Sunday, 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 08:39AMFriday, January 13, 2023
Almeida, LondonOne of the year’s most hyped shows delivers with powerful performances from the Normal People star, Patsy Ferran and Anjana Vasan
Two weeks into 2023 and we have already arr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:53AMThursday, January 12, 2023
Park theatre, LondonVernon Vanriel’s extraordinary battles with addiction, poverty and the Home Office are brought to life in a big-hearted if overlong show
This play enacts a boxer’s re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMWednesday, January 11, 2023
Donmar Warehouse, LondonPatricia Hodge stars in Hellman’s play about a liberal American family confronted by war in Europe and the dangers of inaction
Lillian Hellman’s 1941 play looks …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMTuesday, January 10, 2023
Available onlineThree monologues, told from a Black British perspective, tackle subjects ranging from distrust of the medical system to the gentrification of Brixton
These three audio dramas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:27AMMonday, December 26, 2022
Danny Boyle’s Matrix-inspired spectacular opens in Manchester, Succession star Brian Cox returns to the stage and standups Maisie Adam, Guz Khan and Catherine Cohen are on tour
More from t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMThursday, December 22, 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonHannah Khalil’s lo-fi retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s 1844 story cleverly weaves in humour, carols and a contemporary lesson on woodland conservation
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMWednesday, December 21, 2022
Available onlineTony award-winning musical about an ageing TV star trying to revive his career has a slow-burn power that brings serious drama to the zinging comedy
Buddy Young Jnr was once …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMTuesday, December 20, 2022
Watford Palace theatreThis lacklustre reframing of the fairytale as a talent show veers into a pantomime version of Phantom of the Opera
This is not Beauty or the Beast as we know them: Bell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMThursday, December 15, 2022
In a superb year for the stage, our chief critic gives 10 shows an extra round of applause. Plus, Guardian theatre reviewers each pick their 2022 standout
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM@sohoplace, LondonMartha Plimpton and the whole ensemble shine in Shakespeare’s nuanced romance interwoven with sign language and song
A piano, prominent on an otherwise empty stage, is a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMWednesday, December 14, 2022
Southbank Centre, LondonParton’s music is as warming as ever but a snowfall of schmaltz and minimal menace make this Dickens adaptation sickly sweet
Here is Scrooge and his crew as we have…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMTuesday, December 13, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonThere’s some promising material in this tale of a struggling Lebanese American family – but too much story for the play to successfully contain
A patron saint of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMDramatising the latest watercooler story doesn’t guarantee you box-office success. The stiffest competition may come from reality’s own high drama
Just before the curtain came up on Vard…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMMonday, December 12, 2022
Rose theatre, Kingston upon ThamesCharles Dickens takes to the stage and Ebenezer Scrooge is a woman with a moving backstory in Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s adaptation
As fine a festive treat as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMSunday, December 11, 2022
Theatre Royal Brighton Panto finds dame and co-star John Bishop in need of a boost and better jokes, though song and dance performers give it unruly energy
If you only come for Ian McKellen,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMFriday, December 9, 2022
Young Vic, LondonA strong cast cannot conceal the thinness of this superficial account of South Africa’s great liberator
This musical about the extraordinary life of the South African free…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, December 8, 2022
Dorfman theatre, LondonApril De Angelis’s comedy about a leave-voting entrepreneur in a gentrified area has echoes of Abigail’s Party and Educating Rita – except all the characters are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMWednesday, December 7, 2022
Olivier theatre, LondonNo theatrical effect is spared in this emotional show, which returns to Charles Perrault’s grisly and grief-ridden fairytale for inspiration
This musical twist on Sl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMMonday, December 5, 2022
Sherman theatre, CardiffAs the characters in the classic tales revolt against their narrative bounds, a zesty cast make this imaginative rewrite very nearly brilliant
It’s fitting that a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMSunday, December 4, 2022
Park theatre, LondonSam Hoare’s one-hour monologue, half of a double bill, is tense and engaging in its story about the dangers of eroding press freedoms
A hustler stands by his pint and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMPark theatre, LondonOliver Yellop’s East Berlin drama, half of a double bill, captures the claustrophobia of digging under the Wall, but never quite breaks free
Two cousins are desperately…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMThursday, December 1, 2022
Lyttelton theatre, LondonGiles Terera stars in a thrilling production with a radical climax that explores the domestic violence in Shakespeare’s play
In 1964, the National Theatre Company …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMTuesday, November 29, 2022
Noël Coward theatre, LondonThe 1968 debate between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr is depicted with verve and feels uncomfortably up-to-date
Could a grainy broadcast debate between two …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMMonday, November 28, 2022
As You Like It comes to London’s new venue @sohoplace this winter. The play’s director and the theatre’s owner discuss arts cuts, the industry’s gender balance and the pandemic
Arifa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMFriday, November 25, 2022
Royal Court, LondonA British Iraqi and her father re-enact his wartime memories under the direction of three ghoulish clowns in a daring if uneven debut
There are searing moments in this tal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32PMMarylebone theatre, LondonThere’s only one sleuth in Victorian London who can get to the bottom of the suspicious death of Ebenezer Scrooge, in this winning crossover mystery
This is Sherl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMWednesday, November 23, 2022
Wyndham’s theatre, LondonLaura Dos Santos and Lucy May Barker are excellent as the frenemies in a queasy verbatim drama
From the moment Coleen Rooney dropped her Instagram post (“It’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
Available onlineTwo actors share the role of Maya, telling stories of her absent sibling and the illusive title character which are unresolved but compelling
This is a bracingly odd 30-minu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMFriday, November 18, 2022
Southwark Playhouse, LondonClive Judd’s Papatango-winning play about a West Midlands family haunted by the past is unorthodox and invigorating
It is hard to categorise this unorthodox and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, November 17, 2022
Theatre Royal BathGeorge Bernard Shaw’s discomfiting play finds a commanding lead in Quentin, playing alongside her real-life daughter Rose
It is clear to see why George Bernard Shaw’s 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM 
