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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 27, 2025
White Bear theatre, LondonWriter Gary Owen stitches together glimpses of contemporary life with a spin on Arthur Schnitzler's classic that doesn't quite coalesce
Gary Owen's gentle dance of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 22, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonTim Foley's conspiracy-fuelled comedy pits reason against delusion as a palaeontology lecturer faces a dean who believes Jurassic Park is real
Logic and reason are torn t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2025
This madcap variety show sees its titular lead direct proceedings from her control desk. Rachel, her co-star sister and their mum explain what it reveals about disability in the UK
Rachel O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 2, 2025
It's been the biggest secret in theatre: what will the marmalade-loving, hyper-polite Peruvian look like in Paddington the Musical? As the curtain rises, we speak to the new bear's creator, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Orange Tree theatre, LondonTanika Gupta's forthright reimagining of a classic illuminates the racial politics and middle class assumptions of the period
The muscle of Tanika Gupta's adaptati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 26, 2025
Arcola theatre, London In 1980s Northern Ireland, an abusive father and the soldiers patrolling the streets morph into a common enemy to rage against, in Meghan Tyler's blackly comic tale
Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
Marylebone theatre, LondonThe lives of unhappy couples across two generations play out in overlapping timelines and geographies in Anna Ziegler's uneven drama
When Abe's daughter asks him wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Take Me Somewhere tucks audiences up in bed, takes them to a last supper and delights with a paddling-pool comedy-tragedy
A nurse puts a steadying hand on my back and guides me to bed. She …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2025
London's Canary Wharf is being turned into the Capitol, with a bespoke £26m theatre made for the stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins' bestseller. Our writer goes on a hard-hat tour
The sl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2025
Trafalgar theatre, LondonCo-starring Ruaridh Mollica and Sophie Melville, this bleak three-hander by Samuel D Hunter leaves little unsaid
Drugs, unemployment and a heavy air of purposelessne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonNina Bowers and Philip Arditti claw passionately at Henry V's colonialism and imperialism in their frequently funny and at times deliberately uncomfortable play
When Engl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Revered for her work on Succession and Normal People, Alice Birch has now written an era-spanning play about men, novels and the manosphere. Give me a Brontë any day, she says
Every word …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Wyndham's theatre, LondonGatwa's Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel's William Shakespeare flirt, fight and write in Liz Duffy Adams' sizzling new chamber play
Forget William Shakespeare.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 16, 2025
This year's Edinburgh festival is full of creepy shows, from a jaw-clenching haunting to sci-fi terror. Our writer braves the darkness in Auld Reekie's fringe venues for a day of fear
I am a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
The actor and writer has turned JM Barrie's story into the hedonistic nightclub musical Nvrlnd " but his talents are also showcased in a one-man thriller and a queer classic
The room is hot,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2025
Upstairs at Assembly Roxy, EdinburghAbigail and Shaun Bengson meditate on family, faith and loss in story and song, featuring a revelatory depiction of degenerative hearing
Music is a lifel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2025
The sense of wonder never wavers in Hart's charming 'best of' set, a fringe favourite in a year of crowd-pleasing card work, mentalism and a hidden-squirrel routine
Magic is addictive. The m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Summerhall, EdinburghPerformed amid psychedelic projections, the Australian singer's gig has an otherworldly beauty yet fails to take off
'I'll leave you with the cosmos," Australian singer …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2025
Summerhall, EdinburghIn its aim to avoid big topics " politics, gender, climate " the Canadian pair's superb show attempts an escape from contemporary chaos
If the end of the world is a part…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 3, 2025
Underbelly, Cowgate, EdinburghYannick Trapman-O'Brien's disarming show is akin to having someone drawing your portrait as he steers a probing conversation
I have been banned from this show. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 2, 2025
She is the Olivier-winning producer behind two of the most successful TV shows in recent memory. Now she has a slate of upcoming projects, including a bold new venture at the fringe. Will on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonCallum and Sephy are a modern Romeo and Juliet, forced to grow up fast as they wade through the crushing racial and class structures that pin them in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2025
Why is a huge pack of puppet animals, from tiny monkeys to towering elephants, making a 20,000km cross-planet odyssey? As The Herds nears the UK, our writer spends a week as an antelope to f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AM[SHARE]Friday, June 6, 2025
Bridge theatre, LondonThe immersive setup brings the audience into the midst of the play's shapeshifting unreality among a comedy-gold cast of magical characters
Shenanigans reign in this ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2025
From a New Forest giant inspiring an asthmatic teen to a herd of animal puppets walking to the Arctic Circle, theatre far and wide is taking action " but with energy and optimism, rather tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Young Vic, LondonA guest star " here, a delighted Jessie Buckley " is fed their script during the performance in this now two-decade-old revelation of theatre-making
An Oak Tree unpicks what…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2025
Riverside Studios, LondonKeelan Kember's latest is so full of funny one-liners and cheerful performances it feels like a comforting sitcom
Breezy conversational chatter, dry one-liners and s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 10, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonWhile navigating the rocky aftermath of death, Naomi Denny's Sienna sees her sibling everywhere in this simply told but warm reflection on grief
Grief does not come with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 16, 2025
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonChekhov's claustrophobic drama is perfectly suited to this intimate venue, with moments of humour leavening the heartbreak
The flowers spelling out Irina's nam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Royal Court theatre, LondonA wonderfully precise ensemble cast make this sci-fi vision of resurrection and immortality stab directly at the heart
What makes a life? Kandinsky theatre company…
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