Thursday, 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 09:54AMTuesday, February 11, 2025
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice have created songs for a Theatreland mystery by Humphrey Ker and David Reed. We find out how they doubled up for the detective’s ‘gory’ new case
New so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMonday, February 10, 2025
Unicorn theatre, LondonWinsome Pinnock adapts the story of a teenager whose heart transplant causes controversy but the comedy drowns out the issues
Some set designs instantly make sense. Pa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMTuesday, February 4, 2025
Plays join shortlist for prestigious international award honouring scripts by female, transgender and non-binary playwrights
Plays submitted by the National Theatre, the Almeida and the Roya…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMSaturday, February 1, 2025
Katori Hall’s culinary comedy, a heavenly Beverley Knight and English National Ballet at Royal Albert Hall are among this month’s highlights
More than 100 performers – including 60 dan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMFriday, January 31, 2025
The Crown actor and Kate Fleetwood will join Ewan McGregor in Lila Raicek’s My Master Builder, inspired by Ibsen
Australian actor Elizabeth Debicki, best known for playing Diana, Princess …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMThursday, January 30, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London Jordan Kai Burnett impresses in a fun, heartfelt yet tonally uneven show, co-produced by Michelle Visage
In Tim Burton’s 1990 fairytale, you hear Edwar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06PMUS musical will be followed by Rodgers and Hammerstein dream ballets, Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses and Brigadoon
Drew McOnie’s inaugural season as artistic director of Regent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMTuesday, January 28, 2025
The comedies Titanique and Here You Come Again pay homage to two superstars in quirky style. Actors Lauren Drew and Tricia Paoluccio explain what it’s like to portray their idols – and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMThursday, January 23, 2025
Lowden first appeared in David Ireland’s two-hander in Edinburgh last year. For its West End run, he is paired with his ‘hero’ Freeman
Slow Horses star Jack Lowden is to reprise his ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMWednesday, January 22, 2025
Opera House, ManchesterA meandering musical based on the Doris Day movie delivers the sure-shot showtunes in style with a whipcracking lead in Carrie Hope Fletcher
The 1953 film Calamity Jan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMTuesday, January 14, 2025
The Olivier-winning star ‘excited and honoured’ to take the lead in the UK premiere of Marie and Rosetta, a 1940s-set two-hander from George Brant
Beverley Knight is to play Sister Roset…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThursday, January 9, 2025
The actors will share the stage for the first time in George Bernard’s Shaw’s drama about ‘the role of women in society’
Imelda Staunton and her daughter, Bessie Carter, are to share…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMFriday, January 3, 2025
Bristol Old VicIn Sonali Bhattacharyya’s tale, Liana Cottrill’s striking and gracefully realised mermaid is driven to leave her home not for a crush on a prince but in order to save the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMWednesday, January 1, 2025
Anaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical gets a West End spin and the Horrible Histories star’s Bottom are among this month’s highlights
He played the Bard on Horrible Histories (“they c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMMonday, December 16, 2024
Arcola theatre, LondonThis recreation of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic is frenetic fun, with the dinosaurs brought to life using physical comedy – and traffic cones
Hold on to your ……
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMJacksons Lane, London Tove Jansson’s beloved creations have their hibernation interrupted by snowball juggling and jolly ukulele tunes in this sweet adaptation
Anyone …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMTuesday, December 10, 2024
Albany, LondonThis is a sprightly adaptation of Chris Haughton’s popular book, adding circus skills, projections and BSL
‘Here we find the penguin,” intones the narrator of a mock natu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMTuesday, December 3, 2024
Lila Raicek’s play, which McGregor describes as ‘a very modern take on today’s sexual politics’, will be the actor’s first London show in 17 years
Ewan McGregor will return to the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMSunday, December 1, 2024
Come out to play with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis’s star-studded concept album or enjoy an improvised movie from the Goes Wrong team
Amal Khalidi and Tatenda Naomi Matsvai’s highly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMTuesday, November 26, 2024
This farce about a gaffe-laden am-dram whodunnit was born above a pub. How did it become one of Britain’s greatest ever exports, the toast of more than 50 countries? Our writer hits the co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMYou’ll never find an audience or a cast more invested than at a seasonal show, where kids find their feet in front of you. But performing arts provision for the youngest is in peril
What�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMFriday, November 22, 2024
Dance House, CardiffA lonely deer enters a world of natural wonders in this dance-theatre show for children, with spellbinding songs by Casi Wyn
Never mind poor red-nosed Rudolph being calle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMHampstead theatre, LondonLoyalty and legacy, privilege and prejudice come into play as the lives of two friends, joined in their love of the basketball star, diverge
Without wanting to state…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMWednesday, November 20, 2024
Despite Olivier awards success and a sold out run in the West End, the show received unfavourable reviews from US critics and performed poorly at the box office
Tammy Faye, the musical creat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMWednesday, November 13, 2024
With a career ranging from Shakespeare to EastEnders and the series Great Canal Journeys, actor was a familiar face from the 1960s onwards
Michael Billington: West was a modest maestro who e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMTuesday, November 5, 2024
Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffThe 2008 Canadian film about zombie-like hordes spreading a verbal virus is given a Welsh update, with a radio host refusing to rein in his divisive rhetoric
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMThursday, October 31, 2024
A cast recording for the souped-up train musical is released, Michael Sheen plays the NHS hero at the National and David Hare delivers his Covid memoir
“Tonight is the most important night…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31PM 
