Wednesday, 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 07:59AMFriday, 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 08:43AM 
