Sunday, June 29, 2025
Malta festival, PolandThis updating of Agnieszka Holland’s 1981 film about a struggling single mother suggests life under capitalist consumerism is no easier than it was under communism
Ag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMFriday, June 27, 2025
Stara Rzeźnia, PoznańThis outdoor offering, part homage and part reimagining of Shakespeare’s text, has visual spectacle, a magnificent score and a cast undeterred by an actual storm
Out…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMThursday, June 26, 2025
Almeida theatre, LondonRebecca Frecknall’s usually bold directorial hand seems stilled in a glacially paced revival co-starring Michael Shannon and David Threlfall
Rebecca Frecknall has gi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMTuesday, June 24, 2025
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonLuke Brady is the hero navigating between godliness and humanness in a show that’s big on booming numbers yet short on emotion
Four years ago, Disney brough…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMSunday, June 22, 2025
Kiln theatre, LondonIman Qureshi’s play starts as a good, old-fashioned underdog story before exploring sexuality, homophobia and trans identity
A group of women convene around a piano in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMFriday, June 20, 2025
Arcola theatre, LondonOn a quest to visit all 54 African nations, a band of travellers explore personal, political and social history – but it can be hard to work out what’s happening
Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThursday, June 19, 2025
Royal Court theatre, LondonKane’s emotionally unswerving gifts as a writer are on full display in a 25th-anniversary production reuniting the original cast
What must it have felt like to w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMSunday, June 15, 2025
Chichester Festival theatreNatalie Dormer is exceptional in the title role with Phillip Breen’s clever production reflecting the full scope of the novel’s ambition
The stampede of acto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, June 12, 2025
Deptford Storehouse, LondonWhile Liana Patarkatsishvili’s gargantuan immersive show looks spectacular, too many ideas are thrown about without being tethered to a story
The disused warehou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMTuesday, June 10, 2025
Brixton House, LondonMojisola Adebayo’s play deftly navigates light and heavy subject matter as its hero embarks on a quest to feel the earth move
Do not underestimate the gravity of the m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMNewly arrived in the West End, Disney’s demigod is the latest mythological A-lister to knock out showtunes. Why are deities such as Hermes and the ‘half-blood’ Percy Jackson having a m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMSunday, June 8, 2025
Teatro Carlo Goldoni, VeniceIn an extraordinary theatrical feat, two agile actors play 23 characters populating the seemingly ordinary working day of a central couple
A day in the life of a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMTese dei Soppalchi, VeniceBetween smashing glasses and reading conceptual index cards, Dafoe and Simonetta Solder neglect to locate this two-hander’s drama – or its heart
Long before Wil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMLazzaretto Vecchio, VeniceOn the site of a hospital for leprosy patients, audience members are invited to wander in near darkness among twitching body bags into a choreographed scene of ritu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMWednesday, June 4, 2025
Orange Tree theatre, LondonAmelia Sears’ production of Terence Rattigan’s knotted drama contains warmth – and love – beneath the disappointments of married life
Terence Rattigan dist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTuesday, June 3, 2025
Hampstead theatre, LondonSarah Ruhl’s stage adaptation of the book she wrote with her former student Max Ritvo, who died of cancer at 25, is smartly written if emotionally distant
Sarah Ru…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMSunday, June 1, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonTim Firth’s 2013 musical about domestic dysfunction and redemption seems a little twee by today’s standards but the songs and sentimental ending will …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMFriday, May 30, 2025
★★★★☆ / ★★★★★Theatro Technis, LondonPainful yet joyous and with pitch-black humour, these plays are as good as testimonies to the horrors happening in Gaza, capturing imm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMThursday, May 29, 2025
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonGreat 1970s costumes, bubbling performances and an elegant set tee up this adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera’s novel about a Sikh family facing Enoch Powell-era racis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMA smattering of famous names, a big-ambition project, a gay classic and a musical thriller … the powerhouse artistic director’s final productions have all his hallmarks, showing how he m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, May 25, 2025
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, LondonThe cast of six women and one man give extraordinary physical performances – but most devastating is the stillness that reflects their paralys…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThursday, May 22, 2025
Garrick theatre, London Filial tangles, played with the actor’s real-life daughter Bessie Carter, bring George Bernard Shaw’s once-banned drama to life
This is not the first production o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonDirector Ola Ince brings absurdist comedy to Arthur Miller’s classic drama of Salem witch-hunting, now told partly through song
There is never a time when Arth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMWednesday, May 21, 2025
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonIbrahima Balde’s desperate journey to find his brother should make for essential theatre, but this production lacks the emotional intensity of the book
Ibrahim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, May 18, 2025
Pleasance theatre, LondonJamie Sykes’ queasily entertaining play dramatises the contemptible views found in ‘incel’ forums – but also elicits sympathy for its characters, whose loath…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMFriday, May 16, 2025
Minerva theatre, Chichester Mark Addy plays the Bunyanesque everyman whose trip to the postbox becomes a spiritual journey set to glorious foot-stomping songs
The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
Bush theatre, London Laith Elzubaidi’s autobiographical one-man play explores the lingering pain of his family’s flight from Iraq with a standup’s humour
In the w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThursday, May 8, 2025
Lyttelton, LondonThis energetic look at the charmed lives of the 1% features some signature sparks, but the class satire is not potent enough in the composer’s swansong
Stephen Sondheim’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMSunday, May 4, 2025
Globe theatre, LondonDirector Sean Holmes’s high concept production shows that the frontier works surprisingly well as Shakespeare’s fractious Verona
The warring Houses of Montague and C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMThursday, May 1, 2025
Royal Court theatre, London Singaporean Joel Tan’s play revolves around the fate of an ancient statue, in disparate scenes of thrilling complexity played by a zesty cast
Controversies ove…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMWednesday, April 30, 2025
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonEchoes of Gaza and Guantanamo ripple through the violence of Shakespeare’s paradoxically poetic play, immaculately staged by the RSC
It is not just heads t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM 
