Friday, 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 06:37AMSunday, October 8, 2023
Riverside Studios, LondonJenna Russell gives a shining performance of quiet resolve in this musical adaptation of Paul Gallico’s novel about a widowed cleaner in gloomy postwar London who …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AMThursday, September 28, 2023
A star with incredible presence, Gambon – who has died at the age of 82 – brought heft and delicacy, mischief and feeling, to the stage and screen
• Star of Harry Potter and The Singin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMSunday, September 24, 2023
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonJonathan Harvey’s breakthrough play still blazes with a stubborn utopian impulse thanks to finely pitched performances and delicately balanced banter
Ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13PMFriday, September 1, 2023
Ustinov Studio, BathThe English-language premiere of Jean-Philippe Daguerre’s award-winning play hampers its seasoned cast with a complicated plot – bordering on farcical – about a Jew…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMWednesday, August 16, 2023
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonBrad Birch’s drama aims to explain how it felt to be the centre of the world’s attention in the war but being narrated at becomes tiring
When the RSC inv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AMThursday, August 10, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghMatt Woodhead’s urgent drama focuses on the deaths of three real prisoners with mental health issues – and their families’ fight for justice
Campaigning theatre is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMAssembly @ Dance Base, EdinburghScotland’s leading company for older dancers offers statuesque personality and sprightly disco in a show that defies sentimentality
My neighbour at this sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AMWednesday, August 9, 2023
Assembly Hall, EdinburghThe company is understandably seeking ‘good stories with happy endings’ but the best results come in a brief folk-dance
Perhaps it isn’t surprising that there�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghAlexa Davies’ performance as Charly, a rhyming drug dealer who is falling apart, is the gleaming heart of this production
‘I am a trailblazer,” declar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
Traverse theatre, EdinburghNat McCleary’s play brings five women together through a Highland Games that does not always make them welcome
Backhold wrestling, a folk sport that thrives in S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25AMThursday, July 6, 2023
Young Vic, LondonKwame Kwei-Armah’s play takes a character from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun on a journey to Africa
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark 1959 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMFriday, June 23, 2023
Minerva, ChichesterRakie Ayola is superb in a story about the exploitation of a Black female playwright by the great and the greedy of London’s theatreland
It’s quite a title. Adrienne …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AMSunday, June 11, 2023
Royal Opera House, LondonLaura Morera takes her final bow as Anastasia in a night that also includes Christopher Wheeldon’s winningly athletic Olympian ballet and McGregor’s Untitled, 20…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMFriday, June 9, 2023
Royal Court, London Three audacious monologues by McDowall, dazzlingly performed by Kate O’Flynn, open vivid windows on to day-to-day existence
Alistair McDowall’s plays are portals to t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMMonday, May 29, 2023
In the run-up to the festival, our writers will choose new productions that have caught their eye – but here’s a selection of those we’ve already reviewed
Richard Marsh has clearly see…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMThursday, May 18, 2023
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonA young woman offers her life to save an unworthy aristocrat in a passionately sung fable of Caribbean history
A tragic tale rollicking with positive …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM 
