This week's best theatre and dance by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Hedda Gabler | Going Viral | La Soirée | Wild Honey | The Railway Children | Beauty & The Beast | Hansel And Gretel | The Snowman Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:54am on December 30, 2016☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Don Quijote | Show Boat | With A Little Bit Of Luck | Folk | Constellation Street | Another World: Losing Our Children To Islamic StatePart of HOME's ongoing Spanish and Latin American festi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:13am on April 8, 2016☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Buzzcut | Clybourne Park | Boy | Goosebumps Alive | Men & Girls Dance | Laila: The MusicalThis experimental performance festival boasts an unrivalled programme of radical work hailing fr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:32am on April 1, 2016☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Caretaker | Forever Yours, Marie-Lou | Smoke And Mirrors | Sunset Boulevard | King Lear | InvincibleAfter Jamie Lloyd's tinkering with The Homecoming last year, one wonders whether Old V…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:12am on March 25, 2016☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

People, Places & Things | Somewhere In England | Jackie The Musical | Hamlet | The Truth | JumpyDenise Gough's performance in People, Places & Things at the National Theatre was cite…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04am on March 11, 2016☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

1972: The Future Of Sex | The Nap | The Painkiller | Cosy | Miss Atomic Bomb | JinnyThe Bristol-based Wardrobe Ensemble pinpoints 1972 as a pivotal moment for sex: the pill had brought freed…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 4:31am on March 4, 2016☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Maids | A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Play For The Nation | The Destroyed Room | Beyond The Fence | Chip Shop Chips | Right NowThree women who have made a big impact on TV line up for the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:46am on February 19, 2016☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Husbands & Sons | The War Of The Worlds | Hand To God | Betrayal | Chwalfa | HamletDH Lawrence's early plays A Collier's Friday Night, The Widowing Of Mrs Holroyd and The Daughter-In-Law…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:22am on February 12, 2016☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Mrs Henderson Presents | Doctor Faustus | The Broke 'N' Beat Collective | The Herbal Bed | Motown The Musical | Any Means NecessaryWithout the movies as source material, it seemed the musica…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:54am on February 5, 2016☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Nell Gwynn | Endgame | Manipulate Festival | Cat On A Hot Tin Roof | Queer Contact Festival | The End Of LongingQuantum Of Solace and St Trinian's star Gemma Arterton returns to the West End…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:10am on January 29, 2016☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

A Girls Is A Half Formed Thing | Wit | Jeepers Creepers | Rabbit Hole | The Master Builder | A Raisin In The SunFirst seen in Dublin and then in Edinburgh last summer, Annie Ryan's stage ver…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:48am on January 22, 2016☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Mother | The Solid Life Of Sugar Water | The Train | Escaped Alone | Jane Eyre | Push 2016Florian Zeller's The Father was, for many, the West End play of last year, a heart-rending portr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:01am on January 15, 2016☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Rolling Stone | Partus | Holy Mackerel! | The Girls | London International Mime Festival | Rehearsal For MurderIn this context, Rolling Stone has nothing to do with the ageing rock group…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:04am on January 8, 2016☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Jane Wenham: The Witch Of Walkern | Can't Buy Me Love | Grey Gardens | Justin & The Argonauts | Hard Working Families | The 39 StepsThere are echoes of one of the finest plays in the Eng…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:07am on January 2, 2016☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Sound Of Music | Peter Pan Goes Wrong | Ben Hur | Nutshell Nutcracker | A Christmas Carol | FlownChristmas is the one time of the year when many families splash out and go to see a big s…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:34am on December 18, 2015☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Instatiable, Inflatable Candylion | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | The Fitzrovia Radio Hour's Christmas Special & Around The World In 80 Days | The Witches | The Snow Queen | Show BoatIf…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:49am on December 11, 2015☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Dick Whittington & His Cat | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Dr Seuss's The Lorax | Eloise And The Curse Of The Golden Whisk | The Haunting Of Hill House | Snow White And Rose RedIf you like y…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:55am on December 4, 2015☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

wonder.land | Sleeping Beauty | Wendy And Peter Pan | Little Eyolf | The Light Princess | Oliver!Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland is a much visited source for creative types. Damon Albarn…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:40am on November 20, 2015☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Funny Girl | Contained | The Homecoming | Going Viral | The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe | Queen AnneIf you failed to get tickets for Funny Girl at the Menier Chocolate Factory (the four…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:28am on November 13, 2015☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Men In The Cities | The One That Got Away | King And Country | Lovesong Of The Electric Bear | Tipping Point | Flare PathDeath is senseless in writer-performer Chris Goode's solo show, first…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:34am on November 6, 2015☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Land Of Our Fathers | The Choir | Husbands & Sons | Pomona | The Moderate Soprano | The DistanceWales Millennium Centre revives Chris Urch's 2013 debut play. Setting out on a tour that w…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:22am on October 23, 2015☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Oresteia | Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Season | The Deal Versus The People | The Edge | The Hairy Ape | The Magna Carta PlaysThose Greeks just keep on flooding our stages. There are …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:15am on October 16, 2015☆⚑

This week's best new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Xanadu | Ubu And The Truth Commission | Belfast international arts festival | Coming Up | A Streetcar Named Desire | Circus CityThe 1980 film Xanadu is about as far from Kubla Khan, the epic…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:31am on October 9, 2015☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Golem | French Without Tears | A Wolf In Snakeskin Shoes | The Crucible | Brief Encounters At Bradford Interchange | Fierce FestivalJewish folklore becomes a fable about 21st-century technol…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:31am on October 2, 2015☆⚑

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Rubenstein Kiss | Teddy Ferrara | Monsieur Popular | The Seagull | The Father | Dubin Theatre FestivalEthel and Julius Rosenberg were sent to the electric chair in 1953 after being found…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:41am on September 25, 2015☆⚑