Thursday, October 20, 2022
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonGill weaves an intricate, poignant picture of London’s queer history as two elderly men ruminate on the long-gone loves of their youth
Two elderly men sit side…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMThursday, October 13, 2022
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonIvy Tiller: Vicar’s Daughter, Squirrel Killer by Bea Roberts and Nina Segal’s O, Island! offer cartoonish satire that lacks sting
The RSC has been sit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
As Kenneth MacMillan’s classic returns, his widow Deborah and Edward Watson – celebrated for dancing the lead role – reflect on preserving the spirit of this seamy beast of a ballet
It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AMFriday, October 7, 2022
Donmar Warehouse, LondonWhen an Egyptian orchestra accidentally tips up in a sleepy Israeli backwater, lives are changed in the quietest of ways
‘Nothing is as beautiful as something you d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Marylebone theatre, LondonPeter Oswald’s take on Friedrich Schiller’s unfinished tragedy shows Russia’s recurrent turn towards tyranny
When Friedrich Schiller died aged 45 in 1805, he …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Misogynist gags? Ancient puns? Unethical bed tricks? Theatre-makers discuss how they tackle the Bard’s trickier works
Earlier this year, I spoke to the actor Natasha Magigi, a regular at S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMFriday, September 30, 2022
Chichester Festival theatreJenna Russell stars in Alan Ayckbourn’s exploration of mental illness with an accomplished cast of supporting characters ably adding to the anguish
It’s clear …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMFriday, September 16, 2022
Park theatre, LondonA mourning woman looks back on her life in Martin Sherman’s ethereal yet uneven drama about history, heritage and memory
Rose doesn’t believe in the future. It’s ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
Coliseum, LondonChoreographer Alexei Ratmansky and a company featuring exiled dancers deliver a moving production with an urgent tone
This production is little short of a miracle. The United…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMSunday, September 11, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA crusader and a Saracen have a fateful encounter in this richly layered work by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, set to Monteverdi and a plangent score by Syrian-American co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMSunday, August 21, 2022
The Studio, EdinburghShihya Peng and Marco di Nardo bicker ceaselessly through movement in a child-friendly exploration of cultural misunderstanding
Will these two dancers find any common gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMSaturday, August 20, 2022
Zoo Southside, EdinburghThe sweat and the groove are all that matters in Emma Martin’s mesmerising dance sequences, which capture the power of getting lost in your own rhythms
Sweat pools,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMThursday, August 18, 2022
Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, EdinburghUsing their own bodies as gymnastic apparatus, the Australian troupe perform an immensely skilful and physical show about trust and control…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PMAssembly George Square Studios, EdinburghFeeling flows and solidifies between the characters in Isabella Waldron’s mature and tender love story
Isabella Waldron’s delicate play stages an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMWednesday, August 17, 2022
Summerhall, EdinburghComposer Greg Sinclair’s ingenious musical palette provides variety and charm in this performance by a young local cast
The most striking visual image in this show is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMFriday, August 5, 2022
Dorfman theatre, LondonPersonal, political and polemical, this intensely moving play about disability and austerity challenges preconceptions
As Francesca Martinez’s urgent, funny and inte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMMonday, August 1, 2022
Watermill theatre, NewburyNew production reshapes the 1996 original set in rural Louisiana as a taut fable of faith and fear
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most recent musical, Cinderella, morphed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMFriday, July 8, 2022
Ustinov, BathThe veteran director’s arrestingly visceral production honours the sheer strangeness of Shakespeare’s late play
One of Britain’s most visionary directors, Deborah Warner, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMWednesday, June 8, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA company of dancers from African countries deliver Bausch’s shattering vision of Stravinsky with devastating force
‘How would you dance if you knew you were goin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMMonday, December 13, 2021
Children on stage can intensify the jeopardy in difficult dramas, but how it will affect them is a matter of growing concern for the industry
Two young children cower before an avalanche –…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMTuesday, September 14, 2021
At university, director Rebecca Taichman and playwright Paula Vogel were both drawn to Sholem Asch’s 1907 sensation God of Vengeance. Their show about its controversy now hits London
Books…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMTuesday, May 18, 2021
The musicals sensation is starring as the troubled French chanteuse in the bawdy biodrama Piaf. How will she hit the high notes when she can’t speak the language?
Don’t ever ask Jenna Ru…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMMonday, April 19, 2021
Dynamic choreographer whose meteoric rise at the Royal Ballet was halted in the wake of sexual misconduct allegationsIn ballet, choreographic voices typically develop slowly, often followin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMMonday, March 29, 2021
The mentor to some of Britain’s top performers believes the best acting comes from a childhood sense of playfulness – and is fraught with danger
There’s a famous yarn about Laurence Ol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMWednesday, February 24, 2021
New visa rules, taxes and transport restrictions are some of the hurdles British dance and theatre organisations must now overcome to tour Europe
Brexit or Covid? Hardly a cheerful choice, b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMTuesday, December 29, 2020
Tony Lidington spent 30 years with the anarchic Pierrotters. He recalls trading songs for mackerel – and lifting spirits with a little lockdown flea circus
Let’s start with a pierrot dan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMWednesday, October 14, 2020
With the industry on its knees and audiences running scared, a handful of creatives have pushed on with planned new venues, determined to rise to the current challenges of making theatre
Is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMThursday, March 26, 2020
Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein’s ballad, which yearns for a safe place where love abounds, reflects 50s America and endures today
Earlier this month, as UK theatres prepared to shu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMWednesday, March 11, 2020
Three drama school productions highlight the appeal for established names in sharing passion projects with actors flexing their performance muscles
‘Strap in, lads.” The Scottish playwri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMWednesday, February 26, 2020
You’re meant to shut up, keep still and pay attention at the theatre – but what if that’s a problem? We examine the rise of ‘relaxed’ spaces where anything goes
It started with the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMThursday, February 13, 2020
The defiant lyrics to the classic Les Misérables track are reverberating through uprisings in Hong Kong and China
It has soared during an airport sit-in, united street protests and drowned …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PM 
