Monday, October 30, 2023
Featuring contributions from poets, novelists and a Nobel laureate, this highly charged night – interrupted by updates from Gaza in real time – marked the suffering on both sides of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:55PMFriday, October 27, 2023
Welsh and Scottish venues have progressed, but only male artistic directors have run the National Theatre. It’s time to address that
Let’s begin with a pub quiz style Q&A about Briti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMThursday, October 26, 2023
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonStarry cast including Lily James and Doon Mackichan are tossed around in a plot that never gets hold of its many concerns
Lyonesse has all the makings of a power…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AMWednesday, October 25, 2023
Roundhouse, LondonSimon Stephens’ adaptation of Max Frisch play about bourgeois indifference to a rising crisis should ring loud bells, but its absurdism fails to resonate
There is a great…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AMTuesday, October 24, 2023
National Theatre, LondonAlexander Zeldin’s profoundly moving play grew from his parent’s reflections, which he uses to conjure an epic struggle for love and freedom
A reluctant protagoni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMFriday, October 20, 2023
Theatre Royal BathThe Succession star excels in Oliver Cotton’s play about the meeting between the composer and Frederick the Great
It is promoted as a dramatic encounter between God-feari…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMThursday, October 19, 2023
Orange Tree theatre, LondonIn a chic kitchen a Trinidadian couple discuss their high-end lives, but their cook, whose recipes the audience can scent, draws them back to deeper roots
This dra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMMonday, October 16, 2023
As her play set in a truck stop kitchen is staged in London, the twice Pulitzer-winning playwright talks about the healing power of cooking, US theatre’s recent shockwaves and her Michael …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMFriday, October 13, 2023
Sherman theatre, CardiffAstounding tale of how a volunteer at a Welsh hospital changed the lives of neurodivergent people globally is dynamically directed and movingly told
This is a local s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AMThursday, October 12, 2023
Savoy theatre, LondonLloyd brings hipster edginess, style and unpredictability to this revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical – though it’s more surface-level than penetrating closeu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19PMRoyal Court Upstairs, LondonAn aspiring journalist comes up against the difficulties of accurately representing his shisha-going community in Mohamed-Zain Dada’s energetic debut
This debut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMMonday, October 9, 2023
Dorfman theatre, LondonClint Dyer and Roy Williams’ state-of-the-nation series continues, this time giving the perspective of the women in its central duo’s lives
From its inception as a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43PMRiverside Studios, LondonDepicting the insinuating villain as a trio of manipulators is striking and gives the drama thrillerish momentum, but intimacy is lost
Othello’s nemesis has come i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMSunday, October 8, 2023
Bold theatre, LondonThis musical meta comedy allegorising Britain’s hostility to immigrants arrives ahead of panto season but with perfect timing nonetheless. Unfortunately it seems under-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMWednesday, October 4, 2023
Theatre Royal BathRichard Eyre’s production of the father-and-son drama has some strong performances but is too light to probe the play’s plaintive depths
A fine roll call of actors have…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25PMTheatre503, LondonRachel Bellman explores Jewish exorcisms and rebellion in this darkly funny, psychological play
There is a slow-burn buildup of creepiness in this haunted house story which…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMMonday, October 2, 2023
Barbican, LondonCanadian company Why Not Theatre’s take on the Sanskrit poem, led by South Asian artists, exquisitely blends classical elements with modern, but feels distant in the second…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMSunday, October 1, 2023
Royal Court, LondonWe’re left wondering not just whodunnit but what was done and why in this lushly designed but confusing production
This postmodern whodunnit begins, tantalisingly, wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMFriday, September 29, 2023
Chichester Festival theatreA delightfully performed revival of James Graham’s fresh and funny play about the Millionaire cougher case, which critiques the TV industry and trials by media
T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AMThursday, September 28, 2023
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonWith a jarring tone and karaoke hits, this show never truly captures the highs and lows of the star’s life
Lesley Hornby was 16 when she became the face of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMTuesday, September 26, 2023
Hampstead theatre, LondonA grieving behavioural biologist meets an anthropologist in Marek Horn’s drama starring Jemma Redgrave and Ewan Miller
At the centre of this play of ideas about an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMMonday, September 25, 2023
Tom Cruise’s character becomes a female neuroscientist in a new adaptation of the Spielberg film, kicking off a season that, the venue’s artistic director says, will focus on communal ex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:49AMSunday, September 24, 2023
Omnibus Theatre, LondonCharlie Dupré’s Bruntwood prize longlisted play asks thoughtful questions about who gets to shape history, but lacks a level of intrigue and emotional depth to addr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMFriday, September 22, 2023
Duke of York’s theatre, LondonThe actor gives thrillingly virtuoso performances as multiple characters in an entertaining reimagining but he cannot penetrate any one part deeply enough for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:13AMWednesday, September 20, 2023
Old Vic theatre, LondonThis Shaw revival has wonderful moments but there is little spark between Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins
In its preface, George Bernard Shaw claimed the success of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AMMonday, September 18, 2023
Charing Cross theatre, LondonAmong polished performances, Kara Lane’s creepily obsessed housekeeper proves a powerful force
This musical adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s novel became a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:43PMSunday, September 17, 2023
Barbican, LondonBelarusian and Ukrainian performers come together in this creepy and atmospheric haunted house story
This operatic tale of folkloric ghost-kings, aristocrats and curses resus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMFriday, September 15, 2023
@sohoplace, LondonThis adaptation of a memoir by a 17-year-old aspiring rugby pro paralysed by a holiday accident has catchy songs, strong performances and schmaltz
“When I was 17, I had a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMTuesday, September 12, 2023
Gate theatre, LondonFunny, moving stories about working-class lives are interspersed with political music in this baggy three-hander
Brassic FM is the kind of pirate station you might tune i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AMMonday, September 11, 2023
The poet has teamed up with Frantic Assembly to bring the novella, about a man who turns into an insect, to the stage. He explains why this story of family meltdown is all about modern life
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMSunday, September 10, 2023
Greenwich + Docklands International Festival, LondonSet aboard a double-decker as it journeys through London and back and forth in time, this is a poignant but uplifting immersive theatre pi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AM 
