Friday, May 5, 2017
Catch 1927’s fable about our over-reliance on machines and explore the best of dance, as curated by Kate Tempest. Plus: Every Brilliant Thing and Voodoo1 GolemFew companies have the all-ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMThursday, May 4, 2017
Park theatre, LondonThe two stars have fun playing cosmetics queens Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden but this clunky, camp show misfiresWatching Miriam Margolyes and Frances Barber slug…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMThe Yard, London A French teenager and a German boy soldier are unselfconscious lovers in this idiosyncratic fable set in occupied FranceIt’s 1944, and teenagers Elodie and Otto are on opp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMMonday, May 1, 2017
Bush, LondonTessa Peake-Jones and Andrew French star in Barney Norris’s quietly affecting two-hander about ordinary lives“I’ve been alive for so long and I haven’t got anything to sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThey both create work that is bold and deeply relevant for local communities, so National Theatre Wales and its new artistic director Kully Thiarai are a perfect fitKully Thiarai, the new ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSunday, April 30, 2017
Camden People’s theatre, LondonLouise Orwin’s bold work involves the voices of real women, as well as naked Ken and Barbie dolls, in order to lay bare the politics of female sexuality“…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31AMFriday, April 28, 2017
White Bear, London Politics predominates in Paul Mason’s frustrating account of the French communard Louise Michel who was deported to New Caledonia in the 1870sDealing with defeat is part…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMJames Thierrée creates fairytale-style marvels, while the world’s biggest hip-hop dance-theatre festival returns for its 14th year1 The Toad KnewAs weird as it is compelling, the latest f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
Royal Festival Hall, LondonNic Green’s alternative party conference draws on Conservatives’ soundbites to conjour grief at the destructive power of politicsThe best theatre often has a s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Charing Cross theatre, LondonThis new French musical about the teenager who came up with a new system of reading and writing is busy, dizzy and emotionally overwroughtThom Southerland triump…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMReaction is divided to The Drowned Man, Punchdrunk's vast Hollywood promenade show. Has it been overhyped? Or should audiences go prepared to dig deeper for their experience?The reviews are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMYou need sensible shoes and a stout heart for this dazzling and exhausting evening inspired by Edgar Allan Poe.Poe-faced ... River Carmalt, Adam Burton and Jack Laskey in The Masque of the R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMPunchdrunk scour cities for places to house their theatre spectaculars. Now they’ve even created a fully functioning village – complete with cosy pubA wood stove is burning in the pub. C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMSunday, April 23, 2017
Bunker, LondonThe homeless people’s theatre company Cardboard Citizens takes a long look at housing, from Victorian slum life and 70s squatting to present day inequalitiesThe national shor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMSaturday, April 22, 2017
The Other Palace, LondonSet in a haunted lighthouse during the second world war, Duncan Sheik’s rock musical features a plot as wisp-like as the phantoms on the stageComposed by Duncan She…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMFriday, April 21, 2017
Teen misfits save the day in Jack Thorne and Stephen Warbeck’s play, while the Royal Ballet tackles the Austro-Hungarian empire1 JunkyardIt may be more of a play with songs than a fully fl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMThursday, April 20, 2017
Everyman, LiverpoolAdapted from a children’s book by Liverpool poet Brian Patten, this family show is all about the transformative power of storytellingIt’s good to see the Liverpool Eve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
Pioneer of landscape theatre who created The Passion, starring Michael Sheen, which was performed on the streets of Port TalbotThe designer and theatre-maker Bill Mitchell, who has died of c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMAs a baby, Veronica Thompson was left in a bag outside a South Korean police station. In an intimate and funny solo performance, she traces her journey through her American childhood and Lon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMFriday, April 14, 2017
Trafalgar Studios, LondonA sleeper fringe hit that has been steadily gathering momentum, this farce about an incompetent amateur dramatic staging of a murder mystery began at the Old Red Lio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMTwo tales tackled by Disney are reimagined for the stage. Plus: Sally Cookson adapts Fellini’s La Strada and Dance International Glasgow returns1 The Lion KingIn hindsight it seems absurd …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMMonday, April 10, 2017
The West End arm of the Harry Potter universe may have broken Olivier award records, but its true success is in making theatre universally appealingHarry Potter and the Cursed Child’s reco…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMSunday, April 9, 2017
Watford PalaceEveryone is in love with this wrong person in this affectionate adaptation of Dodie Smith’s novel about a bohemian family living in a crumbling castle“I write this sitting …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMFriday, April 7, 2017
Barbican, LondonDeclan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod bring imagination and striking visuals to a modern-day retelling that is easier to admire than to loveDirector Declan Donnellan and designer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMSally Cookson captures the fragile heart of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, while Crystal Pite’s astounding take on grief and addiction returnsJane Eyre Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMThursday, April 6, 2017
New Wolsey, Ipswich Disabled and non-disabled actors, mixing in sign language and audio description, bring fresh dramatic insight to Ramps on the Moon’s pinball wizard musicalSwaggering an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThree young people find that online validation comes at a price, in Glenn Waldron’s hugely enjoyable dramaParental neglect can come in many forms, and it does so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMTuesday, April 4, 2017
Curve, Leicester"You're going to go out there a youngster, but you've got to come back a star," director Julian Marsh (Tim Flavin) tells young Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street. And there was high…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PMAfter a series of poetic and emotional productions, Gecko director Amit Lahav is now asking what it means to be in a ‘forced marriage’. He explains why his shows change every night – a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMSunday, April 2, 2017
Various locations, RhylThis ambitious but opaque roving community theatre piece by National Theatre Wales and Mark Storor goes to some unlikely places in search of the heart of RhylI love Na…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMSaturday, April 1, 2017
If you are reading this blog, it probably means that you are interested in theatre. So why are some areas of theatre valued over others, particularly theatre for young audiences?This is an e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31AM 
