@www.theguardian.com.stage@rss-parrot.net
I'm an automated parrot! I relay a website's RSS feed to the Fediverse. Every time a new post appears in the feed, I toot about it. Follow me to get all new posts in your Mastodon timeline! Brought to you by the RSS Parrot.
---
Latest stage news, reviews, comment and analysis from the Guardian
Site URL: www.theguardian.com/stage
Feed URL: www.theguardian.com/stage/rss
Posts: 34
Followers: 2
The Children review – Meera Syal and co go nuclear in poignant drama
Published: September 13, 2026 10:28
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonA catastrophic explosion forces retired nuclear engineers Syal and Declan Conlon to confront their past after a visit by Kerry Fox in this revival of Lucy Kirkwood’s debutTen years on from its powerful debut, Lucy Kirkwood’s clever…
Scottish Ballet: Emergence review – riveting visions of gods and insects
Published: September 12, 2026 07:00
Theatre Royal, GlasgowThe premiere of Julia Cheng’s Entress and a bold return for Crystal Pite’s Emergence both explore collective powerIt is a significant moment for a choreographer to create work for a large ballet company for the first time. This is the…
Man to Man review – Tilda Swinton’s perfect pacing makes this multi-character monologue compelling
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/12/man-to-man-review-tilda-swinton-royal-court-theatre
Published: September 11, 2026 23:09
Royal Court theatre, LondonStarting in Germany in the 1930s, there is a stinging topicality to Manfred Karge’s play addressing the renaissance of Nazi ideologyEarly autumn London theatre has already featured two Oscar winners: Cate Blanchett in Electra /…
Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy review – classical myth burns into modern England
Published: September 11, 2026 15:03
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London In Ava Pickett’s tense play, Michelle Dockery’s heroine returns to a Towie-styled world where the violence and misogyny are all too recognisable‘And Zeus created … Essex.” Playwright Ava Pickett set her award-winning…
Tartuffe (Remixed) review – Mark Rylance sinks his false teeth into Molière’s trickster comedy
Published: September 11, 2026 12:09
Marylebone theatre, LondonDarren Raymond’s update drops Rylance’s impostor into a Jamaican-Nigerian wedding, with clever rhyming couplets but less political stingSpitting posh platitudes through false teeth so bucked they might enforce a liquid diet,…
The Trial of Romeo Oscar review – Ayckbourn goes back to the future with android accused of murder
Published: September 11, 2026 10:15
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughThe playwright explores our relationship with technology, asks if robots have souls and even questions the value of art in this sci-fi courtroom dramaFor play number 92, Alan Ayckbourn returns to his preoccupation of…
In support of the fourth wall: proscenium arch theatre’s surprisingly radical history
Published: September 11, 2026 04:00
Dominic Dromgoole’s new book, Time Frames, shows how this format’s stuffy reputation belies the room it has made for daring experiments from Chekhov to Brecht and beyondHow do you make theatre history come alive? One way is through creating lists backed up…
Sacha Baron Cohen lined up for Quentin Tarantino’s West End playwriting debut
Published: September 10, 2026 17:04
The Ali G and Borat creator is reported to be taking the lead in The Popinjay Cavalier, a swashbuckling comedy Tarantino is developing for early 2027He will soon be seen resuming his old Staines rudeboy persona in the film Ali G: Who Iz I?, but Sacha Baron…
Kimberly Akimbo review – hilarious musical about a sexagenarian teen is one for the ages
Published: September 10, 2026 15:00
Hampstead theatre, London Maria Friedman plays a 15-year-old with a rare ageing condition in a heartfelt and funny show that manages to sustain its sweetnessIt’s a bizarre concept for a musical: a girl with a rare condition that causes her to age four…
Nick Mohammed takes Claudia Winkleman’s role in stage version of The Traitors
Published: September 10, 2026 12:46
Finalist in 2025’s inaugural celebrity iteration will be the host of several variants, which will see different characters banished, murdered and victoriousIn another twist for the intrigue-cloaked world of The Traitors, Nick Mohammed is to star in the new…
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf review – ‘choreopoem’ of sisterhood
Published: September 10, 2026 11:48
Yard theatre, London Starkly staged panorama of Black female experience rushes through its scenes but is delivered with feeling by terrific castIt has been 50 years since this “choreopoem” by Ntozake Shange premiered on Broadway and brought the emotions…
