Sunday, March 5, 2023
Vault 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 07:59AMFriday, March 3, 2023
Riverside Studios, LondonThe desperate extremity of women’s experiences trapped in the UK immigration system gets an intense multimedia treatment
This production startles not only with its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26AMThursday, March 2, 2023
Watford Palace theatreA striking, slick adaptation of Shakespeare’s problematic play sees Tracy-Ann Oberman play a Jewish matriarch up against the fascists of 1930s London
In Tracy-Ann Ob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMWednesday, March 1, 2023
Duke of York’s theatre, LondonWilly Russell’s 1986 monologue about a neglected woman’s midlife liberation is given new life in this perceptive production
Willy Russell’s 1986 monolog…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonThe new work by Charlie Josephine gives us teenagers’ thoughts about objectification, shame, body image and sex
Last year Charlie Josephine presented Joan of Ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:39AMThursday, February 23, 2023
Almeida, LondonLulu Raczka’s new play, directed by Rupert Goold, is beautifully designed but the plot – and the point – is puzzling. Maybe the joke’s on us?
This confounding play is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMWednesday, February 22, 2023
Dorfman theatre, LondonGary Owen’s tale of star-crossed, working-class lovers in modern Cardiff offers existential questions and awkward encounters
Writer-director team Gary Owen and Rache…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Donmar Warehouse, LondonWhile Diana Nneka Atuona’s deft script could do with a final polish, its heart, humour and spirit sing in the hands of a luminous cast
The Donmar’s last productio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:57AMSunday, February 19, 2023
Royal and Derngate theatre, NorthamptonMichael Rosen’s update of Oliver Twist gets the musical treatment in this high-energy show about a schoolgirl ensnared by a street gang
Charles Dicke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AMFriday, February 17, 2023
@sohoplace, LondonMedea is as much victim as villain in Dominic Cooke’s psychologically subtle and subversive production, and Ben Daniels is superb playing all the puffed up men in her li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMThursday, February 16, 2023
Royal Court theatre, LondonAva Wong Davies’s monologue takes us through the small, slow steps that lead her central character into peril
This slow but searing monologue begins as a girl-me…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:17AMWednesday, February 15, 2023
Old Vic, LondonHistorical characters bust contemporary dance moves while the troubled relationship between Sylvia Pankhurst and her mother Emmeline is laid bare
So many shows seem to want to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AMTuesday, February 14, 2023
National Theatre, LondonThis new musical traces the intersecting lives of three families on the Park Hill estate in this spine-tingling and sentimental love song to the steel city
This music…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMMonday, February 13, 2023
Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne and onlineImmersive, interactive and online, this story of Allison Davies’ schooldays, early romances and autism diagnosis, is heartfelt
Elsa has a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMRomeo, an out-of-work single dad, falls for Julie, a top student who dreams of being an astrophysicist. We go behind the scenes at a Shakespeare update that swaps fair Verona for Splott in C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMFriday, February 10, 2023
Lyttelton theatre, LondonJanet McTeer plays a politician who falls for her dead lover’s son, but even her strong performance cannot save a tonally unsure play
The ancient Greek tragedy of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMThursday, February 9, 2023
Gillian Lynne theatre, LondonHadley Fraser, Nigel Lindsay and Michael Balogun are astonishing as the 18th-century bankers who helped to define the American dream
The Lehman Trilogy premiered…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AMWednesday, February 8, 2023
Finborough theatre, LondonThis two-hander, translated from the French, has a hypnotic narrative power as it considers the refugees’ dangerous journey
Two men stand at opposite ends of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMFriday, February 3, 2023
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonKosovan refugee Dritan Kastrati looks back at the struggles of his arduous journey and his troubling experiences in London
‘In my country” is an often…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:53AMThursday, February 2, 2023
Lyric theatre, LondonThe singer is convincing in the role (first played by Lily Allen) of a mother who hears spooky noises at night in Danny Robins’ well-oiled, blackly comic chiller
Since…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:22AMWednesday, February 1, 2023
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonJosie Rourke’s West End revival of Sam Steiner’s fringe hit really lifts when the show’s starry duo drop their romcom routine
Does a revival of Sam Steiner…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:14AMTuesday, January 31, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonThis intergalactic show about sexuality and religious homophobia boasts a charismatic star in Willy Hudson but tips into chaos
Willy Hudson’s “queer sci-fi epic” ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AMFriday, January 27, 2023
Barbican, LondonThese four vignettes offer flashes of brilliance and smart stagecraft but feel too disconnected to truly hit home
Is it too soon to see the funny side of the pandemic? A hosp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AMThursday, January 26, 2023
Royal Court, LondonA plot to kill RuPaul for dragging drag into the mainstream, followed by song and dance numbers, fires up an exhilarating show with breathtaking costumes, radical politics…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMWednesday, January 25, 2023
Theatre503, LondonWhen two boys kiss at primary school, there’s a furore on the parents’ WhatsApp group and an intervention from fabulous supernatural forces
Two couples thrash out their…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AMTuesday, January 24, 2023
Park theatre, LondonGwithian Evans and Jon Osbaldeston star in a power struggle that keeps you guessing – but it’s not enough to get under your skin
Nicolas Billon’s 2004 play sets its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:27AMMonday, January 23, 2023
Riverside Studios, LondonJemma Kahn’s show begins with a striptease, then ponders existential questions before ending with an orgiastic dinner party
This peculiar and alluring act begins a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMFriday, January 20, 2023
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonMisha Levkov’s dystopian debut examines migration, climate and community action but the drama is lost amid bland philosophical arguments
It is 2025 and the wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMThursday, January 19, 2023
Ustinov Studio, BathThe humour is a little too clownish in Lindsay Posner’s revival of Edward Albee’s classic but the toxic power games are potent
So much of Edward Albee’s 1962 play a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:22AMWednesday, January 18, 2023
Charing Cross theatre, LondonThe Star Trek actor appears in an epic story of Japanese Americans interned after Pearl Harbor but there is never enough emotional force
This musical, inspired b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMSunday, January 15, 2023
Seven Dials Playhouse, LondonKeith Merrill’s monologue about an agent who feels she should have found fame as an actor relies too heavily on backstory and hackneyed lines to realise the po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:39AM 
