Monday, October 27, 2025
Arcola theatre, London Two flat-earthers’ quest for truth in Antarctica descends into a mishmash of conspiracy theories, in Jessica Norman’s sparky yet heroically flawed debut play
That …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMWednesday, October 22, 2025
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThere are superb performances in this screen-saturated staging of Jean Genet’s play, updated for the influencer age
Screens were essential to Kip Williams’ one-wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMTuesday, October 21, 2025
Royal Court theatre, LondonMarianne Elliott directs Nick Payne’s tonally uneven play about a missing son that comes with ill-fitting moments of comedy
Nick Payne is an exemplar of this the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMSunday, October 19, 2025
Minerva theatre, ChichesterJamie Bogyo’s debut play recounts the renaming of a Yale University college with broadstroke humour and some exquisitely sung a cappella interludes
What happens …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AMWednesday, October 15, 2025
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonKatherine Moar’s bold and taut drama about the kidnapping of a fictional heiress explores the toxic inheritance of the 1970s
Katherine Moar’s riveting drama …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMFriday, October 10, 2025
Theatre Royal BathThis bizarre drama, with the star playing twins amid plenty of tap dancing, is a warp of hallucinations and reality
Small Hotel is a play that defies category, or even expl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMThursday, October 9, 2025
Old Vic theatre, LondonFive actors play the protagonist at different stages over 70 years in Tracy Letts’ play, co-starring Andrea Riseborough
If there is something familiar about a play c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMWednesday, October 8, 2025
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon The giant-hootered lover ventriloquising his passion for Roxane through a physically dashing rival is the standout star of this warm and l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMSunday, October 5, 2025
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonAchilles is a slob and Ajax is a meathead in Owen Horsley’s streamlined production, which is bursting with invention and comic inversions
Shakespeare’s take…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMNew Diorama theatre, LondonEphemeral Ensemble’s atmospheric but unfocused follow-up to Rewind depicts the west’s ecologically ruinous colonisation of Latin America from a feminist perspe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMFriday, October 3, 2025
Lyttelton theatre, LondonHiran Abeysekera brings humour to the tragedy and Francesca Mills steals the show as Ophelia but this staging pulls its emotional punches
Last week, Indhu Rubasingha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMThursday, October 2, 2025
Park theatre, LondonPainter Lee Krasner’s rivalry with her husband is laid bare in an affecting play about a relationship both loving and riddled with hostility
Art history is littered wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMTheatre Royal Haymarket, London Maxim Didenko delivers Wilde’s version of the biblical tale with a blingy design, topless men in hoods and yodelling
Is it morally acceptable to host an Isr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMWednesday, October 1, 2025
The great performance artist reveals all about her new four-hour Balkan Erotic Epic – a wild reinvention of ancient rituals that is sure to shock, move and amuse audiences
Marina Abramovi�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMSunday, September 28, 2025
Hampstead theatre, London Will Lord’s exciting new play adds a neurodiverse inner voice to the Mamet-like rivalry between ambitious debt collectors chasing financial success
The most dange…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMFriday, September 26, 2025
Barbican theatre, LondonCaroline Guiela Nguyen’s epic drama explores global labour and personal suffering with moments of haunting power
A three-hour durational show with a three-minute pa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMThursday, September 25, 2025
Olivier theatre, LondonThis eccentric take on Euripedes by Nima Taleghani is a striking yet often frustrating opening statement
It takes courage and some flamboyance to launch an inaugural p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMWednesday, September 24, 2025
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonDirector Emily Burns puts a laser focus on the moral rot and hypocrisy of men in power with this streamlined and superbly performed version
Shak…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMTuesday, September 23, 2025
Rose theatre, Kingston upon ThamesAva Pickett’s modern-day adaptation of the novel adds pop music, farce and clowning but lacks gimlet-eyed observations
An early blast of Lady Gaga’s Bad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMFriday, September 19, 2025
Dorfman theatre, LondonDirected by Stephen Daldry, David Lan’s historical drama has a revelatory performance by Artie Wilkinson-Hunt
David Lan’s play takes us into a fascinating corridor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMThursday, September 18, 2025
Bridge theatre, LondonIbsen’s mysticism and mermaids are thrown out as director Simon Stone amps up the 1888 play’s psychological intensity with his eco-focused update
Writer-director Si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PMSunday, September 14, 2025
Bush theatre, LondonBoth screen stars captivate in Emma Dennis-Edwards’s tale of Gen Z Erica and emotionally distant Joyce
Two screen stars blaze on stage in this mother-daughter drama: Le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMFriday, September 12, 2025
Marylebone theatre, LondonRussian director Alexander Molochnikov’s play within a play raises vital questions about the cost and creativity of exile but is undone by its own cleverness
This…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMUstinov Studio, BathAs a pair of wisecracking vaudevillian entertainers, the stars balance the comedy and desolation in Lindsay Posner’s production
This desolate masterpiece by Samuel Beck…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMThursday, August 28, 2025
Andrea Riseborough and Sarandon deliver a decade-hopping drama, superstar standups hit the road and Shobana Jeyasingh rewrites Shakespeare
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMWednesday, August 27, 2025
Donmar Warehouse, LondonMike Bartlett’s invigorating play becomes a state-of-the-world drama about whether it is possible to live responsibly in our age of toxic capitalism
Mike Bartlett�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMFriday, August 22, 2025
Theatre Royal BathThe actor’s minimal staging of the Shakespeare comedy favours stillness and feeling over comic fizz, with moving performances from Gloria Obianyo and Amber James
Ralph Fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMWednesday, August 20, 2025
Globe theatre, LondonRobin Belfield’s staging of Shakespeare’s comedy has plenty of charm, but its darker undertones are glossed over
It is festival time in Illyria, with masked revelrie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMAssembly Roxy, EdinburghEmma Maye Gibson’s outre alter ego conjures a bacchanalian helter-skelter of burlesque moments that never quite cohere
This experimental act from Australia knows ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMThursday, August 14, 2025
Ustinov Studio, BathAllen is convincing as the bored newlywed but Matthew Dunster’s version gets lost between our time and Ibsen’s
It is not through any shortcomings of the cast that Mat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48PMTuesday, August 12, 2025
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonThis version of Lerner and Loewe’s musical has plenty of energy – bagpipes, big voices, drumming galore – but surely it needed more of a story u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM 