‘Female survival in a terrifying world’: Tilda Swinton’s return in Man to Man
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/10/man-to-man-tilda-swinton-royal-court-manfred-karge
Published: September 10, 2026 09:03
Manfred Karge’s play about a woman acting as her dead husband was a cause célèbre in the 80s. It remains a bracing portrait of a divided person in a divided cultureIt was Pierre Audi, the much-mourned founder of the Almeida, who way back in 1986 sent me a…
Jane Eyre: A Musical review – more Disney romance than Victorian gothic
Published: September 9, 2026 13:30
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London This production has a talented cast and looks the part, but the characterisation is thin and the songs are often cloyingMuch like Emerald Fennell’s film of Wuthering Heights, this musical version of another Brontë…
East Is East review – the classic cross-cultural comedy is as sharp as ever
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/09/east-is-east-review-bolton-octagon
Published: September 9, 2026 13:02
Bolton Octagon Thirty years on, Ayub Khan Din’s play about dual-heritage life in the 70s is revived for a tour with an exceptional cast Thirty years ago a play opened at Birmingham Rep that might have been expected to have limited appeal. East Is East, the…
The Gate theatre’s creative daring gave a tiny stage international scope | Michael Billington
Published: September 9, 2026 12:36
For five decades, this enterprising venue – which is now shutting up shop – broadened the horizons of British theatreLondon’s Gate theatre, not to be confused with its Dublin namesake, is no more. A combination of factors, including rising costs, declining…
You’re So Special review – painfully funny tragedy of a stardom seeker
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/09/youre-so-special-review-soho-theatre-julia-grogan
Published: September 9, 2026 11:59
Soho theatre, LondonA dance teacher for toddlers dreams of bigger things in Julia Grogan’s frantic one-woman showThe mind of a performer, hungry for her big break, is cracked open in Julia Grogan’s one-woman follow-up to her drama Playfight. At first, her…
‘This is not sustainable’: London’s Gate theatre to close after nearly 50 years
Published: September 9, 2026 11:00
Formerly based above a Notting Hill pub, the theatre earned a reputation for radical plays with new talent yet had a 100% loss of Arts Council England funding in 2022The Gate theatre in London, which has punched above its weight ever since it was founded…
Sir Richard Alston obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/08/sir-richard-alston-obituary
Published: September 8, 2026 16:40
Choreographer who played a leading role in developing the independent dance scene through the 1970s and early 80sThe choreographer Richard Alston, who has died aged 77, was a landmark figure in contemporary dance. He began his career in 1967 at a…
Poetry in motion: Richard Alston’s spellbinding dances – in pictures
Published: September 8, 2026 16:00
The work of celebrated British choreographer Richard Alston, who has died aged 77, has been photographed by the Guardian’s Tristram Kenton for decades. Here is a selection from Alston’s lyrical creations Continue reading...
Richard Alston’s dance illuminated the music, let you delight in the moment – and stole my heart
Published: September 8, 2026 15:35
The radical British choreographer, who has died aged 77, was as warm and graceful as his astonishing body of workThe first contemporary dance I really loved was made by Richard Alston. In the 1990s, I was going to dance class a few times a week and…
‘We all have an expiry date’: Kimberly Akimbo, the achingly funny musical about a teen with a 64-year-old body
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/08/jeanine-tesori-kimberly-akimbo-interview-musical
Published: September 8, 2026 14:33
The uplifting, award-winning show about a girl aging four times too fast electrified New York. As it hits the UK, co-creator Jeanine Tesori talks about being inspired by the Aids crisis and all her friends who died youngJeanine Tesori is thinking about her…
Richard Alston, trailblazer and guiding light of British dance, dies aged 77
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/08/richard-alston-pioneering-choreographer-dies
Published: September 8, 2026 11:18
Akram Khan among those paying tribute to ‘pioneering’ choreographer of intense musicality and grace who inspired generations of dancersSir Richard Alston, the British choreographer and teacher who took contemporary dance into new directions with his…
‘It’s not good to walk through the world feeling like prey’: Thelma & Louise’s writer on turning a movie classic into a musical
