Thursday, September 18, 2025
Bridge theatre, LondonIbsen's mysticism and mermaids are thrown out as director Simon Stone amps up the 1888 play's psychological intensity with his eco-focused update
Writer-director Simon …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2025
Bush theatre, LondonBoth screen stars captivate in Emma Dennis-Edwards's tale of Gen Z Erica and emotionally distant Joyce
Two screen stars blaze on stage in this mother-daughter drama: Leti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2025
Marylebone theatre, LondonRussian director Alexander Molochnikov's play within a play raises vital questions about the cost and creativity of exile but is undone by its own cleverness
This i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Ustinov Studio, BathAs a pair of wisecracking vaudevillian entertainers, the stars balance the comedy and desolation in Lindsay Posner's production
This desolate masterpiece by Samuel Becket…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 28, 2025
Andrea Riseborough and Sarandon deliver a decade-hopping drama, superstar standups hit the road and Shobana Jeyasingh rewrites Shakespeare
' See the rest of our unmissable autumn arts previe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Donmar Warehouse, LondonMike Bartlett's invigorating play becomes a state-of-the-world drama about whether it is possible to live responsibly in our age of toxic capitalism
Mike Bartlett's s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2025
Theatre Royal BathThe actor's minimal staging of the Shakespeare comedy favours stillness and feeling over comic fizz, with moving performances from Gloria Obianyo and Amber James
Ralph Fien…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Globe theatre, LondonRobin Belfield's staging of Shakespeare's comedy has plenty of charm, but its darker undertones are glossed over
It is festival time in Illyria, with masked revelries al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM[SHARE]Assembly Roxy, EdinburghEmma Maye Gibson's outre alter ego conjures a bacchanalian helter-skelter of burlesque moments that never quite cohere
This experimental act from Australia knows how …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
Ustinov Studio, BathAllen is convincing as the bored newlywed but Matthew Dunster's version gets lost between our time and Ibsen's
It is not through any shortcomings of the cast that Matthew…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonThis version of Lerner and Loewe's musical has plenty of energy " bagpipes, big voices, drumming galore " but surely it needed more of a story update?
A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM[SHARE]Cowbarn at Underbelly, Bristo Square, EdinburghThe two titans of tech are parodied in a thoroughly fun send-up of the competition between Apple and Microsoft
This musical comedy about billio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Traverse, EdinburghOliver Ayres tucks you in for an intimate account of his diagnosis with a severe and chronic immune condition, and the effect of transphobia
This is a one-to-one show that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2025
Traverse theatre, EdinburghIn Hannah Moscovitch's powerful play, a journalist's triggered memories of abuse are voiced by a man
This two-hander about consent, abuse and the doubt cast over w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 9, 2025
Summerhall, Edinburgh Beth Paterson leads us through her discovery that the grandmother who berated her as a child was a Holocaust survivor
This story, told by Beth Paterson, is about her "n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2025
Lyceum, EdinburghPerformers dig up the stage, roll in the sack and merge with machines in Belgian theatre collective FC Bergman's arresting show
Belgian theatre collective FC Bergman's take …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]Assembly George Square Studios, Edinburgh Robert Daws stars as the great comic author in this one-man show but is let down by lukewarm humour
Robert Daws has lots of previous form on PG Wode…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 7, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWith brilliant one-liners, dazzling music and two formidable performers, this fringe highlight sees a cute newcomer end Earth's 750m-year stint of singledom
Doe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Big Yin at Gilded Balloon Patter House, EdinburghA joyful ensemble channels the spirit of 70s counterculture with dazzling costumes and cheeky choreography in a flawed show
This riotous ense…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32PM[SHARE]Pentland theatre, Pleasance at EICC, Edinburgh Voices swirl in Andreas Constantinou's medium-like performance as he struggles still with his dad's response to his sexuality
This is a show ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2025
Traverse theatre, EdinburghBuried trauma surfaces at a family reunion in Karis Kelly's darkly funny Northern Irish drama that attempts to capture a broader history of violence
Karis Kelly's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PM[SHARE]Pleasance Dome, EdinburghIn one of several Palestinian stories at this year's fringe, writer and comedian Alaa Shehada finds humour amid the horror of Israel's occupation
This is the story o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 3, 2025
Summerhall, EdinburghThe actor makes his much anticipated writing debut at the fringe with an adventurous show about homemade porn
Kevin and Megan are friends who reap the benefits when a on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 2, 2025
Festival Theatre, EdinburghCox's entertaining spectre of Adam Smith visits Royal Bank of Scotland's fascinatingly bland tyrant CEO in James Graham's ambitious play about his meteoric rise an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Jermyn Street Theatre, LondonThe fictional island of Sirene is home to a tangled web of lovers in this fun and frolicking adaptation of Compton Mackenzie's novel featuring a fantastic cast
C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonHollering songs, cartoonish characters and dire dialogue mar this well-intentioned true story of the first all-female crew to attempt the Whitbread ocean …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 27, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonAlex Urwin's warm drama tells the story of Simon Parkes who at just 23 bought the Brixton Academy for a pound and turned it into a mainstay of the UK music…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2025
Chichester Festival theatreTwinkly eyed Phillip Attmore and silky-singing Lucy St Louis have natural chemistry in this stylish, witty adaptation of the mistaken identity drama
It looks like …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2025
James Ijames was told Shakespeare wasn't for the likes of him. Yet his Hamlet revamp electrified Broadway and scooped up Tony nominations. As Fat Ham hits the UK, he talks violence, vengeanc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PM[SHARE]Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonYaël Farber's production manages the problem play's shift from dark to light well, but is often opaque in meaning
Male sexual jealousy drives…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Savoy theatre, LondonThis adrenalised adaptation of the 2010 film is stuffed with superb voices and sensational moves
What a tremendous breath of fresh air. Amid the indefatigable rise of mo…
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