Battersea Arts Centre, LondonHumour and rage intertwine in Back to Back theatre company’s playful debate of ethics, language and philosophy The unjust treatment of people with learning d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMCharing Cross theatre, LondonTennessee Williams’ script about a dying widow dictating her memoirs is dragged into the modern day as characters fidget with their phones on a sparse set Some…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMSoho theatre, LondonA different Mrs Perón gets the mega-musical treatment in Sh!t Theatre’s hilarious, sinister comedy about the ethics of populism and the heartbreak of loss As in: Evita…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMShipwright, DeptfordExquisitely staged on the banks of the Thames, this ambitious and inquisitive production uses its natural surroundings to remind us of everything we stand to lose Sneak a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonYouTube philosopher Abigail Thorn moves offline and on to the stage with an ambitious exploration of identities and the performance of gender Using the intelligent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMThe Globe theatre sparked outrage when it announced its plans to stage a non-binary Joan of Arc. The play’s writer explains why the French warrior would have approved ‘I’m always hungr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:55AMThe company behind The Actress has dug into 17th-century archives to bring to life two pioneering women of the stage On 8 December 1660, crowds gathered on Vere Street, off Oxford Street in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMThe writer-director’s new Edinburgh fringe show switches between the 18th-century Haitian revolution and a haunted modern London If a zombie uprising were to take place tomorrow, Emily Abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSonali Bhattacharyya’s Chasing Hares uses folk theatre to depict a trade union dispute in West Bengal. ‘South Asian artists have always been here – but now it’s our time,’ she says…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMChurchill War Rooms, LondonPoor storytelling and a clunky app-based interface mean that this time-travel adventure may well be the audience’s darkest hour Chaotic and disappointing, this a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMThe Ten Percent star’s solo show, which is returning to London’s West End, was inspired by his conversations with older gay men as a volunteer for Switchboard An hour before he stepped o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMRoyal Court, LondonOne play reveals another in a tangled web that pits the Home Office against two Guardian blind-daters Lift up the cover of the playtext for That Is Not Who I Am by Dave Da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18PMOld Vic theatre, LondonA stylish rework of the August Wilson character-study sees a standout performance from Wil Johnson as the put-upon head of the titular cab station Within a run-down st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMIn the first of our festival previews, we round up some of the best offerings we’ve already reviewed – including Tim Key, Liz Kingsman, La Clique and Hungry This searing, sweaty disco is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMYou don’t have to shell out to enjoy the best in music, film, theatre, art and comedy – from a Francis Bacon in Aberdeen to Notting Hill’s unique and spectacular carnival Music Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMKing’s Head theatre, LondonA mixture of ghoulish horror and atmospheric history, Mark Ravenhill’s play vibrates with frights and fury The jump scares are perfectly placed in Mark Ravenhi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMNew Diorama, LondonDeafinitely Theatre’s evocative and tender show was inspired by real stories of abuse against deaf women and non-binary people In British Sign Language, the sign for a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFinborough, LondonHunger and disease stalk Russia in the aftermath of conflict in this play based on a story by Andrey Platonov This is a glum, plodding production depicting a grim, hard-hea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMSoho theatre, LondonMelissa Johns articulates how she learned to navigate an ableist world as a woman with one and a half arms Bullies sneak in at the sidelines of this story, but Melissa Jo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMTwo friends delighted half a million kids with a tiny production in a cardboard box. Now they’re sizing up the much-loved bulbous bear for the Little Angel theatre ‘We made nearly half a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonLess a tense examination of a failing republic, or even of women in power, there is little electricity or danger here The Globe’s audience serve as the easily …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMPioneering female entertainers, including a 1930s clown and a Wall of Death stunt rider, are celebrated in a show by a fearless group of performers Female performers in British variety acts …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48AMAfter seeing how moved gay men were by The Inheritance, the playwright wanted to write something that would strike a chord with women – so came up with The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs A gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonSecrets bite and speeches overlap as we realise musician Max has been grooming Alice since she was 16 The tension is like a tidal wave in Flora Wilson Brown’s da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PMShoreditch Town Hall, LondonMemes and the personal drama of worn-out celebrity take centre stage as an energetic trio of C-listers unite to fight the climate crisis A wealth of ideas have be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMJermyn Street theatre, LondonThis fantasy ceremony for the modernist couple is too preoccupied with the famous men cavorting around them Attempting to combine absurdist farce, genuine traged…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMOrange Tree theatre, RichmondFranz Xaver Kroetz’s play is a sharp exploration of the way finances wriggle their way into the existing rifts of everyday life What quiet, splintering perform…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMOmnibus theatre, LondonUnnerving but surprisingly funny two-hander inspired by ‘consensual cannibal’ Armin Meiwes I’m loth to kink-shame, but I’m not sure I can get behind consensua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMWith gags, tunes and dance, The Family Sex Show celebrates sexual pleasure, equality and independence. What is there to be embarrassed about, asks theatre-maker Josie Dale-Jones ‘I remembe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAbigail Graham trims and reshuffle’s Shakespeare’s play with glitzy gameshow scenes and a brutal, lonely reckoning A stained, lidless plastic container res…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMIs it a play? Or is it a film? There are two sides to director Hope Dickson Leach’s ambitious staging of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale “Cinema is about change,” says Hope Dic…
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