Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Southwark Playhouse, LondonDepicting a brave group who took a stand against selling South African goods in 1984, this spirited show raises the question of why the Dunnes Stores strike isn’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMMonday, April 17, 2023
Available onlineThe daughter of an addict and a young man trapped in the drugs trade meet in an unsentimental tale that blends tenderness and tragedy
Two teenagers meet on a bombed-out sofa …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, April 16, 2023
Old Vic, BristolPlayful yet plaintive, this six-person show condemns the indignities suffered by two vulnerable elderly people navigating our inadequate system
It seems like a particularly a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMFriday, April 14, 2023
Barbican, LondonCheek By Jowl’s Spanish-language version of the surreal 1635 classic fuses dreamlike garishness with bizarre slapstick
Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s 1635 verse play inter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMThursday, April 13, 2023
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonLolita Chakrabarti’s staging of Maggie O’Farrell’s moving novel about the death of the playwright’s son – and his resurrection in Hamlet – is pow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMWednesday, April 12, 2023
Liverpool PlayhouseThe actor and director pitches the antihero as a racial outsider. She is compelling, but he is an inconsistent character in a production leached of intrigue
This productio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMFriday, April 7, 2023
Omnibus theatre, LondonUsing brilliantly expressive movement, a modern Daphne is torn between a glossy public face and an inner world of howling self-hate
A woman in blond wig and sparkly sk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMWednesday, April 5, 2023
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonSome called it torture porn, others a masterpiece. Ivo van Hove brings Hanya Yanagihara’s novel to the West End, complete with spurting blood, relentless sadis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMHampstead Theatre Downstairs, LondonCordelia Lynn seeks to rewrite the rules of playwriting in this rough jewel of a play about a family of women
What we know is that this is a house by the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMSunday, April 2, 2023
Southwark Playhouse, LondonHeadbanging frontwoman Dani Heron moves from schoolgirl sex, parties and music-making to teen pregnancy, miscarriage, rape and depression
The set is a cross betwee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMFriday, March 31, 2023
Watford Palace theatreA cockney fox and a preening jackdaw open our eyes to the wonders of nature in this charming show based on Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s book
In this new musi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:02PMThursday, March 30, 2023
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonIt’s a nice idea but this disconnected show about the former Italian PM makes some bizarre choices and lacks satirical bite
This satire about Italy’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMWednesday, March 29, 2023
Barbican, LondonSimon McBurney directs a toweringly innovative adaptation of the eco-thriller by Nobel-winner Olga Tokarczuk
The opening night of this Complicité production was aborted at t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMMonday, March 27, 2023
Riverside Studios, LondonThe puppets are lovely but this hour-long show has anodyne songs and a hodgepodge of tales
On paper, this Disney musical about AA Milne’s honey-loving bear and hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMFriday, March 24, 2023
Pleasance, LondonThe climate crisis is explored via the senseless bureaucracy of a travel agency in a show that lacks subtlety
Office politics can be a keen mirror of group behaviour and so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, March 23, 2023
Riverside Studios, LondonA talented cast can’t save this bizarre production about a holiday romance dogged by a conflict in ideology
This musical begins like a cheesy Mills & Boon roma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMWednesday, March 22, 2023
Royal Court theatre, LondonPart satire, part serious drama, Danny Lee Wynter’s story of gay love and acting slowly reveals its emotional powers
Actor Danny Lee Wynter’s debut as a playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26AMSunday, March 19, 2023
Park theatre, LondonTwo friends put together an Abba tribute band and explore ideas of male friendship, homophobia and family in Ian Hallard’s witty play
Abba superfans might recognise thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMFriday, March 17, 2023
Verbal clashes from history are being thrillingly restaged for modern audiences. Do these grand battles prove we’ve lost the art of disagreement? And could watching them anew change the po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMYoung Vic, LondonSet on a volcanic island, this play goes through dormant spells but its themes of colonial conquest are enriched by dazzling design and atmosphere
Here is a keen study of is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMWednesday, March 15, 2023
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonAs the race to produce the first atomic bomb nears its terrible conclusion in 1945, six members of Germany’s nuclear weapons programme are detained at a statel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:27AMTuesday, March 14, 2023
Bridge theatre, LondonThis immersive production of the New York musical has a bold design, superb singing and chemistry between its stars
Frank Loesser’s 1950 musical comedy about sin and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01PMDistracting behaviour, from eating noisily to using mobile phones, is a vexed issue. But the chorus of disapproval often suggests elitism and overlooks theatre’s history
The recent debate …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMFriday, March 10, 2023
Vault festival, Network theatre, LondonA depressed 500-year-old wants to remove her immortality implant in this entertaining and kooky dark comedy which lands just short of saying something …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52AMThursday, March 9, 2023
New Diorama, LondonEllice Stevens and Billy Barrett’s fizzing production traces the story of the Tories’ anti-gay legislation
If section 28 holds no meaning for you, you were probably no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThe Vaults, LondonLovely portrayals of childhood friends in postwar Ireland can’t really make up for a muddled production
This coming-of-age story begins in postwar Ireland and follows a f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMWednesday, March 8, 2023
The Vaults, LondonRoann Hassani McCloskey and Joel Samuels’ show at the Vault festival reimagines and reclaims mythical characters
Remythed dramatises several mythic tales but not as we kn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
Arcola theatre, LondonTim Edge’s harrowing and darkly funny play starring Evanna Lynch has razor-sharp dialogue and swerving plot twists
Northern Ireland’s Troubles are channelled throug…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMMonday, March 6, 2023
As their Edinburgh fringe hit Sap heads on a UK tour, playwright Rafaella Marcus and producer Ellie Keel discuss the future of new writing, the rise of ‘safe’ programming and the need fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMSunday, March 5, 2023
Vault festival, LondonEloka Obi and Saul Boyer re-examine the forgotten story of 19th-century Sierra Leonean barrister August Boyle Chamberlayne Merriman-Labor, who wrote a delicious spoof o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMVault festival, The Cage, LondonSophie Bentinck tells the stories of herself, her mother and her grandmother, tracing the latter’s descent into depression, dependency and suicide
Sophie Be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:59AM 
