Friday, February 27, 2026

Top Gs Like Me review – dark comedy sees Andrew Tate-style influencer tackling wrestlers, health gurus and sexual assault by Arifa Akbar

Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonEmerging playwright Samson Hawkins takes on toxic influencers in an exuberantly directed drama with echoes of TV’s Adolescence The audience enters through …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM

‘You’re sweet – and I’m old!’: Billy Porter and Sam Morrison on teaming up for a comedy about love and death by Fiona Sturges

The Emmy-winning singer and actor was so struck by the standup’s autobiographical one-man show Sugar Daddy that he signed on as producer. The pair discuss ‘bears’, blood sugar and brid…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM

A Thing of Beauty review – Imogen Stubbs electrifies as grilled Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl by Mark Lawson

Tabard theatre, LondonThe actor shines as Hitler’s favourite film director, who flirts and finagles her way through a fictional interview with an alcoholic, philandering journalist hiding …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM

The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin review – Simon Burke is extraordinary in this timely queer classic by Steve Dow

Belvoir St theatre, Sydney Actor deploys range and comedic skill in this gripping one-man show, which caused a sensation when it premiered in 1976 – and remains relevant today Get our week…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM
Thursday, February 26, 2026

Playwrights’ ‘thrilling’ debuts share the Susan Smith Blackburn prize by Chris Wiegand

Hannah Doran’s The Meat Kings! (Inc) of Brooklyn Heights and Ro Reddick’s Cold War Choir Practice declared joint winners of award for female, transgender and non-binary writers The Susa…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PM

Conservative theatre-making will kill the UK industry, says National’s director by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Indhu Rubasingham calls in Jennie Lee lecture for renewed commitment to creative risk and new writing The National Theatre’s artistic director, Indhu Rubasingham, has said conservative the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PM

Waiting for Godot review – Matthew Kelly and George Costigan are a bleakly funny double act by Mark Fisher

Citizens theatre, GlasgowEven the safety curtain has a morbid air in Dominic Hill’s post-apocalyptic staging of Beckett’s classic Productions of Samuel Beckett’s modernist classic ofte…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM

‘The world is still as bent and corrupt’: Our Friends in the North returns to the stage by Mark Brown North Of England Correspondent

Two Thatcher-years episodes of Peter Flannery’s award-winning TV series to be adapted for Newcastle stage It is regarded as one of the greatest British television series ever made, explori…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM

‘It felt feral!’ The dance dynamo behind The Testament of Ann Lee’s sweat-soaked rituals by Lyndsey Winship

Spurred on by a vision of the Shakers’ founding leader, Celia Rowlson-Hall masterminded the whirl of movement in Mona Fastvold’s feverish film ‘I’ll tell you something I’ve not tol…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM

Shakespeare’s Globe launches environmental playwright prize by Rachel Hall

Theatre says it will harness art ‘to inspire societal shifts towards restorative relationship with nature’ From “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” to “one touch of nature m…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM

Easy Virtue review – Trevor Nunn brings back Noël Coward’s divorce dramedy in high style by Emma John

Arts theatre, Cambridge Marital uncoupling may not be the social taboo it was in the 1920s, but this sumptuous revival delivers timeless pathos with the witty barbs ‘What’s the use of ar…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AM
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Sondra Lee, Broadway star of Hello, Dolly! and Peter Pan, dies aged 97 by Owen Myers

The Broadway actor’s nine-decade career included beloved screen roles and coaching Marlon Brando and Jane Fonda Sondra Lee, the Broadway and film star, died on Monday of natural causes at …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PM

Evening All Afternoon review – Erin Kellyman makes blazing stage debut as spiky stepdaughter by Arifa Akbar

Donmar Warehouse, London The 28 Years Later star joins the impressive Anastasia Hille in Anna Ziegler’s two-hander about grief and family There are many ingenious ideas in Anna Ziegler’s…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PM

Marty Supreme’s ping-pong thrills grip but the theatre plot really smashes it | Chris Wiegand by Chris Wiegand

In Josh Safdie’s film, the worlds of sport and stage are aligned – with the stakes higher for Gwyneth Paltrow’s former screen star, now on Broadway, than Timothée Chalamet’s hotshot…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM

‘I really believe in revivals of Black work’: why a director brought back Chadwick Boseman’s play Deep Azure by Morgan Ofori

The late actor’s writing was overshadowed by roles in blockbusters. Now, Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu is giving his play about grief the audience it deserves • Don’t get The Long Wave delivere…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM

