Thursday, November 27, 2025
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme A fresh telling of Hans Christian Andersen's story deploys circus skills and inventive design to create a memorable merworld
The Little Mermaid is big b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Stephen Poliakoff's 1991 film Close My Eyes, about incestuous siblings, echoes as the actors return in David Eldridge's End, playing a couple facing a cancer diagnosis
First there was Beginn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Friday, November 21, 2025
The West End show's former lead actors will travel back in their careers to share the role with its current star for the 1985 film's anniversary
Audiences at the West End musical Back to the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2025
From Chicago to Stan & Ollie, the Oscar-nominated actor has sung on screen for years. Now he arrives on stage " inside a trunk " to serenade the audience
In one of Hollywood's nicer iron…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]The actor will appear opposite British film star Noah Jupe in a production directed by Robert Icke opening in March
Stranger Things' Sadie Sink is to make her West End debut next year in Rom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2025
Royal Court theatre, London Sophia Chetin-Leuner's drama toggles between digital and physical worlds as it traces a scholar's grim compulsion
'It's not that deep," Ani's friend assures her. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2025
Speaking at a screening of hit play The Fifth Step, the actor reveals he is 'not comfortable at all on camera'
Slow Horses star Jack Lowden has said it was a "relief" to return to the stage …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Old Laundry theatre in Bowness-on-Windermere will change its name next year and premiere show to mark 10th anniversary of comedian's death
A theatre in the Lake District is to be renamed for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2025
The Space Man singer said he was honoured to take lead in Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera, due to open at the London Palladium next summer
The singer-songwriter Sam Ryder, best known for hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonInitially buckling under the world's weight, seven dancers shed fear and hold on to joy as they replace climate anxiety with collective action
Eulogising a show f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 2, 2025
Passenger reworks songs from his hit musical while Tanika Gupta gives Ibsen a Hollywood makeover and TikTok becomes a stage for young playwrights
When Rachel Joyce's bestseller about a retir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
The hit Scottish comedy about suburban neighbours will move from screen to stage next year at Glasgow's Hydro
Two Doors Down, the BBC comedy series about a suburban Scottish couple with cons…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2025
The Hollywood actor will star in a new version of the Chekhov classic by writer-director Simon Stone at the Bridge theatre from July
Star Trek's Chris Pine will boldly go to the Bridge next …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2025
New Wolsey theatre, IpswichA couple mourn the loss of their daughter in an adaptation that is far better at conveying sadness than suspense
Daphne du Maurier's 1971 story Don't Look Now open…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonA young officer becomes the de facto carer of a vulnerable inmate in Evan Placey's well-observed play about a stretched Prison Service
A decade ago, playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Soho Theatre Walthamstow, LondonThe performance artist's first solo show in five years considers the plight of our planet, with a compelling mix of standup, songs and folk horror
It may cont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2025
Charing Cross theatre, LondonFeaturing 20 of the band's disco-funk songs, this jukebox musical has sparkle but comes with an infuriating concept and little depth of characterisation
Fifty ye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2025
The OC star will take the role made famous by Barbara Stanwyck in James M Cain's classic noir tale of murder and deceit, touring the UK in early 2026
Mischa Barton is to make her UK stage de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Curve theatre, LeicesterIn a moving memory play, Anna Jordan charts the course of a relationship which begins with the sharing of a mobile hotspot
Most of us simply dig up memories but the c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2025
Kontakthof is a 1978 show full of tenderness, violence and horror. Now, in a spectacular production, its first performers are bringing it back. But would Bausch have approved?
Theatres are h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM[SHARE]Performance of the once controversial poem was planned for its 40th anniversary but will now double as a tribute to writer who died last week
Tony Harrison's state-of-the-nation poem V is to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2025
The Other Palace, LondonGeorgina Castle and Josh St Clair make a likable couple who endlessly replay their first meeting but this adaptation needs more emotional punch
Perhaps it's unfair to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2025
Old Red Lion theatre, LondonPuppetry and silent cinema techniques are used to retell Marie Belloc Lowndes' novel and its film version in a show played for laughs rather than thrills
Rep thea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonMatthew Xia directs a consummate adaptation of the 1972 Jamaican thriller, whose irresistible soundtrack is bolstered by new songs
Scene-setting doesn't g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 21, 2025
Everyman theatre, LiverpoolEllie Hurt directs a dynamic production that boasts sensational lead performances by Zoe West and Alicia Forde
Romeo and Juliet is a play that lives or dies by the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2025
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonAlmost 30 years on, the Irish playwright's intimate drama brims with painful memories and comedy " brought to dazzling effect by a flawless cast
Conor McPherson'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonA fixation on how to frame Bram Stoker's story disrupts the flow of this feminist reboot, killing the fear factor
Drac is back. Earlier this year, the caped bloodsuc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Minerva theatre, Chichester Justin Audibert's lucid production is classically considered, with a fine cast making full unsettling use of the intimate space
By the tim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18PM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2025
The Tony award-winning actor will play the marshal in a London stage adaptation of the 1952 western that won Cooper an Oscar
Billy Crudup is to take on the role that won Gary Cooper an Oscar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2025
Rebecca Lucy Taylor will play Maggie, a role originated by Helen Mirren, in a 'landmark' 50th anniversary production in London in March
Fifty years after Helen Mirren originated the role, Re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
Royal Court theatre, London Katie Mitchell, Nina Segal and Melanie Wilson's 'experiment in performance' uses expressive performance and inventive sonic effects to bring a wordless world to l…
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