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 dramat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMKing’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 frot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThe 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 Gi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMOur 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMHampstead 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMArcola 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 w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMThe 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 Scottis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMPhoenix 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 le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMRiverside 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMHampstead 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThe 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 F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMRoyal 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,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMYoung 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 dra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMMenier 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 prem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMTheatre503, 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 prom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMBristol 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 08:18AMThe 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 lik…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMLyttelton 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 punishme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMSam 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 abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMOlivier 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 mos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMColiseum, 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 08:24AMStanley 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 08:54AMPerforming naked except for a well-positioned accordion, sprig of parsley or mirror, Eliona Haines tackles labia-shaming by chopping up slices of beef and grilling them. She explains all to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMHampstead theatre, LondonSocial disparities are highlighted in Magdalena Miecznicka’s satirical study of the power play between two former lovers We enter this drama in the middle of a con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonUnsettling ideas about sinister political forces are debated in a haunted house. It’s timely subject matter, but fails to create any sense of tension Holed up in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMDuke of York’s theatre, LondonPenelope Wilton plays the isolated royal and Luke Evans is her courtier in a light production that never gains much depth She was the Queen Mother, he was the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMFinborough Theatre, LondonThe third play in this programme of work by Scotland’s first major modern female playwright redeems an otherwise underpowered evening The first two plays in Ena L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMThere may be comfort in the retelling of Dickens’ familiar tale, but the best adaptations show the imagination to still surprise Has Charles Dickens’ charming little Christmas story beco…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMPark theatre, LondonA crisp and jarringly satirical play presents the 1995 Panorama documentary as a forerunner of today’s fake news Martin Bashir’s now discredited 1995 Panorama intervi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMApollo theatre, LondonJoss Stone and Dave Stewart’s strangely forgettable score does little to lift this musical but there are some wonderful set pieces For the millions of readers held ra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMArcola theatre, LondonThe enigmatic 1999 novel about three entwined lives is sleekly adapted by Bryony Lavery and sharply directed by Melly Still Here is a story of unrequited love in which …
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