Sunday, March 23, 2025
Orange Tree theatre, LondonCamaraderie, comedy and a love of the trade shine through in April De Angelis’s group portrait of Nell Gwyn and the other female actors who were the first to be …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMWednesday, March 19, 2025
The Other Palace, LondonSarah Cameron-West’s one-woman show switches between inner and outer voices to explore envy, anger and inadequacy
We are not given the name of the main character in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMTuesday, March 18, 2025
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonAs a gym-bunny vampire channelling Frank-N-Furter, James Daly leads a superb cast in a gender and genre-inverting romp that lacks bite
Before they took on Bra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMFriday, March 14, 2025
Arcola theatre, LondonThis firecracker adaptation of the 1990 Johnny Depp film pokes fun at American conservative values in rockabilly songs bursting with biting ironies
This musical adaptat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMThursday, March 13, 2025
Trafalgar theatre, LondonAmy Heckerling adapts her own iconic screenplay for a lumbering production in need of more belters from composer KT Tunstall
What do you get if you cross a high-scho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMWednesday, March 12, 2025
Yard theatre, London Jay Miller’s production raises the ghosts of troubled memories with powerful intimacy in this final show before the venue gets a grand refit
Tennessee Williams’ semi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMTuesday, March 11, 2025
Hampstead theatre, London A group of fantasy gamers begin to exorcise their struggles with grief and trauma in a drama with a brilliant set-up
Fantasy isn’t factual but it’s true, said U…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMSunday, March 9, 2025
Arcola theatre, LondonMadeleine Brettingham’s play aims to unpick male friendships and send up criminal groupies, but it treats the subject of mental health too lightly to make it meaningf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMThursday, March 6, 2025
Barbican theatre, London Thomas Ostermeier’s masterful staging has tremendous performances from a cast including Tom Burke, Emma Corrin and Kodi Smit-McPhee
Chekhov described his country-h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMTuesday, March 4, 2025
Park theatre, LondonCassie Bradley and Barney White are vulnerable, brittle and finally tender as Violet and Leonard, in Nick Payne’s love story moving through decades
Writer Nick Payne e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMFriday, February 28, 2025
Lyttelton theatre, LondonIn Michael Abbensetts’ play, elegantly directed by Lynette Linton, characters work, dream, horse around and question the nature of home
This breezy comedy by the G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMThursday, February 27, 2025
Royal Court theatre, LondonA woman living in Gaza rehearses her evacuation drill, should an Israeli bomb fall on her family, in Khawla Ibraheem’s scalding one-woman play
If you had five to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMBelgrade theatre, CoventryThere are ideas aplenty in this high-concept musical retelling of Shakespeare, but it gets off to a bumpy start
This telling of the age-old tragedy begins with mode…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSunday, February 23, 2025
The Other Palace, LondonA concussed contestant causes a stir with her unfiltered protest songs, in this caffeinated monologue performed by Daisy Steere
This musical satire of reality TV is a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMFriday, February 21, 2025
Donmar Warehouse, LondonGreig breathes compassion into her relation with self-absorbed parent Imrie but their exchanges swim across the decades incoherently
A mother lies dying in a hospital…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMThursday, February 20, 2025
Storyhouse, ChesterA disgruntled child enters a parallel universe where he can select new parents. It has a spirited cast, but the songs are simplistic, stompy and uninspired
Who could blame…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMWednesday, February 19, 2025
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonWith a chemistry that’s as bright as the modern-day costumes in this weird and wonderful show, the actors turn Shakespeare into a giddy house party cum mode…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMTuesday, February 18, 2025
Bridge Theatre, LondonNicholas Hytner’s production plays like a thriller, while Brigerton star Bailey glitters with feeling in a potently physical modern-dress production
Long before Bridg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMMonday, February 17, 2025
Theatre Royal Stratford EastYou believe in the animals completely in this bold adaptation, which, with its seemingly guileless Napoleon, resonates darkly in the here and now
Popular among th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMSunday, February 16, 2025
Finborough theatre, LondonA symbolic, stripped-down staging fails to plumb the chilling emotional depths of this story about a Jewish man trying to flee Germany in the 1930s
A wealthy Jewish…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32PMThursday, February 13, 2025
Garrick Theatre, London
A few zingy lines but threesome is lots of talk and no action – in all senses of that word – and peculiarly devoid of passion
Throuple might be the current term f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PMTuesday, February 11, 2025
Playwrights and actors paid homage to the small but mighty UK theatre company that nurtured them, as part of a fundraising initiative for new writers
A politician bounds on to the stage to t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMSunday, February 9, 2025
Playhouse, SheffieldTim Foley’s beautifully lyrical script sees two brothers thrashing out their differing memories of a dying father in a drama full of truth, sadness and beauty
Two griev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMFriday, February 7, 2025
Park theatre, London This retelling of the princess’s story makes her a formerly radicalised teen stranded in Syria – but the immersive staging often gets in the way
The story of Sophocl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMWednesday, February 5, 2025
Duke of York’s theatre, LondonThe Captain Marvel star is a magnetic frontwoman in Daniel Fish’s radical rewiring of the ancient play
‘There’s nothing more dangerous to a warrior than…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMThursday, January 30, 2025
Park theatre, LondonAn anonymously delivered box of something unmentionable sends an advertising worker into a spiral in Dave Florez’s comedy
A cake box arrives in the post, sent special d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMWednesday, January 29, 2025
Barbican, London Frau Trapp’s show, which uses tiny models seen on a huge screen, explores eco-disaster and inequality
Presented by MimeLondon, this hybrid show plays out as micro-cinema-t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMThursday, January 23, 2025
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonInspired ideas abound in Jennifer Tang’s production but, among all the plotting, betting and baiting, it doesn’t quite all come together
Shakespeare’s ea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMTheatre Royal BathWhile this 1960 play has been overtaken by faster-moving tales of Tudor chicanery, Martin Shaw is compelling as Thomas More
Among the abounding villains and backstabbers of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMSunday, January 19, 2025
Royal Court, LondonA grubby shack that appears in a prosperous neighbourhood is the catalyst for a culture clash in South African playwright Amy Jephta’s sharp drama
A Black couple have mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMBristol Old VicTwelfth Night is relocated to the Cotton Club in this sparkling musical, which luxuriates in its musicality and movement
Given the important function of music in Twelfth Night…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM 
