Monday, April 13, 2026
Arcola theatre, London Writer Ken Ludwig’s heartfelt and funny romcom draws the audience into every step of Jack and Louise’s developing affection, their longing deepened by physical sep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMSaturday, April 11, 2026
Hampstead theatre, LondonMichael Frayn’s cerebral drama of science and conscience returns with urgency – although this production struggles to ignite its emotional core
Paapa Essiedu rec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMAlmeida theatre, LondonAnya Reiss packs the marriage scandal plot with inspired ideas, from convincing talk of Instagram to a look at sexual dynamics in the crosshairs of contemporary capita…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSouthwark Playhouse Borough, LondonThe songs soar and blast in this inventive tale of a toxic romance – though it needs a few tweaks to be truly brilliant
The scope and ambition of this da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, April 5, 2026
Dorfman theatre, LondonComedy infuses Winsome Pinnock’s disarming but ebullient drama about two Black academics who are given the job of authenticating the diaries of an enslaver
You don�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMThursday, April 2, 2026
National theatre, LondonA queenly Lesley Manville steals the show in this dark, rageful tale of seduction as contact sport
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was serving as an artillery officer whil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMTuesday, March 31, 2026
Royal Court theatre, LondonA class on The Crucible unearths troubling parallels for a group of teen girls in Kimberly Belflower’s play set in the wake of the Weinstein scandal
Kimberly Bel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMLyric Hammersmith, LondonJocelyn Bioh’s comedy – following a day in the life of a Harlem braiding salon – is filled with humour and hijinks
‘Don’t touch my hair” is a racially-ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMSadie Sink and Noah Jupe’s pure chemistry perfectly encapsulates the urgent and uncompromising nature of first love
Has the conveyor belt from screen-to-stage celebrity turned full circle …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMThursday, March 26, 2026
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-Upon-AvonCo-artistic director Tamara Harvey stages a well-acted production that never hits as hard as it should
The bellicose patriotism in this, the las…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMDuke of York’s theatre, LondonFifty years since David Hare’s play was first staged, Rebecca Lucy Taylor is inspired casting as a singer who refuses to go out without a bang
David Hare’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMWednesday, March 18, 2026
The writer, actor and singer won an award for her role in Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. Then everything went silent. As the rising star returns in her very own musical, she hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMHampstead theatre, LondonUS businessman-turned-playwright Aaron Loeb combines medical tech concepts with knotty dilemmas and Mamet-esque dialogue
An earnest research scientist turns up at a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMOlivier theatre, LondonWriters Nina and Moses Raine add comedy and raunch to Maxim Gorky’s satire of the holidaying elite
In 1898, Maxim Gorky wrote a fan letter to Anton Chekhov. Gorky wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMSunday, March 8, 2026
Watford Palace theatrePaying tribute to his grandfather whose 1983 show at the same venue lasted only one night the actor and comedian skilfully unveils a big reveal worthy of Inside No 9
Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54PMThursday, March 5, 2026
Mercury theatre, Colchester The targets of the infamous 17th-century ‘witchfinder general’ narrate a powerful play based on AK Blakemore’s novel
‘It does not matter what is true,” …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMWednesday, March 4, 2026
Young Vic, LondonJordan Fein’s revival finds hypnotic power in Miller’s 1994 play, as Pearl Chanda and Eli Gelb bring haunting emotional force to a story of paralysis and denial
Some mig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMTuesday, March 3, 2026
Arcola theatre, London Nicolas Kent directs a set of short plays by British and Ukrainian writers giving devastating vignettes from the conflict
Nicolas Kent’s concept for a series of shor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMSunday, March 1, 2026
King’s Head theatre, LondonJessica Regan creates a collaborative collage of the capital and its romantic encounters, eccentric flatmates and eye-watering rents
Jessica Regan’s promising …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMFriday, February 27, 2026
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonEmerging playwright Samson Hawkins takes on toxic influencers in an exuberantly directed drama with echoes of TV’s Adolescence
The audience enters through …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMWednesday, February 25, 2026
Donmar Warehouse, London The 28 Years Later star joins the impressive Anastasia Hille in Anna Ziegler’s two-hander about grief and family
There are many ingenious ideas in Anna Ziegler’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMHampstead theatre, London Elizabeth Dulau is terrific in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s new play as the young woman set to become a daring pioneer in fiction and real life
This is a play about Geor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMFriday, February 20, 2026
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon After a book, a film and a Ted Talk, William Kamkwamba’s heroically inventive response to floods, drought and starvation is now delivered with energetic s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PMWednesday, February 18, 2026
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe Black Panther actor’s melding of social commentary and Shakespearean themes is sometimes opaque yet undeniably poetic
Chadwick Boseman was not only an ac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMNoël Coward theatre, LondonDeploying accents and wigs, the Wicked star takes on all Bram Stoker’s characters, but the atmosphere lacks the fever or diabolicism required
Are people born wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMTuesday, February 17, 2026
He left school at 15 and worked as a scaffolder. Then success on New Faces launched him to stardom – and he’s been a panto and musicals sensation ever since. So what made him write a com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSunday, February 15, 2026
Omnibus theatre, London Inspired by the 1998 shooting of Tyisha Miller, the lost hopes and memories of a young Black woman – played beautifully by Jada Evelyn Ramsey – are explored throu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMFriday, February 13, 2026
Aldwych theatre, LondonWilliam Nicholson’s take on CS Lewis’s marriage to an American divorcee should have you in bits but it fails to feel as eviscerating as it should
The drama of love…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06PMTheatre Royal Stratford East, London Using photographs from an archive album of Auschwitz staff relaxing, this searing drama builds into an unforgettable inquiry
This play is based around a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMWednesday, February 11, 2026
Dorfman theatre, LondonA financier facing corruption charges is reunited with his son in this high-concept mishmash of screwball comedy and financial thriller
The National Theatre is certain…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMMonday, February 9, 2026
The former Bond girl talks about her new role as a top writer accused of stealing a story as her actor husband is cancelled – and why she has no regrets about her time aboard the 007 rolle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM 
