Tuesday, October 27, 2026
The festive season brings swashbuckling adventure, heartwarming Antarctic antics, a yuletide spin on Pride and Prejudice and Matthew Bourne’s CinderellaRoyal Exchange theatre, Manchester, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:20AM[SHARE]Monday, October 26, 2026
Park theatre, LondonThis adaptation is perhaps too smooth but is well-staged and performed, and draws strong feeling from the pianist’s compositionsThe idea of turning the survival story o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30AM[SHARE]Friday, October 23, 2026
Bristol Old VicA family are just getting used to their new home in this haunting drama when a parallel world emergesOverheard in the auditorium during the interval: it’s like Tales of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 22, 2026
Old Vic theatre, LondonMatthew Warchus directs a radical and intimate revival of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s musical about a Frenchman who flees homeSome revivals overstat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:50AM[SHARE]Friday, October 16, 2026
Dorfman theatre, LondonThe far-fetched plot turns and some underdeveloped characters undermine the powerful messages about prejudice in Helen Edmundson’s playOpposing forces tug against ea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2026
Sherman theatre, Cardiff Hannah McPake’s high-wire drama pokes fun at tech bro machismo, reality TV and Musk-style Martian escapes – think A Christmas Carol in spaceThis show takes local…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonThis Ranevskaya feels of our time but Conor McPherson’s plain-speaking adaptation, co-starring Stephen Mangan, doesn’t always hit you emotionallyThere have b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 10, 2026
Royal Court theatre, LondonA Black British woman traces her family’s enslaved past in Joy Nesbitt’s supernaturally charged playJoy Nesbitt’s fantastically chilling play is both a ghost…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05AM[SHARE]Friday, October 9, 2026
Barbican theatre, LondonWith a dual narrative set in Tokyo and a world of dreams, Philippe Decouflé’s epic production is as bewitching as its balletic unicornsHow to stage Haruki Murakami…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonWith a WWE-style wrestling match, playful eroticism and a fine cast including Hamilton’s Jonathan Groff, this is an exquisite production‘To …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Riverside Studios, LondonAndy Sandberg’s play gets off to an intriguing start before coming off the rails in spectacular, almost fascinating style. For all the wrong reasons, it’s hard t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2026
Curve theatre, LeicesterDirector Cara Nolan keeps the play’s original 1980s setting but its message about how expectations are dictated by class and gender is anything but datedSo much of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:25PM[SHARE]Coronet theatre, LondonAnguished monologue based on letter to jailed playwright’s ex-lover is gripping in its illumination of a tortured artistOscar Wilde’s De Profundis really does belo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2026
@sohoplace, LondonThere is no shortage of sparring between Anderson and Billy Crudup in Edward Albee’s classic, though its comedy has an air of George and MildredThose who want to moan abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonJames Graham’s high-wire writing brings economic theory to life and connects it with art and fulfilment in this polished, ravishingly staged story of John Ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:50PM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2026
New Diorama theatre, LondonPassionate production based on testimonies from Gaza poses many questions regarding Israel’s actions but gets overwhelmed by fact-delivery and form-switchesHow d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 26, 2026
Ormiston Bushfield Academy, PeterboroughAn intro to Shakespeare doesn’t get any better than the RSC’s revival of Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female prison-set production led by Harriet Walter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40PM[SHARE]Friday, September 25, 2026
Kiln theatre, LondonMarisha Wallace and Jamael Westman play exes who reconvene over dinner in Douglas Lyons’ sparky old-school charmerThis incorrigibly likable romcom comes to the UK with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2026
National Theatre, LondonTiago Rodrigues’s play has incensed audiences abroad with one character’s hellfire rightwing invective. But its combination of boredom and shocks ultimately feels…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 20, 2026
Arcola theatre, LondonThe slick production and sound design of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Nicky Allpress’s adaptation is hampered by its own clevernessHere is Henry James’s canonical ghost…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM[SHARE]Minghella theatre, ReadingSoprano Claire Booth’s mouth is isolated against a black background to capture the racing brain of a desperate woman, with added operatic flairThere is a long pre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 19, 2026
Theatre Royal BathThis heady mix of circus mayhem, cabaret sexiness, comedy antics and medieval tragedy is utterly irresistibleKneehigh’s take on this medieval legend was first staged in 2…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2026
Young Vic, LondonDespite a book by the original screenwriter, this stage adaptation doesn’t have the depth – or the songs – worthy of the era-defining feminist parable. And where’s t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Theatre503, LondonLauryn Ajufo makes Tracey her own in a vibrant revival of Coel’s monologue, capturing the cruelty, confusion and comedy of adolescenceThe self-flagellations of adolescenc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 6, 2026
Finborough theatre, LondonNichola McAuliffe returns to the roles Wesker tailored for her in 1981, in a trio of wistful and insightful soliloquies about working-class women’s inner thoughts…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2026
National Theatre, London Letitia Wright plays the ambitious young reporter seduced into cutting corners with contentious reporting in a brilliantly kinetic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 3, 2026
Donmar Warehouse, LondonBrian Friel’s version of Turgenev treads lightly between humour and hurt as wayward passions rock a country houseA bored hausfrau languishing in her marriage. A con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 2, 2026
As The Story – inspired by a scandal that ended a young Black reporter’s career – makes its London debut, its author explains why, two decades on, it’s more relevant than everIf our …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Benedict Andrews’ intense, interval-free mashup of ancient and modernist classics is a show of two halves The Electra bit of the title refers to the Sophoclean tragedy of a daughter trappe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PM[SHARE]Monday, August 31, 2026
Minerva theatre, ChichesterA female secret agent’s extraordinary courage never quite comes to life in a drama that struggles to find tension in her high-stakes storyNoor-un-Nisa Inayat Kha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2026
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonTwo men shelter from catastrophe in this Beckettian tale of memory, companionship and survival, which is intelligently performed but light on tensionJermyn Stree…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 23, 2026
Shakespeare’s Globe, London In a lively and deftly designed production, gowns and wigs fit for Versailles give way to plainer disguises as banished courtiers pursue happiness in the countr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:10AM[SHARE]From Taiwanese steampunk dance to Australian climate comedy, here are 13 quick-fire fringe reviewsAll our Edinburgh festival reviewsFor new perspective on the strange ways we behave, we all …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15AM[SHARE]Friday, August 21, 2026
Emerald theatre, LondonAn account of the superstar’s life revisits her relationships and considers some conspiracy theories but never gets beyond clicheThere have been 600 books written ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 20, 2026
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonOuthwaite’s performance as Beverly, a precision-tooled showcase in hidden anger and longing, is a triumph in this eternally resonant suburban dramaAlison Stead…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 19, 2026
There are 3,649 shows at the fringe this year, but how many embody its spirit of radical experimentation? I took a journey through foam, lube and gore to find out ...Somewhere in Edinburgh, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 15, 2026
Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghFlabbergast Theatre’s production of Samuel Beckett’s desolate play leans into slapstick – and loses some of the searing threatThis production by Flabbergast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:45PM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2026
theSpace Triplex, EdinburghFour skaters enter into feral competition in this darkly funny yet flimsily plotted play about female teenhoodThe title refers to the figure-skating legend and Oly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 13, 2026
Zoo Southside, Edinburgh Letícia Rodrigues takes on the titular challenge in this show about shame, rage and how female bodies are surveilledA smiling woman steps on to the weighing scales …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe painter and his lover are played with real intensity by Alistair Hall and Peter Clements, in a visceral psychodrama of contained violence and sadnessThe fam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AM[SHARE] 
