Sunday, January 11, 2026
Hampstead Theatre, LondonWith shades of MR James and Inside No 9 Jamie Armitage’s innovative recording studio haunting is a good old-fashioned fairground-ride chiller
The trigger warning a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMJermyn Street theatre, LondonAn outstanding cast grapple with this revival of Lyle Kessler’s 80s set drama but the play feels incomplete with too many threads remaining unresolved
The quie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMFriday, January 9, 2026
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonCrudup and Denise Gough lead a tense adaptation that turns the film into a debate play whose McCarthy-era roots resonate powerfully today
How do you turn a class…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMTuesday, January 6, 2026
Duke of York’s Theatre, London
Sheridan Smith’s disconsolate housewife seeks refuge in a fantasy world, in critique of the emptiness of married life
Susan is not the first woman battling…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PMMonday, January 5, 2026
Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner unite for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Michael Sheen launches Welsh National Theatre and Bridget Christie revs up for a return to the stage Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSunday, January 4, 2026
Orange Tree theatre, London
Comedy’s upper-class antics are transposed to 1920s Bath and bring a crowd-pleasing mix of anarchic spirit and silliness, though it slackens occasionally
Richar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMTuesday, December 23, 2025
Omnibus theatre, LondonSweet and funny show is based on rumoured vampire sightings in north London in the 1960s and 70s – though it could do with producing a few more goosebumps
For a time…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMSunday, December 21, 2025
Chichester Festival theatreA musical adaptation of Matt Haig’s children’s book is visually delightful and heroically performed by Chichester Festival Youth Theatre but the songs are humd…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMThursday, December 18, 2025
Trafalgar theatre, London Arriving from Broadway with much fanfare, Cole Escola’s play about Mary Todd Lincoln is loaded with obvious jokes and squanders the talents of its cast
Oh, my! M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMWednesday, December 17, 2025
A meet-cute between Humanity and Earth, a mod ballet and Nick Mohammed’s career-best standup set – our critics pick the best stage shows of the year
10. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMAlmeida theatre, London A north London Jewish family share a meal – and heated arguments – in this complex and courageous drama
Stella Adler, the renowned actor and teacher of Yiddish o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMSunday, December 14, 2025
Festive theatrical feasts serve audiences a slap-up dinner with their entertainment. But is what’s on stage as appetising as what’s on your plate?
In west London, a line of smartly dress…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMFriday, December 12, 2025
Lyttelton theatre, LondonCoughlan plays a barmaid, alongside Derry Girls co-star Siobhán McSweeney, in JM Synge’s 1907 classic
Every woman loves a bad boy, or so the cliche goes. Here it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMBridge theatre, London Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s fairytale adventure follows its archetypal characters into real-world emotion, brilliantly drawn and sung
Can Stephen Sondheim an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02AMThursday, December 11, 2025
Young Vic theatre, LondonA powerful blend of VR, testimony and theatre exposes the human toll of benefit cuts – and asks what justice looks like in a new political era
David Cameron did no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMWednesday, December 10, 2025
Young Vic theatre, London Rajiv Joseph’s tale of a captive animal that returns from the dead after the 2003 invasion is bracingly unconventional
There is an exciting wildness to the Europe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMMonday, December 8, 2025
As bombs fell on the capital, a Bengal tiger was left all alone – until a US marine shot it. Rajiv Joseph explains why he brought the beast back from the dead for his Pulitzer-nominated dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSunday, December 7, 2025
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonHuman drama and witty direction as the RSC stages an adaptation of John Galsworthy’s dynastic shenanigans
Long before the upstairs/downstairs drama of Down…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PMThursday, December 4, 2025
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonJanie Dee and Alexandra Gilbreath are excellent as wives preparing to meet an old flame in an entertainingly directed play that builds to comic chaos and a ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWednesday, December 3, 2025
Sherman theatre, CardiffAlice is a boring grownup at the start of this intelligent and catchy Christmas musical – then she’s whisked off to Wonderland again
What has happened to Alice? W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTuesday, December 2, 2025
Arcola theatre, LondonThis riff on Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories has flashes of promise but its comedy and purpose never land
Shouldn’t that be Flat 2b? Then again, there are bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, November 30, 2025
Savoy theatre, LondonState-of-the-art animatronics, imaginative staging, fabulous performances and some marvellous songs about marmalade make for an evening that will fill you with joy and m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06PMThursday, November 27, 2025
Riverside Studios, London The madcap sci-fi tale is retold on a lavish scale, complete with in-show merch, but it never really blasts off
Douglas Adams’s sci-fi comedy about Earth’s dest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMWednesday, November 26, 2025
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonAbigail Pickard Price’s stripped-back staging conjures ghost stories, seaside dreams and Dickensian tragedy through three performers’ dazzling transformation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMSunday, November 23, 2025
Tara theatre, London A young, gay Indian man learns steps to Britishness from a phantom vision of the Tory politician, but the result is less sinister a satire than it should be
Remember Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMFriday, November 21, 2025
Wyndham’s theatre, LondonBryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Paapa Essiedu and Hayley Squires achieve theatrical alchemy in Ivo van Hove’s superb production
In 2014 Ivo van Hove’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMDorfman theatre, London David Eldridge’s two-hander depicts the difficult conversations that follow one partner’s cancer diagnosis
David Eldridge’s trilogy has travelled across the ear…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMWednesday, November 19, 2025
New Diorama, LondonTwo stories, centuries apart, are used to chart climate disaster in this ambitious musical with bitty scenes and cumbersome lyrics
This climate disaster musical takes plac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMThursday, November 13, 2025
Kiln theatre, LondonThe accused of the Pendle witch trials are given a voice but this glib production fails to do them justice
Rebecca Brewer and Daisy Chute’s musical, inspired by the Pen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMWednesday, November 12, 2025
Troubadour Canary Wharf theatre, LondonEye-popping visuals and a strong lead performance energise Matthew Dunster’s production – but the emotion gets lost amid the action
A luminous bow …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PMSunday, November 9, 2025
Hampstead theatre, LondonOverbearing life coach Winston and reluctant daughter Joy take a road trip through repression and half-spoken feelings
Nancy Farino’s debut play looks at the fault…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM 
