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Bridge theatre

June 2024

  • Jonathan Bailey as Richard II.

    Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey to play Richard II on London stage

    Nicholas Hytner has shared details of his forthcoming production, which will give the actor his highest profile Shakespeare role to date

February 2024

  • Marisha Wallace

    Musical theatre star Marisha Wallace: ‘It’s a powerful number when my booty comes out’

    Her career was almost ended by a vocal cyst, but – after a laying on of hands – it disappeared. Now this former church singer is upending musical stereotypes with a showstopping performance in Guys and Dolls

December 2023

  • Paul Mescal and Anjana Vasan in the Almeida’s A Streetcar Named Desire.

    Observer critics' review of 2023
    Theatre: Susannah Clapp’s 10 best shows of 2023

    In a thin year for musicals and political drama, an 11th hour Blanche DuBois, a flurry of young actors, two James Graham plays and a pair of Macbeths were among the standouts

March 2023

  • Michael Billington

    Musicals are having an exceptional moment – but classic plays are vanishing from UK stages

    Michael Billington
    There are invigorating versions of Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma! and Cabaret in London – and some enticing new dramas coming up – yet theatre risks being cut off from its past
  • Guys & Dolls at the Bridge.

    The week in theatre: five stars for Guys & Dolls, plus Marjorie Prime and The Tragedy of Macbeth – review

    The audience is swept along with the action in Nicholas Hytner’s thrillingly immersive new Guys and Dolls; Nancy Carroll and Anne Reid surf memory and identity; and Shakespeare’s witches multitask
  • Daniel Mays as Nathan Detroit and Andrew Richardson as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls at the Bridge theatre.

    Guys and Dolls review – Nicholas Hytner’s gamble pays off

    This immersive production of the New York musical has a bold design, superb singing and chemistry between its stars

October 2022

  • Simon Russell Beale and Lia Williams in John Gabriel Borkman.

    The week in theatre: John Gabriel Borkman; Eureka Day – review

    Simon Russell Beale is doubly commanding as Ibsen’s charismatic banker in a problem-raising revival, while a new anti-vax satire needs more than a shot of Helen Hunt’s star power

September 2022

  • John Gabriel Borkman, Bridge Theatre, 2022. 14. Simon Russell Beale (John Gabriel Borkman), photo by Manuel Harlan

    John Gabriel Borkman review – Simon Russell Beale magnetic as the shamed alpha-male banker

    Turning to a lesser-staged work by Ibsen might seem risky, but Nicholas Hytner’s production is held together by some powerhouse performances

July 2022

  • Emilia Clarke, Indira Varma, Daniel Monks and Tom Rhys Harries in The Seagull.

    The week in theatre: The Seagull; The Southbury Child; Richard III

    The action’s all in the detail in Jamie Lloyd’s spellbound Chekhov; Alex Jennings excels as a vicar refusing to find the common touch; and Richard III falls short of its health warning

March 2022

  • Ralph Fiennes enthrals as Robert Moses in Straight Line Crazy

    Straight Line Crazy review – Ralph Fiennes enthrals as the man who shaped New York

    Fiennes heads an electrifying cast in David Hare’s dynamic portrait of Robert Moses, an aggressive yet visionary urban planner who refused to back down

December 2021

  • l-r Ella Dacres (Alice Parslow), Pip Carter (Gerard Bonneville), Julie Atherton (Hyena) in Book of Dust.

    The week in theatre: The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage; Life of Pi; Measure for Measure

    The familiar and the fantastic are as one in the Bridge’s Philip Pullman spectacular; more puppet magic powers Life of Pi; and a coolly convincing 70s Measure for Measure
  • The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage

    The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage review – a theatrical marvel

    Nicholas Hytner brings a dazzling wizard’s touch to this adaptation of Philip Pullman’s fantasy tale
  • ‘I knew Nick would tell the story with a brisk directness and clarity’ …. Ella Dacres, Pip Carter and Julie Atherton in The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage at the Bridge theatre.

    ‘A sense of discovery’: Philip Pullman on religion, school plays and The Book of Dust

    As an adaptation of La Belle Sauvage arrives at the Bridge theatre, the author explains why His Dark Materials was better as a play than a film – and how he learned to write for children and adults

November 2021

  • Circus 1903 at the Southbank Centre in 2019.

    No turkeys allowed! 25 of the best shows to book for Christmas 2021

    Looking for a jolly good trip to the theatre this winter? Here’s our pick’n’mix selection of musicals, pantos and festive spectaculars, featuring circus tricks, high kicks and puppet rodents

October 2021

  • Saoirse Ronan and James McArdle in Macbeth at the Almeida theatre.

    The week in theatre: Maryland; The Tragedy of Macbeth; White Noise

    Lucy Kirkwood’s raw response to the murders of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard captures a moment of terrible rage
  • Unresolved business … Ken Nwosu as Leo in Suzan-Lori Parks’ White Noise at the Bridge theatre, London.

    White Noise review – an enormous provocation of a play

    In Suzan-Lori Parks’ darkly witty four-hander, a black man persuades a white college buddy to be his slave-master for 40 days
  • ‘I was basically ripping the face off of civilisation’ … Ken Nwosu as Leo and Helena Wilson as Dawn in White Noise.

    Forty days a slave: Suzan-Lori Parks on her incendiary new play White Noise

    In a drama that taps straight into these angry, anguished times, a Black artist responds to a police beating by becoming his white friend’s ‘enslaved person’. Pulitzer-winner Parks explains why she rewrote sections to make it even harder-hitting

June 2021

  • Pandora Colin, Samuel Blenkin, Simon Russell Beale and Douggie McMeekin in Bach and Sons.

    Bach & Sons review – study of the man and his music hits a flat note

    Simon Russell Beale stars in a visually impressive production of Nina Raine’s play that never quite gets off the ground

May 2021

  • Gathering momentum … Flight.

    Reopening culture
    Flight review – a perilous, powerful trip down the road to freedom

  • Eben Figueiredo in rehearsals for Cyrano de Bergerac in 2019.

    Spotlight on
    Eben Figueiredo: electric actor, soul singer and Star Wars mudtrooper

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