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Almeida theatre

June 2024

  • Actor Lia Williams photographed in Islington for the Observer New Review by Anselm Ebulue, 20th May 2024.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Actor Lia Williams on playing Paula Vennells: ‘I think she’s more shallow than malicious. She created her own set of truths’

    The actor on starring in a new play about sexual harassment, her portrayal of the Post Office’s Paula Vennells, and the playwright closest to her heart

April 2024

  • Yolanda Kettle, Ferdinand Kingsley, Katie Leung, Tamara Lawrance and Anthony Welsh on a front porch in The Comeuppance.

    The Comeuppance review – eloquence, tension and wit in a dysfunctional reunion drama

  • Eline Arbo, artistic director of Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA) since last September

    From the Arctic Circle to the top of European theatre: director Eline Arbo on being ‘an outsider looking in’

March 2024

  • Prize-winning playwright Ava Pickett

    Ava Pickett’s drama of female friendship in Tudor England wins Susan Smith Blackburn prize

    Pickett’s ‘very funny and very angry’ play 1536 follows three women as they discuss the arrest of Anne Boleyn

February 2024

  • Matt Smith (Dr Stockmann) and Nigel Lindsay (Morten Kiil) in An Enemy of the People.

    The week in theatre: An Enemy of the People; King Lear; Double Feature – review

  • ‘A homeless man in a charred Beckettian landscape’ … Danny Sapani as Lear.

    King Lear review – Yaël Farber’s modern-dress take is shockingly vicious and supremely moving

December 2023

  • Paul Mescal and Anjana Vasan in the Almeida’s A Streetcar Named Desire.

    Observer critics' review of 2023
    Theatre: Susannah Clapp’s 10 best shows of 2023

    In a thin year for musicals and political drama, an 11th hour Blanche DuBois, a flurry of young actors, two James Graham plays and a pair of Macbeths were among the standouts
  • Emma Rice's production of The Little Matchgirl & Happier Tales in Frome, Somerset

    The week in theatre: The Little Matchgirl and Happier Tales; Cold War; Pandemonium – review

    There’s a puppet but no happy ending at Emma Rice’s fine new Somerset venue; Elvis Costello soundtracks a postwar Polish love story; and Armando Iannucci bravely tries to satirise the Tory party
  • Anya Chalotra and Luke Thallon in Cold War at the Almeida, London

    Cold War review – Conor McPherson follows doomed love across eastern bloc

    Luke Thallon and Anya Chalotra are the lovers in this adaptation of Paweł Pawlikowski’s 2018 film, with Polish folk music and Elvis Costello songs

November 2023

  • Lesley Manville (Helene Alving) and Jack Lowden (Oswald Alving) in Ghosts at Almeida Theatre in 2013.

    Ibsen’s Ghosts: a resounding flop that still returns to haunt us

    Despite being panned as ‘a dirty act done publicly’ on its London premiere, the tragedy is now regarded as a classic – here are three productions that radically shifted our perspective

October 2023

  • Alistair Nwachukwu, Terique Jarrett, Michael Ahomka-Lindsay, Jyuddah James, Khalid Daley. in Choir Boy, the Bristol Old Vic

    The week in theatre: Choir Boy; Portia Coughlan; The Flea – review

  • Mairead McKinley and Alison Oliver in Portia Coughlan, at the Almeida theatre.

    Portia Coughlan review – drama rich with secrets and mourning

September 2023

  • Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot in 2018 film Cold War.

    Oscar-nominated romance Cold War to have major London stage adaptation

    Elvis Costello songs to feature in play by Girl from the North Country’s Conor McPherson, directed by Rupert Goold at Almeida theatre

August 2023

  • Micheal Ward and Jonny Lee Miller on a stage set with a desk and a chair.

    The week in theatre: A Mirror; Next to Normal – review

    Sam Holcroft’s unsettling new play about censorship features a menacing performance from Jonny Lee Miller, while a musical drama exploring bipolar disorder is edgily transfixing
  • A Mirror Almeida Theatre Tanya Reynolds and Micheal Ward

    A Mirror review – Pirandellian wedding drama throws a bouquet of unrealities

    Sam Holcroft’s drama delights in the theatrical trickery of dual identities and false realities to throw a final surprise punch
  • a group of women seated on stage at the Almeida theatre in 24 (Day)

    24 (Day): The Measure of My Dreams review – a feelgood story with sadness at its core

    This huge community collaboration tries to put a positive spin on the difficulties of ageing, helped by a wonderfully rebellious script

July 2023

  • Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé in Like Water for Chocolate.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Like Water for Chocolate, Heart and more

    Our roundup of the drama to enjoy at home in July includes a glorious adaptation of the Laura Esquivel novel and Saoirse Ronan in The Tragedy of Macbeth

June 2023

  • Toheeb Jimoh and Isis Hainsworth as Romeo and Juliet

    The week in theatre: Romeo and Juliet; When Winston Went to War With the Wireless; Groundhog Day – review

    Danger stalks the radiant lovers in Rebecca Frecknall’s tumultuous, twilit Romeo and Juliet; a 1920s battle for the soul of BBC radio couldn’t be more timely; and Groundhog Day, once more with feeling
  • Governed by fate … Toheeb Jimoh and Isis Hainsworth in Romeo and Juliet.

    Romeo and Juliet review – Rebecca Frecknall’s dance to the death

    This innovative, fast-paced production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, starring Toheeb Jimoh and Isis Hainsworth, has a beguiling intensity
  • Rebecca Frecknall

    ‘I want it to feel quite feral’: Rebecca Frecknall on staging Romeo and Juliet

    From Cabaret to Streetcar, the West End’s hottest director Rebecca Frecknall has a reputation for finding leads who put bums on seats. ‘I just go on my gut,’ she says
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