Friday, February 3, 2023
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonKosovan refugee Dritan Kastrati looks back at the struggles of his arduous journey and his troubling experiences in London
‘In my country” is an often…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, February 2, 2023
Lyric theatre, LondonThe singer is convincing in the role (first played by Lily Allen) of a mother who hears spooky noises at night in Danny Robins’ well-oiled, blackly comic chiller
Since…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMWednesday, February 1, 2023
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonJosie Rourke’s West End revival of Sam Steiner’s fringe hit really lifts when the show’s starry duo drop their romcom routine
Does a revival of Sam Steiner…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMTuesday, January 31, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonThis intergalactic show about sexuality and religious homophobia boasts a charismatic star in Willy Hudson but tips into chaos
Willy Hudson’s “queer sci-fi epic” ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMFriday, January 27, 2023
Barbican, LondonThese four vignettes offer flashes of brilliance and smart stagecraft but feel too disconnected to truly hit home
Is it too soon to see the funny side of the pandemic? A hosp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMThursday, January 26, 2023
Royal Court, LondonA plot to kill RuPaul for dragging drag into the mainstream, followed by song and dance numbers, fires up an exhilarating show with breathtaking costumes, radical politics…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMWednesday, January 25, 2023
Theatre503, LondonWhen two boys kiss at primary school, there’s a furore on the parents’ WhatsApp group and an intervention from fabulous supernatural forces
Two couples thrash out their…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMTuesday, January 24, 2023
Park theatre, LondonGwithian Evans and Jon Osbaldeston star in a power struggle that keeps you guessing – but it’s not enough to get under your skin
Nicolas Billon’s 2004 play sets its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMMonday, January 23, 2023
Riverside Studios, LondonJemma Kahn’s show begins with a striptease, then ponders existential questions before ending with an orgiastic dinner party
This peculiar and alluring act begins a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMFriday, January 20, 2023
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonMisha Levkov’s dystopian debut examines migration, climate and community action but the drama is lost amid bland philosophical arguments
It is 2025 and the wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMThursday, January 19, 2023
Ustinov Studio, BathThe humour is a little too clownish in Lindsay Posner’s revival of Edward Albee’s classic but the toxic power games are potent
So much of Edward Albee’s 1962 play a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMWednesday, January 18, 2023
Charing Cross theatre, LondonThe Star Trek actor appears in an epic story of Japanese Americans interned after Pearl Harbor but there is never enough emotional force
This musical, inspired b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMSunday, January 15, 2023
Seven Dials Playhouse, LondonKeith Merrill’s monologue about an agent who feels she should have found fame as an actor relies too heavily on backstory and hackneyed lines to realise the po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMFriday, January 13, 2023
Almeida, LondonOne of the year’s most hyped shows delivers with powerful performances from the Normal People star, Patsy Ferran and Anjana Vasan
Two weeks into 2023 and we have already arr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMThursday, January 12, 2023
Park theatre, LondonVernon Vanriel’s extraordinary battles with addiction, poverty and the Home Office are brought to life in a big-hearted if overlong show
This play enacts a boxer’s re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMWednesday, January 11, 2023
Donmar Warehouse, LondonPatricia Hodge stars in Hellman’s play about a liberal American family confronted by war in Europe and the dangers of inaction
Lillian Hellman’s 1941 play looks …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMTuesday, January 10, 2023
Available onlineThree monologues, told from a Black British perspective, tackle subjects ranging from distrust of the medical system to the gentrification of Brixton
These three audio dramas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMMonday, December 26, 2022
Danny Boyle’s Matrix-inspired spectacular opens in Manchester, Succession star Brian Cox returns to the stage and standups Maisie Adam, Guz Khan and Catherine Cohen are on tour
More from t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMThursday, December 22, 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonHannah Khalil’s lo-fi retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s 1844 story cleverly weaves in humour, carols and a contemporary lesson on woodland conservation
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMWednesday, December 21, 2022
Available onlineTony award-winning musical about an ageing TV star trying to revive his career has a slow-burn power that brings serious drama to the zinging comedy
Buddy Young Jnr was once …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMTuesday, December 20, 2022
Watford Palace theatreThis lacklustre reframing of the fairytale as a talent show veers into a pantomime version of Phantom of the Opera
This is not Beauty or the Beast as we know them: Bell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMThursday, December 15, 2022
In a superb year for the stage, our chief critic gives 10 shows an extra round of applause. Plus, Guardian theatre reviewers each pick their 2022 standout
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM@sohoplace, LondonMartha Plimpton and the whole ensemble shine in Shakespeare’s nuanced romance interwoven with sign language and song
A piano, prominent on an otherwise empty stage, is a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMWednesday, December 14, 2022
Southbank Centre, LondonParton’s music is as warming as ever but a snowfall of schmaltz and minimal menace make this Dickens adaptation sickly sweet
Here is Scrooge and his crew as we have…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMTuesday, December 13, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonThere’s some promising material in this tale of a struggling Lebanese American family – but too much story for the play to successfully contain
A patron saint of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMDramatising the latest watercooler story doesn’t guarantee you box-office success. The stiffest competition may come from reality’s own high drama
Just before the curtain came up on Vard…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMMonday, December 12, 2022
Rose theatre, Kingston upon ThamesCharles Dickens takes to the stage and Ebenezer Scrooge is a woman with a moving backstory in Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s adaptation
As fine a festive treat as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMSunday, December 11, 2022
Theatre Royal Brighton Panto finds dame and co-star John Bishop in need of a boost and better jokes, though song and dance performers give it unruly energy
If you only come for Ian McKellen,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMFriday, December 9, 2022
Young Vic, LondonA strong cast cannot conceal the thinness of this superficial account of South Africa’s great liberator
This musical about the extraordinary life of the South African free…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, December 8, 2022
Dorfman theatre, LondonApril De Angelis’s comedy about a leave-voting entrepreneur in a gentrified area has echoes of Abigail’s Party and Educating Rita – except all the characters are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMWednesday, December 7, 2022
Olivier theatre, LondonNo theatrical effect is spared in this emotional show, which returns to Charles Perrault’s grisly and grief-ridden fairytale for inspiration
This musical twist on Sl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM 
