Monday, April 13, 2026
Brixton House, London Five writers contribute fizzing ideas aplenty to this play exploring questions of Latinx identity in Britain, while also attempting to deliver an undercover drama
There…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotA reluctant return to the valleys brings a reckoning with a violent past and problematic present in Katie Payne's vivid and raw monologue
Playwright Kati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2026
Omnibus theatre, LondonA couple of former hedonists are reunited years later in Louis Emmitt-Stern's quick-witted dissection of bereavement and the queer dating scene
History is supposed to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Monday, February 23, 2026
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 happened to m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2026
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 dic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 15, 2026
Bush theatre, London Karim Khan's tender portrait of South Asians finding companionship through shared grief and illness is played with crackling chemistry by Shobu Kapoor and Rehan Sheikh
L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:01AM[SHARE]Friday, February 6, 2026
Soho theatre, LondonDesire collides with stomach-churning awkwardness in this play " which won the Women's prize " about friends heading out for some physical contact
I'm watching Miriam Bat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2025
Bristol Old VicAn inventive production crammed full of puppets, sword fights and rousing melodies shrieks with life
It's all aboard this Christmas with Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary's musica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 30, 2025
Watermill theatre, NewburyRelocating the Hans Christian Andersen tale to Cornwall, with its folk musicians and fishermen, Elgiva Field and Lara Barbier's show is cheery and sweet
Christmas h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2025
Lyric Hammersmith, London A sinister giant computer and a meat-eating headmaster have a sinister plan for shy Jack and his schoolfriends. Meanwhile, the Fairy Godfather has the hots for the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonA rollercoaster accident leaves six choristers in limbo, each having to make their case for a second chance on Earth in this eccentric show
Well, this is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2025
Bush theatre, LondonPerformed by an exceptional cast, Sophia's Griffin's debut play paints a vivid picture of men " and a system " in crisis
The heat rises slowly, and then suddenly reaches …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonGayathiri Kamalakanthan's warm, funny debut examines history, heritage and gender expectations as Krish and bestie Brenavee navigate a big life moment
In many ways, Perio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
Birmingham RepStaged by Deafinitely Theatre, Eloise Pennycott's play sets romance against a broken, unjust system
Barrier(s) is a queer love story about a couple with vastly different experi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 5, 2025
Park theatre, LondonA writer tries capturing the messiness of new parenting in Jane Upton's gut-punching play " every scene of which chips away at the myth that motherhood should come natura…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Friday, August 29, 2025
Riverside Studios, LondonA heavyweight political journalist underestimates the influencer he is interviewing in this sharp update of a 2003 film by Theo Van Gogh
There's something fascinatin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2025
The once musty old art of voice-throwing is back in vogue on stage and online. Its new hip practitioners " plus 1980s TV mainstay Roger De Courcey " explain why their vocal tricks and errant…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Stratford East, LondonThis show, based on a gone-viral Tinder date in which a woman tried to dispose of her poo unconventionally, tackles the perils of modern love with wit, humour and crack…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2025
It was a turning point in the push for African independence " and it took place in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. We meet the writer of a play about the fifth Pan-African Congress
On the fac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 8, 2025
Bush theatre, LondonArtistic director Taio Lawson's Bush debut shows the heartbreaking fallout of a 82-year-old mother whose acid tongue belies her faltering memory
In Danny James King's Mis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Tara theatre, LondonHunia Chawla's intimate drama is played out across continents to tell a platonic love story that examines the challenges to freedom in Pakistan and England
What does lib…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Friday, May 2, 2025
Toby Jones, Frances McDormand and Mike Myers are some of those who have appeared alongside Tim Crouch in An Oak Tree, despite never having seen the script before. As the play celebrates its …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Hampstead theatre, LondonBea, a hoarder, is visited by Veda, who carries a secret, to fix the rift between them in Chloë Lawrence-Taylor's debut play, full of vivid dialogue and forebodin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Sisters 360, Khan's new play for children, tells the story of two hijab-wearing skateboarding sisters in Bradford. He hopes it will upend lazy ideas around Muslim girls " and bring new audie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe actors, especially Kaya Scodelario, work hard with Beau Willimon's plot, but are hampered by a leaden, tension-light production
House of Cards writer Beau Willim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Bush theatre, LondonA woman comes adrift from reality in babirye bukilwa's chilling character study
We are at sea at the start of babirye bukilwa's visceral play about one Black queer woman'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 28, 2024
Chickenshed, LondonWith a huge cast, a somersaulting Peter and pirates crawling menacingly into the audience, Chickenshed's reworking of JM Barrie's Christmas staple is sheer magic
JM Barrie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonEmer Dineen's semi-autobiographical show blurs the lines between raucous cabaret and memoir as her alter ego struggles with an existential crisis
Is this club? A fever dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2024
Dorfman theatre, London In Tanika Gupta's play, Meera Syal is a steely south Asian matriarch whose Lear-like decline into dementia upends her family
There are quibbles with Tanika Gupta'spla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2024
Belgrade theatre, CoventryContested heritage, inequity and the criminal justice system are explored in poet Casey Bailey's one-man play
'Please do not touch" reads a sign in front of a stole…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Park theatre, LondonCarey Crim asks a series of moral questions in her play about a woman facing the aftermath of her teacher husband's conviction for sexual misconduct
Tom, a beloved drama …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE] 
