Thursday, February 10, 2022
Is it a play? Or is it a film? There are two sides to director Hope Dickson Leach’s ambitious staging of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale
“Cinema is about change,” says Hope Dic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMMonday, February 7, 2022
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s new play is a story of sisters, pain and the gruelling long-distance swim to cross the Channel
Grief, says playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, is an endurance test. “…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMFriday, January 28, 2022
Royal Court, LondonAlistair McDowall’s enthralling meditation on time and mortality features a sword-fighting knight and a Victorian medium
With a slowly unravelled mystery at its centre, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMThursday, January 27, 2022
Will it be Miss Scarlett with the lead pipe? Or that horrid Colonel Mustard? Mark Bell explains why the board game’s enduring appeal makes it ideal for the stage
”There are always moment…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMThursday, January 20, 2022
Piccadilly theatre, LondonWith pyrotechnics, a looming elephant, scenery to die for and a cast with energy to burn, this revival only falters when it tries to update the tunes
At the end of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMWednesday, January 19, 2022
As Covid hit casts, understudies suddenly found themselves needed everywhere – with little warning. We meet these unsung heroes, including a Beanstalk Jack who took on three other last-min…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMTuesday, December 14, 2021
A triple bill of Sleeping Beauty, Jack & the Beanstalk and Dick Whittington brings giggles, cheer, glitter galore and, well, a bit of a headache
My head is filled with nothing but glitte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMThursday, December 9, 2021
Bush theatre, LondonElla Road’s remarkable play, directed by Monique Touko, is a tender and intimate story of teenage friendship and athletics
A pair of talented teenage runners are dangli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMMonday, December 6, 2021
Frank Wedekind’s banned 19th-century classic, now a youth rock musical, is back on stage – with a young cast who came of age in the pandemic
No one saw Spring Awakening for the first 15 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMWednesday, November 24, 2021
The Big House, LondonThis immersive show creates a raucous energy as Maz runs away from her care home and tries to carve her place in the music scene
Every year there are new immersive shows…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMThursday, November 18, 2021
Kiln theatre, LondonThe author’s debut play lets one of Chaucer’s most revolutionary characters loose in modern-day Kilburn in a celebration of community and a life well-lived
For her de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMWednesday, November 17, 2021
Royal Court, LondonEverything here is plot as Al Smith’s play speeds over many huge issues with little time to register their impact
In Al Smith’s ambitious and cynical new play, everybo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMThursday, October 21, 2021
Two years after its first staging, Gaiman’s dark fairytale has returned, this time to the West End. The author, cast and creative team discuss bringing the eldritch magic of childhood to l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMMonday, October 18, 2021
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThree senators at a hearing in Washington DC try to find out where all the fish have gone in Marek Horn’s smart but deliberately frustrating one-room play
Tuna h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMWednesday, October 13, 2021
Theatre 503, LondonDexter Flanders’ tender debut about a fractured family shows the tensions and compromises faced by Black gay men
Through the story of one beautiful, fractured family, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMThe Olivier-winning actor who plays Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars series talks to Kate Wyver about the fight against ‘end-of-life serenity’, adapting Julian Barnes for the stage, an…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:32AMFriday, October 8, 2021
Yard theatre, LondonTwo vividly portrayed fencers shuffle towards a climactic battle in this smart, galvanising coming-of-age drama
The verbal sparring is sharp and pointed in Gracie Gardne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMThursday, October 7, 2021
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAncient Greek myths are retold with stripped-back simplicity and no little bloodshed in a hugely enjoyable show
“Welcome in,” calls Irfan Shamji as latecom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, October 3, 2021
Finborough theatre, LondonJordan Hall’s play dips its toes into surviving global apocalypse but only explores romantic disaster
This play will not teach you how to survive an apocalypse. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMSunday, September 26, 2021
Stone Nest, LondonInna Dulerayn’s hallucinatory and astonishingly costumed fantasia disintegrates into incoherence in the second half
Under the arches of an old Welsh chapel, beaked angels…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMThursday, September 23, 2021
Peacock theatre, LondonForget about the plot and lose yourself in this dance-circus show whose dizzying performers cast gravity aside
She falls almost in slow motion, sideways, her body rigi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMTuesday, September 7, 2021
RashDash’s new theatre production honours the pre-Raphaelite by focusing on her own art and poetry – and shifting from tragedy into comedy
Wan, pale, tragic. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Sidda…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, September 2, 2021
Pleasance, LondonAyden Brouwers and Lizzie Morris’s insightful and emotional dance show features the thoughts of young trans and non-binary people
“They say it’s trans people who are o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMWednesday, September 1, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonCreative cabaret from Thrustin Limbersnake, Loose Willis and the gang celebrates reopened queer spaces and non-binary beauty
After almost two years of very little access …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMTuesday, August 24, 2021
Park theatre, LondonAfter a shaky start, this spooky tale gets smarter and scarier as the night goes on, cleverly entwining local history and folklore
A hefty storm is brewing outside a rams…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PMFriday, August 20, 2021
Royal Court, LondonDutch singer Wende performs songs conceived by playwrights – on topics from bloody battles to online dating – with magnetism and a talent for storytelling
In this glor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMThursday, August 19, 2021
Arcola Outside, LondonLuke Stapleton’s story of two lonely men finding comfort in one another is a gem – so it’s a shame it’s obscured by loud music, drama school-isms and cliche
Sca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMThursday, August 12, 2021
Noël Coward theatre, LondonThe pop star makes her West End debut in a contemporary haunted-house chiller that smartly plays with all the old tropes and leaves the room electric with fear
Fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMSunday, August 8, 2021
Park theatre, LondonTori-Allen Martin’s two-hander opens with the audience watching at home – then the second half is performed in person
The concept is the strongest part of Tori Allen-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMFriday, August 6, 2021
The writer has turned a Greek tragedy about a marooned soldier into an all-women play for the Covid era. They reveal how its creation mirrored their own journey
‘These stories can be intim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMIris theatre, LondonMichael Elcock’s winning Arthur and Kate Donnachie’s frustrated Merlin make a sparky team but the show can’t decide whether it’s playing to kids or adults
On this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AM 
