Wednesday, September 28, 2022
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 09:43PM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2022
Audible 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 09:37AM[SHARE]Audible 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 Johnn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 25, 2022
The 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 09:25AM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2022
Theatre 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 dram…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2022
How 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's s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PM[SHARE]Jermyn 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 01:37PM[SHARE]Arcola, 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 dramatises …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Enid 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 Famou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:43AM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2022
Bush 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 has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2022
Kiln 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 unnerving t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55PM[SHARE]Hampstead 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 play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Almeida, 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 Blac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 11, 2022
Regent'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 ow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2022
Young 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 t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2022
Royal & 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 is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Donmar 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 ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Charing 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 11:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2022
Our 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 in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 28, 2022
Soho 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 10:55AM[SHARE]Friday, August 26, 2022
Royal 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 c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2022
Theatre 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 makes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Samira 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 09:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Theatre 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 son…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 21, 2022
Turbine 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 01:49PM[SHARE]Friday, August 19, 2022
King'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," s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Donmar 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 wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2022
Available 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 02:33AM[SHARE]Friday, July 29, 2022
Gillian Lynne theatre, LondonThis exhilarating production of CS Lewis's timeless tale delivers spellbinding spectacle, wartime drama and perfect puppetry
This captivating production takes th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2022
The 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 old w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Southwark 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM[SHARE] 
