Friday, March 12, 2021
Available onlinePart two in NTGent’s Sorrows of Belgium trilogy is a visually arresting account of the rise of the Rex party and the horror of the second world war
Director Luk Perceval’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMThursday, March 11, 2021
Available onlineIn Steppenwolf theatre company’s creepy satire on palace life, two women have an intense teatime meeting
It is tempting to assume that an American drama about black women c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMTuesday, March 9, 2021
BBC Radio 4David Mamet’s new play, adapted as an audio drama, follows an indomitable Manhattanite willing to sacrifice everything to save her murderer son
It is peculiarly low-key for a p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMMonday, March 8, 2021
Thirst Trap and Swimming Home are two new audio productions which audiences listen to while submerged – but don’t expect a relaxing soak
Two new immersive audio shows involve running a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMFriday, March 5, 2021
Available onlineScenery, sounds, light and casting are treated with endless invention in this charmingly low-key take on Fitzgerald’s classic
Stage and screen adaptations of The Great Gats…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMWednesday, March 3, 2021
Available onlineAs two women compete for the attentions of a middle-aged man, Athena Stevens’ production explores abuse and complicity
Everything about Late Night Staring at High Res Pixel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMAfter cutting her teeth on carnival parades and the Olympics opening ceremony, the bright designer collaborated on dazzling creations for major London stages
Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey’s car…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMMonday, March 1, 2021
In a drama written by artificial intelligence, the computer’s imagination touches on themes of love and loneliness – but is mostly obsessed with sex
Kazuo Ishiguro, whose new novel Klara…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMSunday, February 28, 2021
Available online Disgraced stars must plead for the audience’s forgiveness – or suffer a nasty fate – in a show that prizes horror over interaction, yet delivers a satisfying adrenalin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, February 25, 2021
Available onlineThis superb play draws on the final hours of Christopher Alder, who died in police custody in Hull in 1998
Christopher Alder’s last moments, in April 1998, were unforgivab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMWednesday, February 24, 2021
Available online It’s a ball playing sleuth – with Dr Watson’s help – even if you don’t identify the killer in this interactive show
This interactive sleuthing show has the punning…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMSunday, February 21, 2021
Writers and artists including Róisín Murphy, Tiffany Calver and Sigala on the art that transports them to the dancefloor during lockdown
There have been many notable nightclubs in film his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMFriday, February 19, 2021
Available onlineDanny Sapani and Adrian Lester strike up true chemistry in a poignant friendship drama that wears its racial context lightly
Danny Sapani describes this play about an oddbal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMThursday, February 18, 2021
Available onlineCovid guidelines and clunky camerawork sadly undermine the ebullient performances in this digital adaptation of Alice Walker’s modern classic
It felt auspicious when the le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMAvailable onlineHarriet Walter, Cherylee Houston and Sharon D Clarke star in the second collection of shorts in Graeae’s series of dramas
The second instalment of Graeae theatre company’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMAvailable onlinePeter Barnes’s spellbinding play about class as seen by a Buckingham Palace footman is the pick of these four single-handers
Most of Peter Barnes’s people in this quartet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMWednesday, February 17, 2021
Our new series profiling theatre talents continues with a sparky, award-winning writer-actor committed to making her industry more inclusive
For as long as Amy Trigg can remember, she wanted…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMMonday, February 15, 2021
Available onlineJanie Dee stars as a newly bereaved Hampstead widow in this poignant, ventriloquising monologue by Terence Rattigan
“I despise middle-aged women who talk to themselves at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PMThursday, February 11, 2021
Available onlineSam Tutty and Emily Redpath star in an ambitious new version of Shakespeare’s play created with digital wizardry
The warring houses of Montague and Capulet are living in a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42PMWednesday, February 3, 2021
In our new series profiling exciting theatre talents, the actor-writer remembers lessons from Phyllida Lloyd and rapping in Molière
The nation’s theatres may be dark, but in a new series …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMTuesday, February 2, 2021
Mike Bartlett, Alan Ayckbourn, Adjoa Andoh and other top theatre-makers reflect on why listening to drama is perfect for our times
In the first lockdown, many noticed how the roar of traffic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMMonday, January 25, 2021
Available onlineJoseph Potter summons enough characters to fill the stage in Philip Ridley’s dark comedy of manners about family dysfunction and wasted talent
Philip Ridley’s interest in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32AMFriday, January 22, 2021
Adjoa Andoh, who plays Lady Danbury in the show, admires the creativity, zest and collective spirit of tribute songs
Bridgerton, the Regency-era TV smash that sparked a virtual water-cooler …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMAvailable onlineThe easygoing reminiscences of three women reveal depths of turmoil and heartache in Mark O’Rowe’s deftly written triumph
Three friends meet around a table to catch up on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, January 17, 2021
Available onlineFrancesca Forristal and Jordan Paul Clarke’s show supplies sharp satire on influencer culture, but doesn’t dig into bigger issues
A computer cursor clicks on the instruc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMWednesday, January 13, 2021
Research exposes sustained levels of gender imbalance across theatre, film and TV, with fears that it will be worsened by pandemic
Gender inequality across the theatre industry is of rising …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMSaturday, January 2, 2021
Modern masterpiece Jerusalem storms back and Trevor Nunn goes underground with Beckett, while Bob Marley gets a musical and Frankenstein becomes a ballet Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMThursday, December 24, 2020
Available onlineThe National Theatre’s pantomime paean to London feels a little too bright in the current climate, but its naughtier denizens – including a goth Queen Rat – shine
Chris…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMWednesday, December 23, 2020
As the industry faced turmoil, there were triumphant stagings of classics by Sarah Kane, David Mamet and Alan Bennett – and bold new experiments
More on the best culture of 2020 Continue …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMFriday, December 18, 2020
Available onlineThis MR James ghost story has been rethought as a suspenseful tale for the Covid era, with a standout performance from Tamzin Outhwaite
This supernatural thriller is based on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMWednesday, December 16, 2020
Available onlineOlivia Williams voices Rafaella Marcus’s story of a woman in a house who has only bumps in the night for company
There is nothing quite like a festive haunting to see us in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PM 
