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SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMTheatre Royal BathTwo one-act plays explore mid-century loneliness, exclusion and sexuality in a fine production starring Nathaniel Parker and a scene-stealing Siân Phillips This handsome…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31AMGate theatre, LondonSanaz Toossi’s intimate play follows a group of friends during the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and beyond as they get married, have children and experience loss Two dram…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMNoël Coward theatre, London Adding a fourth role to Peter Sellers’ three turns in the classic film, the comic excels in a fun yet unadventurous adaptation Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satire,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMHampstead theatre, LondonTwo sides of the same event are explored in Richard Bean’s drama – one haunting, one comedic – but they don’t really fit together There is a tension from the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMSouthwark Playhouse Elephant, London A 15-year-old’s bereavement is tackled with ‘can-do’ American energy, a tremendous score and wickedly barbed lyrics that keep the schmaltz in check…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMThe Belgrade theatre, CoventrySet in a family-run Jamaican eaterie, Daniel J Carver’s potent drama explores across three generations what it is to be a Black British man Outside, race riot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMTrafalgar theatre, London Zinnie Harris’s version of the Jacobean play makes potent points about power but is hamstrung by an overbearing production John Webster’s revenge tragedy contai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PMWyndham’s theatre, LondonOpening in a campaign room on election night, Robert Icke’s modern retelling is riveting from beginning to end, the formidable leads supported by a stellar ensem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMBirmingham RepA boy is bullied when he’s cast as Nancy in the school play – but bland songs and generic characters keep the story stuck in single gear This musical, about a boy’s comin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMDonmar Warehouse Oscar winner makes London debut in Lindsey Ferrentino’s busy play that sometimes lacks intensity As true crime stories go, Nick Yarris’s tale is stranger than fiction an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMRoyal Court, LondonOli Forsyth’s play about a honeymooning couple caught up in a disaster is let down by unconvincing dilemmas and characterisations In its setup, this is an edge-of-the-se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMLyttelton theatre, LondonEvery performance is compelling in this rivetingly naturalistic modern-day reworking of Antigone, written by Alexander Zeldin This modern family psychodrama bills it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMGielgud theatre, LondonRylance is entertainingly Chaplinesque as a dissolute husband in Seán O’Casey’s 1924 tragicomedy, but Succession’s J Smith-Cameron is its heart and soul as the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMBattersea Arts Centre, LondonMixing the personal and political into one consciousness-raising ‘anti-biography’, Khalid Abdalla’s solo show takes in western colonialism, 9/11, British i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02PMAlmeida theatre, LondonWatching John Osborne’s fulminating Jimmy Porter feels curiously cold, while the same cast bring subtleties to Arnold Wesker’s classic The “angry young man” ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMChichester Festival theatreThis drama about Mick Jagger and Keith Jones’s 1967 drugs bust curiously foregrounds their lawyer’s family issues The public outcry that followed the prison se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMActors Meera Syal and Shobna Gulati, with playwright Tanika Gupta, explain how their National Theatre production springs from the anguish of losing their mothers Meera Syal and Tanika Gupta�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonThis frothy farce about an 1890 cabinet minister ‘accepting favours’ never stoops to nudge-winking to make its point – and is all the better for it If t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMRoyal Court Theatre, LondonSophisticated play melds fact with fiction in its dramatisation of a scandalous moment in the life of the author As debut plays go, Giant has some very old and exp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMTheatre Royal BathAllen gives a capable performance in an arresting production that gives a chilling sense of state control – but the central romance fails to fizz Seventy-five years after…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMOrange Tree theatre, LondonDavid Edgar’s play on the anti-communist Hollywood blacklists of the 1950s is clunky in its set-up, but offers a lively take on the personal politics of art and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMOlivier theatre, LondonThe drama is underpowered until the end but what Lyndsey Turner’s production lacks in feeling it makes up in style Placard-holding protesters bomb an elegant stage w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMHe has triumphed over controversies, the ‘devastation’ of Covid and 100-hour weeks. As Norris leaves the biggest job in British theatre, he reveals his final season – and his plans to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMYoung Vic, LondonThis musical has the seeds of a brilliant show for our times with Ramin Karimloo on fine form, but its complex themes are sucked away by sledge-hammer messaging Elia Kazan�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMTheatre Royal Haymarket, LondonJames Macdonald’s production sacrifices tension for slapstick but ultimately delivers pathos Samuel Beckett’s 1953 tragicomedy about two woe-begotten men w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMLeeds Playhouse Revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s play follows a family struggling against the odds and delivers a message of hope When Lorraine Hansberry’s debut play premiered in 1959, i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMBush theatre, London Waleed Akhtar speeds through a 20-year alliance between two British Pakistanis rather too quickly to unfold its rich implications Waleed Akhtar’s last, Olivier-winning…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMGarrick theatre, LondonToby Marlow and Lucy Moss have created powerhouse tunes about friendship, family and heartache but this story’s romantic woes are often routine Two writers of musica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06PMLyric Hammersmith, LondonRachel O’Riordan directs a new version of the play about the rehabilitative force of theatre in colonial Sydney The curtain is a union jack, opening on to uncultiv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMNew exhibition, named after ‘theatrical encyclopedia’ Gabrielle Enthoven, showcases British stage history from the Restoration to Fleabag She was an avid collector of playbills, programm…
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