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Theatre

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Review
    Six theatre shows to see in London
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    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
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    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
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    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
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    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
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    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
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    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
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    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
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    Review
    Bluets, Royal Court — Ben Whishaw in a colourful tale of obsession

    Emma D’Arcy and Kayla Meikle also star in Katie Mitchell’s deft and dreamlike adaptation of Maggie Nelson’s book

  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Robert Wilson in Rouen: shining a light in dark times

    Using projections, poetry and music, the artist and theatre director has created a striking installation for Rouen cathedral

    The front of an ancient cathedral has yellow light and images of explosions projected on to its surface
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    Romeo and Juliet — Tom Holland is riveting in brutal but tender production

    Francesca Amewudah-Rivers co-stars as an honest and bold Juliet at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London

    A man and a woman stand facing each other in a pool of light against a dark background, touching each other and smiling
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Review
    Fawlty Towers: The Play review — nostalgia trip back to a hotel of hilarious horrors

    John Cleese faithfully adapts his classic TV sitcom for the stage at the Apollo Theatre, London 

    A middle-aged woman holds her head in pain while a woman and a man stand nearby looking concerned
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Review
    Passing Strange — a joyous, shape-shifting musical odyssey

    Singer-songwriter Stew’s gloriously indefinable show about a young man’s journey opens at the Young Vic, London

    A man stands and sings into a microphone while people wearing punky clothes sit behind him, one playing an electric guitar; on the wall are video projections of performers’ face
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Interview
    Incendiary play about interracial marriage reaches London stage after 60 years

    Alice Childress’s ‘Wedding Band’ is theatre that should never have been forgotten, says director Monique Touko

    A young Black woman, with her hair in long braids and head tilted, smiles for the camera
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Review
    English, Stratford-upon-Avon — language lesson teaches complicated truths

    Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer prize-winning play about Iranian people learning English touches on identity and history

    A woman in an electric blue coat and orange headscarf smiles as she reads from a book
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Review
    Withnail and I, Birmingham Rep — stage adaptation lurches with a drunken stagger

    Sean Foley’s production serves up an ersatz version of the cult film

    Two men stand on stage with rain falling behind them; they look distressed and one of the men has a map in his hands
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Review
    Five stars for People, Places and Things — Denise Gough stuns in blistering addiction drama

    Trafalgar Theatre revival about a woman in rehab is as witty as it is painful

    A blond woman roars in pain as she kneels on a bed
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Review
    Between Riverside and Crazy, Hampstead Theatre — an ex-cop soaked in whiskey and grief

    Danny Sapani rakes over insults and injuries in Stephen Adly Guirgis’s snappy play

    A man with a grey beard sitting a table with wine glasses and a candelabra looks suspiciously off to the right
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    Review
    Isabelle Huppert astounds in Mary Said What She Said

    She portrayed a queen on the eve of her execution in Robert Wilson’s demanding production at London’s Barbican

    A woman in a long Elizabethan-style dress faces sideways on a bare stage; in front of her is a white shoe
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