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    • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      All of Us, National Theatre review — furious drama of disability, politics and society

      Francesca Martinez’s play excels when it focuses on grim details

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      InterviewTheatre
      Author Charlotte Higgins: ‘Every generation has used Roman Britain as a mirror for its own anxieties’

      The writer of ‘Under Another Sky’ and the playwright David Greig discuss bringing the book to the outdoor stage in Pitlochry

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Theatre review — The Tempest at the Globe is gaudy, playful and smart

      Plus: Chasing Hares at the Young Vic; Sister Act at the Eventim Apollo

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Crazy for You — deliriously daft musical is revived in Chichester

      Also reviewed: London openings of 101 Dalmatians at the Open Air Theatre; Patrick Marber’s Closer at the Lyric Hammersmith

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Much Ado About Nothing is now popping up everywhere

      The National Theatre’s new production is the latest to tackle Shakespeare’s sorrow-stained comedy

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Putin and Berezovsky play chilling power games in Patriots at the Almeida Theatre

      Tom Hollander and Will Keen excel in Peter Morgan’s riveting new drama. Plus: Emilia Clarke in The Seagull; Peaky Blinders goes immersive

    • Saturday, 9 July, 2022
      InterviewTheatre
      Director Timothy Sheader on letting 101 Dalmatians off the leash

      Puppets stand in for the pups in the latest of the Open Air Theatre’s productions to grace London’s Regent’s Park

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      The RSC’s Richard III is a powerful portrait of savagery

      The production features a magnetic central performance from Arthur Hughes. Plus: The Southbury Child at the Bridge Theatre

    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      ObituaryTheatre
      Ground-breaking theatre director Peter Brook dies at 97

      A visionary who revolutionised how we stage Shakespeare, he left his native Britain to travel in search of ‘outside contexts’

    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      Theatre
      One Man, Two Guvnors duo on reuniting for wartime comedy Jack Absolute Flies Again

      Richard Bean and Oliver Chris have given Sheridan’s ‘The Rivals’ a modern twist but warn: ‘It’s not just a fluffy laugh factory’

    • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Sun & Sea is an intensely beautiful experience

      Also opening on the London stage: Mad House at the Ambassadors, and Roy Williams’s new drama The Fellowship at the Hampstead Theatre

    • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Theatre review — a superbly acted revival of August Wilson’s Jitney at the Old Vic

      Also opening in London: A Doll’s House, Part 2 at the Donmar Warehouse; That Is Not Who I Am at the Royal Court

    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Tony! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera) — a premier painted in broad strokes

      This lively show at the Park Theatre, London, is an unsubtle portrait of the Labour leader

    • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
      InterviewTheatre
      Theatre director Gregory Doran: ‘In Richard III you see a whole society brutalised by war’

      The RSC leader on staging the play with a disabled actor in the title role, the loss of his husband Antony Sher and stepping down after 10 years

    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      Theatre
      How cutting-edge drama Rock / Paper / Scissors makes theatre 3D

      Three interrelated plays set in a factory will run simultaneously on different stages in an ambitious take on a world riven by culture wars and blame games

    • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Howard Brenton’s Cancelling Socrates — a smart, sparkily topical drama

      Plus two more classically themed plays on the London stage: Britannicus at the Lyric Hammersmith; Girl on an Altar at the Kiln

    • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Amy Adams stars in a sensitive staging of The Glass Menagerie

      Also on the London stage: Legally Blonde in the open air; Henry VIII at Shakespeare’s Globe

    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      The Father and the Assassin, National Theatre — exhilarating drama about Gandhi’s killer

      Also opening on the London stage: two Palestinians go dogging, Royal Court; My Fair Lady at the Coliseum

    • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Anne-Marie Duff is magnificent in The House of Shades

      She plays a bruised matriarch in Beth Steel’s state-of-the-nation play at the Almeida. Plus: The Breach at Hampstead Theatre

    • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Oklahoma! is stunningly reimagined at the Young Vic — plus more London theatre reviews

      Marital strife in Middle at the National Theatre and Ivo van Hove’s grimly good Greek tragedy Age of Rage at the Barbican

    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Jodie Comer is a tour de force in Prima Facie at the Harold Pinter Theatre

      Also opening on the London stage: Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe

    • Saturday, 30 April, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Mark Rylance’s Rooster makes a stunning return in Jerusalem

      Jez Butterworth’s drama is exhilarating, dazzling and darker than ever in a revival at the Apollo Theatre, London

    • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City is a stunning immersion in the fall of Troy

      Plus: ‘The Corn Is Green’ at the National Theatre; ‘Marys Seacole’ at the Donmar Warehouse

    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Restoration comedy romps into the 21st century in Scandaltown

      Also opening on the London stage: an adaptation of Jane Austen’s persuasion — complete with foam-filled pool

    • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Bertie Carvel is a jaw-droppingly good Donald Trump in The 47th at the Old Vic

      Mike Bartlett’s bold new drama interweaves current political concerns with Shakespeare’s plays. Plus: ‘Daddy’ A Melodrama at the Almeida; For Black Boys . . .  at the Royal Court

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