Thursday, November 13, 2025
Kiln theatre, LondonThe accused of the Pendle witch trials are given a voice but this glib production fails to do them justice
Rebecca Brewer and Daisy Chute's musical, inspired by the Pendl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Troubadour Canary Wharf theatre, LondonEye-popping visuals and a strong lead performance energise Matthew Dunster's production " but the emotion gets lost amid the action
A luminous bow hove…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 9, 2025
Hampstead theatre, LondonOverbearing life coach Winston and reluctant daughter Joy take a road trip through repression and half-spoken feelings
Nancy Farino's debut play looks at the fault l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 8, 2025
Theatr Clwyd, MoldThis could have been a powerful play about rebellion but a busy plot and flatly drawn central character make it a missed opportunity
John Jones's life is ripe for dramatisa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2025
Park theatre, LondonAlliances and enmities form among a crew of butchers who are trying to shape new lives after prison despite ICE, addiction and the financial lure of criminality
Busy kitc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London Harewood is captivating alongside Toby Jones and Caitlin FitzGerald but Tom Morris's stylish staging could probe greater depths
David Harewood was the first B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12PM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2025
The Japanese version of the pop-rock phenomenon about the six ill-fated wives caused a sensation in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. As that production now hits the UK, we go behind the scenes (and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2025
Barbican theatre, LondonThe RSC production of Ella Hickson's feminist take on JM Barrie's tale has grown into quite the theatrical monster, big on lights, waves and clashing cutlasses
This p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Almeida theatre, LondonJack Holden has elegantly adapted Alan Hollinghurst's Booker winner about class envy, gay culture and political scandal in 80s Britain
How to adapt a novel as big and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Park theatre, LondonThe bonhomie curdles as an otherwise unconnected group of women set out to scatter someone's ashes in a promising setup that flounders despite a beautiful set
Sarah Rickm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2025
Arcola theatre, London Two flat-earthers' quest for truth in Antarctica descends into a mishmash of conspiracy theories, in Jessica Norman's sparky yet heroically flawed debut play
That Jess…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThere are superb performances in this screen-saturated staging of Jean Genet's play, updated for the influencer age
Screens were essential to Kip Williams' one-woman …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Royal Court theatre, LondonMarianne Elliott directs Nick Payne's tonally uneven play about a missing son that comes with ill-fitting moments of comedy
Nick Payne is an exemplar of this theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 19, 2025
Minerva theatre, ChichesterJamie Bogyo's debut play recounts the renaming of a Yale University college with broadstroke humour and some exquisitely sung a cappella interludes
What happens wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonKatherine Moar's bold and taut drama about the kidnapping of a fictional heiress explores the toxic inheritance of the 1970s
Katherine Moar's riveting drama is i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2025
Theatre Royal BathThis bizarre drama, with the star playing twins amid plenty of tap dancing, is a warp of hallucinations and reality
Small Hotel is a play that defies category, or even expl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2025
Old Vic theatre, LondonFive actors play the protagonist at different stages over 70 years in Tracy Letts' play, co-starring Andrea Riseborough
If there is something familiar about a play com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon The giant-hootered lover ventriloquising his passion for Roxane through a physically dashing rival is the standout star of this warm and l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 5, 2025
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonAchilles is a slob and Ajax is a meathead in Owen Horsley's streamlined production, which is bursting with invention and comic inversions
Shakespeare's take on th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PM[SHARE]New Diorama theatre, LondonEphemeral Ensemble's atmospheric but unfocused follow-up to Rewind depicts the west's ecologically ruinous colonisation of Latin America from a feminist perspectiv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2025
Lyttelton theatre, LondonHiran Abeysekera brings humour to the tragedy and Francesca Mills steals the show as Ophelia but this staging pulls its emotional punches
Last week, Indhu Rubasingha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2025
Park theatre, LondonPainter Lee Krasner's rivalry with her husband is laid bare in an affecting play about a relationship both loving and riddled with hostility
Art history is littered with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Theatre Royal Haymarket, London Maxim Didenko delivers Wilde's version of the biblical tale with a blingy design, topless men in hoods and yodelling
Is it morally acceptable to host an Israe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2025
The great performance artist reveals all about her new four-hour Balkan Erotic Epic " a wild reinvention of ancient rituals that is sure to shock, move and amuse audiences
Marina AbramoviÄ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 28, 2025
Hampstead theatre, London Will Lord's exciting new play adds a neurodiverse inner voice to the Mamet-like rivalry between ambitious debt collectors chasing financial success
The most dangero…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2025
Barbican theatre, LondonCaroline Guiela Nguyen's epic drama explores global labour and personal suffering with moments of haunting power
A three-hour durational show with a three-minute paus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2025
Olivier theatre, LondonThis eccentric take on Euripedes by Nima Taleghani is a striking yet often frustrating opening statement
It takes courage and some flamboyance to launch an inaugural p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonDirector Emily Burns puts a laser focus on the moral rot and hypocrisy of men in power with this streamlined and superbly performed version
Shak…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Rose theatre, Kingston upon ThamesAva Pickett's modern-day adaptation of the novel adds pop music, farce and clowning but lacks gimlet-eyed observations
An early blast of Lady Gaga's Bad Rom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2025
Dorfman theatre, LondonDirected by Stephen Daldry, David Lan's historical drama has a revelatory performance by Artie Wilkinson-Hunt
David Lan's play takes us into a fascinating corridor of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM[SHARE]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 …
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