Summerhall, Edinburgh The Neutrinos present two very different shows in the same lounge-like space: Inhaus sits the audience in the middle of a pop gig, while Darkroom’s quiet soundtrack d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AMAvailable onlineDelivered by smartphone in voice notes, videos and texts, this ‘real-time documentary’ follows Afghan teen Sajid on an arduous trek across Europe This innovative producti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMMinerva theatre, ChichesterBased on the 70s TV drama, this musical depicts patriarchal power structures in the music industry which haven’t changed much in five decades Almost two decades …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMGarrick theatre, LondonThe likes of Al Murray, Neil Morrissey and Mel Giedroyc can’t rescue Simon Nye’s woefully tedious show about the real-life heist of King Charles II’s crown jewel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PMNaked choruses, sexual fantasies, rubbish tip wastelands and nods to refugee camps … Athens’ Epidaurus festival is thrilling audiences – and thrusting theatre into the 21st century A g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMRoyal Court theatre, LondonDaring production ranges boldly from very funny Westminster satire to suffering families at the sharp end of Home Office policy ‘Words don’t crack bones … Do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMThe experimental collective bus us into unknown woodland at night, where we stumble across mysterious characters and slowly become part of a fugitive community We have been instructed to tur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMThe theatre’s new artistic director proved himself a canny commercialist attuned to promising writing at the New Diorama. How will his maverick sensibility adapt to a major venue? In appoi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AMChichester Festival theatreGina Beck is radiant as Maria in this immaculate and impish production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Chichester has set quite a record for staging West En…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMFinborough theatre, LondonThe first professional production of Merton Hodge’s quippy drama in more than 80 years shows how a play can date Merton Hodge’s whimsical play became an interna…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25AMCrucible, SheffieldBilled as an opportunity to reframe Boublil and Schönberg’s original, this is more of a tweak but it is a visually captivating production Last autumn, a theatre company…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMRoyal Court theatre, LondonThree generations of women in a Merseyside house banter, bicker and disappear into their smartphones in this nuanced play from Michael Wynne Cuckoo is a delicately…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMPark theatre, LondonLewis Aaron Wood’s play about a rugby player with anxiety artfully conveys the energy of the sport but the characters are flimsy A new, welcome body of male-centred pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMRegent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonChild-friendly adaptation that features an airborne chicken takeaway and Prospero casting spells with an iPad is a lovely introduction to Shakespeare …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMHome, ManchesterThis hugely eloquent show weaves together the awful mystery of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 with the tale of a father’s slide into dementia This experimental drama takes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMJohn Rylands Library, ManchesterThe actor’s controlled inner outrage reels us in with this eerily prescient tale from 1977 of a dystopia in which art is criminalised It is eerily fitting t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMLondon PalladiumThis adaptation has a luminous performance from Georgina Onuorah as Dorothy and some great ideas but throws too much at the audience This turbo-charged revival of Andrew Lloy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43PMKiln theatre, LondonElizabeth Thompson takes on the whiskered lads of the Royal Academy in a show that bubbles over with charisma Elizabeth Thompson was once such a famous artist that a poli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AMCracking comedy, an eclectic mix of theatre – and aerial dance in an ice rink. Our critics share their picks for the August arts extravaganza Rhod Gilbert: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMBirmingham RepThe Derry Girls star adds wonderfully subtle clowning and a beguiling naturalism to the absurd classic about a woman quite literally stuck in marital stasis The sun beats down …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMBush theatre, LondonSet against a backdrop of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, AJ Yi’s thought-provoking and zingy culture-clash comedy contrasts online bedroom activism with the real thing We…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMBarbican theatre, LondonMichael R Jackson’s Pulitzer-winning play is a strikingly original, highly entertaining tour of identity politics and the struggles of selfhood Michael R Jackson’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:19PMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonA bewitching cast cleverly turns Shakespeare into improv comedy in a backstage ‘rehearsal’ of the play, in which age and memory are played f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AMRegent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London With anarchic comedy, songs and merry gender twists in Carl Grose’s version, the folk hero of Sherwood Forest blazes a fresh trail of must-see summ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMShaftesbury theatre, LondonThe cast do their exuberant best but this bland, by-the-numbers retread of the 1990s film lacks feeling and adds nothing original beyond a reference to Love Island…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AMDuke of York’s, London In this revival of Martin McDonagh’s play about child mutilation, tyranny and freedom of expression, the twists and turns between comic and macabre sadly do not co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMNational Theatre, LondonIt’s a game of two halves, but Jason Graham’s dramatisation of Southgate rescuing a languishing England team delivers tension and movement James Graham’s story…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMAfter Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre, who is most likely to be the London powerhouse’s next artistic director? We look at eight potential candidates Rufus Norris’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PMHe’s a West End fixture who’s already been compared to Fred Astaire. As he prepares to hop from Mary Poppins to the Gershwin musical Crazy for You, Stemp talks rowdy audiences, ice baths…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonThe songs may not compare to the 1949 film’s zither music, but the design amplifies Trevor Nunn’s elegantly shadowy production It takes courage to adapt …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMAlmeida theatre, LondonThis innovative, fast-paced production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, starring Toheeb Jimoh and Isis Hainsworth, has a beguiling intensity Rebecca Frecknall is fast becom…
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