Thursday, October 5, 2023
The Arts Council of Wales has withdrawn its long-term financial support of the English-language theatre company
National Theatre Wales (NTW) has warned that it will be forced to close in six…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMTuesday, October 3, 2023
The Broadway hit, written by Tina Fey and now on its second North American tour, will open at the Savoy in June
For Mean Girls fans, this is so fetch: the film’s musical adaptation, which …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMThe Hollywood star will appear alongside Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland in David Ireland’s black comedy
Woody Harrelson is to return to the London stage in a new production of David Irelan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:13AMSunday, October 1, 2023
Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a revival of Polly Stenham’s debut play, London’s international dance festival and Patrick Stewart suffering toil and trouble
The fir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMThursday, September 28, 2023
The Olivier award-winning actor, whose major film roles included Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, has died
• ‘An actor who let his heart and soul crack open’: David Jays on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMWednesday, September 27, 2023
Coronet theatre, LondonAurélia Thierrée narrates the tale of a confined ‘hysterical’ woman while Fukiko Takase dances on a screen behind her
The putrid wallpaper in Charlotte Perkins G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMTuesday, September 26, 2023
Coogan will follow in Peter Sellers’ footsteps to play multiple roles in stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satirical war film
Steve Coogan is to star in Armando Iannucci’s sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMWednesday, August 30, 2023
Choreographer Drew McOnie’s version of the festive sweet-treat ballet will have a male hero and aims to ‘represent those who felt it wasn’t for them’
It is a sweet treat of a ballet …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:13PMFriday, August 25, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghLekan Lawal’s one-man multimedia performance mashes storytelling, comedy and dance into a richly stimulating hour
This knotty and stimulating multimedia show created a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghIn sync with beatboxer Grace Savage, Jade Anouka performs a fleet-footed and clear-sighted debut play
Actor Jade Anouka’s debut play, Heart, has been kept…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AMUnderbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, EdinburghThe US company Aloft invite audiences to assist them in an intimate and astonishing acrobatic show
You have heard how it takes a village to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13AMThursday, August 24, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghBritt Plummer is waiting to get married to fellow clown Otto in this playful and wistful comedy
Clowns at the Edinburgh fringe are proving that banana gags are far from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PMWednesday, August 23, 2023
Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, EdinburghThe enthralling Canadian company offer up a fast-paced but often jarring show that treats Shakespeare like the Super Bowl
Here is a twist o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghVoloz Collective’s satirical thriller set during the subprime mortgage crisis is staged with style but has little emotional impact
Who needs a load of props w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43AMTuesday, August 22, 2023
Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh The real beasts – not the internet kind – have come to teach us their ways, learn human stuff and dish the dirt on billy goats
It’s not easy being green. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PMMonday, August 21, 2023
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghNoirish onstage scenes between a couple are shown on a live feed which only makes fitful sense in this mysterious production
A gun rests on a shiny serving platter at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMtheSpace @ Surgeons Hall, EdinburghNalini Sharma makes an engaging fringe debut, using clowning skills and audience participation in a show inspired by her hospital stay
“What’s your fav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMBedlam theatre, EdinburghIn this comic two-hander, uptight Terrence is hawking a prehistoric children’s show when he’s forced into collaborating with upfront Tri-Sarah-Tops
Is the Edinbu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMSummerhall, EdinburghRowland’s beautifully crafted show considers his, and our, little lives in the context of the Bard’s words
Content warning: the next hour, James Rowland tells us, ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AMSaturday, August 19, 2023
Zoo Playground, EdinburghUS actor-writer Griffin Kelly proves a performer to her fingertips with this highly physical comedy show
For the first few minutes of Griffin Kelly’s playful solo …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04PMMonday, August 14, 2023
The Scissor Sisters singer will play the Emcee while Self Esteem will make her theatrical debut as Sally Bowles in Rebecca Frecknall’s Olivier-winning musical
The musicians Jake Shears and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PMTuesday, August 1, 2023
Ncuti Gatwa stars in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Zadie Smith relocates Chaucer to Kilburn, plus dance, storytelling and fringe drama
It’s seven years since Emma Rice swung into Shakesp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AMTuesday, July 18, 2023
The I Should Be So Lucky singer will play a ‘specially created character’ in the touring show which will feature a string of pop hits by the songwriting trio
Kylie Minogue is to step ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMSatire by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg will open next year at the Young Vic in London which will also revive Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming
Patrick Marber is to direct a new play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMTuesday, July 4, 2023
A disco king hits the dancefloor, Beatrice and Benedick’s romcom gets a feminist framing and Lear faces dystopia as the revered rep company returns in full force
Drive west of Toronto for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AMTom Patterson theatre, Stratford, OntarioAntoni Cimolino directs a sophisticated and stimulating production of Eduardo De Filippo’s funny yet poignant play
It starts with a carefree round …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMSaturday, July 1, 2023
Our roundup of the drama to enjoy at home in July includes a glorious adaptation of the Laura Esquivel novel and Saoirse Ronan in The Tragedy of Macbeth
Food and forbidden love are at the c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49AMMonday, June 12, 2023
The West End actor says the Shakespearean role has ‘the disastrous consequences of ambition’ in common with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical
“They think me Macbeth,” sings Reuben Josep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37PMWith dozens of installations from around the world, the quadrennial returns to bring the Czech capital an extravaganza of performance design
‘Hello stranger.” This cheery neon greeting, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMThursday, June 8, 2023
The pair will star in a revival of Neil Simon’s marriage comedy Plaza Suite, which transfers from a hugely successful Broadway run
Sarah Jessica Parker is to make her West End stage debut …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
The great American playwright, who made her Broadway debut last year aged 91, recounts what happened when she adapted a John Lennon book for Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre
In the mid-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AM 
