Thursday, July 30, 2026
Cleansed, Almeida Theatre review – bloodbath drowns the poetry
Aleks Sierz
Thu, 07/30/2026 - 19:00
Disappointingly literal version of Sarah Kane’s clas…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Tender, Bush Theatre review - haunting blood relations
Aleks Sierz
Wed, 07/22/2026 - 10:20
New play about love and loneliness in London has terrific gender …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:55PM[SHARE]Friday, July 3, 2026
The Guilty, Donmar Warehouse review – spine-tingling and gut-tightening thriller
Aleks Sierz
Fri, 07/03/2026 - 16:30
Chloë Moss’s new drama is a nerve-…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Sting, Young Vic review - emotionally gruelling, but a bit bizarre
Aleks Sierz
Wed, 07/01/2026 - 08:11
New play about domestic abuse adopts a radical form …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:11AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 28, 2026
Archduke, Royal Court review - gloriously zany history play
Aleks Sierz
Mon, 06/29/2026 - 12:08
American playwright Rajiv Joseph’s account of Serbian poli…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2026
The Misanthrope, National Theatre review – exuberant verse and emotional depth
Aleks Sierz
Thu, 06/25/2026 - 14:05
Martin Crimp’s sparkling latest revi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:05AM[SHARE]Friday, June 19, 2026
The Finborough Theatre is one of the smallest in London, yet it has a great track record in selecting new plays. With room for barely 50 spectators, its budget is tiny, but its vibe is treme…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 18, 2026
A Fine Idea, Arcola Theatre review - more educational than dramatical
Aleks Sierz
Thu, 06/18/2026 - 15:03
New play about international aid is too finger wa…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:03AM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2026
Are You Watching?, Royal Court review - disturbing digital voyeurism
Aleks Sierz
Fri, 06/05/2026 - 16:07
New play about the real and the fake in the online …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:07AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 25, 2026
At a time when, in the post-Brexit years, British theatre is increasingly insular, a visit by the Wooster Group, legendary veterans of American experimental theatre, is surely worth celebrat…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Every day, for many weeks, we keep hearing about nuclear weapons. Part of the reason for the current attack on Iran by the United States and Israel is the idea, whether true or not, that the…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Okay, this is odd. The original novel, Les Liaisons dangereuses, first published in 1782, features a rich and powerful man and woman positively exulting in their manipulation of a much young…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:49PM[SHARE]Friday, February 20, 2026
Today, in Geneva, there are tentative peace talks between Ukraine and Russia; today, in London, there is a powerful play about the ongoing war. Oddly enough, it is fringe venues, the Finboro…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 19, 2026
Terence Rattigan is a posh playwright whose work encapsulates the emotional restraint of the 1950s, and who was overtaken by the Angry Young Men. Right? Wrong! Although this sketch of his ca…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:01AM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2026
Some shows have great moments, but somehow just don't work " the whole is less than the sum of its parts. This is my feeling about Frantic Assembly's 30th anniversary show, Lost Atoms, which…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2026
New Year, new line up of West End stars. This time it's the turn of Olivier-Award-winner Sheridan Smith and multi-award-winning comedian Romesh Ranganathan, both household names, now appeari…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 2, 2025
Thatcher, and the image of Thatcher's Britain, continues to cast a long shadow over contemporary culture. So it's hardly a surprise that the most audience-pleasing moment in playwright Jack …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2025
In 2023, Malaysian actor Michelle Yeoh won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Some reactions praised her as "the first Asian actress" to achieve…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:26AM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2025
Weird scenes inside the farmhouse; weird scenes in Northern Ireland; weird scenes of the 1980s. Meghan Tyler's Crocodile Fever at the Arcola Theatre is a breath-takingly eccentric and wonder…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 26, 2025
The Royal Court, Britain's premiere new writing venue, celebrates its platinum anniversary next year " yes, it's been 70 years since 1956's Look Back in Anger. In anticipation, the theatre i…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Broken Britain has a big problem with youth. About a million of those aged 16 to 24 are NEETs (not in education, employment or training), some 13 per cent of this age group. Many working-cla…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:31PM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2025
Perhaps it's an indicator of the feebleness of new writing after the pandemic that so many of the current highly hyped plays are 1990s and 2000s revivals " success in the past is, it is hope…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 23, 2025
Slowly, very slowly, the audience begins to arrive. Taking their seats, shedding jackets, arranging bags and glancing at programmes. But already, there's a stir: the imposing figure of actor…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:37AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 2, 2025
Is there such a thing as the seven-year itch? Named after Billy Wilder's 1955 comedy, which starred Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, in which a psychiatrist argues that almost all men need to h…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 6, 2025
George Bernard Shaw is the supreme example of old writing. Maddeningly verbose, eye-poppingly articulate and self-consciously progressive, his work is so Edwardian that any revival runs the …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 19, 2025
Let us always remember the pioneers. Although there is a fair amount of relatively mainstream queer theatre today (fueled in the popular imagination by RuPaul's Drag Race on BBC television),…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Only the truth, we are told, can set us free " but there are times in love when the New Testament Gospel of John is an inadequate guide. A good example is the situation that Terence Rattigan…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Theatre needs mystery. In the darkened auditorium, with a crowd of strangers sharing your experience, it is possible to believe in anything you see on the stage: ghosts, miracles and magic. …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Coming of age stories are more or less all the same. But what distinguishes Julia Grogan's Playfight, which was first staged at the Edinburgh Festival last year, and is now at London's Soho …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:33PM[SHARE]Friday, April 11, 2025
Are we really in "a new era of male anger, societal discontent and rage"? This is what Royal Court artistic director David Byrne claims in the programme of Manhunt, Robert Icke's new documen…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:26PM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2025
Anxiety. Apprehension. Angst even. Yes, that's the feeling that rises in me as I come into the auditorium of Omnibus Theatre, in Clapham, south London, to watch Chris Fung perform in his own…
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