Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonLolita Chakrabarti’s staging of Maggie O’Farrell’s moving novel about the death of the playwright’s son – and his resurrection in Hamlet – is pow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMLiverpool PlayhouseThe actor and director pitches the antihero as a racial outsider. She is compelling, but he is an inconsistent character in a production leached of intrigue This productio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMOmnibus theatre, LondonUsing brilliantly expressive movement, a modern Daphne is torn between a glossy public face and an inner world of howling self-hate A woman in blond wig and sparkly sk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMHarold Pinter theatre, LondonSome called it torture porn, others a masterpiece. Ivo van Hove brings Hanya Yanagihara’s novel to the West End, complete with spurting blood, relentless sadis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMHampstead Theatre Downstairs, LondonCordelia Lynn seeks to rewrite the rules of playwriting in this rough jewel of a play about a family of women What we know is that this is a house by the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonHeadbanging frontwoman Dani Heron moves from schoolgirl sex, parties and music-making to teen pregnancy, miscarriage, rape and depression The set is a cross betwee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMWatford Palace theatreA cockney fox and a preening jackdaw open our eyes to the wonders of nature in this charming show based on Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s book In this new musi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:02PMSouthwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonIt’s a nice idea but this disconnected show about the former Italian PM makes some bizarre choices and lacks satirical bite This satire about Italy’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMBarbican, LondonSimon McBurney directs a toweringly innovative adaptation of the eco-thriller by Nobel-winner Olga Tokarczuk The opening night of this Complicité production was aborted at t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMRiverside Studios, LondonThe puppets are lovely but this hour-long show has anodyne songs and a hodgepodge of tales On paper, this Disney musical about AA Milne’s honey-loving bear and hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMPleasance, LondonThe climate crisis is explored via the senseless bureaucracy of a travel agency in a show that lacks subtlety Office politics can be a keen mirror of group behaviour and so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMRiverside Studios, LondonA talented cast can’t save this bizarre production about a holiday romance dogged by a conflict in ideology This musical begins like a cheesy Mills & Boon roma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMRoyal Court theatre, LondonPart satire, part serious drama, Danny Lee Wynter’s story of gay love and acting slowly reveals its emotional powers Actor Danny Lee Wynter’s debut as a playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26AMPark theatre, LondonTwo friends put together an Abba tribute band and explore ideas of male friendship, homophobia and family in Ian Hallard’s witty play Abba superfans might recognise thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMVerbal clashes from history are being thrillingly restaged for modern audiences. Do these grand battles prove we’ve lost the art of disagreement? And could watching them anew change the po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMYoung Vic, LondonSet on a volcanic island, this play goes through dormant spells but its themes of colonial conquest are enriched by dazzling design and atmosphere Here is a keen study of is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMJermyn Street theatre, LondonAs the race to produce the first atomic bomb nears its terrible conclusion in 1945, six members of Germany’s nuclear weapons programme are detained at a statel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:27AMBridge theatre, LondonThis immersive production of the New York musical has a bold design, superb singing and chemistry between its stars Frank Loesser’s 1950 musical comedy about sin and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01PMDistracting behaviour, from eating noisily to using mobile phones, is a vexed issue. But the chorus of disapproval often suggests elitism and overlooks theatre’s history The recent debate …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMVault festival, Network theatre, LondonA depressed 500-year-old wants to remove her immortality implant in this entertaining and kooky dark comedy which lands just short of saying something …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52AMNew Diorama, LondonEllice Stevens and Billy Barrett’s fizzing production traces the story of the Tories’ anti-gay legislation If section 28 holds no meaning for you, you were probably no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThe Vaults, LondonLovely portrayals of childhood friends in postwar Ireland can’t really make up for a muddled production This coming-of-age story begins in postwar Ireland and follows a f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMThe Vaults, LondonRoann Hassani McCloskey and Joel Samuels’ show at the Vault festival reimagines and reclaims mythical characters Remythed dramatises several mythic tales but not as we kn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMArcola theatre, LondonTim Edge’s harrowing and darkly funny play starring Evanna Lynch has razor-sharp dialogue and swerving plot twists Northern Ireland’s Troubles are channelled throug…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMAs their Edinburgh fringe hit Sap heads on a UK tour, playwright Rafaella Marcus and producer Ellie Keel discuss the future of new writing, the rise of ‘safe’ programming and the need fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMVault festival, LondonEloka Obi and Saul Boyer re-examine the forgotten story of 19th-century Sierra Leonean barrister August Boyle Chamberlayne Merriman-Labor, who wrote a delicious spoof o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMVault festival, The Cage, LondonSophie Bentinck tells the stories of herself, her mother and her grandmother, tracing the latter’s descent into depression, dependency and suicide Sophie Be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:59AMRiverside Studios, LondonThe desperate extremity of women’s experiences trapped in the UK immigration system gets an intense multimedia treatment This production startles not only with its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26AMWatford Palace theatreA striking, slick adaptation of Shakespeare’s problematic play sees Tracy-Ann Oberman play a Jewish matriarch up against the fascists of 1930s London In Tracy-Ann Ob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMDuke of York’s theatre, LondonWilly Russell’s 1986 monologue about a neglected woman’s midlife liberation is given new life in this perceptive production Willy Russell’s 1986 monolog…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMShoreditch Town Hall, LondonThe new work by Charlie Josephine gives us teenagers’ thoughts about objectification, shame, body image and sex Last year Charlie Josephine presented Joan of Ar…
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