Theatre – Seen and Heard International

Martin Crimp’s second Misanthrope reaches the screen in an inventive NT staging

23/09/202623/09/2026 by Dominic Hartley

United Kingdom NT Live – Molière’s The Misanthrope (by Martin Crimp, after Molière): Filmed (directed by Christine Lalla) during its run at the Lyttelton Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London, broadcast in cinemas from 22.9.2026, and viewed at Cineworld, Newport, Isle of Wight. (DH) ****

Sandra Oh (Alice) and Paul Chahidi (John) © Marc Brenner

The Tempest from Vache Baroque and Out of Chaos was a true company effort

10/09/202609/09/2026 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom The Tempest: at The Vache, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, 6.9.2026. (CC)

Holy Fool at the Park Theatre about Shostakovich is a ‘must see’ for music and theatre-lovers alike

07/09/202606/09/2026 by John Rhodes

United Kingdom Holy Fool (a play by Rosalind Adler and Lea Sellers): Park Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, 3.9.2026. (JR)

*Holy Fool* at the Park Theatre © Mark Douet

Mesmerising Budapest rendering of the Závada-Mohácsi collaboration on Egy piaci nap

30/08/202628/08/2026 by Agnes Kory

Hungary Závada-Mohácsi: Egy piaci nap (One Day in the Market): Komáromi Jókai Színház, Városmajor Theatre, Budapest, 25.8.2026. (AK)

Závoda-Mohácsi’s *Egy piaci nap* (*One Day in the Market*)

Abigail’s Party at the Harold Pinter Theatre is acute, convincing and cruel, but was it funny?

23/08/202621/08/2026 by Barbara Ford

United Kingdom Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party (directed by Nadia Fall for Theatre Royal Stratford East): Harold Pinter Theatre, 19.8.2026 (BF) ***

Lauren Patel (Angela) and Tamzin Outhwaite (Beverly) © Ellie Kurtz

In Burn the Floor’s Supernova Nikita, Nadiya and a talented ensemble display a love and passion for dance

23/07/202622/07/2026 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Burn the Floor presents Supernova Nikita Zuzmin: Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 21.7.2026. (JP) ****

Burn the Floor *Supernova* (Nikita Kuzmin and Faye Huddleston) © Make a Noise

The Oresteia is a dazzling, dark, comic modern family tragedy: its fractured chronology exhilarates and distances

19/07/202619/07/2026 by Jane Havergal

United Kingdom Simon Stone’s The Oresteia: The Bridge Theatre, London, 15.7.2026. (JH) ****

Mary-Louise Parker (Montie), David Morrissey (Christopher), Archie Madekwe (Lorenzo) and Tom Glynn-Carney (Augie) © Johan Persson

Love’s Labour’s Lost with Much Ado about Nothing – a double-header even greater than the sum of its parts

15/07/202612/07/2026 by Barbara Ford

United Kingdom Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing (adapted by Tom Littler for Guildford Shakespeare Company/Orange Tree Theatre): Braboeuf Manor, Guildford, Surrey 11.7.2026. (BF) *****

Princess Leonata and entourage arrive just after the men have forsworn women in *Love’s Labour’s Lost* (Sarah Gobran, Phoebe Pryce, Sally Cheng, Joelle Brabban)

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