Wednesday, 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 horror…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 attention …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 10:48AM[SHARE]Soho 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 04:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 works…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 05:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 mod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 11:03AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 head…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 05:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 pulls he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2019
Boulevard theatre, LondonOn a set that looks like an abandoned attic, four characters sing of love, loss and bears, in Dave Malloy's unearthly song cycle
Working its way through myth, magic …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 30, 2019
The Kiln, LondonFor all its good intentions, Anupama Chandrasekhar's play about patriarchal violence against women in India relies too heavily on shock
I want to shed my skin and scoop out m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Monday, October 28, 2019
Tobacco Factory, BristolA party feel in the first half of Elizabeth Freestone's production slumps like a hangover when Dorothea Myer-Bennett and Geoffrey Lumb are off-stage
Dorothea Myer-Ben…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2019
Bristol Old VicA strong poetic lead and fine support can't make this meandering new adaptation anything more than a slog
'That was mercifully short," one actor jokingly sneers, after the aud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2019
Leeds PlayhouseThe murderer is never named in Charley Miles's furious, funny play about women in Leeds between 1975-80
With a panoramic sense of empathy, Charley Miles' heated play sees the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2019
Southbank Centre, LondonOur era of buffoonish leadership is brilliantly skewered in Forced Entertainment's mimed maelstrom of aggression
Sweaty, sad and stupidly funny, Forced Entertainment'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 6, 2019
New Oxford Street, LondonIn an elaborate game of hide and seek, you have to avoid the marauding undead " but the fear and the fun soon fizzle out
A hand grabs my ankle and a veiny arm slips …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2019
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonTalking over each other, getting the audience to choose the ending: Bert and Nasi's new show may look scrappy but it's highly relevant
Maybe it's a state-of-the-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Crucible, SheffieldTobi Bamtefa gives a swaggering, thundering performance as the dictator Idi Amin, but this adaptation of Giles Foden's novel is stodgy and plodding
Swaggering and lumberin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 22, 2019
Wiltons Music Hall, London The affecting tale of Jews escaping persecution to find new beginnings in Canada a century ago is a rollicking piece of folk music theatre
Old Stock is a pleasantl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Dominion theatre, LondonJay McGuiness and Kimberley Walsh have chemistry in the lead roles but this revival is flat and insipid, and the story's sexual politics are still a problem
For a sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2019
Surrey House, Goldsmiths College, LondonA two-night stay in a simulated care home, recreated with exceptional intricacy, probes the line between care and control
I urinate into the cup and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2019
Minerva theatre, ChichesterA woman's withering agency is examined through nostalgia and regret, in Cordelia Lynn's rewrite of the tragedy
Cordelia Lynn's bleak, modern-day rewrite of Hedda G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2019
When the curtain falls on a marionette's show, they're put out to pasture, given a facelift " or turned into burglar deterrents
'This thing is alive, this thing is alive, this thing is alive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 29, 2019
Six years after its debut, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's monologue is back in the theatre after its tearaway success on TV. We sent three millennial critics to watch it
Related: Sexy, subversive �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 27, 2019
The festival is over for another year but plenty of its theatre, comedy and dance hits have announced dates around the UK
CollapsibleBreffni Holahan gives a searing performance as Essie in M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE] 
