Friday, March 28, 2025
Little Angel theatre, LondonThe big top pops up inside a book as puppeteer Lizzie Wort whirls through a jaunty carnival of acts
Roll up, roll up! Abracadabra! There’s barely a trad circus …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMThursday, March 27, 2025
Royal Court, LiverpoolA cast of more than 50 delivers an inspiring adaptation of David Peace’s epic novel about a manager who prized socialism
In 2016, an adaptation of David Peace’s The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMTuesday, March 25, 2025
Sherman theatre, CardiffRebecca Jade Hammond’s assured drama about two girls groomed for drug trafficking switches between humour and terror
What a punchy play. Rebecca Jade Hammond has wr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
They came out of the blue and electrified Edinburgh with absurdist takes on Americana. Now the US pair are doing all three hits back to back – and dreaming of not having to share a room
It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMMonday, March 17, 2025
Lancaster Academy, LeicesterRoss Willis and Ned Bennett’s audacious adventure for schools is a cult in the making, with a post-apocalyptic plot, snappy gags and a trash-talking baby
This i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMFriday, March 14, 2025
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonThis brisk staging for young audiences has acrobatic witches and action-movie fights but misses some of the play’s bloodcurdling weirdness
Here is a Macbeth fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, March 13, 2025
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonThe cancellation in 2022 of a sex education show for children and their families is revisited in this hour of artistic self-assessment
The stage is dressed for an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, March 12, 2025
The Place, London Tom Cassani outlines conjuring techniques with a beguiling routine, while Compagnie Les Vagues make a teasing performance from tiny movements
Throwing shapes is expected at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMMonday, March 10, 2025
Furlough’s Paradise, a ‘lyrical’ journey about grief, scoops award for female, transgender and non-binary playwrights
The Susan Smith Blackburn prize for female, transgender and non-bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMTheatre Royal, Bury St EdmundsAn all-female cast deliver Tallulah Brown’s play about 17th-century East Anglians under threat of the self-styled Witchfinder General
The past sings to the pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMTheatre503, London Playwright Ruth D’Silva explores cruelty and control but also kindness in a knotty drama focusing on a mother-daughter relationship
‘Don’t play with your food,” Be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMFriday, March 7, 2025
Little Angel Studios, LondonIngenious puppetry and jolly performances help animate the story about an ever-expanding indoor menagerie
Many young families quickly find themselves running out …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMThursday, March 6, 2025
Lynette Linton’s successor at the new writing venue in west London promises to build on its bold legacy
Taio Lawson has been appointed as the new artistic director of the Bush theatre in w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMTuesday, March 4, 2025
With London’s West End chockful of Hollywood A-listers, crowds are thronging stage doors. But do some fans go too far? We uncover a shadowy story of joyful adulation, gobby putdowns – an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMSaturday, March 1, 2025
An anniversary show for the pride of Disney, a secret meeting of wartime leaders and a very modern Antigone are among this month’s highlights
Talk about the circle of life: past stars of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMMonday, February 24, 2025
Stanley and Audrey Burton theatre, LeedsWitty compositions and appealing performances win over a young audience but the traditionally grisly tale gets lost in the woods
Traditionally, Hansel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMTuesday, February 11, 2025
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice have created songs for a Theatreland mystery by Humphrey Ker and David Reed. We find out how they doubled up for the detective’s ‘gory’ new case
New so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMonday, February 10, 2025
Unicorn theatre, LondonWinsome Pinnock adapts the story of a teenager whose heart transplant causes controversy but the comedy drowns out the issues
Some set designs instantly make sense. Pa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMTuesday, February 4, 2025
Plays join shortlist for prestigious international award honouring scripts by female, transgender and non-binary playwrights
Plays submitted by the National Theatre, the Almeida and the Roya…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMSaturday, February 1, 2025
Katori Hall’s culinary comedy, a heavenly Beverley Knight and English National Ballet at Royal Albert Hall are among this month’s highlights
More than 100 performers – including 60 dan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMFriday, January 31, 2025
The Crown actor and Kate Fleetwood will join Ewan McGregor in Lila Raicek’s My Master Builder, inspired by Ibsen
Australian actor Elizabeth Debicki, best known for playing Diana, Princess …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMThursday, January 30, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London Jordan Kai Burnett impresses in a fun, heartfelt yet tonally uneven show, co-produced by Michelle Visage
In Tim Burton’s 1990 fairytale, you hear Edwar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06PMUS musical will be followed by Rodgers and Hammerstein dream ballets, Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses and Brigadoon
Drew McOnie’s inaugural season as artistic director of Regent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMTuesday, January 28, 2025
The comedies Titanique and Here You Come Again pay homage to two superstars in quirky style. Actors Lauren Drew and Tricia Paoluccio explain what it’s like to portray their idols – and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMThursday, January 23, 2025
Lowden first appeared in David Ireland’s two-hander in Edinburgh last year. For its West End run, he is paired with his ‘hero’ Freeman
Slow Horses star Jack Lowden is to reprise his ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMWednesday, January 22, 2025
Opera House, ManchesterA meandering musical based on the Doris Day movie delivers the sure-shot showtunes in style with a whipcracking lead in Carrie Hope Fletcher
The 1953 film Calamity Jan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMTuesday, January 14, 2025
The Olivier-winning star ‘excited and honoured’ to take the lead in the UK premiere of Marie and Rosetta, a 1940s-set two-hander from George Brant
Beverley Knight is to play Sister Roset…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThursday, January 9, 2025
The actors will share the stage for the first time in George Bernard’s Shaw’s drama about ‘the role of women in society’
Imelda Staunton and her daughter, Bessie Carter, are to share…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMFriday, January 3, 2025
Bristol Old VicIn Sonali Bhattacharyya’s tale, Liana Cottrill’s striking and gracefully realised mermaid is driven to leave her home not for a crush on a prince but in order to save the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMWednesday, January 1, 2025
Anaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical gets a West End spin and the Horrible Histories star’s Bottom are among this month’s highlights
He played the Bard on Horrible Histories (“they c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMMonday, December 16, 2024
Arcola theatre, LondonThis recreation of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic is frenetic fun, with the dinosaurs brought to life using physical comedy – and traffic cones
Hold on to your ……
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM 
