Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Jermyn Street theatre, London Adrian Lukis’s self-penned one-man show revisits the character he played in Pride and Prejudice on TV in 1995, but doesn’t discover much
Those who …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMMonday, June 10, 2024
Charing Cross theatre, LondonThis fast and furious Korean show has high-voltage tunes, but suffers from schmaltz and a breathlessly hectic pace
Two women meet on a train, in a flashback to M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMFriday, June 7, 2024
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonAlice Childress’s powerful story of a biracial couple is set in South Carolina in 1918, but burns with the heat of the civil rights era when it was written
‘It�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMThursday, June 6, 2024
Orange Tree theatre, LondonTara Fitzgerald, Emma Fielding and Stephen Boxer deftly juggle roles in this marathon of marital malaise
This 1965 trilogy of late works by Noël Coward has all hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMTuesday, June 4, 2024
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonArthur Miller’s story of family, masculinity and immigrant struggles could seem dated but a brilliant cast bring out uncomfortably modern resonances
This rev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PMMonday, June 3, 2024
One Cartridge Place, LondonHelena Bonham Carter narrates as a bare-footed audience explore exquisite rooms in this unsettling, grief-soaked journey into the night
The immersive adventure beg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMFriday, May 31, 2024
Chichester Festival theatreThe performances are strong and the music is beautiful, but they cannot rescue this convoluted adaptation of Jamila Gavin’s award-winning children’s novel
This…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMTuesday, May 28, 2024
A marathon achievement for its feat of memory, this performance feels like avant-garde cabaret at times
Has the solo star-vehicle as epic monologue theatre reached its peak with Eddie Izzard…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMSaturday, May 25, 2024
Jazz hands and big ballads are out and ‘writing about real emotions’ is in, as a new wave of musicals exploring body issues, bullying and queer identity hits the capital’s biggest stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMFriday, May 24, 2024
Royal Court, London
Emma D’Arcy, Ben Whishaw and Kayla Meikle narrate and act out Nelson’s dark meditations from their own film-making booths in Katie Mitchell’s intriguing experiment
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PMThursday, May 23, 2024
Duke of York’s theatre, LondonThe Spider-Man star and his spikily charismatic Juliet, giving a heroic performance after all the abuse she faced, are perfectly cast in Jamie Lloyd’s turbo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32PMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Michelle Terry plays the king as a playfully antic sociopath in a lively production full of effective performances
Has there ever been a more contested Richard III? Michelle Terry’s self-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMMonday, May 20, 2024
The case of a German ballet director who attacked a critic with faeces has loosely inspired a satire about the relationships between creators and critics
Among the spikier offerings at this …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMFriday, May 17, 2024
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonThe second, strikingly physical part of Lanre Malaolu’s trilogy that began with Samskara explores bereavement with lightness as well as anguish
It is ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMThursday, May 16, 2024
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonFour students in Iran are under pressure to pass their foreign language exams in Sanaz Toossi’s gentle comedy that puts discussion above drama and ideas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMWednesday, May 15, 2024
Trafalgar theatre, LondonThe Olivier award-winner returns to her role as an actor in rehab in Duncan Macmillan’s brutally powerful play
Duncan Macmillan’s 2015 play about addiction is a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMTuesday, May 14, 2024
Hampstead theatre, LondonStrong performances and jibing humour propel this exuberant but flawed revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2014 play about racism in the New York police force
This r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMFriday, May 10, 2024
Nottingham PlayhouseA teenager kills a trainee paramedic with a single strike on a night out in Nottingham in this deftly directed play based on a real story
Take note: this is not a play ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMThursday, May 9, 2024
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonA mix of songs, dance, glitter and camp, this ancient-modern mashup is derailed by bland debates and a convoluted script
An ancient Greek love story, this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMWednesday, May 8, 2024
Coliseum, LondonHayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece is brought to life with imaginative puppetry, wondrous music and moments of delicate poetry
Food and cooking feature prominently in the films o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMSunday, May 5, 2024
Royal Court, LondonFour south London girls tell stories during detention at a mosque in Sabrina Ali’s play, which ends before we know much about them
Four British Somali girls are thrown t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMGlobe theatre, LondonThere’s no whiff of stuffiness in a Sean Holmes’ production characterised by warm summer euphoria, Elizabethan-era magic and entrancing music
The Globe so often come…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMFriday, May 3, 2024
Donmar Warehouse, LondonNina Hoss stars in a kookily immersive production but the devastating hammer blow of the Russian tragicomedy is not lost in translation
It is initially hard to fathom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMWednesday, May 1, 2024
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonEmma Rice directs an ebullient RSC version of the landmark 1990 story of sex, music, class and racism
Hanif Kureishi’s 1990 debut novel was so cool that it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMTuesday, April 30, 2024
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonMax Webster and David Haig’s ambitious female-led stage version of the sci-fi thriller is overwhelmed by its own optics
This ambitious co-production was always goi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMSunday, April 28, 2024
Chichester Festival theatreMike Poulton’s adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s novel shows how the sisters refuse to be passive victims
Wife Number 2 to serial husband, King Henry VIII, firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, April 26, 2024
Southwark Playhouse, LondonAdam Scott-Rowley struts, writhes and jiggles his way from ancient Celt to Hieronymus Bosch wretch in this potent cross between physical theatre and performance ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMThursday, April 25, 2024
Arcola theatre, LondonAndrée Bernard’s solo show is a bizarre representation of one woman’s love life, minus depth and character development
This solo musical opens with a sex scene. A …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMSunday, April 21, 2024
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonTalk of street parties, barbecues and book clubs gives way to politics in this work about authoritarianism, colonialism and how history gets rewritten
The histor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMFriday, April 19, 2024
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonEmily Burns’ modern-day romcom, set on a Pacific island retreat, ramps up the silliness and makes accessible the text’s cloud-parting power …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMThursday, April 18, 2024
National Theatre, LondonWith its heavy mood and gnomic song lyrics, this updated reimaging of Our Mutual Friend is like a 19th-century noir
Period drama is given some sharp edges in this ada…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM 
