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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42PM[SHARE]Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence combines comedy, songs and athleticism as a young netball player reckons with her own ambitions against an electro-pop score
A spate of Macbeths will hit the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 20, 2025
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThe stage version of John Carney's film stays bright-eyed despite the darker turns in this tale of teenage pop, poverty and fractious families
This stage adaptation …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Friday, July 18, 2025
Dorfman theatre, LondonShaan Sahota's play sets a British-Sikh politician's schemes against his family betrayal " a tremendous debut from a writer of huge promise
Adeel Akhtar has become a g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2025
Orange Tree theatre, LondonCasting two Netflix stars in this funny and astute modernisation of the life of Saint Clare of Assisi shows that the gulf between rich and poor never changes
Chiar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, West Yorkshire Stupendous set design brings E Nesbit's children's classic to new life as a wealthy Anglo-Indian family is forced to adjust to reduced lif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2025
London PalladiumZegler excels as Eva Perón and the crowds outside are used to capture the hypnotic appeal of populism but the narrative takes a backseat in his staging of Andrew Lloyd Web…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2025
Malta festival, PolandThis updating of Agnieszka Holland's 1981 film about a struggling single mother suggests life under capitalist consumerism is no easier than it was under communism
Agni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2025
Stara Rzeźnia, PoznańThis outdoor offering, part homage and part reimagining of Shakespeare's text, has visual spectacle, a magnificent score and a cast undeterred by an actual storm
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2025
Almeida theatre, LondonRebecca Frecknall's usually bold directorial hand seems stilled in a glacially paced revival co-starring Michael Shannon and David Threlfall
Rebecca Frecknall has give…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonLuke Brady is the hero navigating between godliness and humanness in a show that's big on booming numbers yet short on emotion
Four years ago, Disney brought …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 22, 2025
Kiln theatre, LondonIman Qureshi's play starts as a good, old-fashioned underdog story before exploring sexuality, homophobia and trans identity
A group of women convene around a piano in a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2025
Arcola theatre, LondonOn a quest to visit all 54 African nations, a band of travellers explore personal, political and social history " but it can be hard to work out what's happening
There …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 19, 2025
Royal Court theatre, LondonKane's emotionally unswerving gifts as a writer are on full display in a 25th-anniversary production reuniting the original cast
What must it have felt like to wat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 15, 2025
Chichester Festival theatreNatalie Dormer is exceptional in the title role with Phillip Breen's clever production reflecting the full scope of the novel's ambition
The stampede of actors m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
Deptford Storehouse, LondonWhile Liana Patarkatsishvili's gargantuan immersive show looks spectacular, too many ideas are thrown about without being tethered to a story
The disused warehouse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Brixton House, LondonMojisola Adebayo's play deftly navigates light and heavy subject matter as its hero embarks on a quest to feel the earth move
Do not underestimate the gravity of the med…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM[SHARE]Newly arrived in the West End, Disney's demigod is the latest mythological A-lister to knock out showtunes. Why are deities such as Hermes and the 'half-blood' Percy Jackson having a moment …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 8, 2025
Teatro Carlo Goldoni, VeniceIn an extraordinary theatrical feat, two agile actors play 23 characters populating the seemingly ordinary working day of a central couple
A day in the life of a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Tese dei Soppalchi, VeniceBetween smashing glasses and reading conceptual index cards, Dafoe and Simonetta Solder neglect to locate this two-hander's drama " or its heart
Long before Willem …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Lazzaretto Vecchio, VeniceOn the site of a hospital for leprosy patients, audience members are invited to wander in near darkness among twitching body bags into a choreographed scene of ritu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Orange Tree theatre, LondonAmelia Sears' production of Terence Rattigan's knotted drama contains warmth " and love " beneath the disappointments of married life
Terence Rattigan distilled th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Hampstead theatre, LondonSarah Ruhl's stage adaptation of the book she wrote with her former student Max Ritvo, who died of cancer at 25, is smartly written if emotionally distant
Sarah Ruhl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 1, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonTim Firth's 2013 musical about domestic dysfunction and redemption seems a little twee by today's standards but the songs and sentimental ending will stil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM[SHARE]Friday, May 30, 2025
★★★★☆ / ★★★★★Theatro Technis, LondonPainful yet joyous and with pitch-black humour, these plays are as good as testimonies to the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2025
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonGreat 1970s costumes, bubbling performances and an elegant set tee up this adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera's novel about a Sikh family facing Enoch Powell-era racism
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AM[SHARE]A smattering of famous names, a big-ambition project, a gay classic and a musical thriller … the powerhouse artistic director's final productions have all his hallmarks, showing how he mad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 25, 2025
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, LondonThe cast of six women and one man give extraordinary physical performances " but most devastating is the stillness that reflects their paralysis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2025
Garrick theatre, London Filial tangles, played with the actor's real-life daughter Bessie Carter, bring George Bernard Shaw's once-banned drama to life
This is not the first production of Ge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PM[SHARE]Shakespeare's Globe, LondonDirector Ola Ince brings absurdist comedy to Arthur Miller's classic drama of Salem witch-hunting, now told partly through song
There is never a time when Arthur M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonIbrahima Balde's desperate journey to find his brother should make for essential theatre, but this production lacks the emotional intensity of the book
Ibrahima …
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