Theatre Royal BathIn 25 scenes spanning 1878-1966, David Hare’s wry and elegant love letter to theatre focuses on the working and romantic relationship between Ellen Terry and Henry Irving…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMIn the new Evita at the London Palladium, Rachel Zegler sings from the theatre’s actual balcony – meaning the big-paying audience doesn’t experience what passersby get for free. Could …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMThe director of Jodie Comer’s tour de force is now staging Inter Alia, another legal drama by Suzie Miller. He talks about steering Stranger Things: The First Shadow, resisting the classic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMArcola theatre, LondonThe horrific reality of Russia’s invasion is recounted during the preparation of a Ukrainian salad in Anastasiia Kosidii and Josephine Burton’s play During the viol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMBelgrade theatre, CoventryThe writer’s gift for gags is on full display in this adaptation starring two men offering up laddish chat along with questions of life and death in an Irish pub …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMKing’s Head theatre, LondonRoy Jenkins, Denis Healey and Anthony Crosland debate among themselves in Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky’s look at the big beasts of 70s Westminster Denis Healey…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMChichester Festival theatreThe standup brings his easy stage command to the role of a penniless nincompoop who tricks his way into authority in Gregory Doran’s production A satire by a Ukr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThe US playwright and anglophile behind much-revived comedies has a flair for crime and is following a crowd-pleasing Murder on the Orient Express with Death on the Nile If you ever face a q…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonBenedick is a midfielder for Serie A team FC Messina in a show with top-form performances and a clever visual metaphor, albeit some pacing probl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMLyric Hammersmith, LondonGary Owen’s update changes the names and themes from the original, but retains the toxic power as a stellar cast negotiate the myriad secrets and suspicions When H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMOlivier theatre, LondonJames Graham has rewritten parts of his hit play to reflect the 2024 Euros, and the gaffer emerges as a progressive, gentle, alternative national leader It’s unusual…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24PMNew Diorama theatre, LondonWisconsin’s ‘red scare’ of 1950 was a deliberate fake – but this entertaining show by Counterfactual speculates about possible truths behind the pretence …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMA giant of political drama, Fugard captured the injustices of apartheid in works such as Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island The South African playwright and director Athol Fugard, whose work…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMHe was Spike the gormless comic in the holiday camp hit and also bagged roles in You Rang M’Lord? and Dad’s Army. As he publishes a memoir, Holland talks about frisky stallions, today’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32PMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThe court of Elsinore becomes a ship of state – or a ship of fools – in Rupert Goold’s production Thematic merchandise is common at Shakes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMWatermill theatre, NewburyThe Private Eye duo adapt AG Macdonell’s satire showing how a privileged chancer in English public life gets away with it It’s a bad week of theatre for Boris J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMOrange Tree theatre, LondonThere are laugh-aloud gags and spiky dialogue as Roger Allam and Peter Forbes star in Howard Brenton’s play about the 1942 encounter In the 1970s, Howard Brenton…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMOmnibus theatre, London Natalia Lizorkina’s play traces a mother’s anguish when she is told her son ‘has not been captured’ in a dystopia where words mean their opposite Alya, a Russ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMArcola theatre, LondonThis innovative and timely play uses yoga, meditation and mindfulness to explore the experiences of Holocaust survivor Miriam Freedman The term “multimedia” often m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon As the petty tyrant cruelly duped by his household West leads a superb, tinsel-inflected take on Shakespeare’s melancholy comedy The title Tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMWest Horsley Place, SurreyStaged in Ghosts’ Button House, this interactive whodunnit has a lot of fun with detective-story tropes, quick-change characters and a clever solution The writer …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWhite Bear theatre, LondonThe former PM’s brief tenure is raked over to seriocomic effect in Greg Wilkinson’s play, which raises major political questions A running length of 100 minutes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMOrange Tree theatre, LondonWith its philosopher-fool character seated at a piano and central to the action, this sympathetically staged 1940s-set production is something of a revelation Wint…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMOmnibus theatre, LondonThe installation of the Horizon digital till resembles the villain’s entrance in a pantomime The false prosecutions and persecutions of 900 subpostmasters by the Pos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMIn his 10th decade, the writer is as prolific as ever with a war film in the works and a new sex-fuelled novella set in a home for the elderly. He talks about mourning Maggie Smith, turning …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMRose theatre, Kingston Nell Barlow is heartbreaking as the doomed heroine of the alt-reality boarding-school tale, expertly adapted by Suzanne Heathcote Any dramatic adaptation of a well-kno…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMThe black British performer started out recording with the Rolling Stones, was on the West End stage by 19 and made breakthroughs in TV and theatre ‘Trailblazing’ TV, film and stage acto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMWith two new plays opening this autumn, the veteran playwright talks about the risks of writing about real events and the threats to leftwing drama and politics With the world premiere of Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMCambridge Arts, then touringRebus fans will relish Ian Rankin and Simon Reade’s play in which the spiky Scottish cop must solve a crime at a posh dinner party Ian Rankin gave his spiky but…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMMinerva theatre, ChichesterThis adaptation of the cold war spy thriller elegantly compresses the narrative and boasts star-making performances In John le Carré’s 1963 name-making novel Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PMUstinov Studio, BathInviting macabre surrealism and terror by torchlight on to a brown 1950s set, Richard Jones leaves room for interpretation in Pinter’s early play Harold Pinter’s firs…
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