Monday, February 27, 2023
Influenced by the music of Billy Bragg, Bonnie Tyler and Meatloaf, After the Act explores the culture of fear and self-censorship caused by the law, voted through by the Tories during moral …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThursday, February 23, 2023
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonAs this ambitious production switches between stages, and deaths pile up like dishes, neither the comedy nor the tragedy have room to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMFriday, February 17, 2023
Gate theatre, LondonInventive direction and a spectacular cast make the London transfer of Robert O’Hara’s kaleidoscopic off-Broadway play a spiralling, high-energy triumph
Robert O’Ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:21AMSaturday, January 28, 2023
Having starred in some of Britain’s biggest TV shows, the pair are taking to the stage for Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, a minimalist two-hander where words are strictly rationed. An…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMFriday, January 27, 2023
Petty France, LondonTaking part in a trial shift to help coma patients wake up, the tension grows as it slowly becomes clear why you’re really mining strangers’ secrets
A deliciously une…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:29AMTuesday, December 13, 2022
Fire the glitter cannons! Unleash the water pistols! The panto season is here. But how did the cross-dressing dame become so central to the tradition? And in an age of gender fluidity, shoul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMThe disruptive artist’s new show is a boisterous evening, with her brazen persona an exhilarating challenge for audiences
Lucy McCormick’s half-naked body is covered in tomato puree. The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMThursday, November 24, 2022
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonIn this coruscating production from Headlong and Shakespeare’s Globe, Henry’s grasp for power is cast in a stark light
The king is weeping as his subjects …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMWednesday, November 23, 2022
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonThe cast’s hard work can’t save a confused script that struggles to mine comedy from a desperately sad story
A gentle chuckle is never the aim of a great far…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMFriday, November 11, 2022
The Star Trek actor is making his West End debut in a play about the 1968 US TV political debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley. But he fears the pair’s fiery exchanges may be p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMThursday, November 10, 2022
Theatre503, LondonMatthew Gabrielli’s play about abusive online culture cleverly uses puppets as trolls but feels didactic
Everyone knows you should never respond to trolls. In Zombiegate,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMThursday, November 3, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonDirected by Blanche McIntyre, Nathan Ellis’s drama serves as a reminder of what cuts are doing to our health service but it tells more than it shows
The bone-deep exhau…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMFriday, October 21, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonThe raucous folk songs, open-hearted performances and tender love story make this queer gig-theatre romcom a delight
Gently directed by Ria Parry, this is a queer romcom …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55PMThursday, October 20, 2022
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonHumour and rage intertwine in Back to Back theatre company’s playful debate of ethics, language and philosophy
The unjust treatment of people with learning d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Charing Cross theatre, LondonTennessee Williams’ script about a dying widow dictating her memoirs is dragged into the modern day as characters fidget with their phones on a sparse set
Some…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMSunday, October 2, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonA different Mrs Perón gets the mega-musical treatment in Sh!t Theatre’s hilarious, sinister comedy about the ethics of populism and the heartbreak of loss
As in: Evita…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMSunday, September 25, 2022
Shipwright, DeptfordExquisitely staged on the banks of the Thames, this ambitious and inquisitive production uses its natural surroundings to remind us of everything we stand to lose
Sneak a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PMThursday, September 22, 2022
Southwark Playhouse, LondonYouTube philosopher Abigail Thorn moves offline and on to the stage with an ambitious exploration of identities and the performance of gender
Using the intelligent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMMonday, August 29, 2022
The Globe theatre sparked outrage when it announced its plans to stage a non-binary Joan of Arc. The play’s writer explains why the French warrior would have approved
‘I’m always hungr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:55AMWednesday, August 17, 2022
The company behind The Actress has dug into 17th-century archives to bring to life two pioneering women of the stage
On 8 December 1660, crowds gathered on Vere Street, off Oxford Street in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMTuesday, August 2, 2022
The writer-director’s new Edinburgh fringe show switches between the 18th-century Haitian revolution and a haunted modern London
If a zombie uprising were to take place tomorrow, Emily Abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMMonday, July 18, 2022
Sonali Bhattacharyya’s Chasing Hares uses folk theatre to depict a trade union dispute in West Bengal. ‘South Asian artists have always been here – but now it’s our time,’ she says…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMSunday, July 10, 2022
Churchill War Rooms, LondonPoor storytelling and a clunky app-based interface mean that this time-travel adventure may well be the audience’s darkest hour
Chaotic and disappointing, this a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMTuesday, July 5, 2022
The Ten Percent star’s solo show, which is returning to London’s West End, was inspired by his conversations with older gay men as a volunteer for Switchboard
An hour before he stepped o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMSaturday, June 18, 2022
Royal Court, LondonOne play reveals another in a tangled web that pits the Home Office against two Guardian blind-daters
Lift up the cover of the playtext for That Is Not Who I Am by Dave Da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18PMThursday, June 16, 2022
Old Vic theatre, LondonA stylish rework of the August Wilson character-study sees a standout performance from Wil Johnson as the put-upon head of the titular cab station
Within a run-down st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMWednesday, June 8, 2022
In the first of our festival previews, we round up some of the best offerings we’ve already reviewed – including Tim Key, Liz Kingsman, La Clique and Hungry
This searing, sweaty disco is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMTuesday, June 7, 2022
You don’t have to shell out to enjoy the best in music, film, theatre, art and comedy – from a Francis Bacon in Aberdeen to Notting Hill’s unique and spectacular carnival
Music Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMKing’s Head theatre, LondonA mixture of ghoulish horror and atmospheric history, Mark Ravenhill’s play vibrates with frights and fury
The jump scares are perfectly placed in Mark Ravenhi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMMonday, May 23, 2022
New Diorama, LondonDeafinitely Theatre’s evocative and tender show was inspired by real stories of abuse against deaf women and non-binary people
In British Sign Language, the sign for a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, May 20, 2022
Finborough, LondonHunger and disease stalk Russia in the aftermath of conflict in this play based on a story by Andrey Platonov
This is a glum, plodding production depicting a grim, hard-hea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM 
