Monday, May 2, 2022
The composer's glorious new musical deserves fuller audiences " and its talented workforce deserved to be given better warning about its future
Buns N Roses, the cheeky opening number in And…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM[SHARE]Announcement that the show will end at London's Gillian Lynne theatre in June comes as a shock, with those who had been due to join the production expressing heartache
The curtain is to come…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 1, 2022
Our roundup of plays to watch at home in May includes The Tempest with Jessie Buckley, Robert Icke's The Doctor staged in Amsterdam and Amanda Wilkin's superb solo show Shedding a Skin
The y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2022
The actor, who is reprising his role in Jez Butterworth's celebrated play, points out that leading politicians' school Eton has extensive theatre facilities
It is the part of the theatre pro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2022
The Nottingham-born playwright wrote and starred in The Glad Game, a one-woman show about her diagnosis with incurable cancer
The actor and writer Phoebe Frances Brown, who created an acclai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2022
The story of the real-life escape from Stalag Luft III in 1944 is to be told at the London venue used as an internment camp for 'enemy aliens' during the first world war
The story behind the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2022
Opera House, WuppertalDancers and singers share the lead roles in Tanztheater Wuppertal's lucid version of the myth, set to Gluck's score
Rancorous couples who can't stand the sight of each …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2022
British Congolese playwright receives Susan Smith Blackburn prize for her debut play, Lava, staged in 2021 at the Bush in London
Benedict Lombe has won this year's Susan Smith Blackburn priz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 10, 2022
Host Jason Manford, Cabaret stars Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne, and a host of other presenters and winners gave some candid speeches at the ceremony
Full list of winners
Host Jason Manf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2022
Our roundup of plays to watch at home in April includes a Ukrainian account of war, a blistering exploration of social media and a brass-band audio drama
Restrictions in most of the UK have …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Massy Opera, FranceThierrée plays an architect whose building won't behave and a director whose performers don't listen in a playful if disjointed production
Who lives in a house like this?…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PM[SHARE]The actor will share the role with Danish dancer Johan Christensen in a new production this summer
Sir Ian McKellen is to play Hamlet for the third time in his career in a production this su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Dorfman, LondonJude Christian's funny and suspenseful adaptation for children draws them into the heart of Shakespeare's story
Who hasn't occasionally wished Hamlet was a bit shorter? As we …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2022
London venue to stage a reading of Natal'ya Vorozhbit's drama Bad Roads, which will also be livestreamed on the Guardian website
The Royal Court theatre in London is to present a day of soli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2022
Local heroes including screenwriter Jimmy McGovern and comedian Johnny Vegas will take stage at Shakespeare North Playhouse this summer
A new Shakespearean theatre is to open in Merseyside t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2022
Premiere of Theresa Rebeck's play will reunite the film and theatre stars who appeared in The Equalizer
The American blockbuster stars David Harbour and Bill Pullman are to share the stage i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2022
The first Russian to leave the company over her country's invasion of its neighbour will join the Dutch National Ballet
Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates
The prima ballerina Olga Smirnova, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PM[SHARE]Friday, March 11, 2022
Bristol Old VicWith brilliant performances, eye-popping visuals and a gloriously profane script by Ross Willis, this is an unforgettable tale of adolescence
Here is an audaciously inventive,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2022
Winner Karis Kelly, writer of Consumed, had previously been considering a 'complete career change' as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic
A playwright who was considering a "complete career ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM[SHARE]Mercury theatre, ColchesterHandsomely staged, Mark Ravenhill's version of Charles Bennett's 1920s thriller includes pertinent concerns about policing and the abuse of power
An artist is dead…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2022
The actor who passed out on stage said he had 'a bruised ego but I'm fine' and would be back to perform on Monday night
The actor Taron Egerton has said he will return to the stage "with a v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2022
Curve, LeicesterMolly-Grace Cutler is in fine voice in this jukebox musical but the story shortchanges the singer-songwriter's achievements
Like her 2012 memoir, A Natural Woman, this jukebo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2022
In a new monthly roundup, we pick 10 of the best shows to enjoy from home " including Shakespeare filmed in a church, a lavish musical and Gabriel Byrne's return to Dublin
With three new pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Barn theatre, CirencesterLee O'Reilly and Sam Denia prove deft and daft in a mystery spoof that is crammed with ideas
The question in this nimble murder-mystery spoof is not so much whodunni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Gaiety theatre, DublinThe actor adapts his impressionistic memoir for the stage, giving life to the characters he observed as a boy in the 'theatre of the street'
Gabriel Byrne's 2020 book W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Monday, January 31, 2022
Tempest's National Theatre play, Amanda Wilkin's Shedding a Skin and Benedict Lombe's Lava all shortlisted for major playwriting award
A reworking of Sophocles's tragedy Philoctetes by the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 30, 2022
Known for his pioneering blaxploitation cinema, the late film director also created Don't Play Us Cheap, a goofy but soul-stirring Broadway hit that should not be forgotten
When Melvin Van P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Actor aims to tell the Scottish poet's story 'using my whole body' in a production at the 75th Edinburgh international festival in August
Alan Cumming will play Scotland's national bard Robe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]The actor, who is taking on a one-off role as a detective, is ready for an all-singing, all-dancing production next
He has played a wizard, a supervillain and the great Shakespearean leads "…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Friday, January 21, 2022
Show scored by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary is set to become summer's hot ticket and will premiere in Cheltenham in July
After all those weekly showstopper challenges, it was perhaps inevit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Available onlineStephen Joseph theatre's filmed seasonal offering is a proper winter warmer with some off-the-wall touches
Scarborough's Stephen Joseph theatre had to cancel almost half the …
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