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 08:36AMOur 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 01:42AMThe 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 07:24AMThe 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 07:12AMJermyn 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 09:36AMLizzie 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 12:12PMThe 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 05:36AMOur 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 01:42AMIncident 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 09:18AMThe 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…
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