Barbican, London Katsiaryna Snytsina gives a merrily messy account, complete with deft displays of her ball skills, of being driven from sport into politics In this new piece by Belarus Free…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMThe Old Vic, LondonRami Malek’s outsider vibes enliven seamy, superb new staging of Sophocles’ family tragedy Dance in Greek tragedy – why not? The ancient Athenians did it, their chor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42PMHampstead theatre, LondonThe quicksilver actor is a vocal glory as the poet and classicist AE Housman looking back at his younger, tormented self in Tom Stoppard’s play A man arrives at th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonJohn Douglas Thomas and Juliet Rylance reprise their New York roles as Othello and Desdemona, while Will Keen is all gripe and snipe as shaven-h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMMarylebone theatre, LondonTwo couples have a sour reunion in Patrick Marber’s production of Nathan Englander’s play, updated from his 2011 short story to include events after 7 October N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMNew Diorama theatre, LondonSisters navigating a harsh immigration process conjure up an unnerving helper in Sonali Bhattacharyya’s drama Sonali Bhattacharyya’s shivery new play begins wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PM@sohoplace, LondonNassim Soleimanpour’s experiment in live theatre has a different performer discover the script for the first time each night – but Sheen is especially well suited to it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMAmerican ballerina who defied the odds of her early childhood in wartorn Sierra Leone to perform with top dance companies This was the making of a ballerina. “When I was four years old, a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMKiln theatre, London A familiar romcom isn’t an option for these two young British Muslims, who can’t shut out Islamophobia and public paranoia from their love story The title? It’s a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMWhere does the National send up-and-coming playwrights to have their ideas honed, pulled apart, rebuilt – and turned into dramatic dynamite? Our writer is granted rare access to the hallow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AMHolloway Garden theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonGender games, rebirth and affection remain in this 80-minute slash of the Shakespeare romcom, which is stylish but short on invention You expect g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonClive Rowe and Lucie Jones star in Schwartz and Joseph Stein’s tale of a French bakery, given a chamber setting Life should be sweet as our asparagus and ap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMFinborough theatre, LondonThe last surviving member of a military band shelters from Russian bombardment in Inna Goncharova’s valiant attempt to capture the terrible essence of war As the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMSouthwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonSoulful anthems with hard-knock lyrics cover 150 years of British care system history in a sophisticated show from Lung theatre company We’re a long way…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMBarbican, London Cole Porter’s musical variation on The Taming of the Shrew gets an exhilarating revival, even if the Line of Duty star’s singing is less than sensational Cole…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PMHuge audiences and even larger livestreams are putting a whole new type of pressure on dancers. Yasmine Haghdi, principal of the Royal Ballet, tell us how Britt Tajet-Foxell fixed more than …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMUstinov, BathAs a woman who has left her husband for a dissolute younger man in postwar London, Greig’s quiet despair compels The torch song Stormy Weather sobs between scenes in this revi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMJermyn Street theatre, LondonSara Ryan’s book about justice for her son, who died in an NHS unit aged 18, has been turned into a play with campaigning passion In a church down the road fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMIt is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites – and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone’s ready to face the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMITA, AmsterdamThe British director of Cabaret and A Streetcar Named Desire makes a gripping debut with the acclaimed Dutch company Julie wobbles into the kitchen, hiding from her own 21st bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMYoung Vic, LondonThe discovery of what could be a painting by Hitler leads to a moral quagmire in Patrick Marber’s punchy staging of Marius von Mayenburg’s play Arrive early, and you’l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMRoyal Opera House, LondonImpressive new work from Joshua Junker and Mthuthuzeli November pushes dancers well beyond the classical repertoire Ballet is a heritage art form that craves renewal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMSadler’s Wells, LondonOn a stage covered in thousands of silk carnations, a beguiling cast of 20 explore fear, fun, control, bunny-hopping and onions, ending ultimately in hope Nelken was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMQueen’s theatre, HornchurchJonathan Maitland’s drama about the Dr Feelgood guitarist, played by Johnson Willis, is a nostalgic celebration of an Essex legend ‘It’s not a jukebox musi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMDominion theatre, LondonBartlett Sher’s gingerly feminist take on the problematic mid-century musical has superb dancing but is ponderously paced ‘Stories of the east have seldom reached…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMMarylebone theatre, LondonSamantha Spiro conducts listeners urgently through this horrifying story of a baby thrown in desperation from an Auschwitz train If writing a poem after Auschwitz i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMArcola, LondonTimely revival of Michael Hastings’ unsettling 1956 play that examines the legacy of war on immigrants in postwar London It’s just over a decade since the second world war …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThe incoming artistic director at the NT must lead the institution and the industry, while choosing plays new and old for three stages. The job is a test of nerve and integrity In 1978, Juli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSwan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonIsobel McArthur gives a giddy fresh spin to Thomas Heywood’s 16th-century romp which sends a Cornish landlady, in her repurposed bar, to sea ‘Not everyth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMKiln theatre, LondonTwo-hander musical matches its wide-eyed hero and sardonic heroine with just the right mix of sugar and sour Here’s a little tale of the Big Apple. Dougal arrives from …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMFew things in theatre are more transformative than a wig. But who makes them? Can they really be worth thousands? And what looks best on a beheaded tyrant? We meet the hairpiece heroes and t…
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