Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonHugh Whitemore’s 1986 play about the criminalised mathematician is revised, with a new epilogue by Neil Bartlett, to reflect his 2013 pardoning
When premie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PMSunday, September 14, 2025
Orange Tree theatre, LondonDirector Tom Littler finds the comedy in the Swedish tragedian’s play about how people use each other up in love and art
In an interview before his production of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMFriday, September 12, 2025
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, LondonFizzing with intelligence and featuring a catastrophic misunderstanding and a deeply symbolic cigar, this richly imagined play feels all too plausible
If the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMSunday, September 7, 2025
Tabard theatre, LondonA man returns home having been reported missing for 24 hours in this welcome revival of RC Sherriff’s postwar hit
Our perceptions of the first world war are greatly s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMFriday, September 5, 2025
Barn theatre, CirencesterFeaturing extraordinary voice acting, this play about the birth of the BBC’s farming drama will equally satisfy superfans and everyday folk
Even regular listeners …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMThursday, September 4, 2025
She was the morality crusader who became a figure of ridicule. Now Whitehouse is the subject of a new production starring Maxine Peake. We meet the gay feminist playwright who wrote it
The m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMWednesday, August 13, 2025
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonLossi the lurcher is the only cast member not playing an instrument in this show aimed at younger audiences
In the movie Shakespeare in Love, the theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMFriday, August 8, 2025
Barbican, London Will & Grace star reprises his Tony award-winning role as Oscar Levant in Doug Wright’s play about a ratings-crucial TV interview
There is a small set of stage plays i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMThursday, July 10, 2025
Shakespeare’s Globe, London Falstaff’s corpulent roisterings are energetically played in Sean Holmes’ summery staging but the homely comedy comes laden with innuendo an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSunday, July 6, 2025
Watermill theatre, NewburyTim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1971 Biblical rock musical seems strikingly topical in this powerful staging, which has a large cast of actor-musicians and a G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMFriday, July 4, 2025
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 05:48AMWednesday, June 18, 2025
In 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 11:42AMTuesday, June 17, 2025
The 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 09:36AMFriday, June 6, 2025
Arcola 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 01:54AMFriday, May 9, 2025
Belgrade 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
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMWednesday, May 7, 2025
King’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 12:48PMFriday, May 2, 2025
Chichester 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 08:36AMTuesday, April 29, 2025
The 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 02:12AMWednesday, April 23, 2025
Royal 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 01:54PMThursday, April 17, 2025
Lyric 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 08:06AMTuesday, March 18, 2025
Olivier 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 10:24PMSunday, March 16, 2025
New 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
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMSunday, March 9, 2025
A 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 02:36PMMonday, February 24, 2025
He 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 04:32PMWednesday, February 19, 2025
Royal 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 10:06AMThursday, February 13, 2025
Watermill 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 07:12PMWednesday, February 12, 2025
Orange 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 11:32AMThursday, February 6, 2025
Omnibus 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 09:06AMFriday, January 31, 2025
Arcola 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 11:06AMMonday, December 16, 2024
Royal 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 06:32AMWednesday, December 11, 2024
West 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 09:48AM 
