Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Available online Forest Fringe release a jolly bunch of downloadable plays, games and diversions to inject some performance into lockdown life
Forest Fringe have never been one for conventio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMMonday, May 18, 2020
Yard theatre, Hackney WickThis all-day online festival included a one-to-one performance over the phone, a Ghanaian cook-along and a virtual after-party
Hottest front-room seats: the best t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMThursday, May 14, 2020
Available onlineForced Entertainment improvise online conversations that cut to the confusion and frustrations of lockdown
Hottest front-room seats: best theatre and dance online
Forced Ente…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMSunday, May 3, 2020
The annual extravaganza was moved ingeniously online for a weekend of shows united in their celebration of togetherness
The best theatre and dance to watch online
The best arts and entertai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMMonday, April 20, 2020
Available onlineMind the Gap’s enormous outdoor production boldly tackles the stigma faced by a mum with learning disabilities
• Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMThursday, April 2, 2020
Available onlineJohn Gielgud’s 1964 production of Shakespeare’s play haunts this meta-spectacle that questions the nature of performance
In these times when “too, too solid flesh” is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMWednesday, March 4, 2020
Gate theatre, London Sylvan Oswald gives a dystopian twist to the French essayist’s ideas on borders to explore modern gender politics
This show is almost as impenetrable as its full title…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMFriday, February 28, 2020
The Canadian performer’s controversial show Daughter is coming to London. Its brutal gut-punch experience is not for everyone
When Adam Lazarus complained about a seven-year-old boy puttin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMMonday, February 24, 2020
With their passion for the immediacy of new writing, Paines Plough’s new joint artistic directors Katie Posner and Charlotte Bennett tell Kate
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, February 14, 2020
Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough Beth Flintoff rewrites the narrative of the woman killed in the Red Barn, focusing on her wit and ferocity rather than her notorious death
The history boo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMWednesday, February 12, 2020
Salisbury PlayhouseEmmet Byrne is superb in this relocated update of the Spanish classic but it lacks the fire of the original
Barney Norris tames Lorca’s Spanish tragedy in this gentle ad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMSunday, February 9, 2020
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonFlat insults, bland puns and painful verse let down this staging of Shakespeare’s problematic play, which charges ahead without a trace of satire
There is n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMThursday, February 6, 2020
Theatre Royal PlymouthSix characters stalk the stage with boxes in the company’s anniversary show, co-directed by Kathy Burke and Scott Graham
I Think We Are Alone marks the 25th anniversa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMBirmingham RepThis adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s novel has all the right intentions but offers cliches instead of real insight
This sexual assault drama is entirely void of hope. A tran…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMWednesday, February 5, 2020
Taking a break from goofy sitcoms, the actor is sounding the climate-crisis alarm in Caryl Churchill’s Far Away. She talks about finding hope in a violent dystopia
‘You’re in a world i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMThursday, January 30, 2020
The first rule of mime club? You do not talk. Well, not when you’re hard at work. Our writer takes lessons from Marcel Marceau’s former student, Nola Rae
Early on in mime school, I hit a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMWednesday, January 29, 2020
Leeds PlayhouseImitating the Dog recreate the groundbreaking 1968 horror film live on stage with remarkable results
This extraordinary shot-by-shot remake of George Romero’s 1968 cult horr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Royal Court, LondonMiriam Battye’s play has some astute insights, but the friendship at its centre doesn’t seem worth fighting for
Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird taught us that love and atte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMMonday, January 13, 2020
Having lit many shows in her 15-year career, Prema Mehta took on the challenge of using solely candles at the wood-panelled theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMMonday, January 6, 2020
In 2019, Told by an Idiot launched the Naomi Wilkinson Award for female stage designers. Winner Ioana Curelea tells Kate Wyver about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMFriday, December 13, 2019
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonA missed opportunity to satirise modern politics, this show resorts to panto for its obvious parodies and easy laughs
We get it: dictators are bad. Roughly assimi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMSoho theatre, LondonEll Potter and Mary Higgins radically push on from previous show Hotter, in this fantastic, sexy, athletic examination of male identity
Hilarious, sincere, sexy and bruta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMTuesday, December 10, 2019
New Diorama theatre, LondonBreach Theatre’s hilariously heretical satire of medieval mystery plays is a celebration of queer voices and a fine alternative Christmas show
Breach Theatre wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMFriday, November 29, 2019
Secret location, LondonIn this immersive show we are promised a globetrotting night of drugs and sex … but are left loitering in a living room
The best immersive theatre makes its audience…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMThursday, November 28, 2019
Pleasance theatre, LondonGroan-worthily unfunny jokes litter this blooper reel of a show about the last people left on Earth
The second show of Sink the Pink’s queer Christmas trilogy is m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMTuesday, November 26, 2019
Dominion theatre, LondonWith firecracker performance and singalong sounds, this version of the Bing Crosby classic glistens with sexy razzmatazz, but tenderness lies beneath the shiny surfac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMFriday, November 22, 2019
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe winter of our discontent gets an ungrounded production that even scene-stealing performances by the Globe ensemble can’t make glorious
Fickle, brittle he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMMonday, November 18, 2019
Thursford Collection, NorfolkA fever-dream of outrageous talent and suffocating joy, this extravaganza must be seen to be believed, albeit just the once
I close my eyes and can see only sequ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMTuesday, November 12, 2019
Transgressive, intimidating and smeared with ketchup, the performer loves to give audiences more than they’ve bargained for – from an X-rated Jesus to a bare Boudicca
Lucy McCormick pull…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMMonday, November 11, 2019
Pleasance, LondonTheir tongues firmly in their cheeks, Figs in Wigs’ boisterous parody ranges from pun-filled comedy skits to cocktail-making in hazmat suits
You probably won’t remember…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMTuesday, November 5, 2019
Union theatre, LondonCliche-drenched lyrics and a lightweight storyline put a cork in the emotional reckoning at this unremarkable story’s heart
Empty bottles dangle from the ceiling in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PM 
