Saturday, July 10, 2021
Royal Ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor had no access to elite ballet schools growing up. But he did have John Travolta and disco to spark a lifelong obsession. Now he wants to make dancer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PM[SHARE]Friday, July 9, 2021
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonDirector Ola Ince's take on Shakespeare's tragedy is clever, energetic and doesn't have a single smooch
This is not the first major production of Romeo and Juliet …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Exchange Auditorium, Manchester CentralThe novelist's article about her father's death was expanded into a book and has now become a play but it feels limited
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's fath…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 4, 2021
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonFeaturing plague and shootouts in M&S, XR supporter April De Angelis's dystopic climate drama is a powerful, urgent polemic
During Extinction Rebellio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Friday, July 2, 2021
Vaudeville theatreThe stories of string theorist Marianne and beekeeper Roland are told forwards, backwards and sideways as we explore their theatrical multiverse
How many ways can the same …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 1, 2021
Watermill theatre, NewburyWith Paul Hart's production blending into the theatre grounds, the pastoral comedy here becomes an effective vehicle to reflect on our relationship with nature
It …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Coliseum, LondonThis maelstrom of a show based on the 1988 John Waters film has a dizzy energy and a stunning turn from Marisha Wallace
"You have to think big to be big," declares Tracy Turn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Bridge theatre, LondonSimon Russell Beale stars in a visually impressive production of Nina Raine's play that never quite gets off the ground
It is tempting to compare Bach & Sons with P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48PM[SHARE]Friday, June 25, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonThe platonic love between thirtysomething Myah and her elderly landlady moves and empowers in Amanda Wilkin's one-woman show
"I would rather be anywhere. Anywhere else in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PM[SHARE]Lyric Hammersmith, LondonTanika Gupta sends Gandhi overseas, Simon Stephens sees devastation in locked-down London and Roy Williams lightens the mood with a local hero story
The monologue be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 24, 2021
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonIn Yasmin Joseph's play, three girls wind their way through the streets, guided by the spirit of the activist who founded the carnival
J'Ouvert evokes the spirit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 23, 2021
National Theatre, LondonLyndsey Turner's production is a charming albeit emotionally distanced retreat into nostalgia
Dylan Thomas's drama, broadcast on radio in 1954 , has been recited by p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Almeida, LondonYomi á¹¢ode's startling play about death, mourning and young masculinity is intensified by its weight of emotion and sensational stagecraft
This is a strange and startling…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 20, 2021
The creator of the hit play Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner on the power of comedy and why Instagram is almost like cosplay
Jasmine Lee-Jones, 22, is a writer and actor from London. In…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PM[SHARE]Friday, June 18, 2021
Riverside Studios, LondonTrevor Nunn's production of Samuel Beckett's classic play is stronger on music-hall comedy than bleakness
When Peggy Ashcroft played Winnie at the National Theatre, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Theatre Royal BathUncertainty reigns supreme in a fast and fluid revival of Michael Frayn's resonant, if sometimes impenetrable, play
Rehearsals for this revival of Michael Frayn's award-win…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Theatre Peckham, LondonIn Shaan Sahota's audio play, which is touring theatres, a junior doctor tries to navigate the early days of the pandemic
A junior doctor's first nervous day at work i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 10, 2021
The actor had a great lockdown: she learned to cook, took up cello " and fell in love. Now six months pregnant, Dwan's about to be buried up to her neck in Happy Days. Is she worried?
Lisa D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 6, 2021
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London
Kibong Tanji is outstanding as the sister of the victim in Dipo Baruwa-Etti's play which is dynamic and gripping but lacks tonal variety
The Sun, the Moo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AM[SHARE]Friday, June 4, 2021
Hampstead theatre, LondonDepravity takes hold of a pair of young black entrepreneurs in 1970s London in this revival of Alfred Fagon's idea-filled play
It has taken almost half a century for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 3, 2021
Theatre Royal Bath Fiennes imbues Eliot's last great poem with all the drama of a Shakespearean soliloquy in a magnificent, intimate theatrical experience
By the time TS Eliot wrote his las…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 29, 2021
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonArterton plays a former Nasa employee whose astronaut twin descends on her wilderness retreat in Amy Berryman's intelligent, soulful drama
Twin sisters with a fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 27, 2021
Kiln theatre, LondonStarring in her play about friendship, romance and spina bifida, Amy Trigg is enormously entertaining
There are several good reasons to love Amy Trigg's debut play about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM[SHARE]Monday, May 24, 2021
Available onlineTwo gritty audio dramas, one about homelessness and sex work, the other about county lines drug dealing, find hope in the power of female friendships
Blis-ta and Cunch are tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PM[SHARE]Bush theatre, LondonPhoebe Eclair-Powell's intoxicating social media drama, starring Kelly Gough as a lonely estate agent, exceeds even the brilliance of the BBC's recent version
During lock…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM[SHARE]Friday, May 21, 2021
Barn theatre, CirencesterRachel Redford shines as a student recruited to mess with British heads, in a joint production with the Arcola theatre
'Who owns your data?" asks Masha, the tortured…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 20, 2021
Bridge theatre, LondonStunning visual effects light up this installation about two orphaned Afghan boys who embark on an epic journey
Getting into the auditorium for Flight involves a labori…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]As his new play The Spank opens in Italy, the writer talks about the power of ludicrous ideas, the crisis facing the middle class " and why he can't get white liberals off his phone
Hanif Ku…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Jermyn Street theatre, London Biyi Bandele's daring and surreal play, set against some unspoken outside threat, pitches its characters into a whirl of confusion
Two men stew in the confineme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM[SHARE]In the last of our series profiling rising theatre talents, the director of The Ocean at the End of the Lane shares her excitement at the return of live performance
Everyone wanted to be inv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Friday, May 7, 2021
Frances de la Tour plays another of the playwright's fascinating women in a three-minute sketch for Nottingham Playhouse's digital series
If Covid-secure theatre accidentally sparked a renai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
