She unleashed Phoebe Waller-Bridge on the Edinburgh fringe. The former actor with the Midas touch tells us her recipe for a hit show ‘We had wine. It was late.” Producer Francesca Moody …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMThe sun shines on the revels at Shakespeare’s Globe, while cruelty and creepiness rule at Regent’s Park Open Air theatre The modern-dress mechanicals look ready to rave in Sean Holmes’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMThe Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon A melancholic exploration of music and love changes key to explore astrology and the occult The first half of Robin French’s Crooked Dances is a love l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMVarious venues, LondonRobotic alien puppets ran riot in south London to open a festival that tackled issues of gender, disability, race and Brexit Stories are scattered like confetti across …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMRoundhouse, LondonThis festival gives voice to up-and-coming performers, from poetry slam winner Rakaya Esime Fetuga to the painfully funny Jack Rooke The Last Word festival is a celebration…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMLondon PalladiumThe exhilarating comedian known for her hit Netflix series puts on an addictive night of comedy and song American comedian Rachel Bloom gets musical theatre tropes drunk and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMShakespeare’s Globe, London Jealousy and lechery divert the idle rich in Elle While’s production of the Shakespeare romcom, but well-dressed schemings lack chemistry Director Elle While …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMNew Diorama, LondonAn abundance of wit and one-liners can’t make up for the lack of directorial focus in SpitLip’s antiwar satire With whip-smart humour and a stellar soundtrack, SpitLip…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMVarious locations, GlasgowThis performance art festival serves up brazen tests of audience exploitation, a TV sleepover and feminist futurism How much would you have to be paid to make a foo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMChronic fatigue has left Amy Rosa ‘watching life through glass’. Her new show urges viewers to make vulnerability a radical act ‘We’re not taught how to process difficult emotions,�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMThey were a couple doing a performance about women, sex and bodily fluids. Then they broke up – and made it more explicit. Meet the duo behind Hotter The pants arrived today. They’re bri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonMichelle Terry is revelatory as Hotspur and Sarah Amankwah makes a majestic Henry in a valiant if uneven trilogy ‘A good heart,” says Shakespeare’s Henry V…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMThe Warren, BrightonFrom nappy challenges to a grotesque clown show about carehomes, this year’s theatre festival is full of surprises The two performers rush behind the vulva-esque velvet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMExeter NorthcottIt’s all for one and one for all in an enthusiastic if haphazard riot of dad jokes, dodgy accents and gleeful gallivanting The cast of The Three Musketeers tell us they hav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMBarbican, LondonPeake’s anguished Woman goes through six rounds of fertility treatment in Julia Leigh’s adaptation of her own memoir As part of the Barbican’s first Fertility Fest, Jul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMNew Diorama, London Jesse Fox’s play about the perils of surveillance is at its best when observing the bond between sparring siblings What makes technology scary are the unknowns: our ina…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMDerby theatreThe tales of Mowgli, Baloo and Bagheera are inventively staged with integrated sign language and a community cast Accessibility is too often treated as an afterthought in theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:17AMAbove the Stag theatre, LondonChoreographer Jack Cole’s vitality is lost in Liam Burke’s play that tackles issues of ownership of women’s bodies All high kicks and hip swings, Jack Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMLiz Richardson’s new show explores the transformative qualities of a freezing cold dip. She takes us to the source of her inspiration ‘I want to jump in right now,” says Liz Richardson…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMBristol Old VicA spider-like central performance dominates a production that offers charm, hi-tech excess and a spattering of bodily fluids Tom Mothersdale’s Richard III licks, spits and b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMBelgrade theatre, Coventry Amy Ng’s family drama has the seeds of a great story, but is undone by melodrama and parody The definition of a good future differs significantly for three gener…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMO2 Academy, Newcastle Ill-judged jokes and a lack of wit and grit make for a tedious set from one of the queens on RuPaul’s series In an interview with Rolling Stone, drag queen Trixie Mat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMTwo joyful shows – And the Rest of Me Floats and Sex Sex Men Men – use standup and striptease to discuss trans rights, pegging and the patriarchy In their kaleidoscopic celebrations of q…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:44AMBush theatre, LondonEve Leigh’s new play – about grief and old age – is overbearing in its manipulative attempts to make us feel sad It is billed as a magic show about grief but The Tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMUstinov Studio, Bath Tanya Barfield’s 2006 play about a man meeting his ancestors asks: am I ever black or white enough?Tracing four generations backwards from 1995, Tanya Barfield’s 200…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMThe Drum, PlymouthSam Steiner’s hilariously bleak show about helpline volunteers has a charming cynicism and moments of compassionIn his new play, Sam Steiner makes us beam as the world bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PMVault festival, LondonThe ethereal star – as seen in an exuberant drag act by Tom Lenk – becomes a spirit guide in this wry show about the role movies play in our livesExuberantly strang…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMSherman theatre, CardiffEvery emotion is tangible as Elgan Rhys’s play about a 30-something gay couple races to a violent climaxWoof is a triumph for the Sherman theatre. In Elgan Rhys’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMRoyal Court, LondonNicôle Lecky’s astute one-woman show, punctuated with rap, pins down the financial and moral dilemmas of her peersBusiness and pleasure collide and combust in Nicôle L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM'demonstrating how hard true understanding - of both oneself and of another - is to achieve': Kate Wyver writes on the NOW Festival Week 3 double bill. The post Review: NOW19 – Greg W…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:39AMVault festival, LondonHolly Beasley-Garrigan didn’t want to perform a show about being a gay working-class woman, she tells her audience … that’s just how arts funding worksWith anger …
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