The week in theatre: Echo; Visit From an Unknown Woman; The Baker’s Wife – review
The Baker’s Wife review – Stephen Schwartz’s lip-smacking musical has a soggy derriere
March 2024
Power of Sail review – campus cancel culture drama ripe for a Netflix series
Paul Grellong’s gripping dialogue makes a brisk plot and unlikable characters immensely watchable as a Harvard professor invites a white supremacist for a debate
December 2023
The week in theatre: Infinite Life; The Homecoming; Pacific Overtures – review
Pacific Overtures review – small Sondheim is beautifully done
September 2023
Close-Up: The Twiggy Musical review – Ben Elton’s strange and sentimental snapshot
With a jarring tone and karaoke hits, this show never truly capturesthe highs and lows of the star’s life
June 2023
The week in theatre: Dear England; The Pillowman; The Third Man – review
Joseph Fiennes scores as Gareth Southgate in a rousing football drama; Lily Allen glimmers in a low-voltage Martin McDonagh revival; and a musical Third Man hits a bum note
March 2023
The week in theatre: five stars for Guys & Dolls, plus Marjorie Prime and The Tragedy of Macbeth – review
Marjorie Prime review – gently uncanny sci-fi shows us how to love an AI
January 2023
Sheridan Smith on stage: from Hedda Gabler to Elle Woods – in pictures
As she returns to the West End to star in Shirley Valentine at the Duke of York’s theatre, revisit some of the Olivier award-winner’s theatre roles
November 2022
The week in theatre: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World; The Sex Party
Javaad Alipoor gets meta with an investigation into investigations, while Terry Johnson leaves little to the imagination
The Sex Party review – spiky comedy fails to satisfy
There’s tension in Terry Johnson’s tale of four couples meeting for sex and nibbles but the unruly debate isn’t deep enough
Timothy Hutton on The Sex Party: ‘Do I think it will be controversial? I don’t know …’
He won an Oscar at 20 for Ordinary People, acted with the ‘brat pack’ and worked with Polanski and Lumet. As the star makes his London stage debut, he looks back – and anticipates giving audiences a shock
March 2022
The week in theatre: Nora: A Doll’s House; The Key Workers Cycle; Legacy
Maria Friedman and Friends: Legacy review – who’s up for a cabaret lock-in?
December 2021
Habeas Corpus review – Canon Throbbing is back in tragically unfunny farce
Patrick Marber revives Alan Bennett’s 1973 comedy with its trouserless salesman, randy vicar and retrograde Britishness
November 2021
Brian & Roger: A Highly Offensive Play review – podcast duo’s OTT exploits
The misadventures of a hapless hero led astray by his false friend are funny but don’t quite fill three dimensions
September 2021
The week in theatre: Indecent; NW Trilogy; East Is East – review
Cultural identity unites a Jewish writer’s shockingly radical play, diverse tales from Kilburn and Ayub Khan Din’s 1996 classic
Indecent review – a brainy play staged with the panache of a musical
Seven actors share 42 roles in Rebecca Taichman’s stunning production of Paula Vogel’s Tony award-winner about a controversial queer Yiddish play
Indecent proposal: the queer Yiddish play that led to an obscenity trial and a Broadway hit
At university, director Rebecca Taichman and playwright Paula Vogel were both drawn to Sholem Asch’s 1907 sensation God of Vengeance. Their show about its controversy now hits London
