Tuesday, 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 10:03AMTuesday, February 8, 2022
Barn theatre, CirencesterLee O’Reilly and Sam Denia prove deft and daft in a mystery spoof that is crammed with ideas
The question in this nimble murder-mystery spoof is not so much whodun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMWednesday, February 2, 2022
Gaiety theatre, DublinThe actor adapts his impressionistic memoir for the stage, giving life to the characters he observed as a boy in the ‘theatre of the street’
Gabriel Byrne’s 2020 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMMonday, January 31, 2022
Tempest’s National Theatre play, Amanda Wilkin’s Shedding a Skin and Benedict Lombe’s Lava all shortlisted for major playwriting award
A reworking of Sophocles’s tragedy Philoctetes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMSunday, January 30, 2022
Known for his pioneering blaxploitation cinema, the late film director also created Don’t Play Us Cheap, a goofy but soul-stirring Broadway hit that should not be forgotten
When Melvin Van…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMTuesday, January 25, 2022
Actor aims to tell the Scottish poet’s story ‘using my whole body’ in a production at the 75th Edinburgh international festival in August
Alan Cumming will play Scotland’s national b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMThe actor, who is taking on a one-off role as a detective, is ready for an all-singing, all-dancing production next
He has played a wizard, a supervillain and the great Shakespearean leads �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMFriday, January 21, 2022
Show scored by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary is set to become summer’s hot ticket and will premiere in Cheltenham in July
After all those weekly showstopper challenges, it was perhaps inev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMTuesday, January 18, 2022
Available onlineStephen Joseph theatre’s filmed seasonal offering is a proper winter warmer with some off-the-wall touches
Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph theatre had to cancel almost half …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMMonday, January 17, 2022
Rambert dance company and writer Steven Knight team up for an ‘inspiring and uplifting’ touring production
The upcoming sixth series of blockbuster BBC drama Peaky Blinders will be the l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMThursday, January 6, 2022
‘Blighted’ by pandemic, Rufus Norris’s festive production will end current run without a press night but return in November
The National Theatre has cancelled the official opening nigh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMWednesday, December 15, 2021
Dramas by Bryony Lavery, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Stephen Jeffreys also feature in readings to mark the venue’s 50th birthday
A pint-sized theatre that opened in the backroom of a London…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMTuesday, December 14, 2021
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonLove Island’s Amber Davies tops a charismatic cast, including Olympic gymnast Louis Smith, in a spirited show co-created by the Hamilton man
Before Hamilton, Li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMTuesday, December 7, 2021
Curve, LeicesterA gifted company has the chops to do the 1975 New York musical proud, saluting an imperilled industry with an irresistible revival
‘I’m a dancer: a dancer dances,” says…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMSaturday, December 4, 2021
Tributes paid to British dramatist acclaimed for dramas including German Skerries, Across Oka and A Breakfast of Eels
Robert Holman, the playwright’s playwright who was revered for his fin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMFriday, December 3, 2021
Antony Sher was not only a superb performer but also an insightful observer on the craft of acting and the theatre – as shown in these extracts
Antony Sher, celebrated actor, dies aged 72…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMHis vivid and moving performances, including an Olivier award-winning Richard III, made Sher one of the world’s most respected theatre actors
Michael Billington: ‘A man of staggering ver…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThursday, December 2, 2021
Europe’s in-demand theatre director is also an avid cinephile. A dizzying exhibition joins the dots between his adaptations of arthouse movies – by Antonioni, Bergman, Cassavetes and oth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMSaturday, November 27, 2021
Internationaal Theater AmsterdamIsabelle Huppert stars in a shrewd staging of Tennessee Williams’ autobiographical memory play, to be livestreamed from the ITA
Is this a latecomer weaving …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMIn these extracts from interviews published in the Guardian and the Observer, the musicals maestro – who has died aged 91 – talks about rhyme, reviews and risk
People say I always write …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMFriday, November 26, 2021
Scoring his first big hit with West Side Story at 27, the US composer and lyricist raised the art form’s status with moving and funny masterpieces including Follies and Company
Stephen Son…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PMWednesday, November 24, 2021
Jeremy Pope and Paul Bettany play the art legends in The Collaboration staged by artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah
It promised to be a knockout exhibition, with both artists wearing boxing …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMTuesday, November 16, 2021
Looking for a jolly good trip to the theatre this winter? Here’s our pick’n’mix selection of musicals, pantos and festive spectaculars, featuring circus tricks, high kicks and puppet r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMFriday, November 12, 2021
Hampstead theatre, LondonThis version of the day-in-a-life book, directed by Katie Mitchell, achieves the same lingering power using a quartet of actors
Towards the end of Rebecca Watson’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMThursday, November 11, 2021
Chichester Festival theatreThe actor revisits his life and craft – not least playing Hercule Poirot – in neat but affecting touring show
Has Ian McKellen started a trend? To mark his 80…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMTuesday, November 9, 2021
The Egg, BathWith a brilliantly physical performance from Ebony Feare, this toe-tapping show for over-sevens doesn’t shy away from the stage star’s tough times
It took Josephine Baker f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMFriday, November 5, 2021
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonPacing endlessly and rocking towards the big sleep, Siân Phillips and Charlotte Emmerson’s performances make this evening deeply affecting
This no-frills cell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PMFriday, October 29, 2021
Drapers’ Hall, CoventryPunchdrunk Enrichment’s site-specific project for children aged six to 11 turns a historic building into a secretive library
On the way to The Lost Lending Library…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, October 28, 2021
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonIt is spirited and witty, with superb puppetry and comedic performances, but this new musical’s songs don’t stay with you and the messages a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMMonday, October 25, 2021
Returning to the stage to play Faye Treadwell, formidable manager of the Drifters, the singer and actor explains how she faced down sexism and racism to forge her own career path in Britain
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMWednesday, October 20, 2021
HighTide’s Inventing the Future weekender will feature six new scripts that playfully consider serious subjects, says artistic director Suba Das
A sense of joy and playfulness is vital for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM 
