Sunday, December 12, 2021
The Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse theatre, LondonRedmayne and Jessie Buckley ‘Willkommen’ us into this Weimar-era Berlin nightclub for an evening of flamboyance, menace and magnetism
Thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMThursday, December 9, 2021
Dorfman theatre, LondonA play-within-a-play provides an ingenious platform for drama in Alice Childress’s still-pertinent 1955 unpicking of American racism
Race is “an explosive subject�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36PMTuesday, December 7, 2021
Bridge theatre, LondonNicholas Hytner brings a dazzling wizard’s touch to this adaptation of Philip Pullman’s fantasy tale
Nearly two decades ago, Nicholas Hytner triumphantly staged Phi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMMonday, December 6, 2021
As an adaptation of La Belle Sauvage arrives at the Bridge theatre, the author explains why His Dark Materials was better as a play than a film – and how he learned to write for children a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMSunday, December 5, 2021
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonAn eco-themed updating of the fairytale without any bite, this panto has clumsy storytelling and half-hearted smut
Red wears a magic hoodie in this pantom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMFriday, December 3, 2021
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThere are strong performances in this tale of sex, power and morality reimagined by director Blanche McIntyre
If there is a #MeToo moment in Shakespeare’s oe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMThursday, December 2, 2021
Wyndham’s theatre, LondonThis stage version of Yann Martel’s novel is exquisitely designed but the wonder leaks away in flat-footed storytelling
Life of Pi had a first life as a Booker p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMTuesday, November 30, 2021
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonPennington plays Prospero in Tom Littler’s production, with a bewitching, naughty Ariel in Whitney Kehinde
This production brings its enchantments but one enth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMFriday, November 26, 2021
Omnibus theatre, LondonShocking truths are revealed when a middle-aged gay couple bring home a man half their age for a threesome
‘Monogamy is complicated,” says Michael, one half of a g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThursday, November 25, 2021
Garrick theatre, LondonBeverley Knight excels as trailblazing manager Faye Treadwell in a musical that skips hastily through history and lacks emotional drama
The idea behind this musical i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMWednesday, November 24, 2021
Lyttelton theatre, LondonThere is a prevailingly saggy sitcom vibe as characters shelter in an English country house in a production with many failings
Moira Buffini’s new play tries to be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMTuesday, November 23, 2021
Jacksons Lane, London Through intriguing group scenarios, the impressive Represent cast consider politics and tyranny without resorting to pat solutions
Interruptions interrogates the rights…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMFriday, November 19, 2021
Barn theatre, CirencesterThis bewitching but at times confusing adaptation offers a spin on the familiar story before swerving into panto mode
The Grimm brothers’ Aschenputtel is far from …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMThursday, November 11, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonIfeyinwa Frederick’s monologue is delivered with humour and energy by Joseph Black as a man nearing 30 when depression seeps in
Tunde is turning 30 and there is a fair …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMWednesday, November 10, 2021
Rose theatre, Kingston upon ThamesOverly stylised theatrics mar this revival of Colin Teevan’s monologues featuring Medea, Phaedra and others from ancient tragedies
A fringed curtain of st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMThe singing sensation belting out big numbers in the veg aisle, Britney’s Oops! redone as vintage jazz, how to flirt if you’re a woman in a musical … our critic takes her seat for thea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMFriday, November 5, 2021
Finborough theatre, LondonAlana Valentine’s drama about a struggling family in New South Wales is superbly performed
This is an intergenerational story which deals with the devastating eff…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMThursday, November 4, 2021
Ustinov Studio, BathPenhall’s 2000 play, set in the world of psychiatric care, is revived by James Dacre in a production with some riveting debate
When it premiered in 2000, Joe Penhall’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMWednesday, November 3, 2021
Criterion theatre, LondonRough-hewn but joyous musical take on the classic novel works in everything from Carly Simon to Chris de Burgh
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Britis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMNottingham PlayhouseGatiss’s delayed rework amps up the ghostly effects while drawing out the overlooked dark comedy in the classic tale
If it seems premature to be staging Charles Dickens…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMFriday, October 29, 2021
Hampstead theatre, LondonCompelling performances aren’t enough to save Roxana Silbert’s staid restaging of this Pulitzer-winning suicide drama
Marsha Norman’s mother-daughter drama is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMTuesday, October 26, 2021
Playground theatre, London‘You don’t want to help. You just want to say you’ve helped’ … this series of heated and occasionally heavy-handed dialogues illuminate social hypocrisy a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMFriday, October 22, 2021
Bristol Old VicRetelling the gothic novel with intelligently charming humour and a live band, this is a bold and ingenious production
Emma Rice calls Wuthering Heights a tragedy in this show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMThursday, October 21, 2021
Lyric theatre, LondonIt’s the music that carries the emotional weight in this tale of love, loss and roots rock, starring the superb Arinzé Kene
A fortress-like wall of speakers is wheele…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMWednesday, October 20, 2021
Birmingham Repertory theatreThe 18th-century novel and Welsh crooner meet on 1960s Carnaby Street in a spirited jukebox musical
This is a madcap mashup of a musical. Its basic premise is, bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMA new female-led festival aims to challenge the sexist tropes and subvert the narratives of scary theatre
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Abi Zakarian and Sampira are self-professed horror fiends. All…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMTuesday, October 19, 2021
Bush theatre, LondonShahid Iqbal Khan’s signed play about a young Muslim’s spiritual journey could be fantastic, but it needs a better narrative
It is a tremendous relief to see a play …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMTabernacle, LondonVerbatim reconstruction of the inquiry into the 2017 disaster points up the horrifying, amoral capitalism that fuelled it
Grenfell Tower housed many of the “have-nots” …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMMonday, October 18, 2021
New Diorama theatre, LondonRyan Calais Cameron’s exploration of race and masculinity is timely and has potent moments but this production feels underdeveloped
British dramatist Ryan Calais…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSunday, October 17, 2021
Donmar Warehouse, LondonA poet and a physicist begin a relationship under a fascist regime in Cordelia Lynn’s audaciously jagged play about the tipping point of tyranny
Love and Other Acts…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMThursday, October 14, 2021
Almeida theatre, LondonSaoirse Ronan and James McArdle star in a production with emotional spark, palpable dread and a horrifying beauty
The psychological terror is slow to rear and does not…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PM 
