Thursday, March 30, 2023
The Hammersmith arts centre, which faces soaring energy bills and debt from its redevelopment, said it has struggled to rebuild revenue streams after the pandemic
London’s Riverside Studio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02PMWednesday, March 29, 2023
The Studio Ghibli adaptation, which is up for nine Olivier awards this weekend, will open in November
The Barbican in London is to bring back the furry woodland spirits, mischievous soot spr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMTuesday, March 28, 2023
The Paddington Bear Experience, a family-friendly show based on Michael Bond’s character, will be at the ex-GLC building on the South Bank
The world of Michael Bond’s irrepressible, marm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMMonday, March 27, 2023
Sarah Mantell’s script awarded Susan Smith Blackburn prize, beating plays by Zadie Smith, Kimber Lee and Ruby Thomas
The American playwright Sarah Mantell has won this year’s Susan Smith…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42PMThursday, March 23, 2023
The 72-year-old actor will play a young woman in the latest example of age-blind casting in a Shakespeare production
Geraldine James is to play Rosalind this summer in a “playful and provo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, March 9, 2023
Playhouse, SheffieldA strong cast and plenty of physicality bolster Eve Leigh’s hour-long, plane-set takedown of climate-crisis apathy
As we arrive, so do the actors. On stage, passengers …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:39AMWednesday, March 8, 2023
Hull Truck theatreLydia Marchant’s sparky debut play about pregnancy and the cost of living finds three generations of mothers sharing a flat
Three generations of women in the same family …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:11AMFriday, March 3, 2023
New Wolsey theatre, IpswichThis riff on HG Wells’s sci-fi novella has a sharp cast but relies on a wearisome play-within-a-play concept and lacks momentum
In 2021, HG Wells fans were aghas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWednesday, March 1, 2023
Based on an original story by the Duffer Brothers, Kate Trefry and Jack Thorne, Stranger Things: The First Shadow promises ‘a journey into the past’
After a dance-theatre version of Peak…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AMThe Vaults, LondonKatie Arnstein’s captivating show about her mum’s treatment for cancer lies somewhere between storytelling and standup
The crowd carries you along in a marathon, says K…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:59AMOur roundup of drama to watch at home includes Hans Christian Andersen on skates, a verbatim play five years in the making and poems from Ukraine
Zak Zarafshan’s “audacious and adventuro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMSaturday, February 25, 2023
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonThere is comical swagger and escalating threat but Nicky Allpress’s revival of Enda Walsh’s play is strongest in its fragile moments
What a choice for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMThursday, February 23, 2023
Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterDavid Eldridge’s insightful play about a pair of singletons sizing each other up is relocated for a funny and moving revival
New light was cast on David E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWednesday, February 22, 2023
The actor is to get the lifetime achievement honour and the choreographer the special award at this year’s theatre prizes in April
Sir Derek Jacobi and Dame Arlene Phillips are to be honou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:23AMTuesday, February 21, 2023
While the West End production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical continues in London, a new cast will simultaneously tour the UK beginning in Manchester in November
For more than five…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:45AMThursday, February 9, 2023
Octagon theatre, BoltonAn impressive cast featuring the former TV presenter and Mina Anwar deliver an affecting and funny revival of Bill Naughton’s tale about a suppertime spat
In Mog on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:44AMWednesday, February 8, 2023
With music and lyrics by Dave Stewart and Joss Stone, the show based on Audrey Niffenegger’s bestseller will open in autumn
A musical based on Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveller’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMTuesday, February 7, 2023
The 1990 film about high-school rebellion, featuring a jaded late-night DJ, could find a fresh theatre audience in this new age of disillusionment
Watching the macabre 1989 high school movie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:21AMThursday, February 2, 2023
Unicorn theatre, LondonInspired by the classic novel, this play for children leads its young heroine through surreal encounters with bureaucracy – and a giant rabbit
Kafka never let Josef …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AMWednesday, February 1, 2023
Barbican, LondonA Beckettian sense of dread pervades Dorothy James and Andy Manjuck’s show about a wistful middle-aged man’s attempts to keep the darkness at bay
It’s Bill’s birthday…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:41AMOur roundup of drama to watch at home includes Billy Crystal’s musical about a fading comedian, a female Faustus and a revival of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate
Hamed and Hessam Amiri’s s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMWednesday, January 25, 2023
Critically acclaimed and now boasting an Oscar nominee, the Almeida’s Tennessee Williams production will move to the Phoenix theatre in spring
The Almeida theatre’s sold out production o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:25AMFriday, January 20, 2023
King’s Head theatre, LondonChloe Rice and Natasha Roland deliver a playful two-hander about the wild west, power structures and the costs of theatre
Like Dolly Parton sang in 9 to 5: it’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMTuesday, January 3, 2023
Ross Willis unveils his new play Grim Brenda, Nancy Medina takes over at Bristol Old Vic and Sung Im Her has all the right moves. Here are 10 of theatre’s brightest talents today
Somewhere…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:58AMSunday, January 1, 2023
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Sheridan Smith in Funny Girl, a festival of mime and a rock’n’roll panto
Before she embarked on Bridgerton, Adjoa Andoh starred as Richard …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThursday, December 15, 2022
The Succession star will play James Tyrone, another patriarch of a dysfunctional family, in Eugene O’Neill’s drama
Succession star Brian Cox, who plays mogul Logan Roy in the HBO family …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMBush theatre, LondonSmartly directed and superbly acted, Margaret Perry’s funny and moving play follows a group of women working for an essential oils franchise
Let’s start with the scen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMMonday, December 12, 2022
Brixton House, LondonPoltergeist theatre company send Alice into the underground in this offbeat adaptation with tube-inspired nonsense language
Alice adventures not in the traditional wonde…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMThe Belgian dance-theatre company love to create unnerving environments – and are set to put the apocalypse on stage. They talk about their taboo-trouncing shows
Knock, knock. Who’s ther…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMFriday, December 9, 2022
Smith will take on the role of ‘theatre’s best-loved mum’ in Willy Russell’s play in London in February
Sheridan Smith is to return to the West End stage next year in Willy Russell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, December 8, 2022
Troubadour Wembley Park theatre, LondonThis show about young New York paper-sellers has stirring anthems and screwball energy, even if it lacks emotional and political depth
Newspaper hawker…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PM 
