Monday, May 4, 2026
Soho theatre, LondonDirected with swagger and finesse by Matthew Xia, Dave Harris’s play explores sex, pleasure, parenthood and what makes a manThere are two kinds of people in the world �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2026
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonA 1950s Port of Spain setting simmers with political change and family tension in Martina Laird’s debut playThe air hangs heavy in Alma, a drinking club…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2026
Old Vic theatre, LondonDirector Clint Dyer brings a fresh political focus to Ken Kesey's story of disempowerment but the relentless misogyny of the text feels retrograde
When Randle P McMurp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 5, 2026
Watermill theatre, NewburyScreenwriter Daisy Goodwin imagines the old queen revisiting her diaries and reveals a tale of control and coercion behind Albert's dutiful devotion
When screenwrit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Finborough theatre, LondonIrritable passions ferment beneath the frowsty knits and beads in atmospheric 1935 psychological thriller
Lonely lives, falling between the gaps, are at the heart o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2026
Orange Tree theatre, LondonVan Gogh is a restless soul who finds kinship " and possibly more " with his London landlady in this tender and full-hearted drama
The young Vincent van Gogh spen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonTracy-Ann Oberman stars in this absorbing and timely revival of Ryan Craig's 2011 comic tragedy, set over one fraught evening
A death in the family is always …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Park theatre, London Patrick Marber updates Strindberg's story to a country house in 1945, where upstairs-downstairs disaffection drives the drama
Strindberg claimed that he wrote Miss Jul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonJerome Kilty's fusty two-hander charts the cantankerous and flirtatious relationship between the playwright and actor Mrs Patrick Campbell
When Jerome Kilty was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Park theatre, LondonBill Rosenfield reimagines the playwright's early work about the souring relationship between newlywed artists
Hell is other people " especially if you're married to them…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AM[SHARE]Friday, January 16, 2026
King's Head theatre, LondonLevi Kreis embarks on a journey of rediscovery in song, from self-hating adolescence to self-destructive adulthood
The title of this semi-autobiographical musical …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 13, 2025
The writer's former partner and her co-star Ruby Ashbourne Serkis describe the bittersweet nature of remounting his 90s play so soon after his death
' 'We were swimming in the mind pool of T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2025
Old Fire Station, OxfordThings get tense when a newcomer seems to know too much in Karim Khan's absorbing play
Karim Khan's absorbing Christmas play offers warmth, doubt, uncanny strangers a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 29, 2025
The questing Czech-born playwright gave us plays that explored arcadias, utopias and affecting notions of home
Tom Stoppard's breakthrough play opened on a bare stage, with two characters in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Friday, November 28, 2025
Curve theatre, LeicesterA full-throttle Maria, a memorably forlorn Captain von Trapp and the carousel of classic hits make Nikolai Foster's production something to savour
You know what to ex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Arcola theatre, London Hanging around backstage while their chances to play Brutus and Cassius fade, two unnamed actors start to act out their own drama
This is no glam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2025
Watermill theatre, Newbury Rob Madge's colourful reworking of the 1892 comedy makes clever adjustments while retaining the original's spirit
The frump turns fabulous in this new version of a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Noël Coward theatre, LondonMax Webster's frisky Oscar Wilde revival, first seen at the National Theatre, arrives in the West End with a new cast
Oscar Wilde's comedy was, he said, "writte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Young Vic, LondonTamzin Outhwaite and Jordan Stephens shine in Nadia Fall's sharp revival of Orton's 60s play " where lust and manipulation jostle under the chintz
Does it count as chosen fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2025
Almeida theatre, LondonWe follow three brothers through a Victorian childhood to the 21st-century in this time-bending tale exploring the essence of what it is to be male
What did the Romans…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
Nottingham PlayhouseDeft and witty drama follows the religious conservative campaigner as she rails against blasphemy, porn and homosexuality
A culture warrior before her time, Mary Whitehou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Cow | Deer gets 'between the ears' of animals, creating mouse noises with polystyrene balls and comparing wild creatures with industrialised ones. So if there's no dialogue, what did its wri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2025
Royal Court theatre, LondonUkrainian-born Ilya Kaminsky's book-length poem is a potent theatrical force of many moving parts " signing, speech, surtitles, even a drone hovering over the audi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2025
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonJames Ijames swaps swords for shots in a riff on Shakespeare's revenge tragedy that's as playful as it is poignant
If you've ever felt Hamlet needs less gore…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2025
After surviving the whirlwind of Doctor Who, the actor returns to the stage in 'horny Elizabethan drama' Born With Teeth. He and co-star Edward Bluemel discuss bust lips, hot pants and queer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2025
Donmar Warehouse, LondonSamira Wiley is superb as a corset-maker who embroiders dreams for herself and others in Lynette Linton's tremendous production
Lynn Nottage's 2003 play explores what…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AM[SHARE]Soho theatre, LondonThere is crackling chemistry in Harrison David Rivers' two-hander starring Omari Douglas and Alexander Lincoln
There are never just two people in a room, or two voices in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 7, 2025
Theatr Clwyd, Mold Performed and designed with gusto, Jonathan Larson's zippy musical about creative passion is a fitting show to relaunch this cherished Welsh stage
How do you relaunch a ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2025
Southwark Playhouse, London A droll Dionysos, an ab-obsessed himbo and a waddling ballet for goggle-clad frogs can't outshine Sondheim's songs in this rarely seen version of the ancient Gree…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Monday, May 26, 2025
He created the iconic Phantom of the Opera mask, made Daniel Radcliffe go topless and even had his Führer design banned on the tube. Theatreland's go-to graphic artist Bob King talks us thr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 20, 2025
She had just finished working with Steve McQueen and was starting on the Stranger Things stage show when she had a stroke. But the movement director is determined to come back stronger
The m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE] 
