Thursday, November 4, 2021
Ustinov Studio, BathPenhall's 2000 play, set in the world of psychiatric care, is revived by James Dacre in a production with some riveting debate
When it premiered in 2000, Joe Penhall's pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Criterion theatre, LondonRough-hewn but joyous musical take on the classic novel works in everything from Carly Simon to Chris de Burgh
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Britis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PM[SHARE]Nottingham PlayhouseGatiss's delayed rework amps up the ghostly effects while drawing out the overlooked dark comedy in the classic tale
If it seems premature to be staging Charles Dickens's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Friday, October 29, 2021
Hampstead theatre, LondonCompelling performances aren't enough to save Roxana Silbert's staid restaging of this Pulitzer-winning suicide drama
Marsha Norman's mother-daughter drama is driven…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Playground theatre, London'You don't want to help. You just want to say you've helped' … this series of heated and occasionally heavy-handed dialogues illuminate social hypocrisy and class…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Friday, October 22, 2021
Bristol Old VicRetelling the gothic novel with intelligently charming humour and a live band, this is a bold and ingenious production
Emma Rice calls Wuthering Heights a tragedy in this show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 21, 2021
Lyric theatre, LondonIt's the music that carries the emotional weight in this tale of love, loss and roots rock, starring the superb Arinzé Kene
A fortress-like wall of speakers is wheeled …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Birmingham Repertory theatreThe 18th-century novel and Welsh crooner meet on 1960s Carnaby Street in a spirited jukebox musical
This is a madcap mashup of a musical. Its basic premise is, bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]A new female-led festival aims to challenge the sexist tropes and subvert the narratives of scary theatre
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Abi Zakarian and Sampira are self-professed horror fiends. All…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Bush theatre, LondonShahid Iqbal Khan's signed play about a young Muslim's spiritual journey could be fantastic, but it needs a better narrative
It is a tremendous relief to see a play abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Tabernacle, LondonVerbatim reconstruction of the inquiry into the 2017 disaster points up the horrifying, amoral capitalism that fuelled it
Grenfell Tower housed many of the "have-nots" in a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Monday, October 18, 2021
New Diorama theatre, LondonRyan Calais Cameron's exploration of race and masculinity is timely and has potent moments but this production feels underdeveloped
British dramatist Ryan Calais C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 17, 2021
Donmar Warehouse, LondonA poet and a physicist begin a relationship under a fascist regime in Cordelia Lynn's audaciously jagged play about the tipping point of tyranny
Love and Other Acts o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 14, 2021
Almeida theatre, LondonSaoirse Ronan and James McArdle star in a production with emotional spark, palpable dread and a horrifying beauty
The psychological terror is slow to rear and does not…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Bridge theatre, LondonIn Suzan-Lori Parks' darkly witty four-hander, a black man persuades a white college buddy to be his slave-master for 40 days
"It's a great time to be black, right?" as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PM[SHARE]From Grange Hill to the West End, via Eurovision and the Brit awards, the star has built multiple careers. She talks about stage-school pressure, TV diversity and playing Hermione in Harry P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 10, 2021
Galvanised by the killings of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard, the playwright tells how she penned the eviscerating drama in just two days
It usually takes Lucy Kirkwood two years to write a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Young Vic, LondonGreg Hersov's sleek production focuses on familial grief, unfolds with the pace of a thriller and is full of fresh humour and chemistry
We have been promised a "new kind of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Monday, October 4, 2021
Royal Exchange, ManchesterNtombizodwa Ndlovu is spellbinding in Katori Hall's intriguing drama about an imaginary meeting between King and a maid
The Mountaintop is a bold shape-shifter of a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Friday, October 1, 2021
Olivier theatre, LondonThe first London production of the Larry Kramer play since 1986 captures the fear and anger in the gay community of that decade " and its heartbreaking personal losses…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 30, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonThe Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner playwright returns with a production about a drama student researching Black British history
Jasmine Lee-Jones made the fiercest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Southwark Playhouse, LondonIva Toguri's trial for treason, accused of broadcasting Japanese propaganda to American troops, forms the backbone of this production
This real-life story of Iva T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Friday, September 24, 2021
Hampstead theatre, LondonCharm and camaraderie lie at the heart of a smart, soap opera-style attempt to unpick issues of history, heritage and empire
Malindadzimu is a mother-daughter soap o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 23, 2021
Available onlineThere are spirited performances as Roy Williams explores activism, parenthood and sexuality in this audio drama about black British identity spanning 40 years
Roy Williams's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Coronet theatre, LondonThere's an intriguing story about sibling betrayal buried among the distracting subplots in Robert Holman's play
Robert Holman's play contains some great riches. A sto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06PM[SHARE]Monday, September 20, 2021
New albums, new TV series, and actual live shows " the culture taps might have run dry during the pandemic, but this autumn they are switching on again at last. Our critics give their pick o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Friday, September 17, 2021
Old Vic, LondonTeenage passion meets Nazi ideology in Bess Wohl's play, inspired by a real-life summer camp in the US
It is 1938 and two American teenagers are at a themed summer camp on Lon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Royal Court, LondonTarantinoesque bloodshed meets Greek tragedy in Aleshea Harris's daring drama about a voyage of vengeance
It is not often that a play manages to resemble a Tarantino film …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Kiln theatre, LondonMoira Buffini, Roy Williams and Suhayla El-Bushra deliver a trio of powerful immigrant stories set in the London borough
NW Trilogy comprises three short plays with one o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Available onlineFehinti Balogun's show uses hip-hop and spoken word to explore the ways people of colour have been excluded from environmental activism
There is a moment in Fehinti Balogun's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PM[SHARE]Monday, September 13, 2021
Adelphi theatre, LondonThis is a splashy theatre-film mashup, with gravity-defying effects, cute quirks and offbeat gags
How does a car speed at 88mph on stage? That must have been the bigge…
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