Friday, June 9, 2023
Old Vic, London A revival of the musical at the same venue where it premiered combines clever staging, impeccable performances and Tim Minchin’s lyrical brilliance into a reassuringly fami…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMThursday, June 8, 2023
London ColiseumRousing songs but threadbare plot as Earth has been conquered, renamed iPlanet and – inexplicably – can only be saved by a band of rock’n’rollers
Some bad news for tho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:13AMWednesday, June 7, 2023
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonLaughs give way to an interrogation of monogamy and jealousy as a couple open up their marriage in Miles Malleson’s play
Miles Malleson’s 1933 drama is a rem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
Fairfield Halls, LondonIn Talawa theatre company’s show, the story of a modern Black composer is entwined with that of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
There is a potent moment in Recognition when …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AMFriday, June 2, 2023
Caravanserai, BrightonAn Ohioan moves to Israel in this charming solo performance which offers a fresh perspective on the Middle East – plus ukulele songs
It is refreshing to hear a story…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMWednesday, May 31, 2023
Park theatre, LondonThe tension is raised in Neil LaBute’s dark comedy as entitled Evelyn sets about remoulding unworldly Adam from geek to good-looking boyfriend
To those uninitiated with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMTuesday, May 30, 2023
Southwark Playhouse, LondonBoldly directed, lyrically enacted play melds a personal story of rebellion in French Cameroon with the story of independence – but leaves both unfinished
The st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMMonday, May 29, 2023
In the run-up to the festival, our writers will choose new productions that have caught their eye – but here’s a selection of those we’ve already reviewed
Richard Marsh has clearly see…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMSunday, May 28, 2023
Garrick theatre, LondonIzzard uses humour instinctively, helped by Dickens’s love of the exaggerated or comic grotesque
Eddie Izzard performing Great Expectations – but why? That questio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMFriday, May 26, 2023
Lyric theatre, LondonMichael Ball returns to sing Love Changes Everything, this time as the uncle, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical of romantic entanglements
If Aspects of Love is a blast …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMThursday, May 25, 2023
Leeds PlayhouseA year after Mellor’s death, Tess Seddon directs her 1993 play marked by dry northern wit, knowing ridiculousness and deep, understated sadness
Kay Mellor’s play features …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMMonday, May 22, 2023
Young Vic, LondonOver 24 hours, the star offers variations on the same scene with 100 different partners, including some famous faces – and the result is astonishing
Even before Ruth Wilso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMFriday, May 19, 2023
@sohoplace, LondonThe desolately poignant tale is brought into stark relief in Jonathan Butterell’s production through Eddi Reader’s beautiful vocals and a compelling cast
Where Ang Lee …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMSaturday, May 6, 2023
An inspiring analysis of Shakespeare and race restores his reputation as a playwright for all
There is a vivid moment in Farah Karim-Cooper’s new book where she reflects on the image of th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMWednesday, May 3, 2023
Lyttelton theatre, LondonMark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn star in Jack Thorne’s play about the prickly pair’s 1960s Broadway production of Hamlet
In 1964, John Gielgud directed a stripped-ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMSunday, April 30, 2023
Royal and Derngate theatre, NorthamptonCoal-black humour propels Brontë’s tale of murderous desire, animal torture and family abuse
Emily Brontë’s gothic romance is so often cleansed o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMFriday, April 28, 2023
Barbican, LondonThe star narrates an innovative, pedal-powered production that muses on the climate crisis but the wide range of topics limits the storytelling
As a concept, Katie Mitchell�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMThursday, April 27, 2023
Kiln theatre, LondonRyan Calais Cameron’s terrific three-hander dramatises a meeting in 1955 Hollywood, mapping the dilemmas that actors of colour still face
Two white men are having a fra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, April 26, 2023
Dorfman theatre, LondonWhen Mary returns home from prison, there is both humour and horror in store, as Deborah Bruce’s play explores a cycle of abuse
The set reveals a house sliced apart …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMThursday, April 20, 2023
Prince Edward theatre, LondonThis plodding account of the Motown band’s highs and lows is more than a little soulless
A musical about the Temptations was always going to have a phenomenal …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMAlmeida theatre, LondonA young white woman and her Black housekeeper flee across the American south amid the historic struggle, buoyed by astonishingly powerful music
First seen off-Broadway…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMWednesday, April 19, 2023
Olivier theatre, LondonThere are superb performances from a cast including Siobhán McSweeney and Ardal O’Hanlon in Josie Rourke’s production
Brian Friel’s semi-autobiographical play, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMTuesday, April 18, 2023
Southwark Playhouse, LondonDepicting a brave group who took a stand against selling South African goods in 1984, this spirited show raises the question of why the Dunnes Stores strike isn’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMMonday, April 17, 2023
Available onlineThe daughter of an addict and a young man trapped in the drugs trade meet in an unsentimental tale that blends tenderness and tragedy
Two teenagers meet on a bombed-out sofa …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, April 16, 2023
Old Vic, BristolPlayful yet plaintive, this six-person show condemns the indignities suffered by two vulnerable elderly people navigating our inadequate system
It seems like a particularly a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMFriday, April 14, 2023
Barbican, LondonCheek By Jowl’s Spanish-language version of the surreal 1635 classic fuses dreamlike garishness with bizarre slapstick
Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s 1635 verse play inter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMThursday, April 13, 2023
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonLolita Chakrabarti’s staging of Maggie O’Farrell’s moving novel about the death of the playwright’s son – and his resurrection in Hamlet – is pow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMWednesday, April 12, 2023
Liverpool PlayhouseThe actor and director pitches the antihero as a racial outsider. She is compelling, but he is an inconsistent character in a production leached of intrigue
This productio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMFriday, April 7, 2023
Omnibus theatre, LondonUsing brilliantly expressive movement, a modern Daphne is torn between a glossy public face and an inner world of howling self-hate
A woman in blond wig and sparkly sk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMWednesday, April 5, 2023
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonSome called it torture porn, others a masterpiece. Ivo van Hove brings Hanya Yanagihara’s novel to the West End, complete with spurting blood, relentless sadis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMHampstead Theatre Downstairs, LondonCordelia Lynn seeks to rewrite the rules of playwriting in this rough jewel of a play about a family of women
What we know is that this is a house by the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM 
