Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Soho theatre, London She has penned jokes for Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O’Brien and the Academy. Now she’s seizing the limelight with scattergun routines about everything from penises to free-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonPlatt excels as a crooner looking back on falling for his songwriter-lover – dazzlingly played by Gregor Milne – in a show of beguiling, bittersweet nosta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2026
The Kneebone Cadillac is about a sport in which community is fostered yet collisions are encouraged. Actors, audiences and drivers explain the rushLexi Crosbie was five days old when she wen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2026
The horny TV series has inspired a whopping four comedy shows this summer. Their makers explain why musical theatre and steamy action are such good bedfellows – and why there’s no rivalr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2026
From returning comedy award winner Sam Nicoresti to Flo & Joan’s cheeky One Man Musical, these are surefire standouts at the fringeEdinburgh festival 2026 reviewsIt may contain a brief…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2026
The Pit, Barbican, LondonGreg Doran directs Shakespeare’s timeless poem of seduction, told with Lyndie Wright’s gorgeous, masterfully manoeuvred miniaturesLove comes with strings attache…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AM[SHARE]Friday, June 19, 2026
Riverside Studios, LondonTed Walliker’s one-man play about a night gone spectacularly wrong is boldly ambitious but we need to know more about the man at the micWatching a comedian crumble…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Hampstead theatre, LondonJoshua Harmon studies his family’s fraught matriarchal relations in this thoughtful dramaIn an empathetic act of theatrical archivism, American playwright Joshua H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:25PM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2026
Royal Court, London Teenage girls discuss the horrors they have seen via their phones as Georgie Dettmer’s reckoning with internet culture is brutally realised by director Jess EdwardsGeor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2026
Hit Iranian horror Under the Shadow conjured scares from the aftermath of the 1979 revolution. With Tehran once again under siege, a new theatrical version makes that story feel more relevan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse Borough, London Writer-performer Jordan Luke Gage delivers a charming, funny and devastating story of two gay men in 18th-century BristolQueer history is made up of bad n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonLindsay Posner’s precise revival flies highest in its most intense moments of beastliness as a psychiatrist sets about ridding a teenage boy of his demons D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 17, 2026
Southbank Centre, LondonBetween a sci-fi concert for eggs and an interview with a bee, the scarecrow broadcasters in Philippe Quesne’s oddball performance piece make the case for art as sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2026
Tender by Dave Harris follows the male strippers at the failing Dancing Bears Club. Its playwright and stars discuss sex, power and their research trip to Magic Mike LiveWhen the LA wildfire…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 26, 2026
Soho theatre, LondonChristopher Brett Bailey reads his surreal novella and freewheels his way through extreme vice, erotic tension and dulled indifferenceNo one tells a story like Christophe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 5, 2026
In these turbulent times, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui has never been more vital, and returns to the stage starring the Sherlock star and with music by the alt-rockers. But, they say, th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2026
King's Head theatre, LondonMasculinity is not in a good way in this trio of short plays " the first of 10 presented in two venues " which deal in violence, misanthropy and murder
Neil LaBute…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2026
zack mennell made a costume out of nappies and waded into filthy waterways saying: 'I'm going to be the parasite.' The performance artist's project became more literal than originally intend…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 8, 2026
New Diorama theatre, LondonA man bearing the same name as the actor wants to apologise to a woman for something he has 'accidentally' done in this patience-testing undisciplined drama
'The f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2026
Colab Tower, LondonGet lucky with your arrival time in this expansion of Aeschylus's Oresteia and you'll witness a fight or a sacrifice " but there are long dull patches
Egg yolk is being mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM[SHARE]Friday, February 20, 2026
Soho theatre, LondonAllen, one half of the influential Pajama Men comedy duo, mines his personal trauma for a slightly undercooked show about his high-octane upbringing in New Mexico
Shenoah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2026
Royal Court Upstairs, LondonCave people with very different perspectives meet on an elk hunt in Jack Nicholls' savage but sweet play about love and violence among early humans
Love is expre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2026
Theatre503, LondonOlga Braga's award-winning play captures the suffocating tensions of a household as war looms " finding flashes of tenderness amid the rising threat
Olga Braga's stark new …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 8, 2026
New Diorama theatre, LondonJames Nash's doomscrolling play unpacks social media and the violence it hosts
We piece together fragments. Distorted voice notes, the depths of the comments secti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 25, 2026
Southwark Playhouse, LondonOllie Maddigan's open-hearted solo show about a motherless 15-year-old is full of crude comedy and swaggering confidence " until it exposes the grief underneath a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 18, 2026
When funding cuts closed National Theatre Wales, the actor saw it as an emergency, and set about building a replacement. As its first show comes to the stage, he explains his plan to bring b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Friday, January 9, 2026
The Merseyside comic used her experiences of Oxbridge to create the fringe hit Eat the Rich, but struggled in ways her well-off contemporaries didn't. Now she's determined to use success to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 21, 2025
Donmar Warehouse, LondonIn Priestley's shenanigan-filled 1934 comedy, three couples discover they are not married after all " meaning the men lose authority and the women gain freedoms
Stom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AM[SHARE]Monday, December 15, 2025
Ambassadors theatre, LondonWith expert direction and eye-catching stagecraft, the tension is ramped up in a play inspired by the film franchise
Darkness holds us long enough for the dread to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonSex Education's Patricia Allison and The Gold's Stefanie Martini star in Jess Edwards's debut play about love and science
The red flags are raised and waving. This queer …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AM[SHARE]Friday, November 28, 2025
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonDirector Holly Race Roughan transposes the summer tale into the darkest of winters as the fairies' feud over the stolen child leaves the snow smeared with bloo…
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