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Bangarra: Illume review – exquisite dance show makes for an astonishing visual feast

silverguide.site – In the 1,500-seat Joan Sutherland theatre, Bangarra Dance Theatre finally has the space it deserves – and this ambitious production makes the most of it…
Bangarra: Illume review – exquisite dance show makes for an astonishing visual feast

Tom Felton to reprise role as Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

silverguide.site – Actor to make Broadway debut in play set 19 years after events of the final book in JK Rowling’s fantasy series…
Tom Felton to reprise role as Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

The Almeida theatre has a coup in Dominic Cooke: this gifted director is also a proven talent spotter | Michael Billington

silverguide.site – Moving easily between daring new work from the likes of Jez Butterworth to lucid fresh takes on the canon and heartful musicals, Cooke is an optimal new leader…
 The Almeida theatre has a coup in Dominic Cooke: this gifted director is also a proven talent spotter | Michael Billington

Thick & Tight: Natural Behaviour review – giddy cabaret with a turn from Donald the orange panto horse

silverguide.site – The dance-theatre duo embody people, flora and fauna, questioning what ‘norms’ in society and nature really mean…
Thick & Tight: Natural Behaviour review – giddy cabaret with a turn from Donald the orange panto horse

Caryl Churchill pulls out of Donmar Warehouse project over Barclays’ Israel links

silverguide.site – Playwright urges theatre to cut ties with bank, which has been criticised for providing financial services to defence firms supplying Israel…
Caryl Churchill pulls out of Donmar Warehouse project over Barclays’ Israel links

Dominic Cooke appointed as the Almeida theatre’s artistic director

silverguide.site – Cooke, who ran the Royal Court for several years, will succeed Rupert Goold at the illustrious London venue in 2026…
Dominic Cooke appointed as the Almeida theatre’s artistic director

‘We wanted to tell the wider story’: play highlights impact of ‘spycops’ scandal

silverguide.site – Exclusive: Demand the Impossible interrogates police injustice and infiltration of 1,000 political groups…
‘We wanted to tell the wider story’: play highlights impact of ‘spycops’ scandal

Come Fall in Love: The DDLJ Musical review – loud, kitsch and joyous

silverguide.site – Thirty years after its release, the Bollywood blockbuster is back, this time on stage with a multiracial take on the diaspora tale…
Come Fall in Love: The DDLJ Musical review – loud, kitsch and joyous

Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt review – bittersweet 1950s tale of the Potteries

silverguide.site – Isabella Rossi, making her debut, gives Arthur Berry’s drama of working-class life a burst of colour and energy…
Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt review – bittersweet 1950s tale of the Potteries

Compañía Mercedes Ruiz review – classy ode to classical flamenco

silverguide.site – It may seem a little tame compared to some offerings at this year’s Flamenco festival but this is an elegant display of traditional style…
Compañía Mercedes Ruiz review – classy ode to classical flamenco

In Praise of Love review – secrets and lies circle a family on the brink

silverguide.site – Amelia Sears’ production of Terence Rattigan’s knotted drama contains warmth – and love – beneath the disappointments of married life…
In Praise of Love review – secrets and lies circle a family on the brink

Will Ferrell to bring Eurovision musical to Broadway

silverguide.site – The star is set to turn his 2020 Netflix comedy into a stage show with long-time friend and collaborator Harper Steele…
Will Ferrell to bring Eurovision musical to Broadway

‘This could be our last year’: student comedy troupes priced out of Edinburgh fringe

silverguide.site – Nish Kumar among comedians warning that rising costs could stop university revues visiting the festival…
‘This could be our last year’: student comedy troupes priced out of Edinburgh fringe

Permission review – rebellious woman’s search for independence crackles with conflict

silverguide.site – Hunia Chawla’s intimate drama is played out across continents to tell a platonic love story that examines the challenges to freedom in Pakistan and England…
Permission review – rebellious woman’s search for independence crackles with conflict

Letters from Max review – rich reflections on life, death and nothingness from a poet who died at 25

silverguide.site – Sarah Ruhl’s stage adaptation of the book she wrote with her former student Max Ritvo, who died of cancer at 25, is smartly written if emotionally distant…
Letters from Max review – rich reflections on life, death and nothingness from a poet who died at 25

Flamenco with kilts and genius moments – Compañía Manuel Liñán: Muerta de Amor review

silverguide.site – The Spanish dancer’s latest show with his all-male company is an eruption of pleasure, ego and neediness that is full of fantastic chemistry…
Flamenco with kilts and genius moments – Compañía Manuel Liñán: Muerta de Amor review

Adrian Lester and Alfred Enoch lead Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘global’ new season

silverguide.site – Joint artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey say 2025/26 programme is celebration of ‘a 21st-century RSC’…
Adrian Lester and Alfred Enoch lead Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘global’ new season

William Dudley obituary

silverguide.site – Innovative theatre designer who was one of the outstanding new stars to emerge in the 1970s…
William Dudley obituary

Rory Bremner review – slick satirist cosies up to Trump, Rees-Mogg and the king

silverguide.site – The impressionist mixes modern politics with blasts from the past in a witty show that sticks to familiar ground…
Rory Bremner review – slick satirist cosies up to Trump, Rees-Mogg and the king

Ballet Preljocaj’s Swan Lake review – dystopian twist sucks the breath out of you

silverguide.site – Property developers and industrial waste are the villains in this ‘Swan Lake for the ecocide era’, propelled by athletic choreography full of swagger…
Ballet Preljocaj’s Swan Lake review – dystopian twist sucks the breath out of you
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