Saturday, June 7, 2025
Chiswick House and Gardens, LondonA feeling of joy courses through this production featuring clowns, high-wire acts, dancing horses – and giant tubs of fake ice-cream
The celebrations kick…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMSunday, May 18, 2025
Finborough theatre, LondonA woman with cerebral palsy is interrogated in a hostile future environment in Athena Stevens’ powerful work about society’s unattainable expectations
Activist …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
Almeida, London Ava Pickett’s bold debut shows how a trio of ordinary women in rural Essex learn of the queen’s death, and speaks clearly to our own age
Ava …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMTuesday, April 8, 2025
Polka theatre, London Incorporating BSL and creative captions, this musical adaptation features a gloriously long-tailed puppet
With a cluster of country music songs and a delicate aesthetic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMTuesday, August 6, 2024
Cadogan Hall, LondonJulia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s tale about an accident-prone dragon is brought to life with sparky rhymes, nuanced acting and high energy
Freckle Productions speci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMSaturday, March 9, 2024
Whoever wins next month’s Olivier awards, global stars will continue to flock to the West End of London to give the stage their all. We take a peek behind the curtain …
At what point doe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMSaturday, February 10, 2024
Her career was almost ended by a vocal cyst, but – after a laying on of hands – it disappeared. Now this former church singer is upending musical stereotypes with a showstopping performa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMWednesday, December 6, 2023
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonThe storytelling may be light but this cleverly assembled playgroup-cum-theatre show for over-three-year-olds is an engaging hymn to the natural world
The spe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMFriday, December 1, 2023
Curve theatre, LeicesterArgentina’s Eva Perón is reimagined as a modern-day influencer in an incoherent production lacking context
Before it became a hit musical in 1978, Evita started ou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMThursday, November 23, 2023
Orange Tree theatre, LondonThere are perfectly pitched performances with just the right touch of pathos as Oliver Goldsmith’s play gets a festive staging
One of the real pleasures of reviv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMWednesday, October 18, 2023
His passion for music took him from the estate to the arts. Now, ahead of his new show Pied Piper, the writer and rapper inspires a new generation as Beatbox Academy’s artistic director
Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMFriday, October 13, 2023
Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James take centre stage in the playwright’s new drama Lyonesse, which explores power, abuse, and why things haven’t changed as much as people hoped
Things a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMFriday, September 15, 2023
Orange Tree theatre, LondonRevelatory performances fill this devastating production of Polly Stenham’s play about a family ripped apart by addiction and loneliness
Polly Stenham’s devast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMThursday, September 14, 2023
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonThe painter’s muse, who was the mistress of Lord Nelson, remains disappointingly flat in April De Angelis’s new play
April De Angelis’s forte is writing ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMFriday, September 1, 2023
Great fun from the NT’s warped fairytale Hex, plus Neil LaBute’s dark relationship comedy and a classic Gilbert & Sullivan romp in our roundup of drama to watch at home
Hex is direct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMThursday, August 31, 2023
Globe theatre, LondonEllen McDougall’s inclusive production is wonderfully warm and flirty – especially in the scenes between Rosalind and Celia – but uneven and confusing as a whole
D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMThursday, August 24, 2023
Bush theatre, LondonA young cast excels in this effervescent new play by Kit Withington, as young classmates reflect on a tragedy
The fizzing energy of a school coach trip. The gentle escape…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMFriday, August 11, 2023
Her latest play, A Mirror, mixes her keen eye for human behaviour and her experiences in North Korea, but there’s another influence that the writer has never spoken about – her autism di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMThursday, August 10, 2023
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonThis adaptation of the classic musical is a joy, from the faded nightclub set to Carl Mullaney’s showstopping I Am What I Am
Tim Sheader’s revival…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMMonday, July 24, 2023
Lyric theatre, LondonThis show from Tall Stories brings children into the action with a gentle warmth, squeal-inducing gags and engaging puppetry
Tall Stories know a thing or two about adapt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AMSaturday, July 22, 2023
The Enron playwright felt her career was floundering when the call came from Jesse Armstrong’s acclaimed series and changed everything. She talks about why writing is a lonely calling, and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMSunday, June 18, 2023
Lyric Hammersmith theatre, LondonJocelyn Bioh’s bitingly funny and sometimes heartbreaking play transposes relatable high-school movie tropes to 1980s Ghana to explore beauty standards and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMMonday, May 22, 2023
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonAmped-up visual gags and a cast that brings its own distinctive comic gifts to the Bard’s dialogue ensure a contemporary feel to the classic comedy
Sean Holmes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMWednesday, March 22, 2023
Unicorn theatre, LondonMusical for over-threes revels in belting solos, full-throttle yodelling and an operatic troll with a whiff of Lloyd Webber’s Phantom
A mum sitting next to me whispe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AMMonday, March 20, 2023
The actor had just a week to rehearse for A Streetcar Named Desire. Fortunately, her turn as tragic belle Blanche DuBois has audiences enchanted
I nudge the recording device a bit closer to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMThursday, February 16, 2023
The Vaults, LondonPhoebe Batteson-Brown is archly comic as the clueless Perdita but it’s the subplot about a queer teenager and the hypocrisy of politics that has real depth to it
This sur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31AMWednesday, February 15, 2023
Jermyn Street Theatre, LondonIn historian Orlando Figes’ rather too formal first play, the passionate romantic’s friends try to persuade him to be a little more worldly
While researchin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59AMSaturday, December 31, 2022
You can spend the next few weeks under the duvet and in front of the telly, or enjoy world-class art, theatre, music, film and standup – here’s an event for each of the next 31 days
MUSI…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMMonday, November 21, 2022
The Pit, Barbican, LondonFrom a control desk, director Rachel O’Mahony pushes buttons for songs, scenes and games in a fun, carefully crafted show staged by Zoo Co
Why can’t more theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMFriday, November 18, 2022
Unicorn theatre, LondonMosquitos, cats and smartly defined morals feature in a complex and well-crafted reimagining of the beloved tale
Remember the blue fairy that toy-maker Geppetto wishes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMWednesday, November 9, 2022
Charing Cross theatre, LondonTim Rice’s lyrics are the most striking aspect of a crisp production which can also feel heavy-handed
The members of G Company are going stir crazy in Hawaii. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM 
