Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Curve theatre, LeicesterIn a moving memory play, Anna Jordan charts the course of a relationship which begins with the sharing of a mobile hotspot
Most of us simply dig up memories but the c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMMonday, September 29, 2025
Kontakthof is a 1978 show full of tenderness, violence and horror. Now, in a spectacular production, its first performers are bringing it back. But would Bausch have approved?
Theatres are h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMPerformance of the once controversial poem was planned for its 40th anniversary but will now double as a tribute to writer who died last week
Tony Harrison’s state-of-the-nation poem V is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMFriday, September 26, 2025
The Other Palace, LondonGeorgina Castle and Josh St Clair make a likable couple who endlessly replay their first meeting but this adaptation needs more emotional punch
Perhaps it’s unfair …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMThursday, September 25, 2025
Old Red Lion theatre, LondonPuppetry and silent cinema techniques are used to retell Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel and its film version in a show played for laughs rather than thrills
Rep th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMWednesday, September 24, 2025
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonMatthew Xia directs a consummate adaptation of the 1972 Jamaican thriller, whose irresistible soundtrack is bolstered by new songs
Scene-setting doesn’t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, September 21, 2025
Everyman theatre, LiverpoolEllie Hurt directs a dynamic production that boasts sensational lead performances by Zoe West and Alicia Forde
Romeo and Juliet is a play that lives or dies by the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMFriday, September 19, 2025
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonAlmost 30 years on, the Irish playwright’s intimate drama brims with painful memories and comedy – brought to dazzling effect by a flawless cast
Conor McPher…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMWednesday, September 17, 2025
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonA fixation on how to frame Bram Stoker’s story disrupts the flow of this feminist reboot, killing the fear factor
Drac is back. Earlier this year, the caped bloods…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMTuesday, September 16, 2025
Minerva theatre, Chichester Justin Audibert’s lucid production is classically considered, with a fine cast making full unsettling use of the intimate space
By the t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18PMMonday, September 15, 2025
The Tony award-winning actor will play the marshal in a London stage adaptation of the 1952 western that won Cooper an Oscar
Billy Crudup is to take on the role that won Gary Cooper an Oscar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, September 12, 2025
Rebecca Lucy Taylor will play Maggie, a role originated by Helen Mirren, in a ‘landmark’ 50th anniversary production in London in March
Fifty years after Helen Mirren originated the role…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMThursday, September 11, 2025
Royal Court theatre, London Katie Mitchell, Nina Segal and Melanie Wilson’s ‘experiment in performance’ uses expressive performance and inventive sonic effects to bring a wordless worl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMMonday, September 1, 2025
John Cleese’s stage version of his beloved sitcom, a cast recording of Cornish musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Robert Wilson’s production of Handel’s Messiah are among …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMSunday, August 24, 2025
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghKate Ireland’s warmly delivered one-woman show considers the pressures of productivity, rules and rewards at school and beyond
She has been given 60 minutes out of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMPleasance Dome, EdinburghAlexander Burnett and Ellie Whittaker dive into multiple roles in a bubbly show with plenty of audience participation
This highly physical comedy about two competiti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMMcEwan Hall, EdinburghThe sharply dressed quintet perform acrobatics that often complement the 50s chart hits on the jukebox
For their fifth season at the fringe, this quintet of Kenyan acro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMFriday, August 22, 2025
theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, EdinburghThis playful performance explores loneliness, liberty and life in early adulthood through two adventurous cats and their demanding humans
Ellie Rose Ami…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMAssembly Roxy, EdinburghThere’s a hint of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet in the cocksure, poppy aesthetic of this charismatic display of acrobatics, tumbling and clowning
It wouldn’t be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMTuesday, August 19, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghChakira Alin’s buoyant show is shot through with bitterness as she gives a lucid account of Hackney’s transformation
In her solo show about the aftermath of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMSummerhall, EdinburghOli Mathiesen, Lucy Lynch and Sharvon Mortimer bring absolute focus to a shatteringly powerful show of street dance choreo and techno beats
This could be the definition …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMMonday, August 18, 2025
Summerhall, EdinburghThe theatre-maker’s childlike passion for stories and illustrations makes facts a hoot in this faux seminar
You can’t argue with the title: here is a weird, wonderfu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMSunday, August 17, 2025
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghCombining folk song, true crime, macabre comedy and more makes it hard to keep up with the already complicated 1892 case
How do you stage the life and trial of Lizzi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMPleasance Dome, EdinburghAn anti-work activist and a nepo volunteer join the group for a research study in Dan Bishop’s polished play
When plays get under way we wait for something to happ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMSaturday, August 16, 2025
Underbelly, George Square, EdinburghA locked drawer that never opens, a rug that everyone walks all over … Emily Weitzman’s metaphors for boyfriends are ridiculous and revelatory
It’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03AMThursday, August 14, 2025
Underbelly, George Square, EdinburghMadeleine Rowe’s physical comedy, deft vocal work and twinkle-eyed charisma takes the relationship between man and steed to extremes
Academic texts have…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMTuesday, August 12, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIssy Knowles considers the phenomenon of sex as a competitive sport with a portrait of a fictional OnlyFans star and her balaclava-clad followers
‘I would lov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThursday, August 7, 2025
Dance Base, EdinburghMalcolm Sutherland’s meta production about isolation and the search for intimacy knowingly ties its themes to the experience of the fringe
The dry title belies a show …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMFriday, August 1, 2025
Pin-sharp comedy from the National Theatre’s Black Plays Archive, a 12-hour ‘theatre-rave’ and Rachel Zegler’s balcony performance of Don’t Cry for Me Argentina are among this mont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMTuesday, July 22, 2025
Austria’s month-long ImPulsTanz celebration goes beyond the norm to turn rope jumping, navel-gazing and masked protest into explosive shows
Matteo Haitzmann is a violinist who has tonight …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMTV channel U&Dave has announced its award for best joke at the fringe, launched in 2008, won’t be given this year
It’s beyond a joke for pun-lovers. The traditional list of the funni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM 
