Studios, ManchesterThis story involving an SS officer who fled to Syria after the war is simply staged but slippery, intriguing and full of nuance
The flight of Nazis including Adolf E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMFriday, March 8, 2024
Bristol Old VicAdaptation of David Nicholls’ novel about a student’s class-inflected coming of age scores for its songs but its energy becomes unhinged
Long before the post-university ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, March 7, 2024
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonA tremendous cast capture the hope and despair of life in the ‘mother country’ in this powerful adaptation of the 1956 novel
Lyrical and loosely structured, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMWednesday, March 6, 2024
Olivier theatre, LondonSheen stars as Aneurin Bevan in Tim Price’s drama, unfolding in flashbacks from a hospital bed
This life story begins at the end, with Aneurin “Nye” Bevan in a h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PM 
