Thursday, February 1, 2018
The Other Palace, LondonA school nerd escapes the bullies but meets a murderous movie mogul in an imaginative 1980s-themed musicalThings are looking up for new British musicals. The gorgeous…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMWednesday, January 31, 2018
Southwark Playhouse, LondonFive New Yorkers, all named Betty, are magically transformed in this swaggering production of Jen Silverman’s playJen Silverman’s often raucously funny piece i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30AMTuesday, January 30, 2018
Park theatre, LondonBanking dynasty story is beautifully sung, but the central character lacks the doleful warmth of Tevye‘If I were a rich man,” sings Tevye, the poor Jewish milkman in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:27AMMonday, January 29, 2018
At a play last year, the couple in the seats next to me – after realising I was alone – asked if
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, January 23, 2018
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonLanie Robertson’s one-woman play mines the American heiress and art collector’s turbulent life for gossipThe American heiress Peggy Guggenheim called the wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AMMonday, January 22, 2018
Vaudeville theatre, London Jennifer Saunders and Samantha Spiro find genuine emotion among the epigrams in Kathy Burke’s productionAppearances can be deceptive. That, of course, is one of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMKirsty Housley navigates the fault line between devised work and playwriting. She tells Lyn Gardner about the industry divide, why she doesn’t
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMAt the theatre some years ago, I witnessed an exchange that has stuck with me. Upon leaving the performance, a child was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, January 21, 2018
Camden People’s theatre, LondonRacheal Ofori is a British-Ghanaian millennial reckoning with sex, spirituality and herself in this refreshing one-woman showHeadlining Calm Down Dear, an an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AMFriday, January 19, 2018
When was the first trapeze performance? Who launched ‘the greatest show on Earth’? And which showman was celebrated in song by the Beatles? Here’s a history of circus in 25 momentsIn 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMThursday, January 18, 2018
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonShakespeare’s play about deceit and self-deception is given a gloomy candlelit production with some misjudged comedySome Shakespeare plays are like buses: th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:11AMTuesday, January 16, 2018
Unicorn, London Devised by young performers in collaboration with Kim Noble, this mashup of theatre, gig, sketch show and radio is a startling take on teenage lifeWho gets to have their say …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMMonday, January 15, 2018
Old Red Lion, LondonFirst staged in 2001, Morgan’s elliptical drama still intrigues – even if this long overdue revival is insufficiently chargedEvery year Luce (Eva-Jane Willis) takes t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PMLast week I found myself uninvited from a press night. Before Christmas, the publicist for Cirque du Soleil sent me an invitation
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, January 12, 2018
Theatre 503, London Lucy Foster’s unpolished love story charts the course of a relationship between two women, from first date to breaking upTwo women, known only as K and J, are introduce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMThursday, January 11, 2018
Lyn Gardner’s press ticket for the circus superstars was withdrawn after her verdict on their earlier show. So we bought her one and sent Sanjoy Roy along to get a second opinion on Cirque…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:21AMWednesday, January 10, 2018
Behind even the most glittering of careers lies a trail of poor decisions and faltering missteps. Industry leaders tell Lyn Gardner how
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMArts theatre, LondonAnne Boleyn, Jane Seymour and co tell their stories in a lively new musical that makes serious points about how women are erased from historyEveryone knows the old rhyme …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:26AMMonday, January 8, 2018
The news last week that Bingley Grammar School in West Yorkshire plans to keep GCSE music available to students at a time
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, January 2, 2018
East, the audacious play by the British dramatist turned Hollywood villain, was labelled ‘filthy’ in 1975 and remains a set text. It’s now back in London, followed by a 21st-century ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMFriday, December 29, 2017
In Liverpool and London, theatres are celebrating Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles. Cue thrills, invention – and howls of laughterThere is a medical term that takes its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMWednesday, December 27, 2017
Park theatre, LondonThis heartfelt drama admirably explores the gold rush-era story from the perspective of a young aboriginal womanJethro Compton’s play White Fang is set in the Yukon, no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMArts Depot, London Oily Cart’s new show is as much about making and doing as watching, situated at a point where arts and crafts meet theatre“You’re not a real bird. You’re just pret…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMWednesday, December 20, 2017
Vaudeville, LondonA raggle-taggle bunch of storytellers recount vivid tales of spoilt brats, lovelorn students and a selfless statue in this jaunty, thoughtful family showIt’s good to see …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMMonday, December 18, 2017
Director of Theatre Centre, a company dedicated to young people in east LondonDavid Johnston, the pioneer of theatre for young people, who has died aged 69 after suffering a stroke, champion…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMIt’s the time of the year when I’m out on panto patrol, checking out those beanstalks and gazing wondrously at the Aladdin’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, December 17, 2017
Young Vic, LondonThis extraordinary play set in the Calais Jungle is vivid and complex in its portrayal of human resilience in the face of humanitarian catastrophe‘How did you survive?” …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMFriday, December 15, 2017
Sarah Frankcom made Thorton Wilder’s small-town hymn Our Town sing in Manchester, a new British musical was full of feeling and Andrew Scott’s mercurial prince let us see Hamlet anew Con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMLondon Palladium strikes pantomime gold with Julian Clary on filthy form, while Stratford stages a sweet Rapunzel and Nottingham puts on a cheery CinderellaAfter almost 30 years, panto retur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, December 13, 2017
A sophisticated Hans Christian Andersen adaptation in Bath leaves Birmingham Rep’s 101 Dalmatians and the New Vic’s Treasure Island in its wake as a trio of festive family shows open aro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMThe woman at the helm of the National Theatre’s Creative Diversity Project tells Lyn Gardner why she is determined to keep the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PM 
