Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Pierrot Lunaire review – Royal Ballet reaches for the moon with a creepy dance of desire by Sanjoy Roy

Linbury theatre, LondonGlen Tetley’s landmark 1962 ballet, set to Schoenberg’s atonal score, is stark, strange and psychologically charged Sometimes the revival of an old work can make i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PM

Kristin Scott Thomas says male theatre critics fail to grasp plays about women by Amelia Hill

Actor’s comments came as she accepted a lifetime achievement award for women in the arts Kristin Scott Thomas has accused male theatre critics of failing to understand plays written by wom…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31PM

Man and Boy review – Rattigan’s murky reunion staged in silver-screen style by Arifa Akbar

Dorfman theatre, LondonA financier facing corruption charges is reunited with his son in this high-concept mishmash of screwball comedy and financial thriller The National Theatre is certain…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM

Dear Liar review – George Bernard Shaw spars with the original Eliza in Pygmalion by David Jays

Jermyn Street theatre, LondonJerome Kilty’s fusty two-hander charts the cantankerous and flirtatious relationship between the playwright and actor Mrs Patrick Campbell When Jerome Kilty wa…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Lark Rise to Candleford review – tender, evocative tribute to rural lives in transition by Emma John

Watermill theatre, NewburyThis music-laced adaptation of Flora Thompson’s novels is a coming-of-age story that finds quiet beauty in a world on the brink of change Flora Thompson’s autob…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12PM

Children of the Night review – party like it’s 1997 in Yorkshire’s Vegas by Mark Fisher

Cast, DoncasterThrough the eyes of two working-class teenagers, a legendary 90s Doncaster nightclub is brought back to life in Danielle Phillips’s sparky but quietly perceptive play If you…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM

Philippe Gaulier had a huge impact on theatre – but his ‘embrace the ridiculous’ lesson is one for us all by Brian Logan

The master clown helped generations of performers be more alive in the moment – and not take themselves too seriously. His teachings were for life as well as the stage • Philippe Gaulier…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM

Philippe Gaulier, clown guru and mentor to theatre and comedy greats, dies aged 82 by Dee Jefferson

Teacher who ran school outside Paris was a formative influence on generations of comedians and actors including Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson Master clown Philippe Gaulier, the infl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM

Four decades after we wrote Yes Minister, politics is still reduced to the pleasure of power | Jonathan Lynn by Jonathan Lynn

Our sitcom character Jim Hacker continues to cling on – as he takes to the West End stage, nothing has really changed When people praised Tony Jay and me for Yes Minister’s prescience, w…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AM
Monday, February 9, 2026

Troubles-rooted play Sapling wins Women’s prize for playwriting by Kevin Rawlinson

Judges, including Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, praise Georgina Duncan’s play as the kind ‘producers dream of and audiences yearn to watch’ A work that explores what happen…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PM

War of the Worlds review – HG Wells recast as a fever dream of fear and xenophobia by Mark Fisher

Cast, DoncasterA visually arresting adaptation trades Martian menace for Enoch Powell-era paranoia – technically dazzling, politically pointed, yet also confusing ‘National emergency to …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PM

From nightmarish noir to Bolero on trampolines: the audacious Holland Dance festival hits dizzy heights by Chris Wiegand

Shadowy urban terror gives way to airborne exuberance as the festival celebrates its 20th edition with a programme that disturbs and delights Suited dancers swing around a streetlight in Spa…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM

The Last Picture review – talking dog leads a journey from horror to hope by Catherine Love

York Theatre RoyalIn Catherine Dyson’s absorbing play, the audience become a class of year 9 pupils visiting a Holocaust exhibition with an emotional support animal Can we ever truly learn…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM

‘It’s like two divorcing parents’: how actors’ union Equity fell out with casting directory Spotlight by Mark Sweney

Union to appeal after losing case against historic talent index in battle that could reshape UK acting landscape For almost a century it has been the casting directors’ bible, a shopfront …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM

‘I’m not blaming Bond for screwing up my career’: Maryam d’Abo on playing a thieving writer on stage – and a sniper cellist in 007 by Arifa Akbar

The former Bond girl talks about her new role as a top writer accused of stealing a story as her actor husband is cancelled – and why she has no regrets about her time aboard the 007 rolle…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM
Sunday, February 8, 2026

‘I don’t have to create his legacy, I just have to protect it’: Chadwick Boseman’s widow Simone on grieving a global star – and guarding his by JN Benjamin

