Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Available online Staffordshire’s Anglo-Saxon booty inspires a host of short plays by writers including April De Angelis and Darren Sharp
A metal detectorist from the West Midlands lists hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMMonday, November 16, 2020
Available onlineThe Queen’s theatre in Hornchurch seeks to set the record straight on the county’s much maligned image with four monologues that fizz
When Mike Leigh situated his social …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMThursday, November 12, 2020
Available onlineLouise Orwin whispers monstrous imaginings into your ear in an aural interrogation of the horror genre that touches on pandemic fears
‘What’s your favourite scary movie?�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMTuesday, November 10, 2020
Mike Bartlett’s monologue brings us the inner life of a despotic public figure and Luke Barnes’s over-the-phone drama is profoundly creepy
A powerful man has broken the rules of lockdown…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMMonday, November 9, 2020
Available onlineThese bite-sized, beautifully written short plays give a powerful voice to aggrieved heroines from Greek and Roman mythology
This three-part series enters the hearts and mind…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, November 6, 2020
Available onlineJuliet Stevenson, Linda Bassett and others bring to life a fantasy dinner party thrown as the Nazis overrun France
All does not go smoothly at Steven Carl McCasland’s fanta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMThursday, November 5, 2020
Olivier theatre, LondonMichael Balogun delivers this monologue – a sequel to Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ Death of England – with deftly controlled energy
‘There have been other mome…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMWednesday, November 4, 2020
Crucible, Sheffield/onlineA three-woman cast powerfully captures the shifting fortunes of a Nigerian family down the decades, from Ibadan to Britain
With a cast of three on an almost bare st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMTuesday, November 3, 2020
Chichester Festival theatre/onlineDirector Tinuke Craig gives Sarah Kane’s one-act play an edge-of-the-seat tension as the four characters move between hope and despair
Crave was the one-a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMMonday, November 2, 2020
OnlineBeginning at the end, Jonathan Coe’s novel about the scheming Winshaws is turned into an audacious investigative whodunnit
Jonathan Coe’s satirical novel about the venality of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, November 1, 2020
Nottingham Playhouse; ZoomThe actor was joined by Adrian Scarborough for a seasonal dose of phone calls from the other side and undead criminality
‘The oldest and strongest emotion of mank…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMFriday, October 30, 2020
Rose theatre, KingstonWilly Russell’s play works well in a socially-distanced staging, and the questions it asks about the value of arts and education feel more pertinent than ever
This 40…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMThursday, October 29, 2020
She went from rave diva with Nomad to winning her third Olivier award on Sunday for Death of a Salesman. Yet the London actor isn’t immune to the storms battering theatre
Sharon D Clarke w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, October 25, 2020
Watermill theatre, NewburyThis powerful, affecting drama ranges over the pioneering aviator’s adventurous career and her final terrible moments
Amy Johnson is, in many ways, still the epit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMNottingham PlayhouseIn James Graham’s Covid romcom, a couple who have just met decide to quarantine together, while in a parallel narrative they face isolation alone
The playwright James G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMFriday, October 23, 2020
Immersive LDN A revitalised, socially distanced version of the F Scott Fitzgerald novel keeps the jazz age alive with song, dance and spectacle
Last year, in the “before”, The Great Gat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMTuesday, October 20, 2020
This funny, tragic and deeply unsettling one-woman tour de force shows who the US constitution serves – and who it lets down. The statistics alone are horrifying
Heidi Schreck tells us she…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMFriday, October 2, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonTamsin Greig and Maxine Peake play long-suffering women, gravely put-upon by the men in their lives, in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads
The first monologue in this doubl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMWednesday, September 30, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonThere are fine performances by Imelda Staunton and Lucian Msamati in this pair of Talking Heads
The latest two live instalments of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMFriday, September 25, 2020
Tristan Bates theatre, London, and online In her lockdown romance, playwright Gemma Lawrence explores desire, isolation and homophobia
A remote love story seems so fitting for our times. Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PMThursday, September 24, 2020
New general secretary Paul Fleming says that amid this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, the union received spike in reported cases of racist behaviour
Equity, the UK trade union for c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMMonday, September 21, 2020
The explosion of digital productions of all sizes has shown great creativity and made hit shows more accessible – but is it all financially sustainable?
In the past six months, theatre has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMSunday, September 20, 2020
Soho theatre, LondonThis larky Zoom-era adaptation of the director’s film about white-collar leadership is full of improv-style gusto
In 2006, a year after the US launched a version of Ric…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMWednesday, September 16, 2020
As she publishes a moving memoir, the Corrie, Dinnerladies and West End star talks about her three-decade battle with typecasting – and almost dying of Covid-19
Shobna Gulati is speaking …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMSunday, September 13, 2020
Greenwich + Docklands international festival A basketball court becomes a stage to deliver short plays of protest over racial injustice, completing a fine festival embedded in its London com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMFriday, September 11, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonRochenda Sandall is sensational as a woman suspicious of her husband’s behaviour, while Kristin Scott Thomas’s genteel dowager revels in nostalgia
This pair of mono…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, September 9, 2020
Bridge theatre, London Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads monologues were TV gold during lockdown. Seeing Monica Dolan and Lesley Manville perform them live is even better
The quietly desperate …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMTuesday, September 8, 2020
After her villainous role in the explosive police drama, the star is playing an isolated woman in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads and an activist in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe
Rochenda Sanda…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMFriday, September 4, 2020
Various locations, London In this immersive, socially distanced show which the audience follows on foot, an unhappy woman meets her leather-jacket-wearing guardian angel
We have been instruc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06PMWednesday, September 2, 2020
Nora Ephron’s romcom was brilliantly written and perfectly cast with an elegant score. Our chief theatre critic, who loves the film, writes a letter after seeing its stage adaptation
Dear …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMSunday, August 30, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonIn the return of live indoor theatre, Ralph Fiennes delivers the playwright’s fury at the government’s response to the virus – and his despair when he catches it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM 
