Friday, October 25, 2024
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonJohn Douglas Thomas and Juliet Rylance reprise their New York roles as Othello and Desdemona, while Will Keen is all gripe and snipe as shaven-h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
Marylebone theatre, LondonTwo couples have a sour reunion in Patrick Marber’s production of Nathan Englander’s play, updated from his 2011 short story to include events after 7 October
N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMWednesday, October 9, 2024
New Diorama theatre, LondonSisters navigating a harsh immigration process conjure up an unnerving helper in Sonali Bhattacharyya’s drama
Sonali Bhattacharyya’s shivery new play begins wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMSunday, October 6, 2024
@sohoplace, LondonNassim Soleimanpour’s experiment in live theatre has a different performer discover the script for the first time each night – but Sheen is especially well suited to it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMTuesday, September 17, 2024
American ballerina who defied the odds of her early childhood in wartorn Sierra Leone to perform with top dance companies
This was the making of a ballerina. “When I was four years old, a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMThursday, August 15, 2024
Kiln theatre, London A familiar romcom isn’t an option for these two young British Muslims, who can’t shut out Islamophobia and public paranoia from their love story
The title? It’s a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMMonday, July 29, 2024
Where does the National send up-and-coming playwrights to have their ideas honed, pulled apart, rebuilt – and turned into dramatic dynamite? Our writer is granted rare access to the hallow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AMThursday, July 25, 2024
Holloway Garden theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonGender games, rebirth and affection remain in this 80-minute slash of the Shakespeare romcom, which is stylish but short on invention
You expect g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, July 18, 2024
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonClive Rowe and Lucie Jones star in Schwartz and Joseph Stein’s tale of a French bakery, given a chamber setting
Life should be sweet as our asparagus and ap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMMonday, July 15, 2024
Finborough theatre, LondonThe last surviving member of a military band shelters from Russian bombardment in Inna Goncharova’s valiant attempt to capture the terrible essence of war
As the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMWednesday, July 10, 2024
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonSoulful anthems with hard-knock lyrics cover 150 years of British care system history in a sophisticated show from Lung theatre company
We’re a long way…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMTuesday, June 18, 2024
Barbican, London Cole Porter’s musical variation on The Taming of the Shrew gets an exhilarating revival, even if the Line of Duty star’s singing is less than sensational
Cole…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PMHuge audiences and even larger livestreams are putting a whole new type of pressure on dancers. Yasmine Haghdi, principal of the Royal Ballet, tell us how Britt Tajet-Foxell fixed more than …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMTuesday, May 14, 2024
Ustinov, BathAs a woman who has left her husband for a dissolute younger man in postwar London, Greig’s quiet despair compels
The torch song Stormy Weather sobs between scenes in this revi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMWednesday, May 1, 2024
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonSara Ryan’s book about justice for her son, who died in an NHS unit aged 18, has been turned into a play with campaigning passion
In a church down the road fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMMonday, April 22, 2024
It is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites – and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone’s ready to face the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMFriday, March 8, 2024
ITA, AmsterdamThe British director of Cabaret and A Streetcar Named Desire makes a gripping debut with the acclaimed Dutch company
Julie wobbles into the kitchen, hiding from her own 21st bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMWednesday, February 28, 2024
Young Vic, LondonThe discovery of what could be a painting by Hitler leads to a moral quagmire in Patrick Marber’s punchy staging of Marius von Mayenburg’s play
Arrive early, and you’l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMFriday, February 16, 2024
Royal Opera House, LondonImpressive new work from Joshua Junker and Mthuthuzeli November pushes dancers well beyond the classical repertoire
Ballet is a heritage art form that craves renewal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMSadler’s Wells, LondonOn a stage covered in thousands of silk carnations, a beguiling cast of 20 explore fear, fun, control, bunny-hopping and onions, ending ultimately in hope
Nelken was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMThursday, February 8, 2024
Queen’s theatre, HornchurchJonathan Maitland’s drama about the Dr Feelgood guitarist, played by Johnson Willis, is a nostalgic celebration of an Essex legend
‘It’s not a jukebox musi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMWednesday, January 31, 2024
Dominion theatre, LondonBartlett Sher’s gingerly feminist take on the problematic mid-century musical has superb dancing but is ponderously paced
‘Stories of the east have seldom reached…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMThursday, January 25, 2024
Marylebone theatre, LondonSamantha Spiro conducts listeners urgently through this horrifying story of a baby thrown in desperation from an Auschwitz train
If writing a poem after Auschwitz i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMTuesday, January 16, 2024
Arcola, LondonTimely revival of Michael Hastings’ unsettling 1956 play that examines the legacy of war on immigrants in postwar London
It’s just over a decade since the second world war …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMFriday, December 15, 2023
The incoming artistic director at the NT must lead the institution and the industry, while choosing plays new and old for three stages. The job is a test of nerve and integrity
In 1978, Juli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMWednesday, December 13, 2023
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonIsobel McArthur gives a giddy fresh spin to Thomas Heywood’s 16th-century romp which sends a Cornish landlady, in her repurposed bar, to sea
‘Not everyth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMFriday, November 17, 2023
Kiln theatre, LondonTwo-hander musical matches its wide-eyed hero and sardonic heroine with just the right mix of sugar and sour
Here’s a little tale of the Big Apple. Dougal arrives from …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMThursday, November 9, 2023
Few things in theatre are more transformative than a wig. But who makes them? Can they really be worth thousands? And what looks best on a beheaded tyrant? We meet the hairpiece heroes and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03AMWednesday, October 25, 2023
Donmar Warehouse, LondonClyde runs a mean sandwich shop, while Montrellous is the sensei of sourdough, in Lynn Nottage’s mouthwatering play
Lynn Nottage’s mouthwatering, gloriously perf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AMTuesday, October 17, 2023
When a principal at the Royal Ballet asked to adapt his drama about imposed verbal limits, playwright Sam Steiner was all in. ‘There are things dance does better,’ he says
‘Why don’t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07PMTuesday, October 10, 2023
Wilton’s Music Hall, LondonRichard Cant is superb as Merle Miller who takes a stand against homophobia in this clever retelling of his landmark essay
Merle Miller, a distinguished mid-cent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AM 
