Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Donmar Warehouse, LondonIn a near-future world on fire, a jury of 12 young people listen to testimony from the ‘dinosaur’ generation
If the current, abnormal weather patterns around the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMMonday, August 1, 2022
Available onlineCentred around a proposed Holocaust memorial, this debut from playwright Teunkie Van Der Sluijs probes the intersections of Black and Jewish identity with an eloquent flair
T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AMFriday, July 29, 2022
Gillian Lynne theatre, LondonThis exhilarating production of CS Lewis’s timeless tale delivers spellbinding spectacle, wartime drama and perfect puppetry
This captivating production takes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMThursday, July 28, 2022
The self-described ‘wobbly’ comedian is returning to her first love, acting, with a hard-hitting play about the collision of disability and austerity
Francesca Martinez was three years o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMWednesday, July 27, 2022
Southwark Playhouse, LondonMusical set on the prehistoric ocean floor and starring singing yeast particles is a swampy mess
This 2007 comedy musical features all-singing, all-dancing particl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMTuesday, July 26, 2022
Young Vic, London Sonali Bhattacharyya intriguingly exposes the exploitative dynamics of the global gig economy through the lens of a Bengali jatra theatre group
This drama about the gig eco…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMSunday, July 24, 2022
Open Air theatre, Regent’s Park, LondonThis family musical and adorable puppets will keep the kids happy, but parents might wish they could go walkies
Some stories are better known, and lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMFriday, July 22, 2022
Kiln theatre, LondonZodwa Nyoni’s hard-hitting play takes us into the mind of Dwight, growing up with his Black British family in 1980s Leeds and in the present day
This drama about family…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMThursday, July 21, 2022
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThis intimate story of four-way romantic damage gains an extra edge in Clare Lizzimore’s slick revival
Patrick Marber’s hit play brimmed with daring when it prem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33PMWednesday, July 20, 2022
Chichester Festival theatreInstantly infectious melodies, superb choreography and irresistible comedy are met with astonishing performances in this lovable show
A faithful revival of this 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PMTuesday, July 19, 2022
Lyttelton theatre, LondonSimon Godwin masterfully directs a slick production starring Katherine Parkinson and John Heffernan
Lovers and fighters convene at an opulent Sicilian hotel, though …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMMonday, July 18, 2022
Available onlineFiona Watson plays a GP who is drawn, at retirement, into an immersive game that threatens to swallow her up
Odds On is an exemplar of the way online theatre has developed in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMThursday, July 14, 2022
Olivier theatre, LondonThe razor sharp social critique of the original is replaced by nostalgia and strained gags in this toothless transposition of The Rivals
Jack Absolute is the comically…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07PMCamden Garrison, LondonFans of the TV series may enjoy the period detail and atmosphere, but this immersive show is frustratingly light on story and drama
It is 1921 and the Shelby clan have…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AMWednesday, July 13, 2022
Almeida theatre, LondonTom Hollander stars as Boris Berezovsky in The Crown creator’s new drama, which has a show-stealing performance by Will Keen as Vladimir Putin
While the urgent real-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMFriday, July 8, 2022
Southwark Playhouse, LondonIt can feel exasperating at times but this well-performed 1951 drama offers a smart balance of discomfort and laughs
Eugène Ionesco’s single-act play, about a l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMFrom Jerusalem and Pretty Woman to a 70s Alan Bennett farce, unreconstructed attitudes and old-fashioned smut still permeate British theatre. And irony is not much of a defence
If the theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMTurbine theatre, LondonJJ Green’s play, in which he also stars, contrasts the struggles his autistic hero faces with the rich world of his imagination
This debut play about a boy growing u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMHarold Pinter theatre, LondonEmilia Clarke and Indira Varma star in Jamie Lloyd’s stripped-back West End production which asks probing questions about performance
Chekhov’s drama about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33AMThursday, July 7, 2022
Available onlineA chilling portrayal of the tense encounter between the SS chief and Norbert Masur, a representative of the World Jewish Congress, works well on screen
In the dying days of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMTuesday, July 5, 2022
Charing Cross theatre, LondonA meeting in a toilet between a republican teacher and the Queen is disappointingly amicable with few laughs
Here’s a comedy for those of us who hid from the a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, July 3, 2022
Fenton Town Hall, Stoke-on-TrentWily upstart Denry Machin is played with picaresque charm in a witty adaptation of Arnold Bennett’s novel, empowered by the big, vivid sound of a brass band…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMFriday, July 1, 2022
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonArthur Hughes is the scheming sociopath in a production of magisterial stagecraft that builds to a powerful climax
Arthur Hughes is the first di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMThursday, June 30, 2022
Bush theatre, LondonThree generations of a working-class Muslim family clash in Ambreen Razia’s meditation on the complexities of motherhood
This lean multi-generational family drama explo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMTuesday, June 28, 2022
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe use of puppets to portray mob justice is not the only bad call in a play that rarely achieves enough dramatic tension
A stranger arrives at a seaside town wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMHaving settled the ‘sound wars’ of their childhood, Ben and Max Ringham reveal how they went from drum’n’bass maestros to prolific theatrical duo
Max and Ben Ringham had wildly clash…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMMonday, June 27, 2022
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonRousing children’s musical provides a zippy guide to the great women of history that sets toes tapping and young minds alight
“What’s a suffragette?…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMSunday, June 26, 2022
Ambassadors, LondonTheresa Rebeck’s play follows the relationship between a terminally ill father and a mentally unstable son
Theresa Rebeck’s play opens as a dysfunctional father-son dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMThursday, June 23, 2022
The actor and campaigner came to Britain from Trinidad and Tobago in 1954 and rose to join Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre company. Clint Dyer and others explain why we should remember…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMMonday, June 13, 2022
A group of queer, black friends, the Jewish experience, how a British Iraqi saw the Gulf War … as she unveils her radical programme, the artistic director talks about learning from the row…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMFriday, June 10, 2022
Park theatre, LondonAny earnest intentions in this 80s-set coming-of-age tale are ruined by odious vulgarity and lazy, Benny Hill-esque humour
This coming-of-age story, set in the kitchen of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PM 
