Sunday, 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 11:03AMMonday, August 24, 2020
The first new indoor musical since theatres closed in March is a version of the Meg Ryan romcom starring Kimberley Walsh. Will it persuade West End producers that the show can go on despite …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMThursday, August 20, 2020
Available onlineNeighbours clash over racism and sexism in the Abbey theatre’s virtual production of Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s highly topical drama
The six members of a Dublin residents’ as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48PMTuesday, August 11, 2020
The drama first staged after the EU referendum has taken on new relevance and is being broadcast by the BBC. Its creator reflects on the ‘emotional weight’ of Britishness
Mike Bartlett�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMSunday, August 2, 2020
Many black theatre-makers say they feel unwelcome in major venues. Are some performances for black-only audiences the answer? And how can a play spur white audiences to confront their own bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMWednesday, July 29, 2020
Hallowed quiet gives way to personal laments in an interactive re-creation of house-front chatter
Lockdown culture: the best theatre and dance online
‘Some of our best conversations are in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMThursday, July 23, 2020
I bristle at the idea that plays are ‘not the real thing’ unless they are live – I fell in love with Shakespeare and Beckett through televised performances
Every theatregoer I know is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMMonday, July 20, 2020
Available onlineFloods plunge Britain into a state of emergency in an engrossing audio play performed by 14- to 18-year-olds
Ben Weatherill’s audio play is set in the year 2025 when a flo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMMonday, July 6, 2020
Available onlineThe chef’s mouth-watering memoir is now a ‘part radio play, part animated film’ in which even a biscuit is a trigger for grief
Nigel Slater’s feted memoir has been re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMSunday, July 5, 2020
The Booker-winning writer has returned to the stage, penning a drama defending the NHS. She talks about ‘bittersweet’ success – and getting caught up in attacks on Nicola Sturgeon
Bern…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, July 2, 2020
Available onlineThis socially distanced adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s novel cleverly moves between times and places, with only an author narration striking a wayward note
The story and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMTuesday, June 30, 2020
Disney+Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical is smart, witty, funky and leaves us reflecting on America’s past and future
Hamilton was hailed as revolutionary theatre in 2015, with its rapping 18…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMMonday, June 29, 2020
They’re separated by a two-metre stick but their chemistry is as strong as ever. The Crown stars on their socially-distanced take on Lungs; lockdown diets and naked drawings
Claire Foy and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMFriday, June 26, 2020
Available onlineRichard Nixon’s downfall may be resonant with our age, but in Adam Donen’s experimental sound dramatisation the psychological noise drowns out the story
Hottest front-roo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMAvailable onlineThere are astute lyrics and energetic performances in this tale of a relationship, from first night to marriage to break-up
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMThursday, June 25, 2020
Available onlineA gay love triangle leads to a generational battle over queer identity in this beguiling, Zoom-broadcast comedy of manners
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMWednesday, June 17, 2020
Available onlinePain, anger and everyday racism are examined in this powerful series of short films from the Bush theatre
A week ago, the Bush theatre asked six writers for their dramatised …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMMonday, June 15, 2020
Available onlineTen short plays responding to the rise in racist attacks since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak have a cumulative power
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMWednesday, June 10, 2020
Available online In Gerry Moynihan’s monologue, recorded at the Finborough in 2017, Paul Kennedy gives a magnificent performance
Gerry Moynihan’s debut play begins in a bustling Northern…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PMTuesday, June 9, 2020
It would be a tragedy if the lockdown left drama narrower and risk-averse. Our chief critic hears from Kwame Kwei-Armah, Indhu Rubasingham, Lynette Linton and Rachel De-lahay
As protests ove…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMMonday, June 8, 2020
BBC Radio 3A Roman soldier falls under the spell of a Pictish woman in this poetic radio play that holds up a mirror to modern Britain
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMWednesday, June 3, 2020
Available onlineLee’s 2018 film of Antoinette Nwandu’s powerful play, written as a response to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, resonates after the George Floyd killing
Two homeless men i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMTuesday, June 2, 2020
Available onlineThe company’s years of operating underground inform a dynamic approach to online drama that goes far beyond talking heads
Belarus Free Theatre began rehearsing an adaptatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMThursday, May 28, 2020
Soho Theatre On DemandNaomi Sheldon fuses comedy with candour as she tracks a woman’s sexual journey from liberated teen to unfulfilled adult
‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a wom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54PMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Available onlinePatrick Sandford makes an astonishing dramatisation of childhood abuse and its consequences over a lifetime in this eloquent film
In 2016, Patrick Sandford performed an autob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMTuesday, May 26, 2020
Available onlineHeadlong’s superb series explores lockdown life, with a cast including Alison Steadman, Katherine Parkinson, Lennie James and Gemma Arterton
A week before the Covid-19 lock…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMMonday, May 25, 2020
Available onlineThe playwright and his wife, actor Heather Stoney, play all eight parts – from 70-somethings to teenagers – in his 84th drama
Alan Ayckbourn’s hefty oeuvre lingers on t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMAs his parliamentary epic is streamed for National Theatre at Home, the playwright discusses politics of the past and present – and the future of theatre
The best theatre and dance to wat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMSunday, May 24, 2020
Manchester international festivalBooze, music and martial-arts lessons are punctuated by existential musings in this delightfully strange virtual blowout
Hottest front-room seats: best theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMTuesday, May 19, 2020
As his novel The Understudy is turned into a radio play starring Stephen Fry, the writer talks about his own failed acting career – and what dramas will be like after the coronavirus
Long …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMAvailable onlineA starry cast muse on first bras, prom dresses, marriage and motherhood in Nora and Delia Ephron’s magnificent celebration of clothes – and life
Hottest front-room seats…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM 
