Bristol Old VicSeiriol Davies’ musical biography of Edwardian aristocrat Henry Cyril Paget is crammed with wit but its subject remains enigmatic ‘Regrettably,” sings Henry Cyril Paget,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMPaying theatregoers have bemoaned watching Don’t Cry For Me Argentina on livestream while passersby experience it live for free. But is it a seven-minute stunt worth waiting for? Move over…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMDuke of York’s theatre, LondonThis stunningly rendered tale of a band on the brink of creative genius or total meltdown is a triumph, with a standout cast and score If you’ve ever wanted…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMHere We Are, a satirical mashup of two surrealist movie masterpieces, was finished after musicals maestro Stephen Sondheim died – outraging some fans. As the show hits Britain, its stars a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMPark theatre, LondonNeil LaBute’s mordant humour comes to the fore in this three-hander, full of hyper-real dialogue, about the right to choose the manner of our departure Neil LaBute has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMFinborough theatre, LondonYoung adulthood takes its toll on a relationship between two young women in a tenderly realised production of de Beauvoir’s unpublished story from the 1950s Simo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMAlmeida theatre, LondonBrimming with humour and compassion, the story of Jo and Harry, a couple who go their separate ways, is a powerful reminder of how theatre lets us live beyond our own …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMNottingham PlayhouseAisling Loftus brings out the unease underlying every scene of Dennis Kelly’s haunting one-woman play This production of Dennis Kelly’s one-woman play begins a little…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMCharing Cross theatre, London Two-hander awkwardly studies Abraham Lincoln’s wife through her sittings for photographer Mathew Brady Mary Lincoln, wife of the 16th president of the United …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMUpstairs at the Gatehouse, LondonUnfamiliar songs are performed beautifully in an episodic play featuring the escapades of the rackety real-life Addison and Wilson Mizner If you’ve never …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMAmbassadors theatre, LondonRelocating the F Scott Fitzgerald story to a Cornish fishing village, this is a vivacious yet touching show F Scott Fitzgerald’s tale of a man who ages in revers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31PMHampstead theatre, LondonCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin faced constant sexism and professional exclusion, but Stella Feehily’s play shows a woman with an iron will to succeed Cecilia Payne-Gapos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMThough Ian McKellen gave his Hamlet at the age of 82, older women rarely get the chance to play young characters. But with Imelda Staunton in Hello Dolly and Geraldine James as Rosalind, are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00AMFrom the Gareth Southgate play Dear England to Red Speedo, about a swimmer caught doping, dramatists are using sport to examine class, race, morality – and life in Britain today Will no on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMKiln theatre, LondonSophie Thompson and Charles Edwards are delightful as the unlikely pair thrown together by a school production as teenagers and reunited late in life Music, says Hattie, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonToxic masculinity rears its head in Rachel Bagshaw’s Globe debut which proves less interested in horror effects than the characters’ emotional journeys Joh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonThe performances are superb in this tale of a family dealing with bipolar disorder but the storyline is thin Given that Next to Normal is about a woman with bipolar d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AMArcola theatre, LondonIn a week when English cricket was found guilty of deep-rooted racism, an affecting tale of discrimination dismissed as banter feels particularly profound This one-man …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMTheatre Royal BathDespite charismatic performances and real chemistry, the classic Audrey Hepburn romcom falters in its transition into a Cole Porter jukebox musical Jeremy Sams’ productio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AMRoyal Court, LondonSet in a future police state, Tom Fowler’s play sees two women go on the run in a feverish reimagining of Thelma and Louise The winning scene that opens Tom Fowler’s n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMFortune theatre, LondonWith gag-packed songs and gender-swapped roles, this fringe show about a secret service plot is a joyful success on the big stage SpitLip’s anarchic adaptation of on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMChichester Festival theatreLia Williams and her son Joshua James make a scintillating double act in a resonant revival of the 1924 hit There’s a tableau in this production of The Vortex wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMArcola, LondonWhat starts as a comedy of sibling manners ends in a soap opera-like recital of childhood abuses and family grievances The question of what we inherit from our parents has been…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMDaniel Fish’s restaging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic is no Kansas City cornbread caper. The director explains why he ratcheted up the racial tension and gun violence In the Oklah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMCharing Cross theatre, LondonThe whiff of hamminess is never absent from the Zorro story and here both script and performances are endearingly alive to a sense of the ridiculous Swipe right!…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMDorfman, LondonAlecky Blythe’s masterful play – which features a brilliantly charismatic cast – follows real youngsters across five years of their lives Ali, 14, wants to be a criminal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMJermyn Street theatre, LondonLikable leads who act with great verve are let down by a weak story that can’t hold the weight of its themes Given the scale of the environmental challenges fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMPark theatre, LondonLydia White is magnetic as the aspirational Jo in an uneven but stirring adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic Jo March is a heroine well suited to musical theatre.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMPark theatre, LondonMike Leigh’s 1970s masterpiece of aggressive hospitality, embarrassing silences and gauche behaviour is back in a slightly more naturalistic portrayal Mike Leigh’s co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMHe has done politics in Bodyguard, horror in Utopia and comedy as Kevin in Motherland. Next up for Paul Ready is Shakespeare’s tragedy, alongside his wife, at the GlobePaul Ready is spooke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AMSome cover their feet in glue, others slice at them with razor blades ... Emma John discovers what performing night after night does to a dancer's feetIt should have been the best day of Jen…
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