Tuesday, May 23, 2023
The singing, dancing and acting superstar originated some of the best roles in musicals – yet none of it would have happened had she not fallen through a table at the age of nine
The one a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMFriday, May 19, 2023
Conceived by the artistic director of Birmingham Rep, Sean Foley, the award will be open to all with the winner receiving £25,000
A new playwriting prize dedicated to comedy has been launch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMFinborough theatre, LondonFrom childhood pets to octogenarian friends, playwright Jacob Marx Rice addresses mortality in a warm and thoughtful play
RIP Buster. He’s in a better place where…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMMonday, May 15, 2023
The actor, who has previously starred as Hamlet at the Young Vic, is to play Lady Macbeth among a wave of star-powered Shakespeare productions this year
Cush Jumbo is to play Lady Macbeth th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThursday, May 11, 2023
The musical will close on 4 June, after receiving mixed reviews from US critics and failing to receive a nomination at the Tony awards
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella is to close on B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMWednesday, May 10, 2023
Minerva theatre, ChichesterAmy Herzog’s play about a grandmother surprised by her grandson is given a contemplative staging by Richard Eyre
Timothée Chalamet and Eileen Atkins were fully …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMFriday, May 5, 2023
Bush theatre, LondonThe actor makes his debut as a playwright with a richly detailed character study, performing with warm humour and outrage at injustice
‘Have you seen Theresa May dance?…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMTuesday, May 2, 2023
From The Secret Life of Bees to The Marvels, she is the choreographer everyone wants. The Jamaican dynamo talks about turning humans into horses, turbo-charging TV debates and a dream Bob Ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMMonday, May 1, 2023
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Panti Bliss’s drag journey, Athol Fugard’s ballroom dreamers and Alain Platel’s nightmarish dance-theatre
How very! The sour bubblegum mu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMFriday, April 28, 2023
The play, which the actor has described as being pertinent to our ‘savage and judgmental’ political climate, will run for 50 performances in the West End before transferring to the US
Ke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMThursday, April 27, 2023
The production, directed by Simon Godwin, will open in Liverpool before heading to Edinburgh, London and Washington DC
Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma are to star in a new site-specific produ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMWednesday, April 26, 2023
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonWhile there is compassion and curiosity in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s adaptation, this production lacks the whirlwind quality of Roché’s novel and the film
Sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMMonday, April 17, 2023
Lizzie Annis wins best newcomer and Arthur Hughes wins best Shakesperean performance as actors with disabilities take two prizes
Patsy Ferran has been named best actress at the Critics’ C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMMonday, April 3, 2023
The Sylvia star, who won best supporting actress in a musical at the Olivier awards, said Old Vic show attracts ‘people of all kinds of everywhere’
Olivier awards: full list of winners
T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMKilling Eve star, who won best actress prize at the Olivier awards for Prima Facie, pays tribute to women behind the scenes of Suzie Miller’s play
Olivier awards: full list of winners
Jodi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMSaturday, April 1, 2023
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes a Big Night of Musicals, You Bury Me and James Earl Jones in King Lear
Game of Thrones stars Emilia Clarke and Indira Varma reunited for Jamie …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMFriday, March 31, 2023
Incident at Peacock theatre in London comes amid growing concerns about antisocial audience behaviour
A performance of the musical Bat Out of Hell in London’s West End was halted for sever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThursday, 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 09:23AM 
