Wednesday, August 13, 2025
The actor and writer has turned JM Barrie’s story into the hedonistic nightclub musical Nvrlnd – but his talents are also showcased in a one-man thriller and a queer classic
The room is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMMonday, August 11, 2025
Upstairs at Assembly Roxy, EdinburghAbigail and Shaun Bengson meditate on family, faith and loss in story and song, featuring a revelatory depiction of degenerative hearing
Music is a lifel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMFriday, August 8, 2025
The sense of wonder never wavers in Hart’s charming ‘best of’ set, a fringe favourite in a year of crowd-pleasing card work, mentalism and a hidden-squirrel routine
Magic is addictive.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMTuesday, August 5, 2025
Summerhall, EdinburghPerformed amid psychedelic projections, the Australian singer’s gig has an otherworldly beauty yet fails to take off
‘I’ll leave you with the cosmos,” Australian…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMMonday, August 4, 2025
Summerhall, EdinburghIn its aim to avoid big topics – politics, gender, climate – the Canadian pair’s superb show attempts an escape from contemporary chaos
If the end of the world is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMSunday, August 3, 2025
Underbelly, Cowgate, EdinburghYannick Trapman-O’Brien’s disarming show is akin to having someone drawing your portrait as he steers a probing conversation
I have been banned from this sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSaturday, August 2, 2025
She is the Olivier-winning producer behind two of the most successful TV shows in recent memory. Now she has a slate of upcoming projects, including a bold new venture at the fringe. Will on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMWednesday, July 9, 2025
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonCallum and Sephy are a modern Romeo and Juliet, forced to grow up fast as they wade through the crushing racial and class structures that pin them in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMMonday, June 23, 2025
Why is a huge pack of puppet animals, from tiny monkeys to towering elephants, making a 20,000km cross-planet odyssey? As The Herds nears the UK, our writer spends a week as an antelope to f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AMFriday, June 6, 2025
Bridge theatre, LondonThe immersive setup brings the audience into the midst of the play’s shapeshifting unreality among a comedy-gold cast of magical characters
Shenanigans reign in this …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMThursday, May 8, 2025
From a New Forest giant inspiring an asthmatic teen to a herd of animal puppets walking to the Arctic Circle, theatre far and wide is taking action – but with energy and optimism, rather t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMWednesday, May 7, 2025
Young Vic, LondonA guest star – here, a delighted Jessie Buckley – is fed their script during the performance in this now two-decade-old revelation of theatre-making
An Oak Tree unpicks …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMSunday, April 13, 2025
Riverside Studios, LondonKeelan Kember’s latest is so full of funny one-liners and cheerful performances it feels like a comforting sitcom
Breezy conversational chatter, dry one-liners and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMThursday, April 10, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonWhile navigating the rocky aftermath of death, Naomi Denny’s Sienna sees her sibling everywhere in this simply told but warm reflection on grief
Grief does not come wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMSunday, February 16, 2025
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonChekhov’s claustrophobic drama is perfectly suited to this intimate venue, with moments of humour leavening the heartbreak
The flowers spelling out Irina’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMWednesday, February 12, 2025
Royal Court theatre, LondonA wonderfully precise ensemble cast make this sci-fi vision of resurrection and immortality stab directly at the heart
What makes a life? Kandinsky theatre company…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMWednesday, January 29, 2025
King’s Head theatre, LondonThis satire stars co-writers Harriet Chomley and Sophie Robertson as estranged friends who meet in therapy
Muscular writing is required to overcome the cliches o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
Tickets for the interactive theatre company’s last show are almost impossible to score, though if you get one there’s a chance you’ll have your mind blown. But what exactly is it? The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMFriday, January 24, 2025
Camden People’s theatre, LondonThe storyteller completes his trilogy of soft, stark shows with an hour of sweet, scatter-gun observations about how we live
If you had an hour, just an hour…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThursday, January 9, 2025
This year sees the city celebrate its rich, diverse creativity. Magician Dynamo, AKA Steven Frayne, and director Kirsty Housley discuss collaborating to shine a light on the arts of their ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMSunday, December 8, 2024
Globe theatre, LondonAt just under an hour this bright and silly production misses the grisly bite of the Brothers Grimm’s original fairytale but there is much for kids to enjoy
Sugar-indu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMMonday, November 25, 2024
When a scene calls for violence, it’s combat choreographers who prevent actors coming a cropper during the action. They explain the rules of stage conflict
Philip d’Orléans points the s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMMonday, November 11, 2024
Do you fancy a weekend sword fight or touring a castle dressed as a laundress? Volunteers devoted to ‘living history’ events explain their enduring appeal
A horse in colourful medieval g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMSunday, October 20, 2024
Park theatre, LondonIt is a treat to see this kaleidoscopic meditation on stories and the nature of time brought to the stage, even if at times the play struggles to hold the full weight of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMWednesday, September 25, 2024
Kiln theatre, LondonThis Q&A-based delve into the politics of vaccination is a fascinating, thorny and sometimes wilfully opaque take on a divisive topic for our times
Rob Drummond tells…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42PMSaturday, September 14, 2024
Under his leadership, the theatre has become a hothouse for innovative, and sometimes controversial work work. On the eve of his departure, he looks back over his ‘three acts’ in the lim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMFriday, August 16, 2024
From The Diary of a Teenage Girl to her latest stage role, the actor is drawn to projects about the tangle of sex and the messy parts of relationships
Bel Powley is not a good liar. “I hav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMThursday, August 15, 2024
Globe theatre, LondonThe Egyptian queen’s court communicates in sign language in Blanche McIntyre’s production, giving physical shape and frequently extra depth to the text
With wide eye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26AMThursday, July 18, 2024
Royal Court theatre, LondonVarious actors, including Adrian Lester and Fiona Shaw, step into playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s shoes as he reckons with the possibility of never returning to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMThursday, July 11, 2024
Arcola theatre, LondonMartha Loader’s award-winning play is an assured portrait of a therapy group for men who have abused women
He seems nice, at first. Then you learn what he’s done. G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMTuesday, July 9, 2024
Is it gatekeeping or dream-making? Art or science? As the Oscars get set to award casting directors for the first time, British theatre’s finest share the secrets of their trade
The popula…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM 
