Thursday, December 9, 2021
Bush theatre, LondonElla Road’s remarkable play, directed by Monique Touko, is a tender and intimate story of teenage friendship and athletics
A pair of talented teenage runners are dangli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMMonday, December 6, 2021
Frank Wedekind’s banned 19th-century classic, now a youth rock musical, is back on stage – with a young cast who came of age in the pandemic
No one saw Spring Awakening for the first 15 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMWednesday, November 24, 2021
The Big House, LondonThis immersive show creates a raucous energy as Maz runs away from her care home and tries to carve her place in the music scene
Every year there are new immersive shows…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMThursday, November 18, 2021
Kiln theatre, LondonThe author’s debut play lets one of Chaucer’s most revolutionary characters loose in modern-day Kilburn in a celebration of community and a life well-lived
For her de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMWednesday, November 17, 2021
Royal Court, LondonEverything here is plot as Al Smith’s play speeds over many huge issues with little time to register their impact
In Al Smith’s ambitious and cynical new play, everybo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMThursday, October 21, 2021
Two years after its first staging, Gaiman’s dark fairytale has returned, this time to the West End. The author, cast and creative team discuss bringing the eldritch magic of childhood to l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMMonday, October 18, 2021
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThree senators at a hearing in Washington DC try to find out where all the fish have gone in Marek Horn’s smart but deliberately frustrating one-room play
Tuna h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMWednesday, October 13, 2021
Theatre 503, LondonDexter Flanders’ tender debut about a fractured family shows the tensions and compromises faced by Black gay men
Through the story of one beautiful, fractured family, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMThe Olivier-winning actor who plays Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars series talks to Kate Wyver about the fight against ‘end-of-life serenity’, adapting Julian Barnes for the stage, an…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:32AMFriday, October 8, 2021
Yard theatre, LondonTwo vividly portrayed fencers shuffle towards a climactic battle in this smart, galvanising coming-of-age drama
The verbal sparring is sharp and pointed in Gracie Gardne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMThursday, October 7, 2021
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAncient Greek myths are retold with stripped-back simplicity and no little bloodshed in a hugely enjoyable show
“Welcome in,” calls Irfan Shamji as latecom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, October 3, 2021
Finborough theatre, LondonJordan Hall’s play dips its toes into surviving global apocalypse but only explores romantic disaster
This play will not teach you how to survive an apocalypse. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMSunday, September 26, 2021
Stone Nest, LondonInna Dulerayn’s hallucinatory and astonishingly costumed fantasia disintegrates into incoherence in the second half
Under the arches of an old Welsh chapel, beaked angels…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMThursday, September 23, 2021
Peacock theatre, LondonForget about the plot and lose yourself in this dance-circus show whose dizzying performers cast gravity aside
She falls almost in slow motion, sideways, her body rigi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMTuesday, September 7, 2021
RashDash’s new theatre production honours the pre-Raphaelite by focusing on her own art and poetry – and shifting from tragedy into comedy
Wan, pale, tragic. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Sidda…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, September 2, 2021
Pleasance, LondonAyden Brouwers and Lizzie Morris’s insightful and emotional dance show features the thoughts of young trans and non-binary people
“They say it’s trans people who are o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMWednesday, September 1, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonCreative cabaret from Thrustin Limbersnake, Loose Willis and the gang celebrates reopened queer spaces and non-binary beauty
After almost two years of very little access …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMTuesday, August 24, 2021
Park theatre, LondonAfter a shaky start, this spooky tale gets smarter and scarier as the night goes on, cleverly entwining local history and folklore
A hefty storm is brewing outside a rams…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PMFriday, August 20, 2021
Royal Court, LondonDutch singer Wende performs songs conceived by playwrights – on topics from bloody battles to online dating – with magnetism and a talent for storytelling
In this glor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMThursday, August 19, 2021
Arcola Outside, LondonLuke Stapleton’s story of two lonely men finding comfort in one another is a gem – so it’s a shame it’s obscured by loud music, drama school-isms and cliche
Sca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMThursday, August 12, 2021
Noël Coward theatre, LondonThe pop star makes her West End debut in a contemporary haunted-house chiller that smartly plays with all the old tropes and leaves the room electric with fear
Fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMSunday, August 8, 2021
Park theatre, LondonTori-Allen Martin’s two-hander opens with the audience watching at home – then the second half is performed in person
The concept is the strongest part of Tori Allen-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMFriday, August 6, 2021
The writer has turned a Greek tragedy about a marooned soldier into an all-women play for the Covid era. They reveal how its creation mirrored their own journey
‘These stories can be intim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMIris theatre, LondonMichael Elcock’s winning Arthur and Kate Donnachie’s frustrated Merlin make a sparky team but the show can’t decide whether it’s playing to kids or adults
On this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMFriday, July 30, 2021
A history of theatre’s most controversial moments, from Jerry Springer: The Opera to Sarah Kane’s ‘unrelenting’ Blasted
Sensationally vulgar, this musical take on the TV host was tak…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMThursday, July 15, 2021
Bush theatre, LondonRonkẹ Adékoluẹjo oozes charm and confidence in Benedict Lombe’s superb memoir-monologue
Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo is luminous in Benedict Lombe’s passionate memoir-m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMSunday, July 11, 2021
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonMcCormick’s narcissistic alter ego Lucy Muck has a feral energy, but is a one-note creation who lacks the focus of her previous shows
Life: Live! is a hot mess…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMMonday, July 5, 2021
Great Northern Warehouse, ManchesterFun, mischief, comic puppetry and rather frustrating lulls abound as a dance company attempts to film its latest show
Blending dance, puppetry and play, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMSunday, July 4, 2021
Central Hall, Manchester Central, and onlineIn a grimy and intense film installation, the actor unleashes a torrent of regret, superbly scripted by Max Porter
Cillian Murphy, wearing a bla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMTuesday, June 29, 2021
Their first project saw the actor tormented by a giant crow and pounded at ping-pong. Now the pair have joined forces again for a film exploring guilt and masculinity in an age of mounting d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMThursday, June 24, 2021
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonCavan Clarke’s Mercutio steals the spotlight in an entertaining production that foregrounds past trauma
Rapiers and sand-timers mix with skinny jean…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AM 
