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Friday, 21 February, 2020

Review

Ivo van Hove’s West Side Story is an ambitious reworking of the classic musical

The Belgian director’s staging at the Broadway Theatre is darker and more violent than the original

Thursday, 20 February, 2020

Review

Best new London theatre — Lesley Manville excels in The Visit

Also among the week’s openings: Pass Over, A Number and Far Away

Wednesday, 19 February, 2020

Review

Anatomy of a Suicide — a grimly powerful play at the Linda Gross Theater, New York

Alice Birch’s deliberately disjointed drama reflects the turmoil of its characters

Thursday, 13 February, 2020

Review

Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt: epic and intimate. Plus: Death of England and The Haystack

Stoppard’s moving, teeming drama tells the story of a Viennese Jewish family from 1899 to 1955

Wednesday, 12 February, 2020

Review

The Whip — the abolition of British slavery told as House of Cards with whiskers

Juliet Gilkes Romero favours parliamentary procedural while slaves look on in silence at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Thursday, 6 February, 2020

Review

Best new London theatre — Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe in Endgame; plus Poet in da Corner and The Gift

Beckett’s spirit of experimentation is picked up in two innovative new dramas

Thursday, 6 February, 2020

Review

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice — a new musical struggles to replicate the wit of the 1969 film

Suzanne Vega sings with effortless cool in this adaptation at the Pershing Square Signature Center, New York

Friday, 31 January, 2020

Q&AThe Inventory

Playwright Antoinette Nwandu: ‘My spiritual ambition? To stay sane as the world teeters off its axis’

Q&A with the writer on the dangers of self-delusion and her dream New York apartment

Friday, 31 January, 2020

Review

Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale in a genuinely shocking Medea in New York

Simon Stone’s boldly contemporary staging of Euripides at BAM Harvey Theater has Hitchcockian flair

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Thursday, 30 January, 2020

Review

Best new London theatre: Uncle Vanya, Faustus: That Damned Woman, and Kunene and the King

Chekhov and Marlowe revised and revisited; Antony Sher shines as a cantankerous actor

Thursday, 30 January, 2020

UK politics & policy

Parliament signs up to workplace complaints scheme

Guardians Programme created by The Old Vic allows confidential reports of abuse

Friday, 24 January, 2020

Review

Profanity and bawdy wit enliven old age in Grand Horizons on Broadway

Jane Alexander and James Cromwell are a match made in theatrical heaven at the Helen Hayes Theater

Thursday, 23 January, 2020

Review

Best new London theatre — Maxine Peake in The Welkin, Beckett triple bill, The Sunset Limited

Lucy Kirkwood brings 18th-century women into focus; Trevor Nunn directs Beckett; Cormac McCarthy’s life-or-death debate

Wednesday, 22 January, 2020

Review

Pulitzer-winning A Soldier’s Play vividly explores the toll of racism

Charles Fuller’s 1981 drama makes its belated Broadway debut at the American Airlines Theatre

Tuesday, 21 January, 2020

Review

A Timon for our times in New York

Kathryn Hunter excels in this modern-dress staging at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center

Friday, 17 January, 2020

ReviewDance

Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s ‘Boléro’ — a gripping dance-opera in New York

South African dance and music combine at the Joyce Theater, in a work that explores grief, struggle and relief

Friday, 17 January, 2020

Review

Best new London theatre: This Time, RAGS The Musical and Magic Goes Wrong

Three new shows tackle issues of jeopardy, trust and faith

Thursday, 16 January, 2020

Review

Laura Linney gives a dexterous performance in My Name is Lucy Barton in New York

This one-woman show at the Samuel J Friedman Theatre adapts Elizabeth Strout’s 2016 novel

Friday, 10 January, 2020

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare First Folio to be auctioned for first time in 20 years

One of the most important books in literary history brings together 36 of the playwright’s dramas

Friday, 10 January, 2020

Lucy Kirkwood on going from kitchen to courthouse with ‘The Welkin’

The playwright, who dazzled with ‘Chimerica’, has a new drama that combines housework and hanging in 18th-century England

Thursday, 2 January, 2020

New Year — new drama coming to the British stage

Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Stoppard are among the names bringing shows to theatres in 2020

Monday, 23 December, 2019

ReviewDance

The Little Prince is a sweet-natured family show at The Place, London

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 fable is brought to life by Frank Moon’s music in this dance theatre adaptation

Sunday, 22 December, 2019

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A box office revival of these British extravaganzas is under way

Thursday, 19 December, 2019

Best new London theatre: Teenage Dick contends with disability, plus Swive and A Kind of People

Richard III goes to high school; Elizabeth I takes centre stage; racism satire asks questions about contemporary Britain

Tuesday, 17 December, 2019

Review

Sing Street is a charmingly offbeat musical at the New York Theatre Workshop

This adaptation of John Carney’s 2016 film vividly captures a period in recent Irish history

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