Saturday, April 11, 2026

Roar materials: the ‘uncanny’ art of dinosaur puppetry – in pictures by Guardian Staff

As they prepare for an immersive new dinosaur show in Sydney, the team of artists and designers at Erth take us behind the scenes at their puppetry workshop in Marrickville. Erth’s Dinosau…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

Monica Barbaro: ‘Yesterday I went home thinking I’m a terrible actor and they’re finding out’ by Nadia Khomami

The California star may have earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Joan Baez in Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, but as she prepares for her stage debut in Les Liaisons Dangereuses…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

Aisling Bea review – glamourpuss meets accidental mum in a scatty show that revels in immaturity by Brian Logan

Hammersmith Apollo, LondonThe sitcom star and Taskmaster stalwart is on commanding form as she embarks on Older Than Jesus, her first – and deeply daft – standup tour That staple realisa…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

Oh what a circus! The Greatest Showman hits the stage as a high-flying, hammer-juggling, banger-filled spectacular by Chris Wiegand

The sleeper hit film has been transformed into a Disney stage show. But does it let exploitative huckster PT Barnum off the hook? We go behind the scenes of its launch run in Bristol ‘La…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

Dance hall dynamite just keeps on giving: Pina Bausch/Meryl Tankard: Kontakthof, Echoes of 78 review by Lyndsey Winship

Sadler’s Wells, LondonThis parody of courting rituals brings back its inaugural dancers 48 years on – ghosting their onstage choreography with footage of their younger selves, for a movi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

Copenhagen review – atomic secrets and moral fog in a terrifyingly timely revival by Arifa Akbar

Hampstead theatre, LondonMichael Frayn’s cerebral drama of science and conscience returns with urgency – although this production struggles to ignite its emotional core Paapa Essiedu rec…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

‘When the knife came up through the pool table, audiences gasped’: how Iraq war epic Black Watch conquered the world by Mark Fisher

It was the play that rocked a nation. The makers of the devastating drama, which transported theatre-goers from a Fife pub to a war zone, recall how it grew and grew Within six months of its…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

Kiss of the Spider Woman review – Hollywood high kicks into a slick musical revival by Mark Fisher

Curve, LeicesterTwo prisoners escape their grim Buenos Aires jail into golden age fantasy sequences that elicit big belting showtunes from Anna-Jane Casey’s baddie Kander and Ebb’s early…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

A Doll’s House review – sex, drugs and Romola Garai in a heroic Ibsen update by Arifa Akbar

Almeida theatre, LondonAnya Reiss packs the marriage scandal plot with inspired ideas, from convincing talk of Instagram to a look at sexual dynamics in the crosshairs of contemporary capita…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

Keith Hodiak obituary by Jane Pritchard

Dancer with Ballet Rambert who later worked as a model and performed in musicals for the Royal Shakespeare Company Keith Hodiak, who has died aged 75, danced with Ballet Rambert from 1972 un…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

Bronwyn Kuss: Bronwyn & Sons review – parchingly dry comedy about success in your late 30s by Alexandra Neill

Melbourne international comedy festivalA show about coming to terms with the fact that you might not have children, delivered with a deadpan humour that feels specifically Australian Get our…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

Fortune Feimster: ‘The stage was a crate, the sound system was a karaoke machine. No one enjoyed the show’ by Interview By Liam Pape

The standup on playing a beaver in Zootropolis 2, being inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger and why her mother is a great source of comedy What is the best advice you’ve ever been given?I us…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

Flyby review – interstellar musical is a voyage of epic strangeness by Arifa Akbar

Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonThe songs soar and blast in this inventive tale of a toxic romance – though it needs a few tweaks to be truly brilliant The scope and ambition of this da…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

Good Golly Miss Molly! review – people power with a joyous rock’n’roll spin by Mark Fisher

New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeA residents’ association fights to save its housing in Bob Eaton’s jolly slice of social history, with a live band belting out the songs At some poin…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM
Thursday, April 9, 2026

Death of a Salesman review – Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf hypnotize in revival by Adrian Horton

Winter Garden Theatre, New YorkArthur Miller’s 1949 autopsy of the American dream finds new urgency in a stripped-back production Somewhere in New York, in the middle of the night, a tired…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PM

Pink to host 2026 Tony awards: ‘It’s the honor of an entire lifetime’ by Associated Press

The artist will follow in the footsteps of Ariana DeBose, Cynthia Erivo and Kevin Spacey this June The Tony awards have turned to a singer with a reputation for a high-energy, physical live …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:40PM
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

