Top 5 theatre shows to see this week (November 19-25)
The Kneebone Cadillac "Â Theatre Royal Plymouth Simon Stokes'Â last production at Theatre Royal Plymouth will be the new play by Carl Grose, recently
The Kneebone Cadillac "Â Theatre Royal Plymouth Simon Stokes'Â last production at Theatre Royal Plymouth will be the new play by Carl Grose, recently
Miriam Sherwood's late grandfather Laco Kalina lived a life large enough to fill five volumes of autobiography. Born in 1913, under the
Despite opening less than a decade ago and having a capacity of only 80 seats, the New Diorama Theatre in central London
The fourth instalment in Jamie Lloyd's ambitious anthology of Harold Pinter's shorter works consists of an intriguing if uneven double-bill of one-act
Hadestown "Â National Theatre, London Created by singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin, and starring Eva Noblezada, this musical reworking of the
Jamie Lloyd's dauntingly ambitious and carefully curated season of Harold Pinter's entire body of shorter works continues with a series of pieces
First staged in 2016, the 400th anniversary of Cervantes’ death, James Fenton's adaptation of Don Quixote compresses the sprawling novel into just
Poet and performer Ross Sutherland relishes an experiment. He's written palindrome plays and interactive comedy gigs, as well as the sublime fusion
Announced well over a year ago, this production was always intended to be a high point in Adam Penford's first year as
Kosovar playwright Jeton Neziraj is helping to explore the national identity of the 10-year-old country, Europe’s youngest, with his company Qendra Multimedia.
Iman Qureshi's The Funeral Director, this year's winner of the Papatango prize for new writing, is a sensitive and nuanced exploration of
White Teeth " Kiln Theatre, London The second production in the rechristened Kiln Theatre's autumn season is an adaptation of Zadie Smith's acclaimed debut
Sarah DeLappe's debut play, a 2017 Pulitzer prize-finalist, is a skilfully drawn coming-of-age tale set in a US girls' junior soccer team.
In 2016, the ban was lifted on women in the British army fighting in close combat roles. Kate Bowen's new play takes this
The Wolves "Â Theatre Royal Stratford East, London Ellen McDougall directs the European premiere of Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves, a play that uses
Lauren Gunderson is one of the most produced playwrights in America today. I and You is one of her most popular plays.
Kate Bowen talks about her drama Close Quarters, exploring the aspirations and gender wars of three female squaddiesIn 2016, the ban on women in the British army fighting in close combat ro…
He's done it again. Having made Hamlet feel freshly hatched, Almeida associate Robert Icke does the same for Ibsen's 1884 play. The
The largest foreign-born community in the UK is Polish – it makes up 4.5% of London's foreign-born population " yet still theatre
Macbeth " Barbican Theatre, London Polly Findlay's Royal Shakespeare Company production, starring Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack, received mixed reviews when it opened in
This is a labour of love if ever there was one. Emma Rice's first new production, after her brief, troubled stint at
Exploring the intergenerational fallout of war and diaspora from the perspective of a Polish woman, her daughter, and granddaughter, Silence is a
The might of Arthur Miller's Pulitzer-winning play lies in the way it works simultaneously as a commentary on capitalism as a contaminant
The Inheritance "Â Noel Coward Theatre, London Matthew Lopez's ambitious and moving seven- hour, two-part update of EM Forster's Howards End, exploring the
Inside a vast disused train station in Manchester, German composer and artist Heiner Goebbels is staging history. Co-commissioned by Artangel, a company