Royal Court, London Jonathan Freedland has turned 180,000 words drawn from interviews into a potent verbatim play about antisemitism and the blindspots of liberal institutions. The results f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43PMAudible Originals Delivered with rage, as a woman reckoning with her past, this audio drama written and performed by Jumbo takes too long to get to the point, stalling in domesticity Cush Ju…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMAudible Originals What happened next to headstrong Lydia Bennet, the most rock’n’roll of the Pride and Prejudice sisters? This intriguing take by Sarah Page reunites Jessie Buckley and J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMThe Old Vic, LondonWhat begins as a broad takedown of the liberal left morphs into an engrossing and textured debate on social justice, vaccination and the pull of conspiracy theory Eureka D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AMTheatre Royal Stratford East, London At first, Anthony Neilson’s play is a bewildering affair, but its sombre aftermath imparts understanding with crushing effect Anthony Neilson’s 2004 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AMHow do you give the star-cross’d lovers a lift? Drop them in 12th-century Japan and add a classic Queen album. As it opens in Britain, A Night at the Kabuki sends shivers down our writer�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMJermyn Street theatre, LondonA bestselling romance writer leaves his wife for a glamorous new partner in this 1940 play whose gender politics feel toothless now Dorothy L Sayers is not prima…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMArcola, LondonKyo Choi’s shocking and intelligent play tells the story of a Korean woman who was forced into military sex slavery for Japanese troops at the age of 16 The Apology dramatise…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMEnid Blyton’s adventurers roam the stage in a new show that considers the climate crisis, gender identity and the impact of the pandemic on children Anyone who has grown up reading The Fam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:43AMBush theatre, LondonWaleed Akhtar’s bewitching love story between a gym bunny and an asylum seeker raises urgent issues The P Word is a love story with shades of When Harry Met Sally: it h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMKiln theatre, LondonMoira Buffini’s clever political comedy returns, educating a new generation on Margaret Thatcher’s legacy through her weekly encounters with the monarch It is unnervi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55PMHampstead theatre, LondonThe venerable director’s drama about a doctor’s splintering family broaches huge issues but never makes a unified whole The pandemic has brought out the budding …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMAlmeida, LondonA family fight about politics, policing and race in Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s play but the ominous early signs lead nowhere The Clinic starts off with a satirical set piece as a Bl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMRegent’s Park Open Air Theatre, LondonInua Ellams updates the Sophoclean drama into a beguiling piece about faith and prejudice, and casts a suspicious eye at politicians who betray their …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMYoung Vic, LondonHans Kesting is spellbinding as an anguished man facing up to his abusive father in Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of the book by Édouard Louis A one-minute silence marking th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AMRoyal & Derngate, NorthamptonThis adaptation of the classic 1967 film is packed with fun despite losing its way in the second half Attempting to adapt Jacques Tati’s 1967 masterpiece i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonThe stage adaptation of Kavita Puri’s extraordinary oral history project is at times superficial and blunt but also deeply moving Few English-language writers have …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PMCharing Cross theatre, London This soulful celebration of adventurer Annie Londonderry takes time to get into gear, but newcomer Liv Andrusier gives a superb performance Annie Cohen Kopchovs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMOur roundup of drama to watch at home includes an intelligent political drama, a reimagined As You like It and a play about Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter’s passion for cricket The Made …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMSoho theatre, LondonChris Fonseca signs and dances his early life story with a guileless charm, drawing on rap, immersive sound and comedy to lighten the darker moments The music is blasting…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford upon AvonRosie Sheehy dazzles as a woman calling the shots in this feverish production that underlines the play’s curious ambiguities This problem play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMTheatre Royal BathThe ex-Python’s production is visually enticing, playful and dreamlike but doesn’t quite reach the mournful depths of parental anxiety that run through the story What m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMSamira Wiley makes her UK stage debut, there’s an urgent counter to antisemitism, plus a fourth King James, refugee dancers and comedic returns Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMTheatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonThis absorbing take on Guy Fawkes’s plan to blow up parliament has striking resonances to today’s world, as well as a starry cast knocking out sensational…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMTurbine theatre, LondonLuke Bayer single-handedly plays a classroom of feuding high school drama students in this unmissable take on All About Eve A musical with a classroom full of feuding …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMKing’s Head theatre, LondonChristopher Wollaton impresses in a one-man show about body dysmorphia but his script suffers from a lack of proper plot “What we are showing here is important…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonIn a near-future world on fire, a jury of 12 young people listen to testimony from the ‘dinosaur’ generation If the current, abnormal weather patterns around the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMAvailable onlineCentred around a proposed Holocaust memorial, this debut from playwright Teunkie Van Der Sluijs probes the intersections of Black and Jewish identity with an eloquent flair T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AMGillian Lynne theatre, LondonThis exhilarating production of CS Lewis’s timeless tale delivers spellbinding spectacle, wartime drama and perfect puppetry This captivating production takes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMThe self-described ‘wobbly’ comedian is returning to her first love, acting, with a hard-hitting play about the collision of disability and austerity Francesca Martinez was three years o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonMusical set on the prehistoric ocean floor and starring singing yeast particles is a swampy mess This 2007 comedy musical features all-singing, all-dancing particl…
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