Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Actors to play the lead roles in Matthew Warchus’s centenary West End revival of Seán O’Casey’s Irish civil war classic
Sarah Snook has just finished her London theatre run in The Pic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMMinerva theatre, ChichesterWrithing and retching while sandwiched between spectators, revellers navigate class, sex and power at Miss Julie’s 18th birthday celebration
The Minerva’s last…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMFriday, May 3, 2024
Matthew Dunster, who directed Allen in her West End debut 2:22: A Ghost Story, will write and direct the show for Bath’s Ustinov Studio next year
Lily Allen is to play Hedda Gabler in a ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThe pair, whose final season of the hit horror-comedy will air on the BBC this month, say the West End production will feature familiar characters and fresh surprises
As the ninth and final …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThursday, May 2, 2024
Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterThis timely return of Lynn Nottage’s 2015 play that anticipated Trump’s presidency has powerful performances despite never finding the right rhythm
Alth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMWednesday, May 1, 2024
Musicals, Shakespeare and multiple versions of Nick Payne’s multiverse drama Constellations are among May’s digital theatre highlights
One of the most celebrated new British musicals in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMMonday, April 29, 2024
Doctor Who star will play Algernon in the ‘hilariously subversive’ comedy, said artistic director Rufus Norris
Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa is to make his debut at the National Theatre in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMTuesday, April 2, 2024
Forbes Masson stars in Gary McNair’s version of the gothic novella, Tim Key joins Kitson in an Old Vic two-hander and Jason Manford celebrates all musicals great and small
Robert Louis Ste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMMonday, March 25, 2024
Irish actor awarded prize for playing every role in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, following his win at Critics’ Circle film awards
Andrew Scott has been named best actor at the Critics’ Circl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMA 50th-anniversary concert in London celebrates the unlikely show about the son of a holy Roman emperor that became one of Broadway’s biggest hits
In the 2019 bio-series Fosse/Verdon, Sam …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMThursday, March 21, 2024
The play, adapted by Robert Icke from both parts of Henry IV, stars McKellen as John Falstaff for the first time in his career and will take in Bristol, Birmingham and Newcastle after its We…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonFreestyling cyclists serve around the cast in Lucy Cuthbertson’s shrewd production aimed at younger audiences
When Shakespeare’s star-crossed tragedy was at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMTuesday, March 19, 2024
As he stages Shakespeare’s bracing tragedy with a cast who share the main role, the choreographer and his company’s managing director Iiris Autio discuss the upswing in Finnish dance
Is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMSunday, March 17, 2024
Company founder Felix Barrett says Viola’s Room, written by Daisy Johnson, will be an audio-driven production perfect for date nights
Punchdrunk’s last immersive production, The Burnt Ci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06PMWednesday, March 13, 2024
Ambassadors theatre, LondonA timid midwesterner adopts a geezerish British persona in David Cale’s often shrewdly observed yet meandering monologue
Harry Clark is the former lance corporal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMTuesday, March 12, 2024
Polka theatre, LondonA hip-hop take on the tragedy finds the feud blowing up on social media and the balcony scene remixed for FaceTime but it lacks pathos
Two hours’ stage traffic becomes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03AMMonday, March 11, 2024
Pickett’s ‘very funny and very angry’ play 1536 follows three women as they discuss the arrest of Anne Boleyn
The British playwright Ava Pickett has won this year’s Susan Smith Black…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMThursday, March 7, 2024
Home, ManchesterIn Eve Steele’s affecting comedy, mental health is explored through Jennifer Jackson’s inspired movement direction
Playwrights are naturally drawn to the brain and heart.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
New Wolsey theatre, IpswichWith its irresistible harmonies, this comedy about a blood-guzzling plant has plenty to savour but it lacks satirical punch and menace
‘Feed me, Seymour!” Alan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMMonday, March 4, 2024
Acclaimed British movie starring Morfydd Clark will be adapted for Live theatre in Newcastle by Jessica Andrews, with music by Gazelle Twin
The British horror film Saint Maud is to be adapte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMThursday, February 29, 2024
Our roundup of what to watch at home includes Rambert’s prequel to the hit TV series, Jodie Comer reprising the legal drama and Roald Dahl’s The Magic Finger
A doff of the cap to Rambert…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughThe Paper Birds’ new touring production explores forced displacement through physical theatre, interactivity and multimedia
What does the rest of the au…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMMonday, February 26, 2024
Finborough theatre, LondonAn NHS worker’s marriage to her anti-vaxxer husband comes under pressure in James McDermott’s two-hander
James McDermott’s new play takes us back to the Covid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMFriday, February 23, 2024
Gulbenkian Arts Centre, CanterburyTalented students from Canterbury College impress in Zest Theatre’s show, developed through conversations with hundreds of young people
In Katie Kirby’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMTuesday, February 20, 2024
Salisbury PlayhouseA fitfully funny play from the creator of Broadchurch considers the terrifying prospects of parenthood yet never quite delivers
Here’s a perfect prop for farce: a huge, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMMonday, February 19, 2024
Williams said that bringing the fearsome editor Miranda Priestly to life in new musical is ‘a dream come true’
Vanessa Williams has been cast as the formidable fashion magazine editor Mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMFriday, February 9, 2024
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThis two-hander has a high concept and appealing performances but the script and songs lack emotional pull
‘Life’s not one of your paintings,” Ami rages at h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PMTuesday, February 6, 2024
Dramas by April De Angelis and Rhianna Ilube have been nominated for the prestigious award honouring female, transgender and non-binary playwrights
Two new plays about to open in London have…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMJamie Lloyd will direct the star in ‘a pulsating new vision of the immortal tale of wordsmiths, rhymers, lovers and fighters’
Spider-Man star Tom Holland is to return to the London stage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMMonday, February 5, 2024
The model and actor will make her stage debut alongside Luke Treadaway who takes over the role of the Emcee
Cara Delevingne is to make her stage debut in the West End’s multi-award-winning…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMFriday, February 2, 2024
The former RSC director, now visiting professor of contemporary theatre at Oxford University, will stage The Two Gentlemen of Verona
When Gregory Doran stepped down as artistic director of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM 
