Tuesday, November 19, 2024
New Diorama theatre, LondonSam Ward’s 90-minute romp through French history could be a five-star show, but in its current state it is too convoluted and incoherent to grasp
How do revoluti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMFriday, November 15, 2024
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Nikki Cheung impresses as the girl who loves dancing so much she’s carried away by her shoes, but Nancy Harris’s script frustrates
Hans Christian Anders…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PMThursday, November 14, 2024
Arcola theatre, LondonFour interwoven stories set in 2043 explore love, connection and AI. Their ideas are beautifully written but dramatically truncated
The year is 2043 and the world’s d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMWednesday, November 13, 2024
Park theatre, London The real-life story of Frankie Lucas, a fighter spurned by Britain’s boxing establishment, is wrenchingly sad but loses power in this telling
Frankie Lucas might not b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMTuesday, November 5, 2024
Theatre’s boom season offers puppy puppetry, hungry houseplants and fresh spins on Dickens, Dumas and Disney
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMMonday, November 4, 2024
What would happen if our arts critics and sports writers swapped roles for a day? How does the English National Opera compare to the Premier League … or the NFL to a West End musical? Our …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMThursday, October 31, 2024
Theatre Royal BathTwo one-act plays explore mid-century loneliness, exclusion and sexuality in a fine production starring Nathaniel Parker and a scene-stealing Siân Phillips
This handsome…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31AMWednesday, October 30, 2024
Gate theatre, LondonSanaz Toossi’s intimate play follows a group of friends during the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and beyond as they get married, have children and experience loss
Two dram…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
Noël Coward theatre, London Adding a fourth role to Peter Sellers’ three turns in the classic film, the comic excels in a fun yet unadventurous adaptation
Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satire,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMFriday, October 25, 2024
Hampstead theatre, LondonTwo sides of the same event are explored in Richard Bean’s drama – one haunting, one comedic – but they don’t really fit together
There is a tension from the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMThursday, October 24, 2024
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London A 15-year-old’s bereavement is tackled with ‘can-do’ American energy, a tremendous score and wickedly barbed lyrics that keep the schmaltz in check…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMWednesday, October 23, 2024
The Belgrade theatre, CoventrySet in a family-run Jamaican eaterie, Daniel J Carver’s potent drama explores across three generations what it is to be a Black British man
Outside, race riot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMWednesday, October 16, 2024
Trafalgar theatre, London Zinnie Harris’s version of the Jacobean play makes potent points about power but is hamstrung by an overbearing production
John Webster’s revenge tragedy contai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PMWyndham’s theatre, LondonOpening in a campaign room on election night, Robert Icke’s modern retelling is riveting from beginning to end, the formidable leads supported by a stellar ensem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMTuesday, October 15, 2024
Birmingham RepA boy is bullied when he’s cast as Nancy in the school play – but bland songs and generic characters keep the story stuck in single gear
This musical, about a boy’s comin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMThursday, October 10, 2024
Donmar Warehouse
Oscar winner makes London debut in Lindsey Ferrentino’s busy play that sometimes lacks intensity
As true crime stories go, Nick Yarris’s tale is stranger than fiction an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMRoyal Court, LondonOli Forsyth’s play about a honeymooning couple caught up in a disaster is let down by unconvincing dilemmas and characterisations
In its setup, this is an edge-of-the-se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMWednesday, October 9, 2024
Lyttelton theatre, LondonEvery performance is compelling in this rivetingly naturalistic modern-day reworking of Antigone, written by Alexander Zeldin
This modern family psychodrama bills it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMSunday, October 6, 2024
Gielgud theatre, LondonRylance is entertainingly Chaplinesque as a dissolute husband in Seán O’Casey’s 1924 tragicomedy, but Succession’s J Smith-Cameron is its heart and soul as the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMBattersea Arts Centre, LondonMixing the personal and political into one consciousness-raising ‘anti-biography’, Khalid Abdalla’s solo show takes in western colonialism, 9/11, British i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02PMWednesday, October 2, 2024
Almeida theatre, LondonWatching John Osborne’s fulminating Jimmy Porter feels curiously cold, while the same cast bring subtleties to Arnold Wesker’s classic
The “angry young man” ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMTuesday, October 1, 2024
Chichester Festival theatreThis drama about Mick Jagger and Keith Jones’s 1967 drugs bust curiously foregrounds their lawyer’s family issues
The public outcry that followed the prison se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMActors Meera Syal and Shobna Gulati, with playwright Tanika Gupta, explain how their National Theatre production springs from the anguish of losing their mothers
Meera Syal and Tanika Gupta�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, September 29, 2024
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonThis frothy farce about an 1890 cabinet minister ‘accepting favours’ never stoops to nudge-winking to make its point – and is all the better for it
If t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMFriday, September 27, 2024
Royal Court Theatre, LondonSophisticated play melds fact with fiction in its dramatisation of a scandalous moment in the life of the author
As debut plays go, Giant has some very old and exp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMThursday, September 26, 2024
Theatre Royal BathAllen gives a capable performance in an arresting production that gives a chilling sense of state control – but the central romance fails to fizz
Seventy-five years after…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMWednesday, September 25, 2024
Orange Tree theatre, LondonDavid Edgar’s play on the anti-communist Hollywood blacklists of the 1950s is clunky in its set-up, but offers a lively take on the personal politics of art and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMTuesday, September 24, 2024
Olivier theatre, LondonThe drama is underpowered until the end but what Lyndsey Turner’s production lacks in feeling it makes up in style
Placard-holding protesters bomb an elegant stage w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMHe has triumphed over controversies, the ‘devastation’ of Covid and 100-hour weeks. As Norris leaves the biggest job in British theatre, he reveals his final season – and his plans to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, September 22, 2024
Young Vic, LondonThis musical has the seeds of a brilliant show for our times with Ramin Karimloo on fine form, but its complex themes are sucked away by sledge-hammer messaging
Elia Kazan�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, September 19, 2024
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonJames Macdonald’s production sacrifices tension for slapstick but ultimately delivers pathos
Samuel Beckett’s 1953 tragicomedy about two woe-begotten men w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PM 