Someone’s Knockin’ at the Door review – in search of Macca’s Mull of Kintyre hideaway by Mark Fisher

Òran Mór, GlasgowAn anecdote about a trip to find Paul McCartney’s Scottish retreat turns into a sweet-natured two-hander Milly Sweeney is a young writer gaining traction. Staged in Pitl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM

Matz Skoog obituary by Lyndsey Winship

Dancer and artistic director of English National Ballet who championed contemporary choreographers “I didn’t start dancing out of burning desire for it. I did it because I was a well-beh…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM

Bird Grove review – George Eliot’s true story embellished in a tender drama by Arifa Akbar

Hampstead theatre, London Elizabeth Dulau is terrific in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s new play as the young woman set to become a daring pioneer in fiction and real life This is a play about Geor…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM

Palestine Comedy Club review – roving performance collective finds light in darkness by Peter Bradshaw

This portrait of a multi-ethnic comic troupe could do with more unpicking, but its reflections on the grind of war, life on the road and the reactive nature of comedy are insightful It must …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition by Dalya Alberge

Exclusive: Canon now includes domestic tragedy Arden of Faversham, which is attributed solely to Kyd and ‘not at all’ to Shakespeare The number of plays attributed to the 16th-century pl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM

Mike Wozniak: ‘An RAF officer didn’t like my sketch about the Queen Mum so he set off the fire alarm’ by Interview By Liam Pape

The comedian on non-verbal heckles, one-legged dancing before gigs and his new show about benches Why did you get into comedy?I was told the only copy of a map to the lost, golden city of Pa…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM

Toddlers in mascara? Dance teachers and parents rethink stage makeup by Wendy Syfret

Applying cosmetics for concerts and competitions is part of dance culture but many now question the tradition I recognised the signs straight away: the twirling, the mirror glances, the obse…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31AM
Monday, February 23, 2026

The Hound of the Baskervilles review – boutique Sherlock gets laughs but fails to solve the real mystery by Mark Fisher

New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme The cast in this four-person capsule telling of the Conan Doyle thriller bring vigour and charm but it’s hard to discern any point to the exercise To get the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PM

Saint Joan review – urgency and drive in Stewart Laing’s modernist adaptation of George Bernard Shaw by Mark Fisher

Citizens, GlasgowNewcomer Mandipa Kabanda plays the Maid of Orleans from obscure teenager to army-commanding conqueror, tearing through dialogue with rare pace When George Bernard Shaw’s p…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AM

‘I paid people with pints and chips’: Georgina Duncan on the prize-winning play she tapped out on her phone by Anya Ryan

Revisiting the Troubles in 1990s Belfast, Sapling is the result of intensive research in the city. And winning the Women’s prize, says Duncan, ‘is the maddest thing that’s ever happene…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AM
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Pied Piper review – beatbox rewrite of the rat-infested fairytale by Lyndsey Winship

Derby theatreConrad Murray’s family musical is serious about its commitment to community – but completely lacks dramatic thrust This is not the first time the tale of the Pied Piper has …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PM

Maria Bamford review – an unflinching comedian in complete command of every joke and every step by Anya Ryan

Soho Theatre Walthamstow, LondonShe draws us in with bursts of manic physical expression and never stops poking fun at her own quirks and compulsions ‘Why did Americans decide to elect a d…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AM

Ritual review – eight-hour immersive performance is ambitious but under-resourced by Kate Wyver

Colab Tower, LondonGet lucky with your arrival time in this expansion of Aeschylus’s Oresteia and you’ll witness a fight or a sacrifice – but there are long dull patches Egg yolk is be…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM
Saturday, February 21, 2026

My cultural awakening: Operation Mincemeat taught me how to cry – now I sob at everything by Nick Allen; As Told To Tim Jonze

A musical number about a woman’s letter to her husband on the second world war frontline unlocked my ability to blub – and made me a happier person I am sure I must have cried as a child…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM
Friday, February 20, 2026

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind review – Malawian boy’s amazing famine-beating creation inspires a rousing musical by Arifa Akbar

Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon After a book, a film and a Ted Talk, William Kamkwamba’s heroically inventive response to floods, drought and starvation is now delivered with energetic s…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PM

Shenoah Allen: Bloodlust Summertime review – guns and slaughter as ‘the devil’s son’ strives to know himself by Kate Wyver

Soho theatre, LondonAllen, one half of the influential Pajama Men comedy duo, mines his personal trauma for a slightly undercooked show about his high-octane upbringing in New Mexico Shenoah…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM

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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