The best theatre to stream this month: James Earl Jones drives Miss Daisy, Ed Harris takes on Sam Shepard
The Hollywood giants are joined online by audio noir from Danny Krass, Nicole Scherzinger’s Norma Desmond and a one-woman 25th birthday party
May 2024
The week in theatre: The Buddha of Suburbia; Love’s Labour’s Lost – review
The Buddha of Suburbia review – playful spin through Hanif Kureishi’s novel
April 2024
The week in theatre: Machinal; Blue Beard; The Cord – review
‘Although I’m tetraplegic, I’ve started to feel normal’: Hanif Kureishi on staging The Buddha of Suburbia
February 2024
Plays commissioned by lottery sounds bad, but why not? For us as writers, things can’t get much worse
Nick Ahad
Blue Beard review – Emma Rice’s fairytale hits home with horror and pizzazz
December 2023
2024 culture preview
The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book in 2024
The week in theatre: The Little Matchgirl and Happier Tales; Cold War; Pandemonium – review
October 2021
The week in theatre: The Walk; Wuthering Heights – review
Little Amal makes human hearts beat faster, while compassion fuels Emma Rice’s great whirl of a Brontë adaptation
Wuthering Heights review – Emma Rice’s audacious riff on Emily Brontë’s classic
Retelling the gothic novel with intelligently charming humour and a live band, this is a bold and ingenious production
Brief Encounter review – sparkling revival of Emma Rice’s forbidden romance
This polished production brings Rice’s innovative adaptation of the classic film to life, with an electric central partnership and personality to spare
September 2021
‘My blood stirred, my mind fizzed’: Emma Rice on Wuthering Heights
Horrified by the cruelty shown to children seeking asylum in Britain, the director has adapted Emily Brontë’s book which has haunted her since her teens
August 2021
Bagdad Cafe review – magic and miracles in the desert
Warm, wily and gloriously playful, Emma Rice’s adaptation of the 1987 film is another motel-and-ballad show triumph for the Old Vic
July 2021
Bagdad Cafe review – a kooky cabaret on Route 66
Emma Rice’s version of the 1987 movie is an outrageously sentimental ode to friendship and oddballs meeting amid Californian tumbleweed
June 2021
‘It was like running away with the circus’ – the thrills, shocks and genius of Kneehigh
As the legendary Cornwall-based theatre company closes, the people who made its astonishing productions look back on four decades of mayhem and innovation
May 2021
Old Vic theatre plans ‘supremely informal’ welcome back for audiences
Exclusive: Emma Rice’s adaptation of Bagdad Cafe and Harold Pinter’s darkly comic The Dumb Waiter staged in July as venue reopens
March 2021
'Solidarity in Europe': Maria Aberg's international theatre company looks ahead
The acclaimed Swedish director’s Projekt Europa will have a UK residency in Kent and collaborate with migrant theatre-makers
July 2020
Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
Caesar, Cilla and a superstar cast: Tristram Kenton's stage archive – in pictures
Theatres that made us
Theatres that made us: from Shakespeare's Globe to Leicester's Curve