Wednesday, 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 08:03PMPatsy Ferran will take over from Lydia Wilson when the London production opens a week late, alongside co-stars Paul Mescal and Anjana Vasan
London’s Almeida theatre has cancelled the first…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMWednesday, December 7, 2022
The star formerly known as Cheryl Tweedy will play Jenny, who believes her new home is haunted, in the hit play by Danny Robins
The former Girls Aloud singer Cheryl is to follow in the foots…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Ivo van Hove’s epic, boisterous family fun and a dance fable for Christmas
“I never think about the audience until the last days before we …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03PMTuesday, November 29, 2022
Polka theatre, LondonCharles Way’s farce has squabbling siblings, festive karaoke and a cranky rodent as a family tries to keep their pet shop afloat
In children’s theatre, little ideas …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMMonday, November 28, 2022
Unicorn theatre, LondonPlaywright Yasmin Joseph and director Ola Ince team up for a drama that captures the warmth of a family reconnecting in Jamaica
Here’s a new play with so many fun id…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMThursday, November 24, 2022
Dominion theatre, LondonChoreographed candy cane twirling and funny moments from the Will Ferrell film don’t save this show from being a bland corporate Christmas experience
Son of a nutcr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMWednesday, November 23, 2022
Author Hanya Yanagihara and director Ivo van Hove adapt ‘mesmerising’ story about effects of child abuse for London stage
An adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestselling novel A Little…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
She starred in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights while eight months pregnant and played Cinderella’s stepmother in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s abruptly closed musical. Now Hamilton-Barritt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMWritten by Jack Thorne and directed by Sam Mendes, The Motive and the Cue is about the famous 1964 production of Hamlet and will open at the National Theatre
Johnny Flynn is to play Richard …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMMonday, November 21, 2022
The festival will celebrate 40th anniversary in 2023 with London shows featuring the actor talking to Rob Delaney, plus host of standup acts
Just for Laughs, the comedy festival that began i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMFriday, November 18, 2022
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterEuphoric songs are delivered with splendour as the duo’s musical finally gets its European premiere, with a fantastic lead performance by Grace Mouat
A foot in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMWednesday, November 16, 2022
In our third set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding round, we hear from Eclipse in Leeds, Oldham Coliseum and Hexham’s Bloodaxe Books
Organisation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMMonday, November 14, 2022
In our second set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding decisions, we hear from Balbir Singh Dance Company, Britten Sinfonia and Little Bulb
Organisati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM 
