Theatre reviews

Carlos Acosta’s Ballet Celebration: Diaghilev & the Birth of Modern Ballet

Choreography by Mikhail Fokine, Bronislava Nijinska, music by Chopin, Rimsky-...

BRB2 - Birmingham Royal Ballet

Birmingham Hippodrome

6 May 2025

Alan Cox, Colin Tierney and Hywell Morgan

The Gang Of Three

Robert Khan & Tom Salinsky

The Spontaneity Shop and King's Head Theatre Productions

King's Head Theatre, Islington

30 April–1 June 2025

Dear Evan Hansen

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

ATG Productions/Nottingham Playhouse

Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham

6–10 May 2025

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

National Theatre Live

Released 20 February 2025

Three Hens in a Boat

Camille Ucan

Reading Rep Theatre & The Watermill Theatre

Reading Rep

1–17 May 2025

Faygele

Shimmy Braun

Thomas Hopkins Productions

Marylebone Theatre

30 April–31 May 2025

(Centre) Jessica Fyfe as Elizabeth Proctor

The Crucible

Choreography Helen Pickett, music Peter Salem, based on The Crucible by Arthu...

Scottish Ballet

Festival Theatre Edinburgh

17 April–3 May 2025

Catherine Chalk, Jade Kennedy, Imogen Elliott and Grace Maloney

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Lee Dean and Daniel Schumann, Pitlochry Festival theatre, The Belgrade Covent...

Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield

7–10 May 2025

Tom Richardson as Dennis and Joseph Clowser as Neil

Just Between Ourselves

Alan Ayckbourn

London Classic Theatre

Theatre Royal Bath

5–10 May 2025

Alfie Allen, Kasper Hilton-Hille, Theo Barklem-Biggs

Dealer's Choice

Patrick Marber

Donmar Warehouse

5 May–7 June 2025

Yellow Things: a double bill of Mothers Have Nine Lives and The Yellow Wallpaper

Joanna Norland / adapted by Ellie Ward from Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Bridge House Theatre

15–26 April 2025

Tosca

Music by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa

Seattle Opera

McCaw Hall

3–17 May 2025

Esme Lonsdale as Danni and Kiefer Moriarty as Lee

Blood Wedding

Barney Norris

Two’s Company and Karl Sydow in association with Tilly Films

Omnibus Theatre, London

30 April–24 May 2025

That Knave, Raleigh

Andrew Margerison

Dyad Productions

Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

2 May 2025

Scenes from a Repatriation

Joel Tan

Royal Court Theatre

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs

25 April–24 May 2025

Krapp’s Last Tape

Samuel Beckett

Landmark Productions

Barbican Centre

30 April–3 May 2025

Golden

Andrew Lee Creech

ACT Contemporary Theatre

Falls Theatre

26 April–11 May 2025

Calamity Jane

Adapted for the stage by Charles K Freeman from a screenplay by James O’Hanlo...

Jamie Wilson Productions

Grand Opera House, York

29 April–3 May 2025

Ewan McGregor (Henry Solness), Elizabeth Debicki (Mathilde) and Kate Fleetwood (Elena Solness)

My Master Builder

Lila Raicek

MarketStall, Michael Grandage Company, Seaview

Wyndham's Theatre

17 April–12 July 2025

Muriel's Wedding The Musical

Book by P J Hogan, music and lyrics by Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall, a...

Made at Curve and Global Creatures in association with Sydney Theatre Company

Curve Theatre, Leicester

11 April–10 May 2025

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