Tuesday, 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 07:42AMFriday, January 19, 2024
Omnibus theatre, LondonA feminist artist and teacher is at the centre of Mary Swan’s overstuffed play exploring abuse, sexism and politics
We meet a once famous artist just as she is being…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMThe play’s the thing. But what’s so wrong with the RSC’s plan to also let people have dinner, or catch the last train home?
“How poor are they that have not patience!”. So implores…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMWednesday, January 17, 2024
The Linbury prize exhibition at the National Theatre is full of smart ideas including a truckers’ royal court and a jester-like Dr Faustus
Alice in Wonderland reimagined in Partition-era I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMDorfman theatre, LondonWhile the aesthetics are arresting, Amit Lahav’s play lacks the specificity to create any emotional depth
A drama about the epic horrors that migrants have faced cou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMMonday, January 15, 2024
It is one of the most electrifying and unsettling sounds in theatre. Should we be encouraging crowds to do it more? Experts tell us about booing’s origins – and actors remember being on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMSunday, January 14, 2024
Park theatre, London Ins Choi’s comedy set in a Korean Canadian shop has an irresistible charm, despite at times feeling like a best-sketch montage from its TV forerunner
Before Kim’s Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMFriday, January 12, 2024
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonSet in the year before the events of The Crucible, the volatile children’s games that seed the later hysteria are brilliantly played but the drama is missing
W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMThursday, January 11, 2024
Ambassadors theatre, LondonWhile it doesn’t have the big jump scares of 2:22: A Ghost Story or The Woman in Black, this lo-fi horror builds in creepiness
How well does horror play out on s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMWednesday, January 10, 2024
Riverside Studios, LondonThe compelling life of the world-changing mathematician and logician is somehow rendered unremarkable in a drab musical
Alan Turing’s life was without doubt dramat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMTuesday, January 9, 2024
King’s Head theatre, LondonSet in San Francisco’s art world, Shaun McKenna and Andrew Van Sickle’s frothy farce brings a contemporary gay twist to an old-school comic formula
This frot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMTuesday, December 26, 2023
The new year’s hottest shows include stage versions of Minority Report, Spirited Away and La Strada, performances by Keeley Hawes and Ian McKellen – plus laughs from Julia Masli, Rhod Gi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMThursday, December 21, 2023
Our critics’ highlights of the year include a 24-hour marathon, a standup welcoming hecklers, a reboot of The Matrix and a bus ride filled with emotion• More on the best culture of 2023
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMWednesday, December 20, 2023
Hampstead theatre, LondonStalin’s daughter and a white supremacist’s son navigate their psychological inheritances as scenarios and characters change quickly in a blizzard of ideas
This …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMTuesday, December 19, 2023
Arcola theatre, LondonThis timely revival of Tim Price’s monologue about a rough sleeper drawn into activism leaves little space for vulnerability
‘Got any change?” asks a man with a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMFriday, December 15, 2023
The staging is imaginative and expressive, and the audience is immersed in the action by hearing everything through headphones
This is the second starry adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMThursday, December 14, 2023
Phoenix theatre, LondonThis origin story has all the dark mystery of the Duffer Brothers’ Netflix series and delivers one coup de theatre after another
It starts with those floating red le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMRiverside Studios, LondonDavid Ireland’s explosive satire turns into farce as two buffoons parading as progressives team up with a dramatist played by Louisa Harland
Two white men in show …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM 
