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Thursday, April 30, 2026

‘Infinite pleasure’: the strip club drama that leaves you horny, vulnerable – and dialling your parents by Kate Wyver

Tender by Dave Harris follows the male strippers at the failing Dancing Bears Club. Its playwright and stars discuss sex, power and their research trip to Magic Mike LiveWhen the LA wildfire…

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Sunday, April 26, 2026

I Saw Satan at the 7-Eleven review – gross, gruesome and sometimes sweet road trip with the devil by Kate Wyver

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 06:40AM[SHARE]
Sunday, April 5, 2026

'It was a warning from history " now it's the bloody muse!' Mark Gatiss and Placebo on reviving Brecht's brutal Hitler satire by Kate Wyver

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…

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Wednesday, March 18, 2026

America the Beautiful: Chapter 1 review " Neil LaBute's sour state of the union address by Kate Wyver

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 and murder Neil LaBute…

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Monday, March 9, 2026

'The smell wasn't healthy': the artist who wore 24 nappies to highlight sewage pollution " and fell ill by Kate Wyver

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 literal than originally intend…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM[SHARE]
Sunday, March 8, 2026

The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin review " slapdash absurdism by Kate Wyver

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 drama 'The f…

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Sunday, February 22, 2026

Ritual review " eight-hour immersive performance is ambitious but under-resourced by Kate Wyver

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 Egg yolk is being mi…

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Friday, February 20, 2026

Shenoah Allen: Bloodlust Summertime review " guns and slaughter as 'the devil's son' strives to know himself by Kate Wyver

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…

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Friday, February 13, 2026

The Shitheads review " primal urges rear up in a playful, prehistoric oddity by Kate Wyver

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 is expre…

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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Donbas review " a Ukrainian family fractures on the brink of invasion by Kate Wyver

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 Braga's stark new …

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Sunday, February 8, 2026

Guidelines review " teens try to escape the aftermath of a murder filmed on a phone by Kate Wyver

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 comments secti…

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Sunday, January 25, 2026

The Olive Boy review " a teenager's love letter to mothers everywhere by Kate Wyver

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 grief underneath a…

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Sunday, January 18, 2026

'I can't waste this': Michael Sheen on his riskiest role yet " saving Wales's national theatre by Kate Wyver

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…

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Friday, January 9, 2026

Jade Franks on how cleaning toilets at Cambridge inspired her hit show: 'I'm not watering down the fury " just sneaking it through the back door by Kate Wyver

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 use success to …

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Sunday, December 21, 2025

When We Are Married review " JB Priestley playfully upends gender roles by Kate Wyver

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 freedoms Stom…

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Monday, December 15, 2025

Paranormal Activity review " this fright night leaves you spellbound and spooked by Kate Wyver

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…

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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Private View review " slick but stifling study of queer entanglement by Kate Wyver

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 and waving. This queer …

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Friday, November 28, 2025

A Midsummer Night's Dream review " nightmarish take brings the brutal undercurrents roaring to the surface by Kate Wyver

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 with bloo…

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Thursday, November 27, 2025

Ring Ring review " La Ronde reimagined as a carousel of modern anxieties by Kate Wyver

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 Gary Owen's gentle dance of …

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Saturday, November 22, 2025

Jurassic review " a roaring clash of logic and lies with duelling dinosaurs by Kate Wyver

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 torn t…

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Monday, November 17, 2025

'We say yes to what she gives us': Perfect Show for Rachel, the hit comedy in which its learning disabled star calls the shots by Kate Wyver

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…

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Sunday, November 2, 2025

Big belly, wavy fur and a nose for trouble: we exclusively reveal the new-look Paddington by Kate Wyver

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's creator, …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Hedda review " Ibsen transposed to world of pencil moustaches and tea dresses by Kate Wyver

Orange Tree theatre, LondonTanika Gupta's forthright reimagining of a classic illuminates the racial politics and middle class assumptions of the period The muscle of Tanika Gupta's adaptati…

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Sunday, October 26, 2025

Crocodile Fever review " sisters' wild revenge has a taste for chaos by Kate Wyver

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 tale Th…

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

The Wanderers review " faith and infidelity in Brooklyn by Kate Wyver

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 daughter asks him wh…

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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Dare you enter the splash zone? Wet and wild selkie steals the show at Glasgow's startling arts festival by Kate Wyver

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 …

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

'A venue like this doesn't exist elsewhere': inside the colossal arena built for The Hunger Games by Kate Wyver

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-hat tour The sl…

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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Clarkston review " Heartstopper's Joe Locke joins lonely souls looking to make life matter by Kate Wyver

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…

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Monday, September 22, 2025

English Kings Killing Foreigners review " astonishingly timely savaging of Shakespeare's flag-waving xenophobia by Kate Wyver

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 When Engl…

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

'I had to think about Andrew Tate. That was miserable': 150 years of masculinity, all in one play by Kate Wyver

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 …

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Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Born With Teeth review " Ncuti Gatwa simmers in Elizabethan battle of the playwrights by Kate Wyver

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 Forget William Shakespeare.…

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All that Chat

2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off