Tuesday, November 26, 2024
This farce about a gaffe-laden am-dram whodunnit was born above a pub. How did it become one of Britain’s greatest ever exports, the toast of more than 50 countries? Our writer hits the co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMYou’ll never find an audience or a cast more invested than at a seasonal show, where kids find their feet in front of you. But performing arts provision for the youngest is in peril
What�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMFriday, November 22, 2024
Dance House, CardiffA lonely deer enters a world of natural wonders in this dance-theatre show for children, with spellbinding songs by Casi Wyn
Never mind poor red-nosed Rudolph being calle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMHampstead theatre, LondonLoyalty and legacy, privilege and prejudice come into play as the lives of two friends, joined in their love of the basketball star, diverge
Without wanting to state…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMWednesday, November 20, 2024
Despite Olivier awards success and a sold out run in the West End, the show received unfavourable reviews from US critics and performed poorly at the box office
Tammy Faye, the musical creat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMWednesday, November 13, 2024
With a career ranging from Shakespeare to EastEnders and the series Great Canal Journeys, actor was a familiar face from the 1960s onwards
Michael Billington: West was a modest maestro who e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMTuesday, November 5, 2024
Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffThe 2008 Canadian film about zombie-like hordes spreading a verbal virus is given a Welsh update, with a radio host refusing to rein in his divisive rhetoric
…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMThursday, October 31, 2024
A cast recording for the souped-up train musical is released, Michael Sheen plays the NHS hero at the National and David Hare delivers his Covid memoir
“Tonight is the most important night…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31PMWednesday, October 30, 2024
Duke of York’s theatre, LondonThe stars of Emily in Paris and Money Heist team up for a curiously flat drama mixing suspense, comedy and politics
Emily in Paris star Lily Collins makes her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36PMMonday, October 21, 2024
The creator of Hamilton and the writer Eisa Davis explain why they turned the classic film into a Jesus Christ Superstar-style concept album, with the help of hip-hop royalty – from Ghostf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PMFriday, October 18, 2024
Live theatre, NewcastleBrogan Gilbert gives an extraordinary performance as the troubled nurse caring for a terminally ill dancer in a compelling adaptation of the 2019 horror film
With its …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThursday, October 17, 2024
(Atlantic)This concept album based on Walter Hill’s 1979 film features megastar rappers, Hamilton alumni and styles from metalcore to salsa – it is pulled off with breathtaking brio
The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMEmpress Museum, LondonWhile there is strength and skill on display, this circus show lacks a knockout performance and the film’s enduring anthems don’t always fit the action
A stage adap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMUnicorn theatre, LondonA pet marooned with his owner in a ‘place between worlds’ whispers to the audience through headphones in this skilful play for over-nines
‘We’re not in Kansas …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AMThursday, October 10, 2024
Theatre Royal WindsorEduardo de Filippo’s ode to the family is revived with a stylish design but does not reach enough comical or emotional peaks
A quirk of Eduardo de Filippo’s 1946 Nea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PMSouthwark Playhouse Borough, LondonA thirtysomething couple try a biotech breakthrough in Emma Hemingford’s time capsule of hot button issues
If you want to live longer, you could try exer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMWednesday, October 9, 2024
She was a Broadway hoofer then she helped inspire – and found fame in – A Chorus Line. As she releases her memoir, the great ‘raconteuse’ recalls her Dirty Dancing fears – and the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AMTuesday, October 8, 2024
Minerva theatre, ChichesterColourful characters gather for a will reading in this horror-comedy, given a larky update with stylish sequences
If walls could talk you’d want to hear the rock…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMFriday, October 4, 2024
The Egg, BathPerformance poet Toby Thompson has a breezy rapport with the young audience as he retells the bittersweet novella with modern trimmings
One of the pleasures of Toby Thompson’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMTuesday, October 1, 2024
The Hollywood giants are joined online by audio noir from Danny Krass, Nicole Scherzinger’s Norma Desmond and a one-woman 25th birthday party
Sharon Duncan-Brewster plays Pink, an insomnia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMMonday, September 30, 2024
Little Angel Studios, LondonAs you would expect from the queen of kids’ crime fiction, there’s a grisly murder to solve and a lineup of dubious suspects that leaves the audience abuzz wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWednesday, September 25, 2024
Stage production in Manchester will orchestrate the band’s 2003 recording to ‘chime with the underlying grief and paranoia’ of the tragedy
Thom Yorke is to rework Radiohead’s album H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42PMFriday, September 20, 2024
Rebecca Frecknall will direct Normal People actor in Tennessee Williams classic at Almeida theatre in London, opening in December
Daisy Edgar-Jones is to star in a new production of Cat on a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMThursday, September 19, 2024
London Transport MuseumThis fond bio-drama charts a draughtsman’s labour of love to create a comprehensible London Underground diagram
He may not be a household name but, 50 years after hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMWednesday, September 18, 2024
Nottingham PlayhouseThe musical about a boy who fakes a friendship with a dead student is back, capturing the disconnect between the adult world and childhood reality
Just in time for a fres…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMTuesday, September 17, 2024
Oscar-winning actor will perform the lead role in Anne Carson’s adaptation of Sophocles’ play in London and Brighton next year
Oscar winner Brie Larson is to appear on stage in Brighton …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMMonday, September 16, 2024
The US director draws upon a brawl at her Detroit school, her love of opera and hiphop, and her time as a standup to deliver a fleet-footed version of the star-crossed lovers’ tale
When sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMTuesday, September 10, 2024
Based on a Jane Fallon novel and directed by Guy Unsworth, a new show is powered by the Swedish pop duo’s songs. Co-founder Per Gessle reflects on Roxette’s arrival at the opera
Greeting…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMAdaptation of Amy Heckerling’s classic 1995 comedy will open in London in February with a new score by the Scottish musician inspired by its soundtrack
Mean Girls has become a West End hit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMFriday, August 23, 2024
Monkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh The Australian standup, nominated for the Edinburgh comedy award, delivers a restlessly zany sequence of songs and thumbnail sketches
Promising a set more mem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMThursday, August 22, 2024
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThese games lampooning business jargon and CV exaggeration are relatable and initially amusing but soon start to drag
A grabby title and a clear concept sell ti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PM 
