Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Noël Coward theatre, LondonThe sheer rate of jokes, from groanworthy to dynamite, may leave you crying helpless tears of laughter in this farce from the Mischief company
‘Vodka martini.�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24PMHe is a transfixing screen presence – but he lives for the raw thrill of the stage. As he takes over the Venice theatre biennale, the star lets us know what to expect: cut-up plays and a P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMHampstead theatre, London It’s a little hard to buy the One Man, Two Guvnors playwright’s broadly comic take on the American’s thriller about con artists
1987 was the year of the conma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMFriday, May 9, 2025
Coronet theatre, LondonA sinister, clinical chill permeates this beguiling production of a new work by Norwegian dramatist Jon Fosse, aided by clever lighting and a ghostly piano score
The d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMTuesday, April 29, 2025
Donmar Warehouse, LondonPatrick Marber’s debut play about a group of poker players brims with banter, but this pallid 30th-anniversary revival exposes its weaknesses
In 1995, two British p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMWednesday, April 9, 2025
Barbican, LondonJessie Buckley, Olly Alexander and Will Young read from the artist and film-maker’s diaries, capturing a life of defiance, joy and vitality
Is Derek Jarman the first direct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMWednesday, April 2, 2025
The ex-member of Brother Beyond now writes chart-toppers for stars. Why has he decided to make a musical of seedy, gutter-life classic Midnight Cowboy, a film he can’t bear?
Troop into Eg …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMTuesday, February 4, 2025
Riverside Studios, London Barney Norris’s adaptation of David Foenkinos’s novel shows us a man who just missed out on stardom and is now facing fatherhood
If one of Alan Bennett’s Talk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMMonday, February 3, 2025
Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan and Erin Doherty embark on a sexual adventure in a ‘provocative’ drama about a married couple and their younger lover. Has it made them rethink their own lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMMonday, January 27, 2025
The joint RSC boss is on unstoppable form, making a blistering return to the stage with a 4:48 Psychosis performed in the small hours – and an Edward II that will be a ‘screw you’ to h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32AMFriday, November 15, 2024
Bush theatre, LondonAs east London entrepreneurs Manny and Abdul try to get rich, Daniel Bailey’s energetic production bounces around but lacks any dramatic conflict
Can tales from the cry…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMWednesday, October 23, 2024
Stanley Kubrick’s pitch-black comedy about nuclear armageddon was once called ‘sick’. Iannucci explains why – in the age of Trump, Putin and Musk – this madcap story is as relevan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMWednesday, October 16, 2024
Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonJohn Wilkes Booth’s killing of Abraham Lincoln is skilfully examined in an absorbing play about the cyclical nature of political violence
‘Why did you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMTuesday, October 1, 2024
He has done frothy romcoms and weighty epics such as Tony-winning The Inheritance. Now the US playwright is revisiting the drink-fuelled drama that terrified him as he wrote it
In 2008, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMWednesday, September 18, 2024
Watford Palace theatreStage version of TV movie offers impressive impersonations of the Beatles stars but is more like fan fiction than drama
What went down during the penultimate face-to-fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMThursday, August 29, 2024
Theatre Royal, BathSpruced up for its 20th anniversary, Alan Bennett’s beloved play now has 80s musical numbers, but its blase attitude to teachers with wandering hands remains dated
Just …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMFriday, August 16, 2024
Arcola theatre, London Edoardo Erba’s two-hander takes up a position at the margins of the Anders Breivik massacre but leaves his characters disappointingly generalised
Dur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:50AMThursday, July 4, 2024
Almeida theatre, LondonKendall Feaver’s play dissects white privilege and a university’s #MeToo moment that begins when a student speaks out after being sexually assaulted
“A terrible …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMFriday, June 14, 2024
Minerva theatre, ChichesterJustin Audibert’s revival nails the playwright’s humour better than his despair while Ian McDiarmid brings a balletic grace to the stage
How would an estate ag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, June 9, 2024
Riverside Studios, LondonIn this adaptation of André Carl van der Merwe’s novel, Kai Luke Brümmer puts in a formidable performance as the South African conscript beset by homophobia
Clos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMWednesday, June 5, 2024
Turbine theatre, LondonAdequate songs are not enough to fill out Jonathan Harvey’s flimsy clubbers’ romance, though Frances Ruffelle provides some welcome razzle dazzle
In four decades o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Arcola, LondonThe acting from Ellena Vincent, Peter De Jersey and Daniel Francis-Swaby is riveting but this play gets tied down in gothic horror and psychodrama
A tattered US flag hangs from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMMonday, May 20, 2024
It was the film about end of the silent era that scooped five Oscars, made $133m and beguiled the world. But can the movie work on stage? And how will its real star, a frisky parson russell …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMTuesday, May 7, 2024
They are comedy sparring partners from Green Wing. Can the duo play stricken lovers in The Deep Blue Sea, the eviscerating play Rattigan poured his own heartbreak into? Warning: contains spo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMSunday, April 21, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonSet entirely within the stained walls of a men’s public toilet, Sam Grabiner’s award-winning play is an ambitious, hallucinatory series of vignettes dramatising the g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMFriday, April 19, 2024
Bush theatre, LondonTherapists will love this drama about neonatal strains with all its flashbacks to childhood battles. Shame the focus is all on the father, leaving the women looking like …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMFriday, March 22, 2024
Jerry Seinfeld calls him ‘the most idolised comedian ever’. Yet after five decades at the top, success still makes him cringe. He discusses doubting himself, starring in a documentary �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMWednesday, February 21, 2024
Eight years after spectacularly crashing and burning out of the West End, the Olivier-winner is now playing an actress trapped in the same nightmare. Can she face down her demons?
It is late…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMTuesday, February 13, 2024
Arcola theatre, LondonThis nimble play sets up a shocking scenario yet somehow it slaloms along – thanks to some Pirandellian trickery and three cheerful ghosts
On a raised disc bristling …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMMonday, February 5, 2024
As she hits the stage in an anarchic comedy about a family in freefall, the once-Oscar-nominated actor talks about her 2019 fraud conviction, why she’d never play a trans woman again – a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMTuesday, January 16, 2024
The actor’s suggestion in a roundtable interview is more common sense than provocation, the phrase speaking to a homophobic media that no longer calls the shots
Andrew Scott is capable of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM 
