Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, London Thin tale of neighbourly spirit is loaded with groansome gags but the hoedowns and show tunes are full of flavour
Aw, shucks. There’s plenty to lov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMTuesday, May 20, 2025
A prolific performer with the National Theatre, the actor and playwright – who was married to Zoë Wanamaker – was also a regular on TV, starring in Doctor Who
The actor and writer Gawn …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM@sohoplace, London A new arrival at Alcoholics Anonymous meets with his apparently composed sponsor in David Ireland’s knotty, often hilarious two-hander
Jack Lowden wasn’t away from the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMFriday, May 16, 2025
Over the course of an illustrious career, Strouse composed music for Broadway shows such as Bye Bye Birdie and Applause but was best known for Annie’s evergreen songs
The composer Charles …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
Greek theatre, Syracuse Two searing new productions, performed in a hallowed space by intense ensembles, bring strikingly fresh energy to the ancient dramas
Concurrent London productions rec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMThursday, May 8, 2025
Reading Rep theatreThree generations of soon-to-be-weds unload their emotional baggage into the Thames in Camille Ucan’s comedy
Jerome K Jerome was not kind about Reading in Three Men in a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMWednesday, May 7, 2025
Francesca Moody and Gary McNair’s innovative DIY solution to Covid restrictions will be revamped for a series of in-person, one-off shows
When the 2020 Edinburgh fringe was cancelled due t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMTuesday, May 6, 2025
The musician is to debut as a theatre composer for W Somerset Maugham’s 1926 comedy adapted by Laura Wade and directed by Tamara Harvey
Jamie Cullum is to make his debut as a theatre compo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMThursday, May 1, 2025
Krapp’s Last Tape, in which an old man rummages through recordings of his younger self, is back for two star-powered revivals. This haunting play invites actors and audiences to reconnect …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32PMBehind-the-scenes look at the TV juggernaut’s transformation into a theatrical spectacular, interactive acrobatics with Cirque du Soleil and a spellbinding tribute to Kneehigh are among th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMWednesday, April 9, 2025
The Place, London Arresting show from Northern Rascals charts the growing distance between two young men
This bedroom looks like it has been ripped out of a building. Its walls are edged wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWednesday, April 2, 2025
Unicorn theatre, LondonRejected by adults, the far-from-home heroine is embraced by cheering children in Debbie Hannan’s comical show
If you took one of Tove Jansson’s Moomins, sprayed t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMTuesday, April 1, 2025
David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Shakespeare’s tragedy, a puppet-powered transformation for Yann Martel’s novel and Anna Chancellor in a Restoration-era comedy are among this month’s hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMWardrobe theatre, BristolDaisy Kennedy and Mia Macleod tussle with capitalism, class cliches and the cost of living in this smart two-hander
Meet Daisy and Mia. One is working class, the oth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMMonday, March 31, 2025
Hampstead theatre, LondonSophie Melville and Laura Whitmore star in an ambitious yet flawed play about the pressures of parenthood
John Donnelly’s new play is perceptive about early parent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMFriday, March 28, 2025
Little Angel theatre, LondonThe big top pops up inside a book as puppeteer Lizzie Wort whirls through a jaunty carnival of acts
Roll up, roll up! Abracadabra! There’s barely a trad circus …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMThursday, March 27, 2025
Royal Court, LiverpoolA cast of more than 50 delivers an inspiring adaptation of David Peace’s epic novel about a manager who prized socialism
In 2016, an adaptation of David Peace’s The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMTuesday, March 25, 2025
Sherman theatre, CardiffRebecca Jade Hammond’s assured drama about two girls groomed for drug trafficking switches between humour and terror
What a punchy play. Rebecca Jade Hammond has wr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
They came out of the blue and electrified Edinburgh with absurdist takes on Americana. Now the US pair are doing all three hits back to back – and dreaming of not having to share a room
It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMMonday, March 17, 2025
Lancaster Academy, LeicesterRoss Willis and Ned Bennett’s audacious adventure for schools is a cult in the making, with a post-apocalyptic plot, snappy gags and a trash-talking baby
This i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMFriday, March 14, 2025
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonThis brisk staging for young audiences has acrobatic witches and action-movie fights but misses some of the play’s bloodcurdling weirdness
Here is a Macbeth fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, March 13, 2025
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonThe cancellation in 2022 of a sex education show for children and their families is revisited in this hour of artistic self-assessment
The stage is dressed for an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, March 12, 2025
The Place, London Tom Cassani outlines conjuring techniques with a beguiling routine, while Compagnie Les Vagues make a teasing performance from tiny movements
Throwing shapes is expected at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMMonday, March 10, 2025
Furlough’s Paradise, a ‘lyrical’ journey about grief, scoops award for female, transgender and non-binary playwrights
The Susan Smith Blackburn prize for female, transgender and non-bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMTheatre Royal, Bury St EdmundsAn all-female cast deliver Tallulah Brown’s play about 17th-century East Anglians under threat of the self-styled Witchfinder General
The past sings to the pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMTheatre503, London Playwright Ruth D’Silva explores cruelty and control but also kindness in a knotty drama focusing on a mother-daughter relationship
‘Don’t play with your food,” Be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMFriday, March 7, 2025
Little Angel Studios, LondonIngenious puppetry and jolly performances help animate the story about an ever-expanding indoor menagerie
Many young families quickly find themselves running out …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMThursday, March 6, 2025
Lynette Linton’s successor at the new writing venue in west London promises to build on its bold legacy
Taio Lawson has been appointed as the new artistic director of the Bush theatre in w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMTuesday, March 4, 2025
With London’s West End chockful of Hollywood A-listers, crowds are thronging stage doors. But do some fans go too far? We uncover a shadowy story of joyful adulation, gobby putdowns – an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMSaturday, March 1, 2025
An anniversary show for the pride of Disney, a secret meeting of wartime leaders and a very modern Antigone are among this month’s highlights
Talk about the circle of life: past stars of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMMonday, February 24, 2025
Stanley and Audrey Burton theatre, LeedsWitty compositions and appealing performances win over a young audience but the traditionally grisly tale gets lost in the woods
Traditionally, Hansel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM 
