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  • Monday, 4 July, 2022
    Obituary
    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
    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
    Review
    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
    Review
    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
    Review
    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
    Interview
    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
    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
    Review
    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

  • Friday, 3 June, 2022
    UK business & economy
    A northern English town lauds the ‘Shakespeare effect’

    A new theatre opening in July is already attracting businesses to Prescot on Merseyside

  • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
    Review
    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
    Review
    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
    Review
    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

  • 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

  • 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’

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