Theatre503, LondonRoxy Cook’s award-winning debut is a whimsical, layered meta-tale about the clash of old Soviet ways and modern, capitalist culture This play opens just as the title prom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMBristol Old VicPart panto, part Arabian version of EastEnders, writer Sonali Bhattacharyya, and a winning cast have cobbled together a fizzing modern-day fable about the power of storytellin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThe Depot, LiverpoolStaged in a hangar-like venue strewn with the charred remnants of battle, Simon Godwin’s intelligent production puts violent conflict to the fore At first, it looks lik…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMLyttelton theatre, LondonAdapted by Alice Birch and directed by Rebecca Frecknall, this is a stylised study in control and daughterly disobedience ‘To be born a woman is the worst punishme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonJoe Hill-Gibbins directs his own version of the psychodrama, creating a potent atmosphere with designer Rosanna Vize If the title of Ibsen’s 1881 tragedy abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMOlivier theatre, LondonRoald Dahl’s villains are given a makeover with a gag-filled script by Lucy Kirkwood and a couple of storming numbers In Roald Dahl’s universe, witches are the mos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMColiseum, LondonA colossal cast of singers, dancers, acrobats and contortionists take your breath away in this epic and moving story of betrayal and parental sacrifice This show, about the g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMStanley Arts, LondonCombining spoken dialogue with BSL this innovative production shines a light on the unsung heroes who keep the economy running while the world sleeps The drama opens as t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMPerforming naked except for a well-positioned accordion, sprig of parsley or mirror, Eliona Haines tackles labia-shaming by chopping up slices of beef and grilling them. She explains all to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMHampstead theatre, LondonSocial disparities are highlighted in Magdalena Miecznicka’s satirical study of the power play between two former lovers We enter this drama in the middle of a con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonUnsettling ideas about sinister political forces are debated in a haunted house. It’s timely subject matter, but fails to create any sense of tension Holed up in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMDuke of York’s theatre, LondonPenelope Wilton plays the isolated royal and Luke Evans is her courtier in a light production that never gains much depth She was the Queen Mother, he was the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMFinborough Theatre, LondonThe third play in this programme of work by Scotland’s first major modern female playwright redeems an otherwise underpowered evening The first two plays in Ena L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMThere may be comfort in the retelling of Dickens’ familiar tale, but the best adaptations show the imagination to still surprise Has Charles Dickens’ charming little Christmas story beco…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMPark theatre, LondonA crisp and jarringly satirical play presents the 1995 Panorama documentary as a forerunner of today’s fake news Martin Bashir’s now discredited 1995 Panorama intervi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMApollo theatre, LondonJoss Stone and Dave Stewart’s strangely forgettable score does little to lift this musical but there are some wonderful set pieces For the millions of readers held ra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMArcola theatre, LondonThe enigmatic 1999 novel about three entwined lives is sleekly adapted by Bryony Lavery and sharply directed by Melly Still Here is a story of unrequited love in which …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMWyndham’s theatre, LondonAt two hours with no interval, the actor-director’s production hurtles past at such speed that the depths of the play are too rarely realised Kenneth Branagh has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMTheatre Royal, BathAn excellent cast give the story of Ruth Snyder, a woman executed by electric chair in 1928 for killing her husband, a cleverly inventive, chillingly modern update Ruth Sn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMFeaturing contributions from poets, novelists and a Nobel laureate, this highly charged night – interrupted by updates from Gaza in real time – marked the suffering on both sides of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:55PMWelsh and Scottish venues have progressed, but only male artistic directors have run the National Theatre. It’s time to address that Let’s begin with a pub quiz style Q&A about Briti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMHarold Pinter theatre, LondonStarry cast including Lily James and Doon Mackichan are tossed around in a plot that never gets hold of its many concerns Lyonesse has all the makings of a power…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AMRoundhouse, LondonSimon Stephens’ adaptation of Max Frisch play about bourgeois indifference to a rising crisis should ring loud bells, but its absurdism fails to resonate There is a great…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AMNational Theatre, LondonAlexander Zeldin’s profoundly moving play grew from his parent’s reflections, which he uses to conjure an epic struggle for love and freedom A reluctant protagoni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMTheatre Royal BathThe Succession star excels in Oliver Cotton’s play about the meeting between the composer and Frederick the Great It is promoted as a dramatic encounter between God-feari…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMOrange Tree theatre, LondonIn a chic kitchen a Trinidadian couple discuss their high-end lives, but their cook, whose recipes the audience can scent, draws them back to deeper roots This dra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMAs her play set in a truck stop kitchen is staged in London, the twice Pulitzer-winning playwright talks about the healing power of cooking, US theatre’s recent shockwaves and her Michael …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMSherman theatre, CardiffAstounding tale of how a volunteer at a Welsh hospital changed the lives of neurodivergent people globally is dynamically directed and movingly told This is a local s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AMSavoy theatre, LondonLloyd brings hipster edginess, style and unpredictability to this revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical – though it’s more surface-level than penetrating closeu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19PMRoyal Court Upstairs, LondonAn aspiring journalist comes up against the difficulties of accurately representing his shisha-going community in Mohamed-Zain Dada’s energetic debut This debut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMDorfman theatre, LondonClint Dyer and Roy Williams’ state-of-the-nation series continues, this time giving the perspective of the women in its central duo’s lives From its inception as a…
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