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Theatre

  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Review
    Five stars for Skeleton Crew, Donmar Warehouse — instant classic of work, hope and dignity

    Dominique Morisseau’s play set in a Detroit car factory features four outstanding performances

    A man wearing a suit and tie and yellow hi-viz jacket holds out one hand warningly as he stands before an office bulletin board
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    Interview
    Playwright Christopher Hampton: ‘What really happened is more interesting than what people invent’

    His new work ‘Visit from an Unknown Woman’ deals with sexual obsession at a time of political turmoil

    An elderly man with white-ish grey hair and beard looking at the camera
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Review
    Alma Mater, Almeida Theatre — culture wars flare up in college harassment drama

    Kendall Feaver’s new play tackles misogyny and microaggressions in the world of academia

    A young woman sits forward on a bench, the painting of another woman resting on the floor behind her
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    Mnemonic, National Theatre — the Iceman cometh once again in captivating Complicité revival

    Twenty-five years on, this landmark show seem more relevant than ever with its themes of home, history and technology

    A naked man lies on a table, bottom facing the viewer, in front of people clad in black holding up a picture frame
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    Mean Girls, Savoy Theatre — Tina Fey musical is plastic and a little bit fantastic

    Selfies and sexting feature in this update of the cult 2004 comedy about feuding high-school queen bees

    Four young women in pink and purple outfits sit on stage, talking
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    The Secret Garden, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre — adaptation of classic novel blooms outdoors

    This is the perfect setting for a modern take on family, loss and nature’s healing power

    A young woman in a peach dress looks mournful as she sits on a wooden seat surrounded by festoons of red and lavender paper
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    My Father’s Fable, Bush Theatre — family tensions seethe in sizzling new play

    A long-lost relative brings secrets to light in Faith Omole’s drama

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    The Bounds, Royal Court — politics and power in Tudor football drama

    Stewart Pringle summons echoes of Beckett as two villagers endure an ominous wait on the sidelines

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Review
    Kyoto, Stratford-upon-Avon — RSC makes compelling drama out of climate-change crisis

    Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson focus on the tense negotiations behind the groundbreaking Kyoto climate treaty in 1997

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    The Constituent, Old Vic — James Corden stars in a riveting and timely political drama

    Joe Penhall’s tense play reminds us that MPs conduct their work in a hostile environment

    A light-haired man with a beard in a blue tracksuit sits at a desk talking seriously to a blond woman seen from behind
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    Interview
    Jeremy O Harris on Slave Play: ‘It’s about the impossibility of loving blind of history’

    The US playwright on bringing his controversial Broadway hit about interracial relationships and sex therapy to London

    A man in white jacket and multicoloured check shirt sits, his hand on his chin, in front of a bright floral background
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Review
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    A shritless man sits up in bed with a woman’s face projected on to his hairy chest
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Review
    The Taming of the Shrew theatre review — problematic play is given a contemporary twist

    A surreal staging at Shakespeare’s Globe in London leans hard into the drama’s comedy — and its cruelty

    A woman, wrapping a shawl around her shoulders, stands with an excited smile; behind her can be seen theatre lights
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Review
    Kiss Me, Kate — a sparkling and subtly tweaked show at London’s Barbican

    Cole Porter’s songs shine through this revival of the 1948 musical while its problems are cleverly addressed

    A woman and a man wearing glamorous dressing gowns sit on stylish furniture
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Review
    The Merry Wives of Windsor, Stratford-upon-Avon — shrieking, capering and female friendship

    400-year-old jokes still land in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production

    A woman in a rustic top and a woman in a white dress sit laughing on a green sofa
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Review
    Wedding Band theatre review — riveting 1962 race drama feels all too relevant

    It may be six decades old, but Alice Childress’s play at the Lyric Hammersmith in London is unnervingly topical

    A man sits pensively in a chair with a cup in his hand while a woman stands behind him smiling and rubbing his shoulders; nearby are simple items of furniture and suitcases
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    Review
    Kathy & Stella Solve a Murder!, Ambassadors Theatre — mischievous musical satirises true-crime mania

    A cheerful send-up of podcasting, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit comes to London

    A blond woman in a raincoat holds out her arms as she sings; people behind her hold out newspapers in surprise
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Playbook by James Shapiro — a jaw-dropping account of the rise and fall of the Federal Theatre

    A bracing tale of the cultural clash between arts and politics that still resonates today

  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Review
    Dominic West gives a superb performance in A View from the Bridge — review

    The actor creates a tragic study in fragile masculinity in Arthur Miller’s classic drama at the London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket 

    A man sits back in a rocking chair in a bare room with wooden walls and floors; in the corner, behind a table, a woman turns towards him
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Review
    Viola’s Room by Punchdrunk, review — a Gothic bedtime story

    The masters of immersive theatre return with a delicate, intimate tale, narrated by Helena Bonham Carter

    A young woman sits on a bed wearing headphones
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    FT SeriesShakespeare Lives!
    Becoming King Lear

    A roundtable with Brian Cox, Simon Russell Beale, Kathryn Hunter and Greg Hicks at the National Theatre

    A monochrome photograph showing four senior people with solemn faces, two standing in the back and two sitting in the front
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    FT Magazine: Special editions
    Shakespeare Lives!

    A special edition of the FT Magazine reveals how 460 years after Shakespeare’s birth, his powers are undiminished

  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Review
    Boys from the Blackstuff, National Theatre — 1980s agonies speak sharply to today’s state of the nation

    James Graham’s adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s TV series about unemployed people in Liverpool is punchy and humane

    Rough-looking man angrily roaring with his fists clenched
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    FT SeriesShakespeare Lives!
    The secret history of the red book of Hamlet

    Unravelling the mystery of the tome handed down from one great actor to the next

    A small battered red book embossed with gold sits on a wooden book stand. This is the famous ‘red book’  – an edition of ‘Hamlet’ bought by the actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson from a West End bookshop and passed on to great performers of Hamlet
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    Review
    Hamlet — Eddie Izzard plays all the roles in a nimble but aimless production

    London’s Riverside Studios hosts a feat of memory and variation that misses the depths of the tragedy

    A woman dressed in black jacket and trousers stands against a blue background
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