‘Coming out in the 90s? You might as well say ‘I love cock!’’ Nathan Lane on gay life, Broadway and defying stereotypes by Juan A Ramírez

The brassy actor’s performance in Death of a Salesman is the crown jewel in a life spent on stage. He says it could be his last Broadway role “It’s, like, 10 minutes. I pee, I have a c…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AM
Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Cats: The Jellicle Ball review – ingenious musical revival goes full queer ball by Richard Lawson

Broadhurst Theatre, New York After a disastrous 2019 movie, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s easily ridiculed 80s smash hit has now been transformed into something thrillingly new One criticism lobbi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00PM
Monday, April 6, 2026

Becky Shaw review – Alden Ehrenreich shines in dysfunctional dating comedy by Adrian Horton

Hayes Theater, New YorkEhrenreich is electric alongside The Pitt’s Patrick Ball in this very 2008 send-up of fallout from one disastrous blind date You’d be hard-pressed to find a more r…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PM
Sunday, April 5, 2026

‘Curated chaos’: Danny Boyle on the ‘pop culture spectacular’ he is bringing to London’s Southbank Centre by Caroline Davies

Director and producer is co-creator of You Are Here, a one-day immersive theatrical event traversing 75 years of youth culture Out of chaos come great cultural movements, according to the di…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM

Desmond Barrit obituary by Michael Coveney

Character actor of energetic comic brilliance, notably as Falstaff at the RSC and in Alan Bennett’s The History Boys The character actor Desmond Barrit, who has died aged 81, was renowne…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM

‘It was a warning from history – now it’s the bloody muse!’ Mark Gatiss and Placebo on reviving Brecht’s brutal Hitler satire by Kate Wyver

In these turbulent times, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui has never been more vital, and returns to the stage starring the Sherlock star and with music by the alt-rockers. But, they say, th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM

The Authenticator review – echoes of Sherlock Holmes as thriller takes on toxic legacies with lightness of touch by Arifa Akbar

Dorfman theatre, LondonComedy infuses Winsome Pinnock’s disarming but ebullient drama about two Black academics who are given the job of authenticating the diaries of an enslaver You don�…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM

The High Life: The Musical, Still Living It! review – Alan Cumming’s creation flies into deliriously silly panto territory by Mark Fisher

Dundee RepCumming and Forbes Masson revive their cult 1994 TV sitcom with brilliant songs and a Beano-esque plot as budget Air Scotia is threatened with takeover If someone tells you this mu…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM

Victoria: A Queen Unbound review – darkness lurks beneath the myth of a model royal marriage by David Jays

Watermill theatre, NewburyScreenwriter Daisy Goodwin imagines the old queen revisiting her diaries and reveals a tale of control and coercion behind Albert’s dutiful devotion When screenwr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM
Thursday, April 2, 2026

From Hamlet at the Globe to Keir Starmer on SNL UK: the anarchic rise of George Fouracres by Brian Logan

After years of skits and Shakespeare, the Black Country performer has found his biggest audience yet on Saturday Night Live UK. Phil Wang and others hail his ‘pure comedic instinct’ A ca…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM

The best theatre to stream this month: Patrick Stewart reads Shakespeare’s sonnets – all 154 of them by Chris Wiegand

The great Shakespearean shares his passion project, there’s a sneak peek of Sam Ryder’s Jesus Christ Superstar and Back to the Future: The Musical hits reverse When stages went dark duri…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM

Private Lives review – Noël Coward’s queasy merry-go-round of desire and spite by Catherine Love

Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterSparring lovers play a capricious game in Blanche McIntyre’s revival – but the cut and thrust is kept witty, rather than curdling into danger In directo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM

Les Liaisons Dangereuses review – love is a fight for power in this bold staging by Arifa Akbar

National theatre, LondonA queenly Lesley Manville steals the show in this dark, rageful tale of seduction as contact sport Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was serving as an artillery officer whil…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM

What I’m Here For review – high-pressure horror of a nurse’s shift from hell by Mark Fisher

Tron, GlasgowThe life-and-death choices that a stressed-out nurse faces on a short-staffed weekend are taken to gothic heights in this intense, atmospheric play The standard colour scheme fo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM

A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – a playful, punchy Shakespeare romcom made easy by Miriam Gillinson

Unicorn theatre, London The Unicorn and RSC’s accessible adaptation is at its best in comic set pieces – even if the pared-down plot still feels cluttered How to make Shakespeare accessi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM

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2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off