Royal Court; Hampstead; Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonFiona Shaw, Adrian Lester, Toby Jones and more explore the refugee experience in an intriguing multimedia show; Christopher Hampton pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMAs a theatre production of the Nobel prize-winning writer’s acclaimed autobiography The Years opens in the UK, the actors playing her at different ages – including Deborah Findlay, Gina …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMBristol Old Vic; Lyric Hammersmith; Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe moving story of the invention of IVF gives space to the women affected; Alice Childress’s 60s interracial romance proves …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMWith the London opening of his incendiary work set to be among the theatre events of the year, the dramatist, along with the show’s director and stars Kit Harington and Olivia Washington, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMHe starred in Peep Show, Green Wing and Wonka – and his first novel won an award. Now the star is making operas with 64 homeless people. Not bad going for someone who was written off by hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMBattersea Arts Centre, LondonNetflix turned Kata Wéber and Kornél Mundruczó’s play into an Oscar-nominated film. Now a world-class ensemble from Poland’s TR Warszawa bring it out its …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMBarbican, LondonThe final hours of Mary, Queen of Scots are enacted with hypnotic precision in Robert Wilson’s collaboration with Théâtre de la Ville–Paris In the grand soap opera of 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMRivalries, putdowns, betrayals … director Natalie Ibu explains why she is thrilled to be making her National Theatre debut with an award-winning play about the famous writing sisters Natal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMOne minute, she decided to try acting. The next, she had a plum role in Netflix’s Regency hit. And now she’s blazing into the West End. But that’s not nearly enough for this unstoppabl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMOne minute, she decided to try acting. The next, she had a plum role in Netflix’s Regency hit. And now she’s blazing into the West End. But that’s not nearly enough for this unstoppabl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMDeath announced of writer whose searing and controversial plays included Saved and Early Morning Michael Billington on Edward Bond: a phenomenal talent who upturned theatre Edward Bond, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMOrange Tree theatre, LondonWriter Zoe Cooper and director Tessa Walker reignite Jane Austen’s early novel with hilarious physical storytelling and a fizzing cast, though the romance sputte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMAs his Velvet Revolution drama returns, the great writer talks about his mounting Israel-Gaza uncertainties, the epiphanies he has in every hot shower – and our one-star ‘corker’ revie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMAs he returns to the stage to play JS Bach, the actor sounds off about the mess Britain’s in, explains why he turned down Game of Thrones – and reveals the price he has paid for Successi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37AMThe Yard, LondonJames Fritz frames a Victorian story as folk tragedy and political interrogation – exuberant in its ambition, just occasionally not quite fulfilling its potential In July 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13PMGielgud theatre, LondonA cleverly cast tribute, featuring Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga and Bonnie Langford, reflects on the passing of time with comedy and melancholy For those who know al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19PMGielgud theatre, LondonHarnessing horror film conventions, Lyndsey Turner’s intelligent revival conjures places where truth is a political inconvenience Seventy years after its premiere, A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMHer singular passion lit up performances from Women in Love to King Lear and drove her 23-year middle career as an MP Michael Billington: Glenda Jackson was piercingly intelligent and unafra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMHis 2003 play about child torture and freedom of speech became a global phenomenon. But will it offend today’s audiences? The writer-director explains why he won’t be changing a thing Ir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMBrixton House, LondonDirector Monique Touko keeps the tone lively with this tough story of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe in which the actors switch race, age and gender with ease In a place called Par…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThe actor looks back over a four-decade career balancing ‘serious’ drama and improv comedy, describes the making of her wholly improvised new film, and explains why we don’t see her on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMO’Farrell’s novel about Shakespeare losing his young son to the plague struck a powerful chord in lockdown. She and Chakrabarti discuss exploring class, place and creativity for a play t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMHampstead theatre, LondonTwo women disinter a trauma from their past in Michael John O’Neill’s allegorical play set in an evangelical church Two sisters circle each other in the antecham…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:57AMHampstead theatre, LondonRuby Thomas’s play, based on a true story about a married couple in 18th-century Prussia who were tried for sodomy, is tender, musical and funny From Gentleman Jac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonHeirs and spares fight under a sleazeball Roman emperor and candles take a hammering in a brilliantly provocative show with an all-female ensemble What do you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMThe innovative Australian director who gained acclaim for his version of Yerma starring Billie Piper is now reframing Phaedra as a postmenopausal love story with Janet McTeer Simon Stone doe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMNovelist and screenwriter whose tales of women taking control of their own destinies included The Life and Loves of a She-Devil • Writer Fay Weldon dies aged 91 The novelist Fay Weldon, wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThis co-production between the Globe and Tamasha gives voice to five fluent, witty and graceful women, allowing them to reshape the ancient tales as their own …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMThe comedian-writer’s One Woman Show takes hilarious issue with the Fleabag-style ‘messy woman’ trope. As it transfers to London’s West End, she says she feels ‘at odds’ with its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMThe actor and the director Michael Grandage talk about how relevant their staging of Virginia Woolf’s classic work of gender fluidity feels – and remember their own queer battles Emma Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMAs Complicité’s Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm Time feels out …
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