Monday, May 30, 2022
Medina, who set up the Bristol School of Acting, takes over next spring as Tom Morris steps down after more than a decade
Bristol Old Vic has appointed Nancy Medina as its new artistic direc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, May 25, 2022
The circus star turns singer in his new show, Room, which is designed to embrace chaos. He talks about the mystery of theatre and his movie missions
In James Thierrée’s beguiling stage sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMThursday, May 12, 2022
A Night at the Kabuki, which shifts the star-crossed lovers to 12th-century Japan, will visit London on an international tour
A Night at the Opera, the classic rock album by Queen, has inspi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMWednesday, May 11, 2022
‘Dynamic pricing’ sees ticket costs fluctuate wildly for the acclaimed production’s final performances in the West End
The West End play Cock has faced criticism for operating a “dyn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMTuesday, May 10, 2022
Revival of Arthur Miller’s allegory is part of a new season featuring The Boy With Two Hearts and a 40-week tour of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The National Theatre in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMFriday, May 6, 2022
Patriots will open at the Almeida in London and star Tom Hollander as Boris Berezovsky, with Vladimir Putin and Roman Abramovich among the characters
Peter Morgan, the Oscar-nominated screen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMThursday, May 5, 2022
The Old Vic theatre says its much-anticipated production of 4000 Miles, co-starring Eileen Atkins, will no longer go ahead
It was one of London’s hottest theatre tickets for 2020: a Pulitz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMWednesday, May 4, 2022
Minack theatre, PorthcurnoBased on Italo Calvino folk tales, Kneehigh founder Mike Shepherd’s bounteous show features burning instruments, puppetry and political outrage
Once upon a time? …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMMonday, May 2, 2022
The composer’s glorious new musical deserves fuller audiences – and its talented workforce deserved to be given better warning about its future
Buns N Roses, the cheeky opening number in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMAnnouncement that the show will end at London’s Gillian Lynne theatre in June comes as a shock, with those who had been due to join the production expressing heartache
The curtain is to co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMSunday, May 1, 2022
Our roundup of plays to watch at home in May includes The Tempest with Jessie Buckley, Robert Icke’s The Doctor staged in Amsterdam and Amanda Wilkin’s superb solo show Shedding a Skin
T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMFriday, April 29, 2022
The actor, who is reprising his role in Jez Butterworth’s celebrated play, points out that leading politicians’ school Eton has extensive theatre facilities
It is the part of the theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMWednesday, April 20, 2022
The Nottingham-born playwright wrote and starred in The Glad Game, a one-woman show about her diagnosis with incurable cancer
The actor and writer Phoebe Frances Brown, who created an acclai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMTuesday, April 19, 2022
The story of the real-life escape from Stalag Luft III in 1944 is to be told at the London venue used as an internment camp for ‘enemy aliens’ during the first world war
The story behind…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PMFriday, April 15, 2022
Opera House, WuppertalDancers and singers share the lead roles in Tanztheater Wuppertal’s lucid version of the myth, set to Gluck’s score
Rancorous couples who can’t stand the sight of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMMonday, April 11, 2022
British Congolese playwright receives Susan Smith Blackburn prize for her debut play, Lava, staged in 2021 at the Bush in London
Benedict Lombe has won this year’s Susan Smith Blackburn pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PMSunday, April 10, 2022
Host Jason Manford, Cabaret stars Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne, and a host of other presenters and winners gave some candid speeches at the ceremony
Full list of winners
Host Jason Manf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMFriday, April 1, 2022
Our roundup of plays to watch at home in April includes a Ukrainian account of war, a blistering exploration of social media and a brass-band audio drama
Restrictions in most of the UK have …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMWednesday, March 30, 2022
Massy Opera, FranceThierrée plays an architect whose building won’t behave and a director whose performers don’t listen in a playful if disjointed production
Who lives in a house like t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMThe actor will share the role with Danish dancer Johan Christensen in a new production this summer
Sir Ian McKellen is to play Hamlet for the third time in his career in a production this su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMTuesday, March 29, 2022
Dorfman, LondonJude Christian’s funny and suspenseful adaptation for children draws them into the heart of Shakespeare’s story
Who hasn’t occasionally wished Hamlet was a bit shorter? …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMFriday, March 25, 2022
London venue to stage a reading of Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s drama Bad Roads, which will also be livestreamed on the Guardian website
The Royal Court theatre in London is to present a day of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMThursday, March 24, 2022
Local heroes including screenwriter Jimmy McGovern and comedian Johnny Vegas will take stage at Shakespeare North Playhouse this summer
A new Shakespearean theatre is to open in Merseyside t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMThursday, March 17, 2022
Premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s play will reunite the film and theatre stars who appeared in The Equalizer
The American blockbuster stars David Harbour and Bill Pullman are to share the stage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMWednesday, March 16, 2022
The first Russian to leave the company over her country’s invasion of its neighbour will join the Dutch National Ballet
Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates
The prima ballerina Olga Smirnova…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMFriday, March 11, 2022
Bristol Old VicWith brilliant performances, eye-popping visuals and a gloriously profane script by Ross Willis, this is an unforgettable tale of adolescence
Here is an audaciously inventive,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThursday, March 10, 2022
Winner Karis Kelly, writer of Consumed, had previously been considering a ‘complete career change’ as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic
A playwright who was considering a “complete car…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMMercury theatre, ColchesterHandsomely staged, Mark Ravenhill’s version of Charles Bennett’s 1920s thriller includes pertinent concerns about policing and the abuse of power
An artist is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMonday, March 7, 2022
The actor who passed out on stage said he had ‘a bruised ego but I’m fine’ and would be back to perform on Monday night
The actor Taron Egerton has said he will return to the stage “…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMThursday, March 3, 2022
Curve, LeicesterMolly-Grace Cutler is in fine voice in this jukebox musical but the story shortchanges the singer-songwriter’s achievements
Like her 2012 memoir, A Natural Woman, this juke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42PMTuesday, March 1, 2022
In a new monthly roundup, we pick 10 of the best shows to enjoy from home – including Shakespeare filmed in a church, a lavish musical and Gabriel Byrne’s return to Dublin
With three new…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM 
