Friday, July 9, 2021
Jermyn Street theatre, London There are squabbles, strained smiles and domestic mishaps in Keith Waterhouse’s spin on the Grossmiths’ classic
Mr Pooter declares himself disgusted by “a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMTuesday, July 6, 2021
Natalie Pilkington, performing in Leeds show of Tudor musical Six, accepts proposal from boyfriend who jumped on stage to pop the question
The musical Six, in which the wives of Henry VIII a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMLaura Elsworthy and Jordan Metcalfe, who wed in Stratford upon Avon in 2018, are playing the star-crossed lovers in their home town of Hull
This is a tale of two households, both alike in di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMThursday, July 1, 2021
The festival has shrunk because of Covid but there are plenty of shows in person and online this summer – here’s our pick of the first to be announced
Sex Education Xplorers (S.E.X.)What…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMThe composer said his latest musical would open, even if he went to jail. Now it has – but he’s still furious at a government he says has ‘dumped’ theatre. We talk to him and the sho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMTuesday, June 29, 2021
Game of Thrones star will appear in production focusing on modern political power, part of the London theatre’s reopening season
Kit Harington is to star as Shakespeare’s Henry V in a mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48PMTuesday, June 15, 2021
From the story behind Sondheim’s Broadway flop to political theatre during South Africa’s apartheid, these films capture the power of plays
The stage on screen: our guide to films about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMThursday, June 10, 2021
Curve, LeicesterPowerhouse renditions of songs from Joseph, Phantom, Superstar and more – plus memories from the man himself – dazzle in an inventive show
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSinger to star in ‘bloody scary’ 2:22 – a Ghost Story, written by Danny Robins
Lily Allen is to make her West End theatre debut in a “bloody scary” supernatural thriller opening in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMActor will perform two tales with a musical theme featuring characters confronting their mortality with defiance
A pair of Julian Barnes stories about old age are to be performed by Ian McDi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMWednesday, June 9, 2021
The comedian will play the Prince of Wales in The Windsors: Endgame, due to play for 10 weeks in London this summer
A new stage version of the TV hit The Windsors will star Harry Enfield bot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMTuesday, June 8, 2021
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonBased on Christie Watson’s incisive memoir, this dance-theatre show creates choreography from daily life on the wards
In The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMMonday, June 7, 2021
CentrE17, LondonKilter’s touring production invites audiences of one or two to watch a quartet of short monologues performed inside a hut
Last June, with England’s venues closed due to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMWednesday, June 2, 2021
Criterion, LondonIt irons out the eccentricities in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film but this show has a timely message and delights in small pleasures
Twenty years ago, Jean-Pierre Jeunet introd…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42PMThursday, May 27, 2021
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonGoody-bag props, party-hatted fairies and a donkey-shaped piñata sweeten the bard’s dark comedy in a revival of Sean Holmes’s vibrant 2019 production
A donk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMWednesday, May 26, 2021
Steve Coogan’s blazered broadcaster promises to bring a touch of TV evangelism and hatred of speed bumps on tour next year in venues across post-Brexit UK
Alan Partridge is to embark on a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMA performance of Walden at the Harold Pinter theatre in London was cancelled on Tuesday but all cast and crew ‘remain negative for Covid’ after the alert
The West End play Walden, starri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMTuesday, May 25, 2021
Our series on films about theatre ends with Kermit staging a musical spectacular with the help of some famous friends
The stage on screen: read the full series
Two classic New York musicals …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMFriday, May 21, 2021
Soho theatre, London, and onlineAn impressive cast – including Greg Germann via video link – deliver a revival of Lucinda Coxon’s jittery examination of intimacy and exploitation
Lucin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMThe actor’s first West End role in 10 years will be directed by Rebecca Frecknall in a bespoke recreated Kit Kat Club
Eddie Redmayne will return to London theatre, for his first West End r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonWendi Peters seizes the role of a suburbanite who is inspired by the lunar broadcast to embark on a spontaneous trip
Two men walked on the moon in the summer of 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMFour-time Oscar nominee reunited with James McArdle in the Almeida theatre’s staging of the Shakespeare tragedy
The four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan is to make her UK stage debut as L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMTuesday, May 18, 2021
Twenty-five years before the hard-bitten Hollywood tale Sunset Boulevard, Swanson played a small-town waitress with a dream to act
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Gloria Swanso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMThursday, May 13, 2021
AudibleEmma Thompson plays the poet and Sinead Matthews is the breathy movie star in Simon Berry’s compelling audio play
Truman Capote called Sunset Tower, an art deco triumph on Hollywood…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMFlexibility and childcare are ‘part of the conversation’ for the team behind Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s psychological drama about motherhood
A new theatre production about motherhood and m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMWednesday, May 12, 2021
In the town where the playwright was imprisoned, a new venue for the Reading Rep company is to run a ‘radical’ version of The Picture of Dorian Gray
A new theatre is to open in Reading t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMTuesday, May 11, 2021
The artistic director looks back at a year of crisis for the arts and ahead to a celebratory, livestreamed summer season
When Shakespeare’s Globe announced its reopening plans for spring, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMAsghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning film about two married actors has intriguing parallels with the play they are performing
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
At the start of Death…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMThursday, May 6, 2021
Freelance performers ‘forgotten’ during the pandemic says top choreographer as he launches Cygnet School training programme to diversify industry
Sir Matthew Bourne, one of Britain’s m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AMTuesday, May 4, 2021
Part of the New German Cinema boom, Helma Sanders-Brahms’ 1975 film about two actors asks if theatre still has revolutionary potential
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Grischa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMTuesday, April 27, 2021
Actors roam Madrid, springing provocative performances on passersby, in Achero Mañas’s vibrant faux-documentary
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Can theatre change the world?…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32AM 
