Sunday, April 21, 2024
Lyttelton; Almeida; Royal Court Upstairs, LondonAll of London life doesn’t quite materialise in an epic take on Dickens with music by PJ Harvey; a university reunion digs deep at the Almei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMSunday, April 14, 2024
Noël Coward; @sohoplace; Dorfman; LondonIan McKellen reigns supreme in Robert Icke’s Henry IV mashup; Tyrell Williams’s coming-of-age football drama is bang on target; and the Brontë s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSunday, April 7, 2024
Wyndham’s London; Ustinov, Bath; Hampstead, LondonBrian Cox and, especially, Patricia Clarkson shine as dysfunctional parents in Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play, David Morrissey…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, March 17, 2024
Bristol Old Vic; Orange Tree theatre, RichmondBamber goes to Bristol in a buoyant musical of David Nicholls’s University Challenge romcom, while Trevor Nunn’s impeccably traditional Chek…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMSunday, March 10, 2024
Olivier; Jermyn Street; Lyric, LondonLarkiness overtakes Tim Price’s hallucinatory new play about the founder of the NHS; Roy Williams’s adaptation of Sam Selvon’s great Windrush novel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, March 3, 2024
Bush theatre; Donmar Warehouse; Young Vic, LondonBenedict Lombe’s new play about two almost-lovers is alive and unpredictable; Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport have a glimmering brief encou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, February 25, 2024
Duke of York’s; Almeida; Hampstead, LondonMatt Smith heads a rousing adaptation of Ibsen for a bruised world; Danny Sapani and co lean into the storm in Yaël Farber’s liberating Lear. P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, February 11, 2024
Harold Pinter theatre; Lyric Hammersmith; Palladium, LondonDreams of fame trap and inspire in Jez Butterworth’s female-centred, Blackpool-set new play; Lemn Sissay takes a personal approac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSaturday, February 3, 2024
Dorfman; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Savoy, LondonBeth Steel’s battling Notts wedding guests are a treat; Ola Ince’s Met police Othello makes horrible sense; and Matthew Broderick and Sarah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMSunday, January 28, 2024
Orange Tree, Richmond; Marylebone theatre, LondonZoe Cooper’s vivaciously queer take on Jane Austen will make readers and audiences think twice. And Nicolas Kent distils a Holocaust fable …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMSunday, January 21, 2024
Park theatre; Lyttleton, LondonIns Choi’s disarming Korean corner store comedy makes a timely return to the stage; a show of migrant stories feels more like ritual than chronicle; and a ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, January 14, 2024
Ambassadors; Yard; King’s Head, LondonCatherine Tate and David Threlfall are stranded in a scarily dull ghost story; the end of a love affair looms over a lively two-hander; and the new Ki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, December 24, 2023
In a thin year for musicals and political drama, an 11th hour Blanche DuBois, a flurry of young actors, two James Graham plays and a pair of Macbeths were among the standouts
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMDonmar Warehouse; Phoenix theatre; Riverside Studios, LondonDavid Tennant and Cush Jumbo wire you into the Macbeths’ innermost thoughts; Stranger Things takes theatrical spectacle to the n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, December 17, 2023
The Lucky Chance, Frome; Almeida; Soho theatre, LondonThere’s a puppet but no happy ending at Emma Rice’s fine new Somerset venue; Elvis Costello soundtracks a postwar Polish love story;…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMSunday, December 10, 2023
Dorfman; Young Vic; Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonChronic illness is captured to extraordinary effect in Annie Baker’s slow yet absorbing new play. Elsewhere, snarling Pinter lacks bite,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, December 3, 2023
The Depot, Liverpool; Lyttleton, London Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma are magnetic murderers in Simon Godwin’s bleakly immersive warehouse production, while Harriet Walter commands the st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, November 19, 2023
Finborough; Hampstead; Royal Court, LondonAn exemplary staging of short plays by overlooked Ena Lamont Stewart; Alun Armstrong is at his hangdog best in Richard Bean’s warm retirement dram…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, November 12, 2023
Duke of York’s, London; RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon; New Diorama, LondonThe puns ricochet between Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans in a frisky royal tale of mistress and servant; merriment disp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AMSunday, November 5, 2023
Wyndham’s; Harold Pinter; Battersea Arts Centre, LondonKenneth Branagh savours Lear’s words rather too much; Kristin Scott Thomas and co are left high and dry in Cornwall; but at BAC, a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, October 29, 2023
Donmar Warehouse; Lyttelton, London; Theatre Royal BathLynn Nottage wires us into American life with her all-consuming truck-stop cafe drama; Alexander Zeldin weaves slow magic from his moth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMSunday, October 22, 2023
Bristol Old Vic; Almeida; the Yard, LondonMoonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney’s elite school drama hits all the right notes; Marina Carr’s intense Irish play finds its ideal director.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AMSunday, October 15, 2023
National Theatre; Savoy theatre, LondonThe fourth in Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation play series is precise, fierce and moving, while Nicole Scherzinger hammers home the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AMSunday, October 8, 2023
Gielgud; Theatre Royal Haymarket; Royal Court, LondonAn all-star tribute to the acid genius of the late composer offers a terrific medley of hits, Michael Frayn’s clever farce also proves …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMSunday, October 1, 2023
Liverpool’s Royal Court; Duke of York’s; Kiln, LondonAlan Bleasdale’s 80s TV classic about jobless workers hits home in James Graham’s adaptation; Andrew Scott is not alone in his on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMSunday, September 10, 2023
Minerva theatre, Chichester; Lyric Hammersmith, LondonAn evening of drinking turns dangerous in the sharply funny debut play from The Guilty Feminist’s Deborah Frances-White. And the set i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AMSunday, August 27, 2023
Almeida; Donmar Warehouse, LondonSam Holcroft’s unsettling new play about censorship features a menacing performance from Jonny Lee Miller, while a musical drama exploring bipolar disorder…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMSunday, August 20, 2023
Lyttelton, London; Finborough, LondonJamie Lloyd galvanises Lucy Prebble’s drama about two patients who on a drug trial, while a trilogy of pre-first world war playlets captures a forgotte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AMSunday, August 13, 2023
She cancelled her honeymoon to star in A Streetcar Named Desire with four days’ notice – then won the 2023 Critics’ Circle best actress award. She talks to the Observer’s theatre cri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55AMTraverse; Lyceum; Studio, EdinburghNat McCleary’s new play gets to grips with Scottish identity; a French-language take on Lars von Trier glides between stage and screen; and dinner is ser…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55AMSunday, August 6, 2023
Minerva, Chichester; Garrick, LondonThe wit and sharpness of the 70s TV series about a pioneering all-female band is partially captured in a spirited stage adaptation. As for Simon Nye’s n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AM 
