Friday, August 7, 2026
Curve, LeicesterThere are electrifying – and also queasy – moments in this version of the classic 90s horror about the interrogation of a psychotic psychiatrist by an FBI rookieSoon afte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 6, 2026
In a bold new production starring Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss, the NT is fusing Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman. So what can two stories written 23 centuries apart tell us about how we live to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Having cut his teeth in the holiday camps of the north, the comic bestrode 80s TV with his unthreatening brand of fun, being knighted by the pope in 2015• Jimmy Cricket, comedian known for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2026
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonChoreographers Carmen Igarza and Vanessa Guevara deserve to take a bow as spectacular dance and movement add passion to the seemingly unfinished playThe fact tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2026
Braboeuf Manor, GuildfordElegantly stitching the plays into two parts of the same continuing story, Tom Littler’s sunny al fresco productions play every possible tragicomic noteTwo Shakesp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 5, 2026
Lowry, SalfordThese lonely travellers overlap with Bowie’s Maj Tom, Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary or Spielberg’s Disclosure Day as they contemplate our place in the vastness of the v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Hampstead theatre, LondonRobert Lindsay excels as Franklin D Roosevelt in Richard Nelson’s fascinating retelling of King George VI’s diplomatic visit in 1939The 2012 film Hyde Park on Hu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 28, 2026
Royal Court Downstairs, London Hunger and TB, as much as imperialism, are triggers for the assassination that precipitated the first world war in Rajiv Joseph’s tragicomic reimagining of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2026
Apollo theatre, LondonStephen Mangan, Sarah Hadland, Ardal O’Hanlon and Janie Dee are seat-shakingly funny in this study of adulteryAlice and Michel must conceal their affair from possibly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2026
Orange Tree theatre, RichmondA stealing sculptor struggles to keep his visitors in the dark, while they lope and grope with the lights out, in Shaffer’s escalating slapstick showA regular …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2026
Minerva theatre, ChichesterJohn Morton’s debut as a playwright is a finely crafted family drama with shades of Alan AyckbournAs a TV writer-director, John Morton specialises in the sort of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2026
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonThe detective and his sidekick return for a new case by Joel Horwood in an alfresco setting that playfully refers to nearby attractionsOutdoor drama i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2026
Chichester Festival theatreDavid Haig shines as writer and star of this dramatisation about the fraught friendship of two entertainment giants and their debate over what is real or simply il…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Bristol Old VicThe Reduced Shakespeare Company returns with a frantic mix of pratfalls, audience participation and lightning-flash characterisations
A classical actor who appeared in a recen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]King's Head theatre, LondonThe media tycoon comes up against union boss Brenda Dean in Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky's docudrama about the 80s Wapping dispute
A teacher in Alan Bennett's The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2026
Theatr Clwyd, MoldDirector Kate Wasserberg emphasises the fantasy and supernatural elements of the poet's 'play for voices' in an entertaining and inclusive production
As with Molière at th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2026
Tabard theatre, LondonThe actor shines as Hitler's favourite film director, who flirts and finagles her way through a fictional interview with an alcoholic, philandering journalist hiding hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Barn theatre, CirencesterSimon Nye brings back the characters from his hit TV series for a misconceived comedy set on millennium eve
In a nervy theatre economy, with familiar material most l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe actor gives a skilful performance in the late playwright's 1995 meditation on love and literary posterity, directed by Jonathan Kent
A fortnight after West End p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon This adaptation of the beloved tale about an ogre looks beautiful but does not grow into a giant to rival the company's hit Roald Dahl musical
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 30, 2025
The great playwright had a 60-year career in the theatre and also wrote scripts for radio and the screen " here are some of his very best
With his restless imagination, Tom Stoppard showed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Friday, November 21, 2025
Birmingham RepHumphrey Ker and David Reed's witty thriller blends Victorian sleuthing, meta gags and new songs by the great musical-theatre duo
A serial killer working through the alphabet (…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2025
The revered BBC strand that gave us Abigail's Party and The Black Stuff makes a return … on Channel 5. Will it be as successful as in its heyday?
In March 1977, BBC One screened Spend, Spe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2025
Richmond theatre, LondonGuy Unsworth ups the jokes in a play that is loving towards its prime-time TV source and hugely entertaining for fans
British touring theatre at the moment is often a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2025
Curve theatre, LeicesterCathy Tyson and Patrick Robinson dazzle in this knockout production of Edward Albee's verbally violent play, full of misogynistic one-liners and tarnished souls
Edwar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2025
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonDaniel Raggett's audacious RSC production sets the play in a Glaswegian pub full of thugs and has a Landlady Macbeth running the show
Audiences arriving t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 11, 2025
Exeter Northcott theatreThe journey of the Devon club from league minnows to championship winners is told with considerable elan and affection
Driving to this theatre, I passed signs to Sidm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 27, 2025
Harrison, who has died aged 88, wrote copiously for the stage, both as an ingenious translator and dazzlingly original dramatist
From TS Eliot and Ted Hughes to Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Arm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2025
Chichester Festival theatreWilliam Golding's bleak vision of civilisation holds up after 70 years, but Nigel Williams's 1995 adaptation, revived with a sparky cast, might not be cruel enough…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2025
Birmingham RepThe actor offers up lightning asides as Patricia Highsmith's social chameleon in a meta staging by Mark Leipacher
Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel about a conscience-free killer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonHugh Whitemore's 1986 play about the criminalised mathematician is revised, with a new epilogue by Neil Bartlett, to reflect his 2013 pardoning
When premiere…
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