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  • Friday, 22 March, 2019
    ReviewTheatre
    The Taming of the Shrew, Stratford-upon-Avon — sex changes all round but to what end?

    RSC production flips the genders of characters to create a world with its own rules and inconsistencies

  • Thursday, 21 March, 2019
    Theatre to watch in London and beyond
    Child-sex offenders — and their antagonists — are the subjects of Bruce Norris’s new play Downstate

    The performances at London’s National Theatre are largely flawless, though the play has its problems

  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2019
    Theatre to watch in London and beyond
    Alexandra Palace Theatre reopens with a shambling Richard III

    Headlong production fails to light up £18.8m restored space

  • Thursday, 14 March, 2019
    Theatre to watch in London and beyond
    Admissions — a tricky exploration of race and identity

    At London’s Trafalgar Studio 1, Joshua Harmon’s play sets out to examine of the difficulties of liberalism

  • Monday, 11 March, 2019
    Theatre to watch in London and beyond
    Learning to love American pie in Waitress at the Adelphi Theatre, London

    Bouncy tunes and a strong narrative propel this musical set in a diner

  • Thursday, 7 March, 2019
    ReviewTheatre
    Adjoa Andoh is formidable as Richard II at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London

    This pioneering production is performed entirely by women of colour

  • Tuesday, 26 February, 2019
    Theatre to watch in London and beyond
    Showstoppers, defiance and flair: Sondheim’s Follies returns to the National Theatre

    Dominic Cooke’s production combines rousing musical numbers with an expertly conjured atmosphere

  • Friday, 22 February, 2019
    ReviewTheatre
    Why the National Theatre’s Tartuffe is an honourable, interesting failure

    Blanche McIntyre’s production is a radical departure from the play we thought we knew

  • Friday, 22 February, 2019
    ReviewTheatre
    Incandescent dialogues light up Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train at the Young Vic

    Stephen Adly Guirgis’s drama of crime and redemption is revived in a powerful production

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  • Wednesday, 20 February, 2019
    ReviewTheatre
    Only Fools and Horses: The Musical — a show that brings a (moderately) warm glow

    The TV sitcom adaptation at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket is a polite nostalgia-fest, but not for the era it depicts

  • Saturday, 16 February, 2019
    Theatre
    Berberian Sound Studio makes a fine job of bringing a strange film to the Donmar Warehouse stage

    An adaptation of Peter Strickland’s movie about a sound-effects artist opens in London

  • Thursday, 14 February, 2019
    ReviewReview
    Arthur Miller’s The American Clock finds new resonance in the post-recession era

    An unusual staging of the playwright’s 1980 meditation on the Great Depression has lessons for today

  • Wednesday, 13 February, 2019
    Theatre to watch in London and beyond
    An acting masterclass from Gillian Anderson in All About Eve

    Anderson plays the star usurped by Lily James’s Eve in Ivo van Hove’s video-heavy production

  • Friday, 25 January, 2019
    ReviewTheatre
    Leave to Remain — hackneyed story of an awkward engagement at Lyric Hammersmith

    Matt Jones’s play differs from countless others only in that its principal protagonists are gay

  • Thursday, 24 January, 2019
    ReviewTheatre
    When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other — Cate Blanchett compels in story of male and female power

    Playwright Martin Crimp reworks a 1740 novel into a complex and sometimes opaque drama

  • Wednesday, 16 January, 2019
    ReviewTheatre
    Rosenbaum’s Rescue — enthralling drama of politics and race, faith and facts

    At London’s Park Theatre, a debut play tackles the Holocaust and Islamophobia with an exceptionally assured touch

  • Tuesday, 15 January, 2019
    ReviewTheatre
    Approaching Empty at the Kiln Theatre, London — a skilful, engaging drama

    Ishy Din’s new play revolves around a medium-sized taxi firm run by Pakistani immigrants

  • Monday, 14 January, 2019
    ReviewTheatre
    Aspects of Love at Southwark Playhouse, London — a lesser Lloyd Webber

    Jonathan O’Boyle’s production never quite overcomes the musical’s lack of focus

  • Wednesday, 19 December, 2018
    ReviewTheatre
    Simon Russell Beale is Richard II in a curious staging at the Almeida Theatre, London

    Joe Hill-Gibbins sets Shakespeare’s Tragedy of King Richard the Second in a dimly lit metal box

  • Tuesday, 18 December, 2018
    ReviewTheatre
    A thrilling revival of Caroline, or Change at the Playhouse Theatre, London

    Sharon D. Clarke is magnificent in the title role of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s musical

  • Saturday, 15 December, 2018
    ReviewTheatre
    Timon of Athens, Stratford-upon-Avon — a humbug’s alternative to seasonal cheer

    Kathryn Hunter stars in a strong production of Shakespeare’s bleak, underrated drama at the Swan Theatre

  • Friday, 14 December, 2018
    ReviewTheatre
    Christmas on stage in London and Oxford — reviews

    Snowflake, Old Fire Station; The Messiah, The Other Palace; and Aladdin, Hackney Empire

  • Thursday, 13 December, 2018
    ReviewTheatre
    The Tell-Tale Heart — a darkly comic drama at the National Theatre (Dorfman), London

    Anthony Neilson’s new seasonal show is inspired by Poe’s tale

  • Saturday, 8 December, 2018
    ReviewTheatre
    Uncle Vanya strikes a deliciously dyspeptic tone at the Hampstead Theatre, London

    Terry Johnson has written a fine new Chekhov adaptation — but the staging is problematic

  • Thursday, 6 December, 2018
    ReviewTheatre
    Kit Harington is the big draw in True West at the Vaudeville Theatre, London

    The Game of Thrones star is well matched with Johnny Flynn in Sam Shepard’s classic play

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