Sunday, April 26, 2026
Soho theatre, LondonChristopher Brett Bailey reads his surreal novella and freewheels his way through extreme vice, erotic tension and dulled indifferenceNo one tells a story like Christophe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:40AMSunday, April 5, 2026
In these turbulent times, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui has never been more vital, and returns to the stage starring the Sherlock star and with music by the alt-rockers. But, they say, th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMWednesday, March 18, 2026
King’s Head theatre, LondonMasculinity is not in a good way in this trio of short plays – the first of 10 presented in two venues – which deal in violence, misanthropy a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMMonday, March 9, 2026
zack mennell made a costume out of nappies and waded into filthy waterways saying: ‘I’m going to be the parasite.’ The performance artist’s project became more lit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMSunday, March 8, 2026
New Diorama theatre, LondonA man bearing the same name as the actor wants to apologise to a woman for something he has ‘accidentally’ done in this patience-testing undisciplined…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMSunday, February 22, 2026
Colab Tower, LondonGet lucky with your arrival time in this expansion of Aeschylus’s Oresteia and you’ll witness a fight or a sacrifice – but there are long dull patches…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMFriday, February 20, 2026
Soho theatre, LondonAllen, one half of the influential Pajama Men comedy duo, mines his personal trauma for a slightly undercooked show about his high-octane upbringing in New Mexico
Shenoah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMFriday, February 13, 2026
Royal Court Upstairs, LondonCave people with very different perspectives meet on an elk hunt in Jack Nicholls’ savage but sweet play about love and violence among early humans
Love i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMThursday, February 12, 2026
Theatre503, LondonOlga Braga’s award-winning play captures the suffocating tensions of a household as war looms – finding flashes of tenderness amid the rising threat
Olga Brag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMSunday, February 8, 2026
New Diorama theatre, LondonJames Nash’s doomscrolling play unpacks social media and the violence it hosts
We piece together fragments. Distorted voice notes, the depths of the comment…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSunday, January 25, 2026
Southwark Playhouse, LondonOllie Maddigan’s open-hearted solo show about a motherless 15-year-old is full of crude comedy and swaggering confidence – until it exposes the grie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMSunday, January 18, 2026
When funding cuts closed National Theatre Wales, the actor saw it as an emergency, and set about building a replacement. As its first show comes to the stage, he explains his plan to bring b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMFriday, January 9, 2026
The Merseyside comic used her experiences of Oxbridge to create the fringe hit Eat the Rich, but struggled in ways her well-off contemporaries didn’t. Now she’s determined to u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, December 21, 2025
Donmar Warehouse, LondonIn Priestley’s shenanigan-filled 1934 comedy, three couples discover they are not married after all – meaning the men lose authority and the women gain …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMMonday, December 15, 2025
Ambassadors theatre, LondonWith expert direction and eye-catching stagecraft, the tension is ramped up in a play inspired by the film franchise
Darkness holds us long enough for the dread to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48PMWednesday, December 3, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonSex Education’s Patricia Allison and The Gold’s Stefanie Martini star in Jess Edwards’s debut play about love and science
The red flags are raised an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMFriday, November 28, 2025
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonDirector Holly Race Roughan transposes the summer tale into the darkest of winters as the fairies’ feud over the stolen child leaves the snow smeared wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMThursday, November 27, 2025
White Bear theatre, LondonWriter Gary Owen stitches together glimpses of contemporary life with a spin on Arthur Schnitzler’s classic that doesn’t quite coalesce
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSaturday, November 22, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonTim Foley’s conspiracy-fuelled comedy pits reason against delusion as a palaeontology lecturer faces a dean who believes Jurassic Park is real
Logic and reason are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMMonday, November 17, 2025
This madcap variety show sees its titular lead direct proceedings from her control desk. Rachel, her co-star sister and their mum explain what it reveals about disability in the UK
Rachel O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSunday, November 2, 2025
It’s been the biggest secret in theatre: what will the marmalade-loving, hyper-polite Peruvian look like in Paddington the Musical? As the curtain rises, we speak to the new bear 
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMTuesday, October 28, 2025
Orange Tree theatre, LondonTanika Gupta’s forthright reimagining of a classic illuminates the racial politics and middle class assumptions of the period
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31AMSunday, October 26, 2025
Arcola theatre, London In 1980s Northern Ireland, an abusive father and the soldiers patrolling the streets morph into a common enemy to rage against, in Meghan Tyler’s blackly comic …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMThursday, October 23, 2025
Marylebone theatre, LondonThe lives of unhappy couples across two generations play out in overlapping timelines and geographies in Anna Ziegler’s uneven drama
When Abe’s daught…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PMTuesday, October 21, 2025
Take Me Somewhere tucks audiences up in bed, takes them to a last supper and delights with a paddling-pool comedy-tragedy
A nurse puts a steadying hand on my back and guides me to bed. She …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMTuesday, September 30, 2025
London’s Canary Wharf is being turned into the Capitol, with a bespoke £26m theatre made for the stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ bestseller. Our writer goes on a hard-h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThursday, September 25, 2025
Trafalgar theatre, LondonCo-starring Ruaridh Mollica and Sophie Melville, this bleak three-hander by Samuel D Hunter leaves little unsaid
Drugs, unemployment and a heavy air of purposelessne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMMonday, September 22, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonNina Bowers and Philip Arditti claw passionately at Henry V’s colonialism and imperialism in their frequently funny and at times deliberately uncomfortable play
Wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PMTuesday, September 16, 2025
Revered for her work on Succession and Normal People, Alice Birch has now written an era-spanning play about men, novels and the manosphere. Give me a Brontë any day, she says
Every word …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMTuesday, September 2, 2025
Wyndham’s theatre, LondonGatwa’s Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel’s William Shakespeare flirt, fight and write in Liz Duffy Adams’ sizzling new chamber play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36PMSaturday, August 16, 2025
This year’s Edinburgh festival is full of creepy shows, from a jaw-clenching haunting to sci-fi terror. Our writer braves the darkness in Auld Reekie’s fringe venues for a day …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM 
