Friday, September 23, 2022
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London At first, Anthony Neilson’s play is a bewildering affair, but its sombre aftermath imparts understanding with crushing effect
Anthony Neilson’s 2004 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AMWednesday, September 21, 2022
How do you give the star-cross’d lovers a lift? Drop them in 12th-century Japan and add a classic Queen album. As it opens in Britain, A Night at the Kabuki sends shivers down our writer�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMJermyn Street theatre, LondonA bestselling romance writer leaves his wife for a glamorous new partner in this 1940 play whose gender politics feel toothless now
Dorothy L Sayers is not prima…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMArcola, LondonKyo Choi’s shocking and intelligent play tells the story of a Korean woman who was forced into military sex slavery for Japanese troops at the age of 16
The Apology dramatise…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMTuesday, September 20, 2022
Enid Blyton’s adventurers roam the stage in a new show that considers the climate crisis, gender identity and the impact of the pandemic on children
Anyone who has grown up reading The Fam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:43AMFriday, September 16, 2022
Bush theatre, LondonWaleed Akhtar’s bewitching love story between a gym bunny and an asylum seeker raises urgent issues
The P Word is a love story with shades of When Harry Met Sally: it h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMThursday, September 15, 2022
Kiln theatre, LondonMoira Buffini’s clever political comedy returns, educating a new generation on Margaret Thatcher’s legacy through her weekly encounters with the monarch
It is unnervi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55PMHampstead theatre, LondonThe venerable director’s drama about a doctor’s splintering family broaches huge issues but never makes a unified whole
The pandemic has brought out the budding …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Almeida, LondonA family fight about politics, policing and race in Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s play but the ominous early signs lead nowhere
The Clinic starts off with a satirical set piece as a Bl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMSunday, September 11, 2022
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, LondonInua Ellams updates the Sophoclean drama into a beguiling piece about faith and prejudice, and casts a suspicious eye at politicians who betray their …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMFriday, September 9, 2022
Young Vic, LondonHans Kesting is spellbinding as an anguished man facing up to his abusive father in Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of the book by Édouard Louis
A one-minute silence marking th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AMThursday, September 8, 2022
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonThis adaptation of the classic 1967 film is packed with fun despite losing its way in the second half
Attempting to adapt Jacques Tati’s 1967 masterpiece i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AMWednesday, September 7, 2022
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe stage adaptation of Kavita Puri’s extraordinary oral history project is at times superficial and blunt but also deeply moving
Few English-language writers have …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PMTuesday, September 6, 2022
Charing Cross theatre, London This soulful celebration of adventurer Annie Londonderry takes time to get into gear, but newcomer Liv Andrusier gives a superb performance
Annie Cohen Kopchovs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMThursday, September 1, 2022
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes an intelligent political drama, a reimagined As You like It and a play about Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter’s passion for cricket
The Made …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMSunday, August 28, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonChris Fonseca signs and dances his early life story with a guileless charm, drawing on rap, immersive sound and comedy to lighten the darker moments
The music is blasting…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AMFriday, August 26, 2022
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford upon AvonRosie Sheehy dazzles as a woman calling the shots in this feverish production that underlines the play’s curious ambiguities
This problem play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMThursday, August 25, 2022
Theatre Royal BathThe ex-Python’s production is visually enticing, playful and dreamlike but doesn’t quite reach the mournful depths of parental anxiety that run through the story
What m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMWednesday, August 24, 2022
Samira Wiley makes her UK stage debut, there’s an urgent counter to antisemitism, plus a fourth King James, refugee dancers and comedic returns Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMTuesday, August 23, 2022
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonThis absorbing take on Guy Fawkes’s plan to blow up parliament has striking resonances to today’s world, as well as a starry cast knocking out sensational…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMSunday, August 21, 2022
Turbine theatre, LondonLuke Bayer single-handedly plays a classroom of feuding high school drama students in this unmissable take on All About Eve
A musical with a classroom full of feuding …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMFriday, August 19, 2022
King’s Head theatre, LondonChristopher Wollaton impresses in a one-man show about body dysmorphia but his script suffers from a lack of proper plot
“What we are showing here is important…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMWednesday, August 17, 2022
Donmar Warehouse, LondonIn a near-future world on fire, a jury of 12 young people listen to testimony from the ‘dinosaur’ generation
If the current, abnormal weather patterns around the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMMonday, August 1, 2022
Available onlineCentred around a proposed Holocaust memorial, this debut from playwright Teunkie Van Der Sluijs probes the intersections of Black and Jewish identity with an eloquent flair
T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AMFriday, July 29, 2022
Gillian Lynne theatre, LondonThis exhilarating production of CS Lewis’s timeless tale delivers spellbinding spectacle, wartime drama and perfect puppetry
This captivating production takes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMThursday, July 28, 2022
The self-described ‘wobbly’ comedian is returning to her first love, acting, with a hard-hitting play about the collision of disability and austerity
Francesca Martinez was three years o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMWednesday, July 27, 2022
Southwark Playhouse, LondonMusical set on the prehistoric ocean floor and starring singing yeast particles is a swampy mess
This 2007 comedy musical features all-singing, all-dancing particl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMTuesday, July 26, 2022
Young Vic, London Sonali Bhattacharyya intriguingly exposes the exploitative dynamics of the global gig economy through the lens of a Bengali jatra theatre group
This drama about the gig eco…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMSunday, July 24, 2022
Open Air theatre, Regent’s Park, LondonThis family musical and adorable puppets will keep the kids happy, but parents might wish they could go walkies
Some stories are better known, and lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMFriday, July 22, 2022
Kiln theatre, LondonZodwa Nyoni’s hard-hitting play takes us into the mind of Dwight, growing up with his Black British family in 1980s Leeds and in the present day
This drama about family…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMThursday, July 21, 2022
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThis intimate story of four-way romantic damage gains an extra edge in Clare Lizzimore’s slick revival
Patrick Marber’s hit play brimmed with daring when it prem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33PM 
