Friday, 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 12:54PMCowbarn at Underbelly, Bristo Square, EdinburghThe two titans of tech are parodied in a thoroughly fun send-up of the competition between Apple and Microsoft
This musical comedy about billio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMTraverse, EdinburghOliver Ayres tucks you in for an intimate account of his diagnosis with a severe and chronic immune condition, and the effect of transphobia
This is a one-to-one show that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48AMSunday, August 10, 2025
Traverse theatre, EdinburghIn Hannah Moscovitch’s powerful play, a journalist’s triggered memories of abuse are voiced by a man
This two-hander about consent, abuse and the doubt cast ov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AMSaturday, August 9, 2025
Summerhall, Edinburgh Beth Paterson leads us through her discovery that the grandmother who berated her as a child was a Holocaust survivor
This story, told by Beth Paterson, is about her �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PMFriday, August 8, 2025
Lyceum, EdinburghPerformers dig up the stage, roll in the sack and merge with machines in Belgian theatre collective FC Bergman’s arresting show
Belgian theatre collective FC Bergman’s t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMAssembly George Square Studios, Edinburgh Robert Daws stars as the great comic author in this one-man show but is let down by lukewarm humour
Robert Daws has lots of previous form on PG Wode…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThursday, August 7, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWith brilliant one-liners, dazzling music and two formidable performers, this fringe highlight sees a cute newcomer end Earth’s 750m-year stint of singledom
D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMWednesday, August 6, 2025
Big Yin at Gilded Balloon Patter House, EdinburghA joyful ensemble channels the spirit of 70s counterculture with dazzling costumes and cheeky choreography in a flawed show
This riotous ense…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32PMPentland theatre, Pleasance at EICC, Edinburgh Voices swirl in Andreas Constantinou’s medium-like performance as he struggles still with his dad’s response to his sexuality
This is a sho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMMonday, August 4, 2025
Traverse theatre, EdinburghBuried trauma surfaces at a family reunion in Karis Kelly’s darkly funny Northern Irish drama that attempts to capture a broader history of violence
Karis Kelly�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMPleasance Dome, EdinburghIn one of several Palestinian stories at this year’s fringe, writer and comedian Alaa Shehada finds humour amid the horror of Israel’s occupation
This is the sto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, August 3, 2025
Summerhall, EdinburghThe actor makes his much anticipated writing debut at the fringe with an adventurous show about homemade porn
Kevin and Megan are friends who reap the benefits when a on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSaturday, August 2, 2025
Festival Theatre, EdinburghCox’s entertaining spectre of Adam Smith visits Royal Bank of Scotland’s fascinatingly bland tyrant CEO in James Graham’s ambitious play about his meteoric r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMWednesday, July 30, 2025
Jermyn Street Theatre, LondonThe fictional island of Sirene is home to a tangled web of lovers in this fun and frolicking adaptation of Compton Mackenzie’s novel featuring a fantastic cast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMTuesday, July 29, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonHollering songs, cartoonish characters and dire dialogue mar this well-intentioned true story of the first all-female crew to attempt the Whitbread ocean …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMSunday, July 27, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonAlex Urwin’s warm drama tells the story of Simon Parkes who at just 23 bought the Brixton Academy for a pound and turned it into a mainstay of the UK mus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMFriday, July 25, 2025
Chichester Festival theatreTwinkly eyed Phillip Attmore and silky-singing Lucy St Louis have natural chemistry in this stylish, witty adaptation of the mistaken identity drama
It looks like …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMWednesday, July 23, 2025
James Ijames was told Shakespeare wasn’t for the likes of him. Yet his Hamlet revamp electrified Broadway and scooped up Tony nominations. As Fat Ham hits the UK, he talks violence, vengea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonYaël Farber’s production manages the problem play’s shift from dark to light well, but is often opaque in meaning
Male sexual jealousy driv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMTuesday, July 22, 2025
Savoy theatre, LondonThis adrenalised adaptation of the 2010 film is stuffed with superb voices and sensational moves
What a tremendous breath of fresh air. Amid the indefatigable rise of mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42PMLady Macbeth Played Wing Defence combines comedy, songs and athleticism as a young netball player reckons with her own ambitions against an electro-pop score
A spate of Macbeths will hit the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, July 20, 2025
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThe stage version of John Carney’s film stays bright-eyed despite the darker turns in this tale of teenage pop, poverty and fractious families
This stage adaptatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMFriday, July 18, 2025
Dorfman theatre, LondonShaan Sahota’s play sets a British-Sikh politician’s schemes against his family betrayal – a tremendous debut from a writer of huge promise
Adeel Akhtar has beco…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMThursday, July 17, 2025
Orange Tree theatre, LondonCasting two Netflix stars in this funny and astute modernisation of the life of Saint Clare of Assisi shows that the gulf between rich and poor never changes
Chiar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMKeighley & Worth Valley Railway, West Yorkshire Stupendous set design brings E Nesbit’s children’s classic to new life as a wealthy Anglo-Indian family is forced to adjust to reduced…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMTuesday, July 1, 2025
London PalladiumZegler excels as Eva Perón and the crowds outside are used to capture the hypnotic appeal of populism but the narrative takes a backseat in his staging of Andrew Lloyd Webbe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM 
