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 02:02PMThe 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 07:24PMThe 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 03:18AMSarah 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 08:42PMThe 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 09:48AMPlayhouse, 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 06:39AMHull 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 06:11AMNew 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 03:00AMBased 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 01:00AMSouthwark 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 01:00AMRoyal 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 03:00AMThe 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 09:23AMWhile 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 05:45AMOctagon 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 05:44AMWith 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 01:00AMThe 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 10:21AMUnicorn 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 06:45AMBarbican, 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 01:00AMCritically 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 04:25AMKing’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 03:00AMRoss 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 06:58AMOur 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 03:00AMThe 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 05:54AMBrixton 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 03:42AMSmith 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 10:12AMTroubadour 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…
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