Black Panther made him a megastar, but in private the actor and his wife Simone Ledward Boseman were dealing with his terminal cancer diagnosis. In a rare interview, she talks about the shoc…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31PM

Dance of Death review – spark and mischief as humorously horrible couple wish each other dead by Arifa Akbar

Orange Tree theatre, LondonRichard Eyre’s adaptation brings comedy and tenderness alongside Strindberg’s original savagery August Strindberg’s portrait of marriage is unremittingly ble…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:01PM

The Gambler review – kooky dancing and onstage rock in dizzying Dostoevsky adaptation by Lucinda Everett

The Coronet theatre, LondonJapanese company Chiten abandon naturalism for rhythmic dialogue and highly stylised movements – but there is much invention to admire Dostoevsky wrote his 1866 …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM

Guidelines review – teens try to escape the aftermath of a murder filmed on a phone by Kate Wyver

New Diorama theatre, LondonJames Nash’s doomscrolling play unpacks social media and the violence it hosts We piece together fragments. Distorted voice notes, the depths of the comments sec…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM
Saturday, February 7, 2026

Carol Lawrence obituary by Jon Griffin

My mother, Carol Lawrence, who has died aged 81, was a stage and costume designer at an exciting time in British theatre who pivoted to a successful second career at the BBC, finding her nic…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

The Eternal Shame of Sue Perkins review – a Bake Off star basks in self-abasement by Brian Logan

Darlington HippodromePerkins’ return to live comedy features some lurid stories of her personal and professional ineptitude, and jaunty tales about vacuum cleaners and a drug-addled trip t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM
Friday, February 6, 2026

Trigger warnings risk ‘mollycoddling’ theatre audiences, says Tony-winning director by Dalya Alberge

Exclusive: John Doyle says theatre should be able to disturb and challenge audiences, and not sanitise difficult themes The Tony award-winning theatre director John Doyle has warned that tri…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PM

It Walks Around the House at Night review – jump scares and spine tingles as a pretend ghost gets really spooked by Arifa Akbar

Minerva theatre, Chichester Award-winning writer Tim Foley’s frightfest brings an out of work actor to a country manor to burnish the myth of its resident wraith. Beware of the silhouetted…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PM

The Virgins review – a tornado of gossip, pretence and pain as teens make Friday night sex night by Anya Ryan

Soho theatre, LondonDesire collides with stomach-churning awkwardness in this play – which won the Women’s prize – about friends heading out for some physical contact I’m watching Mi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31AM
Thursday, February 5, 2026

Arcadia review – love, gardening and Euclidian geometry collide in Tom Stoppard’s cosmic masterpiece by Arifa Akbar

Old Vic, LondonStuffed with knowledge and often regarded as the playwright’s finest work, this drama’s sheer cleverness gleams in an exuberant production When Tom Stoppard was asked what…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM

All Is But Fantasy review – Lady Macbeth, Juliet and the girls belt out their grumbles as the witches let rip by Catherine Love

The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonWhitney White’s thrilling, song-filled show flips Shakespeare’s great characters and asks why we still lap up these tales of sexy men killing sexy wom…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM

The Memory of Water review – blackly funny look at sisters fighting for a dead mother’s love by Mark Fisher

Octagon, BoltonThree grownup daughters display childhood neediness in this well-acted production that explores unrequited desires as a mother comes back from the grave The three grownup sist…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM

The Ophiolite review – a family at war over patriarch’s dying wishes by Arifa Akbar

Theatro Technis, London In Philip de Voni’s ambitious debut play, a clash over funeral rites exposes deep divisions in a British-Cypriot extended family Ancient Greek literature teems with…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM
Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Crown of Blood review – Macbeth’s deadly hurly-burly rooted in mythic Yoruba landscape by Mark Fisher

Crucible, SheffieldThe supernatural is all-encompassing in Oladipo Agboluaje’s reframing of Shakespeare’s power play in 19th-century west Africa Every time the court historian turns up, …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PM

‘We didn’t make it for a white audience’: how black theatre took centre stage in Australia by Dee Jefferson

In the last five years, African diaspora theatre has swept from the fringes on to the country’s main stages – fuelled by artists like Zindzi Okenyo Get our weekend culture and lifestyle …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Men Behaving Badly: The Play review – boorish flatmates prattle like it’s 1999 by Mark Lawson

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 06:31PM

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2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
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Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
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Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off