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Reopening culture

News, previews and analysis of how UK culture rebounds from the Covid-19 pandemic

  • Guests applaud at the end of a performance of the West End show 'The Show Must Go On' at the Palace Theatre, amid the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in London, Britain, June 2, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

    I’m finally seeing live shows again – and I feel like a kid in a sweetshop

    Kitchen discos and archive performances kept us going – but being stuck at home made me pine for a full house
  • Emma Corrin and Nabhaan Rizwan in Anna X by Joseph Charlton at the Harold Pinter theatre.

    Anna X review – sound and vision steal the show in ‘fake heiress’ tale

    Emma Corrin and and Nabhaan Rizwan give excellent performances in Joseph Charlton’s two-hander which has a fizzing hi-tech design
  • ‘I want this set to be so good’ … David O’Doherty

    Brighton Comedy Garden review – David O’Doherty brings the fireworks

    Lou Sanders, Ed Gamble and John Robins cracked jokes for an acres-wide crowd, with O’Doherty’s delightful stream of consciousness the highlight
  • One Good Turn

    One Good Turn review – everyday questions of love and mortality

    Una McKevitt’s droll domestic drama shows us a day in the life of a family dealing with the ill health of an ageing father
  • Out West

    Triple threat: Out West at the Lyric Hammersmith – in pictures

    The London theatre has reopened with Out West, three short plays by Tanika Gupta, Simon Stephens and Roy Williams. The Guardian’s Tristram Kenton takes a first look
  • An empty stage framed by a red curtain

    Civic life is under assault – theatres can play a vital role in restoring it

    Dan Hutton
    Drama instigates debate and changes lives. With venues open again, this is a chance to build a truly civic theatre culture
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber had earlier threatened legal action if theatres did not reopen in full on 21 June.

    Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella could go on despite lockdown extension, PM hints

    Boris Johnson says government is in talks with composer, who is ‘surprised’ to hear of the proposed pilot
  • The project has taken the Trafalgar back to its grand 1930s design.

    Historic London theatre to reopen after multimillion-pound restoration

    Hit musical Jersey Boys will be first show at the 630-seater Trafalgar theatre in the West End
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber

    Lloyd Webber says he will risk arrest to reopen his theatres on 21 June

    Impresario is determined his production of Cinderella will start this month in London as planned
  • Theatre for Two

    Theatre for Two review – intimate encounters, from bedroom to bus stop

    Kilter’s touring production invites audiences of one or two to watch a quartet of short monologues performed inside a hut
  • The switchbacks leave you giddy ... Rob Newman, pictured at Soho theatre in 2018.

    Rob Newman’s Philosophy Show review – a treat for the mind and funny bone

    Newman dissects ideas with intelligence, running around the houses and back, on themes from politics and humanity to parenthood
  • Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me, Kiln, May 2021. Amy Trigg - image by Marc Brenner

    Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me review – big-hearted debut is a keeper

    Starring in her play about friendship, romance and spina bifida, Amy Trigg is enormously entertaining
  • A heightened style that hits every joke ... Dorothea Myer-Bennett and Joe Bolland in Overruled, part of Shaw Shorts.

    Shaw Shorts review – a double dose of delightful comedy

    Two plays explore George Bernard Shaw’s questioning of social values, directed by Paul Miller as a pointer towards Pinter
  • Gemma Arterton in rehearsals for Walden.

    Gemma Arterton play resumes in West End after Covid-related cancellation

    A performance of Walden at the Harold Pinter theatre in London was cancelled on Tuesday but all cast and crew ‘remain negative for Covid’ after the alert
  • ‘Sometimes I wrote the parable, sometimes I played the priest’ ... Nathaniel Martello-White.

    Theatre is like church: we gather to bear witness

    Nathaniel Martello-White
  • Pretty Woman the Musical

    ‘There’s nothing like it!’ Musical stars return to storm the stage

  • Aakash Odedra in Nritta, part of Rising by Aakash Odedra Company @ Curve Leicester. (Opening 25-05-2021) ©Tristram Kenton 05-21 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Aakash Odedra: Rising review – superhero speed with a light touch

  • Southbank Centre, London, May 2021.

    Let’s not ‘get back to normal’: the Southbank Centre will reflect our changed world

    Gillian Moore
  • Kelly Gough in Harm by Phoebe Eclair-Powell at the Bush theatre, London, directed by Atri Banerjee.

    Harm review – savage brilliance and envy in an Instagram blizzard

    Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s intoxicating social media drama, starring Kelly Gough as a lonely estate agent, exceeds even the brilliance of the BBC’s recent version
  • A scene from Overflow by Alex Whitley @ Sadler’s Wells, London.

    Alexander Whitley: Overflow review – watch out for the bodyscanners!

    There’s little optimism in Whitley’s subtle blast at digital overload but there are some excellent hypnotic effects
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