Monday, May 11, 2026
UEA Drama Studio, Norwich A scientist sees the climate crisis in action when she returns to her mother’s flooded home, while the mum just fancies a trip to see the penguinsIn these days of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 25, 2026
Kiln theatre, LondonTom Wright’s play explores how the Fab Four, and a rumoured affair with John Lennon, helped shape the manager’s tragically short lifeAt the age of 30, the Beatles’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2026
New Wolsey theatre, Ipswich Vikki Stone’s freely adapted version of the once notorious seafaring broadcaster’s history is a terrrific premise for delivering a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Fresh from Stranger Things and Hamnet, the pair are surprised to find themselves playing Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in the West End. They talk chemistry, dating apps " and what they'v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 26, 2026
Arts theatre, Cambridge Marital uncoupling may not be the social taboo it was in the 1920s, but this sumptuous revival delivers timeless pathos with the witty barbs
'What's the use of arguin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Watermill theatre, NewburyThis music-laced adaptation of Flora Thompson's novels is a coming-of-age story that finds quiet beauty in a world on the brink of change
Flora Thompson's autobiogr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12PM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2026
Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonComposer Finn Anderson and director Tania Azevedo have created a powerful generational journey through the history of Appalachian song
Much of the music of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Friday, January 23, 2026
Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonDespite the vocal bravura of the cast, this show doesn't capture the Jazz Age power couple's dazzle or darkness
For decades people have been seeking to res…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31AM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2025
Hampstead theatre, LondonRichard Greenberg's Broadway hit finally arrives in the UK " a festive gathering that rattles along with comic dialogue and the beaming charisma of Tracy-Ann Oberman…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2025
Can two world-famous actors and auteur Simon Stone bring 19th-century Norway screaming into the modern world? They talk mean directors, bathtub revelations and reinventing Ibsen's The Lady f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 7, 2025
Marlowe theatre, CanterburyAmy Rosenthal's drama explores the aristocratic It girls' politics and sibling dynamics, but doesn't bring much new to the party " or accentuate the contemporary r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Evolution London A strong cast sings live versions of all the hits against screens showing the film, backed by a terrific band and willing extras recruited from the audience
There's no secre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2025
From Greek tragedy to Chekhov to Rosamund Pike in Inter Alia, handheld mics are everywhere on stage right now. Is this a thrilling innovation " or a pointless fad?
Wig, robes and moves like …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Lyttelton theatre, London With anarchic energy, Pike plays a judge whose world is upended in a companion drama to Suzie Miller's hit, again directed by Justin Martin
Three years ago, playwri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2025
Bristol Old VicSeiriol Davies' musical biography of Edwardian aristocrat Henry Cyril Paget is crammed with wit but its subject remains enigmatic
'Regrettably," sings Henry Cyril Paget, "very…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 21, 2025
Paying theatregoers have bemoaned watching Don't Cry For Me Argentina on livestream while passersby experience it live for free. But is it a seven-minute stunt worth waiting for?
Move over R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PM[SHARE]Monday, June 16, 2025
Duke of York's theatre, LondonThis stunningly rendered tale of a band on the brink of creative genius or total meltdown is a triumph, with a standout cast and score
If you've ever wanted to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2025
Here We Are, a satirical mashup of two surrealist movie masterpieces, was finished after musicals maestro Stephen Sondheim died " outraging some fans. As the show hits Britain, its stars and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2025
Park theatre, LondonNeil LaBute's mordant humour comes to the fore in this three-hander, full of hyper-real dialogue, about the right to choose the manner of our departure
Neil LaBute has a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Friday, April 18, 2025
Finborough theatre, LondonYoung adulthood takes its toll on a relationship between two young women in a tenderly realised production of de Beauvoir's unpublished story from the 1950s
Simone…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2025
Almeida theatre, LondonBrimming with humour and compassion, the story of Jo and Harry, a couple who go their separate ways, is a powerful reminder of how theatre lets us live beyond our own …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2025
Nottingham PlayhouseAisling Loftus brings out the unease underlying every scene of Dennis Kelly's haunting one-woman play
This production of Dennis Kelly's one-woman play begins a little lik…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Charing Cross theatre, London Two-hander awkwardly studies Abraham Lincoln's wife through her sittings for photographer Mathew Brady
Mary Lincoln, wife of the 16th president of the United St…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2024
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, LondonUnfamiliar songs are performed beautifully in an episodic play featuring the escapades of the rackety real-life Addison and Wilson Mizner
If you've never he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Ambassadors theatre, LondonRelocating the F Scott Fitzgerald story to a Cornish fishing village, this is a vivacious yet touching show
F Scott Fitzgerald's tale of a man who ages in reverse …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Hampstead theatre, LondonCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin faced constant sexism and professional exclusion, but Stella Feehily's play shows a woman with an iron will to succeed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Though Ian McKellen gave his Hamlet at the age of 82, older women rarely get the chance to play young characters. But with Imelda Staunton in Hello Dolly and Geraldine James as Rosalind, are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2024
From the Gareth Southgate play Dear England to Red Speedo, about a swimmer caught doping, dramatists are using sport to examine class, race, morality " and life in Britain today
Will no one …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2024
Kiln theatre, LondonSophie Thompson and Charles Edwards are delightful as the unlikely pair thrown together by a school production as teenagers and reunited late in life
Music, says Hattie, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2024
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonToxic masculinity rears its head in Rachel Bagshaw's Globe debut which proves less interested in horror effects than the characters' emotional journeys
John We…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe performances are superb in this tale of a family dealing with bipolar disorder but the storyline is thin
Given that Next to Normal is about a woman with bipolar d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AM[SHARE] 