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/08/thelma-and-louise-writer-prey-musical-callie-khouri
Published: September 8, 2026 04:00
It was her very first film and it won her an Oscar. But can Callie Khouri now make it work on stage with songs? She talks about what made her write it – and how little has changed since‘I have a world-class case of beginner’s luck,” says Callie Khouri, who…
Greenwich+Docklands international festival – in pictures
Published: September 7, 2026 14:18
A selection from the dozens of outdoor art performances that made up the Greenwich+Docklands international festival, which finished on Sunday. The theme was We Move – a celebration of the resilience of Londoners facing the challenges of city life Continue…
Annie Wobbler (Revisited) review – Arnold Wesker’s moving women live again
Published: September 6, 2026 14:38
Finborough theatre, LondonNichola McAuliffe returns to the roles Wesker tailored for her in 1981, in a trio of wistful and insightful soliloquies about working-class women’s inner thoughtsSome years before Alan Bennett spawned Talking Heads, his celebrated…
King Lear review – Ian McDiarmid is a titanic, heartbreaking wonder
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/06/king-lear-review-ian-mcdiarmid-sheffield-crucible
Published: September 6, 2026 12:17
Crucible theatre, Sheffield The 82-year-old actor gives a performance of absolute authenticity and clarity as the erratic demagogue in a uniformly impressive productionThe word “nothing” is spoken four times in four lines in the opening scene of King Lear,…
1984 review – brings new meaning to the word Orwellian
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/06/1984-review-brings-new-meaning-to-the-word-orwellian
Published: September 6, 2026 11:45
Citizens theatre, GlasgowOrwell is himself a character in this frustrating but provocative adaptation of his dystopian classic, which seeks to refresh its metaphors and make its totalitarian nightmare seem real againWhat is there left to say about Nineteen…
The Story review – thrilling drama of race, truth and the pursuit of headlines
Published: September 4, 2026 11:46
National Theatre, London Letitia Wright plays the ambitious young reporter seduced into cutting corners with contentious reporting in a brilliantly kinetic productionTracey Scott Wilson’s play follows in the fine…
A Month in the Country review – delicate, tragicomic tangle of desire and disappointment
Published: September 3, 2026 14:00
Donmar Warehouse, LondonBrian Friel’s version of Turgenev treads lightly between humour and hurt as wayward passions rock a country houseA bored hausfrau languishing in her marriage. A confidante who secretly loves her. A charge that falls for the handsome…
Present Laughter review – gender-switched Coward comedy dazzles in 70s New York
Published: September 3, 2026 12:08
Theatre Royal BathAntihero actor Garry becomes a magnificent new kind of beast as Gerri, played with blistering hilarity by Tracy-Ann ObermanThe reputation of Noël Coward’s plays has involved escaping restrictions: his recorded clipped, waspish tone in key…
New musical to give intimate portrait of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller’s marriage
Published: September 3, 2026 07:00
Misfits Together, by Bastille’s Dan Smith and To Kill a King’s Ralph Pelleymounter, is set amid the 1950s’ ‘red scare’It was lampooned as the union of the “hourglass” and the “egghead” – the marriage, in the summer of 1956, between Hollywood superstar…
Pauline Clayden obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/02/pauline-clayden-obituary
Published: September 2, 2026 16:32
Dancer in the Sadler’s Wells Ballet who was a snake in Tiresias, a goat in Sylvia and an autumn fairy in Frederick Ashton’s CinderellaPauline Clayden was one of the dancers who formed the core of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet in the decade after the second…
Ready tae Drap review – clashing neighbours trapped in a lift get roars of approval
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/02/ready-tae-drap-review-oran-mor-glasgow
Published: September 2, 2026 11:46
Òran Mór, GlasgowComedy chemistry drives a play that asks if three contrasting characters – conspiracy theorist, pregnant mum, hen-do attendee – can find common groundTrapping three nightmare neighbours in the dodgy lift of their Glasgow high-rise, Ready…
Electra/Persona review – Blanchett and Hoss face off in lopsided Sophocles/Bergman double bill
Published: September 1, 2026 23:10
Benedict Andrews’ intense, interval-free mashup of ancient and modernist classics is a show of two halves The Electra bit of the title refers to the Sophoclean tragedy of a daughter trapped in a cycle of vengeance, the Persona part to Ingmar Bergman’s 1966…