Sunday, 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-hours c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]The 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 Iago in d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 Ind…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Dorfman 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 could…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 Conven…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM[SHARE]Friday, 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
We …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 dramatic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 frothy gay…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 Gilber…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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
10. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 Rubi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 woolly …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 Scottish …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 lett…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PM[SHARE]Riverside 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 bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Hampstead theatre, LondonStoppard's 2006 play asks important ideological questions with typically fizzing wordplay but its growling, feral energy comes too late
Tom Stoppard has spoken of th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 12, 2023
The NT's newly announced artistic director was an inspiring leader at the Kiln. She will bring experience, passion, canny ability " and the magnificently unexpected " to her new post
Finally…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PM[SHARE]Friday, December 8, 2023
Royal Court theatre, LondonChris Thorpe's one-man show is more of a scrappy routine than a meaningful call for disarmament
There are nine nations in the world that possess nuclear weapons, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Young Vic, LondonPlaying a man meeting his daughter-in-law for the first time, Jared Harris brings out the dark comedy in Pinter's snapshot of misogyny
Harold Pinter's two-act family drama h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonCo-production with Osaka company brings 1976 study of American imperialism arriving in Japan to subtle, funny life
When Stephen Sondheim's 1976 musical premie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM[SHARE]Friday, December 1, 2023
Theatre503, LondonRoxy Cook's award-winning debut is a whimsical, layered meta-tale about the clash of old Soviet ways and modern, capitalist culture
This play opens just as the title promis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 30, 2023
Bristol Old VicPart panto, part Arabian version of EastEnders, writer Sonali Bhattacharyya, and a winning cast have cobbled together a fizzing modern-day fable about the power of storytellin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 29, 2023
The Depot, LiverpoolStaged in a hangar-like venue strewn with the charred remnants of battle, Simon Godwin's intelligent production puts violent conflict to the fore
At first, it looks like …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PM[SHARE]Lyttelton theatre, LondonAdapted by Alice Birch and directed by Rebecca Frecknall, this is a stylised study in control and daughterly disobedience
'To be born a woman is the worst punishment…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 23, 2023
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonJoe Hill-Gibbins directs his own version of the psychodrama, creating a potent atmosphere with designer Rosanna Vize
If the title of Ibsen's 1881 tragedy about…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Olivier theatre, LondonRoald Dahl's villains are given a makeover with a gag-filled script by Lucy Kirkwood and a couple of storming numbers
In Roald Dahl's universe, witches are the most da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Coliseum, LondonA colossal cast of singers, dancers, acrobats and contortionists take your breath away in this epic and moving story of betrayal and parental sacrifice
This show, about the g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 19, 2023
Stanley Arts, LondonCombining spoken dialogue with BSL this innovative production shines a light on the unsung heroes who keep the economy running while the world sleeps
The drama opens as t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE] 
