Lyric Hammersmith, LondonWith a career-defining performance from Anjana Vasan, Tanika Gupta’s production is moving, multilayered and intelligent Tanika Gupta has transposed Ibsen’s semin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMStephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughNaomi Petersen’s turn is the icing on the cake of this time-bending drama from a writer who has lost none of his ingenuity Dramatists, from George S Kauf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMThe playwright behind A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, who has died aged 92, wrote deeply autobiographical plays that offered an image of modern Britain Peter Nichols, who has died aged 92, on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMBush theatre, LondonLynette Linton’s debut as artistic director is a musical revival of an undramatic piece about the dilemmas of four women The Bush, which has recently revived Winsome P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMTurbine, LondonMatthew Needham stars with tremulous assurance as the witty, sharp-tongued drag queen of Harvey Fierstein’s 70s drama Theatre seems one of our crazy nation’s few growth in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMOld Vic, London The twisted tale of the Russian dissident’s death by radioactive poisoning employs songs, puppets and even Putin as an unreliable narrator Watching Lucy Prebble’s fascina…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMRoyal and Derngate, NorthamptonThe richness of Wilson’s characters make them a joy to watch and a great cast lifts this tale set in Pittsburgh in 1969 By today’s standards, the plays of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMAs Hansard opens at the National Theatre and drama heats up in Westminster, our critic picks his favourite political theatre Whose side is Shakespeare on? As always, it is difficult to tell.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMLyttelton theatre, LondonAlex Jennings and Lindsay Duncan treat us to 90 minutes of sustained verbal warfare between an entitled Tory minister and his disaffected liberal wife When a charact…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMHe’s written 18 plays, rescued DH Lawrence from theatrical oblivion and played a crucial role at the National Theatre – all the while putting love, loss and the working class centre stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonBlanche McIntyre’s hectic production attempts to convey the riotous vice of Ben Jonson’s Jacobean London fair, but falters in translation to modernity Ben …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMWyndham’s Theatre, London The first night, playing to a celebrity-packed audience, felt like a coronation but Waller-Bridge still has the ability to spring surprises Six years after its de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonDark secrets emerge as three siblings gather at their late father’s old plantation home in this daring drama Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a subversive writer. In An Oc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMPark theatre, LondonAn array of disturbed characters are cogs in the grimmest of machines in Eugene O’Hare’s frustrating but well-written debut Sex trafficking is a big and serious subje…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMAlmeida, LondonJuliet Stevenson delivers one of the peak performances of the theatrical year in Robert Icke’s striking reimagining of Schnitzler As a director and writer, Robert Icke speci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMTheatre Royal, BathA whole set of relationships unravel in a shrewdly observant play showing the ripple effect of marital hostilities This is only the second play by the admired novelist Wil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMTrafalgar Studios, LondonPhotograph 51 playwright Anna Ziegler returns with a problematic two-hander that asks us to decide where the truth lies In Photograph 51, Anna Ziegler attacked the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMPlan your schedule with our roundup of top shows, ordered by start time. This page will be updated daily throughout the festival BoutSummerhall, 10.20am, until 25 AugustAn exploration of bro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMFinborough theatre, LondonA grieving father and son lock horns over an alluring visitor in a magnetically acted revival of Philip King’s Freudian drama Philip King is best known for See Ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMMinerva, Chichester Based on a true story, a new play tracks a backstage affair with big repercussions for Robeson, played perfectly by Tory Kittles Nicholas Wright’s compelling new play i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMTraverse, EdinburghDritan Kastrati’s journey as an 11-year-old to the UK with people smugglers is a survival story that speaks to what it is like to be caught between two cultures Dritan K…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMKing’s theatre, EdinburghAndrew Bovell’s adaptation of Kate Grenville’s novel about the collision between settlers and Indigenous Australians combines masterly storytelling with metaph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMTraverse, EdinburghStef Smith’s latest production depicts the two female leads rejecting male classification and raising themselves up Stef Smith wrote a fascinating dystopian drama in Hum…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghDirector Milo Rau asks disturbing political questions while attempting to honour the real-life victim of a senseless homophobic crime This is exactly the kind of show …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMMenier Chocolate Factory, London With two excellent lead performances at its heart, Trevor Nunn’s production of the musical version of the bestselling love story is focused and honest Firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMPark theatre, London Christopher Durang’s breezy sextet of plays takes the cast from pique to panic as he explores the insecurities of performing life To complement its main-house product…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMUstinov Studio, BathThe star mines her family history in this passionate but haphazard ride through socialist resistance to the Nazis This is a show unlike any other. Subtitled “A Family A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMPark theatre, LondonA quick-witted Gyles Brandreth, one of 22 stars in action during the run, sleuthed stylishly in this fundraising spoof This is all very jolly. Jez Bond and Mark Cameron h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PMNoël Coward theatre, LondonOwen is a disgraced priest, Anna Gunn a widowed hotel keeper in Tennessee William’s languorous hymn to human endurance ‘Nothing human disgusts me unless it’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54PMLondon PalladiumSheridan Smith and Jason Donovan bring charisma to a jubilant revival – but neither can match the young dreamer at its centre I first saw this show in 1972 when it was a mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMThe Lowry, SalfordInternationaal Theater Amsterdam present a constantly inventive, four-hour staging of the overheated 1943 polemic Ivo van Hove is the most ubiquitous of modern directors. B…
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