Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Gielgud Theatre, LondonSmith plays a Broadway star in the midst of a mental crisis in Ivo van Hove and Rufus Wainwright’s glittering and extravagantly original musical adaptation of the Ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMFriday, March 22, 2024
Aviva Studios, ManchesterThis story involving an SS officer who fled to Syria after the war is simply staged but slippery, intriguing and full of nuance
The flight of Nazis including Adolf E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMFriday, March 8, 2024
Bristol Old VicAdaptation of David Nicholls’ novel about a student’s class-inflected coming of age scores for its songs but its energy becomes unhinged
Long before the post-university ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, March 7, 2024
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonA tremendous cast capture the hope and despair of life in the ‘mother country’ in this powerful adaptation of the 1956 novel
Lyrical and loosely structured, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMWednesday, March 6, 2024
Olivier theatre, LondonSheen stars as Aneurin Bevan in Tim Price’s drama, unfolding in flashbacks from a hospital bed
This life story begins at the end, with Aneurin “Nye” Bevan in a h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PMMonday, March 4, 2024
No one is banned from these shows – and for Slave Play’s run on the West End, they take up only two nights out of almost 100
Downing Street made a surprise announcement last week. No, no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMFriday, March 1, 2024
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonMark Ravenhill’s reimagining of the duo’s work on Gloriana exposes imbalances in the partnership but ultimately is a tragedy of thwarted ambition
In 1952…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMThursday, February 29, 2024
Birmingham RepSoaring ballads and spirited movement abound in a charming show about teenage self-discovery
A team of bhangra dancers bound onto the stage in traditional sequined dress and fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMWednesday, February 28, 2024
Donmar Warehouse, LondonHawes and Jack Davenport radiate as postwar lovers in Lucy Kirkwood’s cinephile postwar romantic drama set against the birth of the NHS
As debate on the future of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMSunday, February 25, 2024
Bush theatre, LondonBenedict Lombe questions ideas around abuse, grief and the Black body in this meet-again-cute starring Tosin Cole and Heather Agyepong
Would you want to revisit your firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02PMFriday, February 23, 2024
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonThis feted battle of the sexes comedy follows defiantly upbeat Caribbean characters making a life in postwar Britain
This irrepressible ska musical, trans…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, February 22, 2024
Good plays have the power to shake us out of our complacency. This recurring debate is a pointless skirmish in a culture war
CONTENT WARNING: This column may include opinions with which you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMWednesday, February 21, 2024
Lyric theatre, LondonAnaïs Mitchell’s musical melds two classical myths, folk and jazz with tremendous soul and offbeat spirit
This odyssey through the underworld, told with deep-voiced …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMTuesday, February 20, 2024
Duke of York’s theatre, LondonRock’n’roll reimagining of Ibsen’s timeless corruption drama brings the audience into direct Question Time-style dialogue with Smith’s idealist revolu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMHampstead theatre, LondonJohn Logan’s play combines the stories behind two films made in the 1960s but each needs more space to truly hit home
Two pairs of directors and actors zigzag on s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMFriday, February 16, 2024
Almeida Theatre, LondonThe set is a marvel, the performances are electric and the ending – with Lear raging and trembling in a hospital gown on the heath – is profoundly tragic
Yaël Far…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMThursday, February 15, 2024
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonAided by elaborate tech, multiple screens and an angelic wig, the Succession star gives a performance that is mischievous, swaggering and operatic
Does Sarah S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PMTuesday, February 13, 2024
Old Vic, LondonJukebox show celebrating sweary Bob Geldof’s 1985 mega-fundraiser piles homily on cliche in a production in thrall to white saviour stereotypes
The breathless tagline invite…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMSunday, February 11, 2024
Rose theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames Onjali Raùf’s morality tale for children, adapted by Nick Ahad, fluidly harnesses schoolkid energy, though important details are often reported rather t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMFriday, February 9, 2024
Theatre Royal BathThis eccentric retelling of the bloody story flamboyantly combines songs and pop culture gags but still shocks
Emma Rice’s retelling of this bloody folktale could be desc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMThursday, February 8, 2024
The first African Caribbean figure to lead a major British theatre has announced his departure but his bold approach must remain
Kwame Kwei-Armah’s decision to step down from the helm of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMWednesday, February 7, 2024
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonThe Jerusalem playwright’s new drama, directed by Sam Mendes, follows four siblings coached as children to become stars and now reunited at their mother’s be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMTuesday, February 6, 2024
Bush theatre, LondonPersonalities and generations clash in Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s claustrophobic play about a mental health unit under strain
It is clear from the office, strewn with piles…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMFriday, February 2, 2024
New Diorama theatre, LondonEphemeral Ensemble use music, movement and puppetry to astonishing effect in a devastating show about the right to protest
There are few words in this startling ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMThursday, February 1, 2024
Dorfman theatre, LondonBeth Steel’s new drama is dazzlingly performed and full of pain, joy and laughter in a deft production by Bijan Sheibani
A wedding day is fertile ground for a family…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMWednesday, January 31, 2024
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonOla Ince’s production is set within a hostile modern police force and has DCI Othello’s unconscious portrayed by a second actor
Shakespeare’s military ge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMTuesday, January 30, 2024
Barn theatre, CirencesterThe detective hunts for Jack the Ripper in a funny, tangled comedy on how crime is sensationalised for entertainment
This comedy adventure enlists Sherlock Holmes to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMonday, January 29, 2024
Rimini Protokoll’s new show is part of a series of performances inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses and draws a connection between its Aeolus episode and hypercapitalism
On the eastern out…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSunday, January 28, 2024
Savoy theatre, LondonDespite a thrilling premise – New York’s power couple staging unhappy marriages – this dated production coasts on its stars’ fame rather than testing their seaso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMThursday, January 25, 2024
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonThe Aristophanes play is interwoven with the theatre company’s personal quest in a ramshackle show that loses its way
This Aristophanes comedy is theatre�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMSunday, January 21, 2024
Southwark Playhouse, LondonGrace Joy Howarth’s play about the lives of two slaughterhouse workers addresses many things – the ethics of eating animals, the situation in Ukraine, zero-hou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM 
