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Kadish Morris
Tarell Alvin McCraney: ‘We’re forgetting the lessons of stories like Choir Boy’
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Sarah Crompton
How The Bridge theatre made Into the Woods
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Katherine Cowles
Ukraine Unbroken: can theatre combat news fatigue?
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Olivier awards recognise new generation of playwrights ready to don Tom Stoppard’s mantle
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Clare Brennan
The Manningtree Witches is a stage adaptation meant for the screen
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Susannah Clapp
Broken Glass at the Young Vic: did we really need another Arthur Miller?
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Katherine Cowles
Olivier awards 2026: it’s the year of the musical
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Amelia Tait
Inside the Operation Mincemeat machine
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Clare Brennan
Trevor Nunn’s deft, delightful Noël Coward revival
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Kadish Morris
My day with Munya Chawawa’s Black Boys Theatre Club
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Katherine Cowles
Chadwick Boseman’s Deep Azure is a messy, necessary meditation on grief
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Rosalind Jana
Welcome to Haringey’s house of fun, where home is a costume drama
Sun 22 Feb 2026
John Niven
Writing for the stage? I’m mad for it
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Katherine Cowles
The latest Dracula has no teeth
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Katherine Cowles
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry gets stuck in the mush
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Clare Brennan
War of the Worlds is a visually thrilling portrait of desolation
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Susannah Clapp
Arcadia, Tom Stoppard’s dance to the music of time, is short on swing
Fri 13 Feb 2026
Clare Brennan
Manipulate festival: candyfloss puppets and cabaret Anna Karenina
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Susannah Clapp
American Psycho on stage – style over savagery
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Susannah Clapp
Our Town – Michael Sheen’s vision for Welsh theatre
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Eva Wiseman
An hour with… Cole Escola
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Katherine Cowles
Dante or Die: I Do invites you to witness the mess of a wedding
Wed 28 Jan 2026
Katherine Cowles
Guess How Much I Love You? is a work of pure compassion
Fri 23 Jan 2026
Susannah Clapp
High Noon – far from the wild west
Sat 17 Jan 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
‘I wouldn’t mind some of my ashes being spread here one day’
Fri 16 Jan 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
The Oliviers at 50: the surprises, snubs and swipes
Wed 14 Jan 2026
Katherine Cowles
Oh, Mary! is mad – and maddening
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Clare Brennan
The Little Mermaid on stage proves the fairytale has legs
Mon 5 Jan 2026
Erica Wagner
A show left me lost in space and time... much like Nasa's jettisoned library
Sat 3 Jan 2026
Laura Cumming
The art exhibitions to see in 2026
Thu 1 Jan 2026
Susannah Clapp
The best theatre to see in 2026
Thu 1 Jan 2026
Clare Brennan
Treasure Island – A New Musical Adventure is not as thrilling as it could be
Wed 31 Dec 2025
Gyles Brandreth
Dame Patricia Routledge, remembered by Gyles Brandreth
Mon 29 Dec 2025
Susannah Clapp
The best theatre of 2025
Thu 25 Dec 2025
Naomi Alderman
Beavers, books and brilliance: 25 things worth celebrating about 2025
Thu 25 Dec 2025
Samuel West
Prunella Scales, remembered by Samuel West
Wed 24 Dec 2025
Alex O’Connell
I’m in earnest about festive fun, but Stephen Fry’s Lady Bracknell overcooked the ham
Sun 21 Dec 2025
Clare Brennan
Hull Truck theatre’s Oliver Twist reveals the darkness and light of Dickens
Sat 20 Dec 2025
Susannah Clapp
The Bridge’s Into the Woods is a thrilling, mischievous delight
Fri 19 Dec 2025
Clare Brennan
A Child’s Christmas in Wales is a delight
Mon 15 Dec 2025
Erica Wagner
An endearing new production of Into The Woods brings a tear to the eye
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Susannah Clapp
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: two and a half hours of smouldering, slow-burning imagination
Fri 12 Dec 2025
Katherine Cowles
The BFG comes to life on stage
Mon 8 Dec 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
‘Stoppard’s work thrilled him’: critic who spotted brilliance from the start
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
Comedy or error: is Shakespeare actually funny?
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Katherine Cowles
Paddington The Musical is an irresistible love letter to London
Mon 1 Dec 2025
Hermione Lee
Tom Stoppard was a conscience to us all
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Neal Ascherson
From the archive: Revolution in the head
Sun 30 Nov 2025
David Hare
‘Tom Stoppard redefined Britishness as something freedom-loving’
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
‘He will be remembered for his wit, irreverence and generosity of spirit’
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Erica Wagner
We may see the world we have lived in through the bright lens of Stoppard’s gaze
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Susannah Clapp
Ivo van Hove’s All My Sons is a revelation
Fri 28 Nov 2025
Clare Brennan
Mutton: the story of the Yorkshire Witch
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Clare Brennan
Murder most fowl: Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Susannah Clapp
Porn Play is an unflinching portrayal of self-destructive addiction
Fri 21 Nov 2025
Jude Rogers
Clive Owen: ‘The best career move is just to be good’
Wed 19 Nov 2025
Susannah Clapp
Faustus in Africa! is a vivid study of colonialism through puppets
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Katherine Cowles
The Hunger Games on stage is all spectacle, no soul
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Olivia Ovenden
Nicôle Lecky: ‘It’s weird when workmen ask what the awards are for’
Thu 13 Nov 2025
Rachael Healy
No laughing matter: meet Julia Masli, the clown who wants to fix all our problems
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Susannah Clapp
David Harewood finally makes Othello the hero of his own drama
Fri 7 Nov 2025
Clare Brennan
Javaad Alipoor transports Elmet to a disused depot
Sun 2 Nov 2025
Kate Maltby
Phones don’t belong centre stage. The play’s the thing
Sun 2 Nov 2025
Katherine Cowles
The Line of Beauty is an almost great gay play
Fri 31 Oct 2025
Rachael Healy
Why the ‘fun nerds’ of improv comedy are having a moment
Tue 28 Oct 2025
Susannah Clapp
The Unbelievers is a swirling study of catastrophe
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Clare Brennan
Campus drama Safe Space tackles the statue wars head-on
Sat 25 Oct 2025
Clare Brennan
James Brining’s The Seagull delivers laughs but lacks heft
Sun 19 Oct 2025
Susannah Clapp
Mary Page Marlowe is a disappointing play
Fri 17 Oct 2025
Clare Brennan
Lost Atoms has spectacular staging but the drama is underdeveloped
Sun 5 Oct 2025
Susannah Clapp
London’s new directions
Sat 4 Oct 2025
Michael Hogan
‘What you choose to participate in is always a political decision’
Tue 30 Sept 2025
Ian Fraser
Chancellor could learn from new play’s about banking’s demise
Sun 10 Aug 2025
Olivia Ovenden
The rumours are true: Stereophonic’s debt to Fleetwood Mac
Thu 7 Aug 2025
Rachael Healy
Onstage orgasms, live tattooing, ‘embracing our mucky parts’
Sun 3 Aug 2025
Sam Diss
Michael Morpurgo: ‘I don’t read much – that surprises people’
Thu 31 Jul 2025
Clare Brennan
Riders to the Sea and Macbeth – a thrilling play-pairing united against tyranny
Sun 27 Jul 2025
Kate Maltby
Of course, mothers are always to blame
Sat 26 Jul 2025
Miranda Sawyer
How Sarah Kane ‘ripped down the veil on the abyss’
Sat 7 Jun 2025
