Shoreditch 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:39AMAlmeida, LondonLulu Raczka’s new play, directed by Rupert Goold, is beautifully designed but the plot – and the point – is puzzling. Maybe the joke’s on us? This confounding play is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMDorfman theatre, LondonGary Owen’s tale of star-crossed, working-class lovers in modern Cardiff offers existential questions and awkward encounters Writer-director team Gary Owen and Rache…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonWhile Diana Nneka Atuona’s deft script could do with a final polish, its heart, humour and spirit sing in the hands of a luminous cast The Donmar’s last productio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:57AMRoyal and Derngate theatre, NorthamptonMichael Rosen’s update of Oliver Twist gets the musical treatment in this high-energy show about a schoolgirl ensnared by a street gang Charles Dicke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AM@sohoplace, LondonMedea is as much victim as villain in Dominic Cooke’s psychologically subtle and subversive production, and Ben Daniels is superb playing all the puffed up men in her li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMRoyal Court theatre, LondonAva Wong Davies’s monologue takes us through the small, slow steps that lead her central character into peril This slow but searing monologue begins as a girl-me…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:17AMOld Vic, LondonHistorical characters bust contemporary dance moves while the troubled relationship between Sylvia Pankhurst and her mother Emmeline is laid bare So many shows seem to want to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AMNational Theatre, LondonThis new musical traces the intersecting lives of three families on the Park Hill estate in this spine-tingling and sentimental love song to the steel city This music…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMAlphabetti Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne and onlineImmersive, interactive and online, this story of Allison Davies’ schooldays, early romances and autism diagnosis, is heartfelt Elsa has a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMRomeo, an out-of-work single dad, falls for Julie, a top student who dreams of being an astrophysicist. We go behind the scenes at a Shakespeare update that swaps fair Verona for Splott in C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMLyttelton theatre, LondonJanet McTeer plays a politician who falls for her dead lover’s son, but even her strong performance cannot save a tonally unsure play The ancient Greek tragedy of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMGillian Lynne theatre, LondonHadley Fraser, Nigel Lindsay and Michael Balogun are astonishing as the 18th-century bankers who helped to define the American dream The Lehman Trilogy premiered…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AMFinborough theatre, LondonThis two-hander, translated from the French, has a hypnotic narrative power as it considers the refugees’ dangerous journey Two men stand at opposite ends of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMTheatre Royal Stratford East, LondonKosovan refugee Dritan Kastrati looks back at the struggles of his arduous journey and his troubling experiences in London ‘In my country” is an often…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:53AMLyric theatre, LondonThe singer is convincing in the role (first played by Lily Allen) of a mother who hears spooky noises at night in Danny Robins’ well-oiled, blackly comic chiller Since…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:22AMHarold Pinter theatre, LondonJosie Rourke’s West End revival of Sam Steiner’s fringe hit really lifts when the show’s starry duo drop their romcom routine Does a revival of Sam Steiner…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:14AMSoho theatre, LondonThis intergalactic show about sexuality and religious homophobia boasts a charismatic star in Willy Hudson but tips into chaos Willy Hudson’s “queer sci-fi epic” ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AMBarbican, LondonThese four vignettes offer flashes of brilliance and smart stagecraft but feel too disconnected to truly hit home Is it too soon to see the funny side of the pandemic? A hosp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AMRoyal Court, LondonA plot to kill RuPaul for dragging drag into the mainstream, followed by song and dance numbers, fires up an exhilarating show with breathtaking costumes, radical politics…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMTheatre503, LondonWhen two boys kiss at primary school, there’s a furore on the parents’ WhatsApp group and an intervention from fabulous supernatural forces Two couples thrash out their…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AMPark theatre, LondonGwithian Evans and Jon Osbaldeston star in a power struggle that keeps you guessing – but it’s not enough to get under your skin Nicolas Billon’s 2004 play sets its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:27AMRiverside Studios, LondonJemma Kahn’s show begins with a striptease, then ponders existential questions before ending with an orgiastic dinner party This peculiar and alluring act begins a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMJermyn Street theatre, LondonMisha Levkov’s dystopian debut examines migration, climate and community action but the drama is lost amid bland philosophical arguments It is 2025 and the wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMUstinov Studio, BathThe humour is a little too clownish in Lindsay Posner’s revival of Edward Albee’s classic but the toxic power games are potent So much of Edward Albee’s 1962 play a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:22AMCharing Cross theatre, LondonThe Star Trek actor appears in an epic story of Japanese Americans interned after Pearl Harbor but there is never enough emotional force This musical, inspired b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMSeven Dials Playhouse, LondonKeith Merrill’s monologue about an agent who feels she should have found fame as an actor relies too heavily on backstory and hackneyed lines to realise the po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:39AMAlmeida, LondonOne of the year’s most hyped shows delivers with powerful performances from the Normal People star, Patsy Ferran and Anjana Vasan Two weeks into 2023 and we have already arr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:53AMPark theatre, LondonVernon Vanriel’s extraordinary battles with addiction, poverty and the Home Office are brought to life in a big-hearted if overlong show This play enacts a boxer’s re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonPatricia Hodge stars in Hellman’s play about a liberal American family confronted by war in Europe and the dangers of inaction Lillian Hellman’s 1941 play looks …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMAvailable onlineThree monologues, told from a Black British perspective, tackle subjects ranging from distrust of the medical system to the gentrification of Brixton These three audio dramas…
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