Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Bristol Old VicThe Reduced Shakespeare Company returns with a frantic mix of pratfalls, audience participation and lightning-flash characterisations
A classical actor who appeared in a recen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMKing’s Head theatre, LondonThe media tycoon comes up against union boss Brenda Dean in Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky’s docudrama about the 80s Wapping dispute
A teacher in Alan …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMThursday, March 26, 2026
Theatr Clwyd, MoldDirector Kate Wasserberg emphasises the fantasy and supernatural elements of the poet’s ‘play for voices’ in an entertaining and inclusive production
As…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMFriday, February 27, 2026
Tabard theatre, LondonThe actor shines as Hitler’s favourite film director, who flirts and finagles her way through a fictional interview with an alcoholic, philandering journalist hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMTuesday, February 3, 2026
Barn theatre, CirencesterSimon Nye brings back the characters from his hit TV series for a misconceived comedy set on millennium eve
In a nervy theatre economy, with familiar material most l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMTuesday, December 16, 2025
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe actor gives a skilful performance in the late playwright’s 1995 meditation on love and literary posterity, directed by Jonathan Kent
A fortnight after Wes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06PMWednesday, December 10, 2025
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon This adaptation of the beloved tale about an ogre looks beautiful but does not grow into a giant to rival the company’s hit Roald Dahl m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMSunday, November 30, 2025
The great playwright had a 60-year career in the theatre and also wrote scripts for radio and the screen – here are some of his very best
With his restless imagination, Tom Stoppard …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMFriday, November 21, 2025
Birmingham RepHumphrey Ker and David Reed’s witty thriller blends Victorian sleuthing, meta gags and new songs by the great musical-theatre duo
A serial killer working through the alp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32AMFriday, November 14, 2025
The revered BBC strand that gave us Abigail’s Party and The Black Stuff makes a return … on Channel 5. Will it be as successful as in its heyday?
In March 1977, BBC One screened…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:02AMFriday, October 31, 2025
Richmond theatre, LondonGuy Unsworth ups the jokes in a play that is loving towards its prime-time TV source and hugely entertaining for fans
British touring theatre at the moment is often a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMFriday, October 24, 2025
Curve theatre, LeicesterCathy Tyson and Patrick Robinson dazzle in this knockout production of Edward Albee’s verbally violent play, full of misogynistic one-liners and tarnished soul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMWednesday, October 22, 2025
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonDaniel Raggett’s audacious RSC production sets the play in a Glaswegian pub full of thugs and has a Landlady Macbeth running the show
Audiences arr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSaturday, October 11, 2025
Exeter Northcott theatreThe journey of the Devon club from league minnows to championship winners is told with considerable elan and affection
Driving to this theatre, I passed signs to Sidm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AMSaturday, September 27, 2025
Harrison, who has died aged 88, wrote copiously for the stage, both as an ingenious translator and dazzlingly original dramatist
From TS Eliot and Ted Hughes to Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Arm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMFriday, September 26, 2025
Chichester Festival theatreWilliam Golding’s bleak vision of civilisation holds up after 70 years, but Nigel Williams’s 1995 adaptation, revived with a sparky cast, might not b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMThursday, September 25, 2025
Birmingham RepThe actor offers up lightning asides as Patricia Highsmith’s social chameleon in a meta staging by Mark Leipacher
Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel about a conscien…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AMWednesday, 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 p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMSunday, 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 producti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMFriday, 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 06:24AMSunday, 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 grea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMFriday, 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 liste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMThursday, 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 10:12PMWednesday, 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 03:32PMFriday, 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 pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12AMThursday, 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 w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMSunday, 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 an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMFriday, 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 I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMWednesday, 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 f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMTuesday, 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 cl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMFriday, 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
Durin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54PM 
