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  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Review
    Constellations, Gate Theatre review — melodrama in the multiverse

    Nick Payne’s play takes on theoretical physics, beekeeping and love in its Irish premiere

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  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Review
    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

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Interview
    Claudia Rankine: ‘We are inside a culture that’s dedicated to whiteness’

    The award-winning writer’s 2019 play ‘The White Card’ — new to the UK — deals with art, race and America

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Review
    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

  • Monday, 2 May, 2022
    Review
    An Octoroon — path-breaking satire on race and theatre

    Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin deals more or less successfully with racial stereotypes

  • Saturday, 30 April, 2022
    Review
    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
    Review
    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

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    Review
    Shakespeare’s Henry VI at Stratford — chattering and battering

    The Royal Shakespeare Company’s staging of the second and third parts of the historical trilogy moves from debate to open warfare

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Lebanon
    The ‘one of a kind’ Beirut theatre surviving Lebanon’s crises

    Renowned Metro al-Madina venue pushes on after being tested by Covid lockdowns and economic woes

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    Review
    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
    Review
    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

  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
    Review
    To Kill a Mockingbird — stirring drama celebrates and scrutinises Harper Lee’s novel

    Also on the London stage: Alexis Zegerman’s family drama The Fever Syndrome

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Interview
    Nicola Walker: ‘You’ve got to do things that scare you’

    The actress on playing a trailblazing teacher on stage in period drama ‘The Corn Is Green’ and the return of her hit TV show ‘The Split’

  • Thursday, 31 March, 2022
    Review
    The National Theatre’s trimmed-down Hamlet for children is vivid and intelligent

    Also in UK theatres: The Mozart Question in Cirencester; The Wellspring in Northampton

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
    InterviewFilm
    Ukrainian film-maker Natalka Vorozhbit: ‘I tried to warn the world’

    The playwright and director on how her unblinking movie ‘Bad Roads’, about Donbas, presaged the current war

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Interview
    Punchdrunk’s immersive theatre returns with an epic tale of Troy

    ‘The Burnt City’ is its most ambitious production yet, say its directors, with 100,000 sq ft of world-building

  • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
    Review
    David Hare’s Straight Line Crazy moves at a pace with Ralph Fiennes at the helm

    The show at London’s Bridge Theatre goes back to 1926 to spotlight legendary, controversial figure Robert Moses

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    Review
    Ruth Wilson shines in a beautiful, flawed revival of The Human Voice

    Plus: tensions boil over at the Orange Tree Theatre in ‘Tom Fool’

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
    Travel
    A Bavarian village gears up for its once-a-decade moment of fame

    After pandemic-induced delays, hundreds of locals are finally preparing to take the stage in Oberammergau’s latest Passion Play

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
    Review
    Five stars for Belarus Free Theatre’s Dogs of Europe and Cock with Taron Egerton

    Also on the London stage: Dennis Kelly’s After the End at the Theatre Royal Stratford East

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
    ReviewMusic
    Book of Mountains & Seas — China’s creation myths in magical music and puppets

    Huang Ruo’s mesmerising work of ‘vocal theatre’ is playing at St Ann’s Warehouse in New York

  • Thursday, 10 March, 2022
    Review
    Small Island, National Theatre — a vibrant, generous triumph

    Also opening on the London stage: Kit Harington as a ruthless Henry V at the Donmar Warehouse

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    Nica Burns: risk-taker who worked to reopen London’s theatreland

    Covid lockdowns tested the impresario’s entrepreneurial skills

  • Monday, 7 March, 2022
    Interview
    To Kill a Mockingbird director Bartlett Sher: ‘Theatre is not about wrong and right’  

    As his Broadway production opens in London, the US director on the importance of reappraising much-loved classics

  • Thursday, 3 March, 2022
    Review
    Our Generation — verbatim drama fizzes with energy at the National Theatre

    Plus: The Collaboration at the Young Vic; Doubt: A Parable in Chichester

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