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Hampstead theatre

July 2024

  • ECHO at the Royal Court. Fiona Shaw

    The week in theatre: Echo; Visit From an Unknown Woman; The Baker’s Wife – review

  • Caught … Red Speedo, about an elite swimmer who dopes.

    Hope, hopelessness and heroism: why theatre is making a splash with sport

  • Natalie Simpson and James Corrigan as Marianne and Stefan in Visit from an Unknown Woman.

    Visit from an Unknown Woman review – gripping study of obsession and fantasy

  • Delicately drawn friendship … Catherine Ashdown (Bo) and Kadiesha Belgrave (Aicha) in Grud at Hampstead theatre.

    Grud review – sliding floors as teenager’s two worlds collide

May 2024

  • Danny Sapani, Daniel Lapaine and Judith Roddy in Between Riverside and Crazy at Hampstead theatre.

    Between Riverside and Crazy review – Danny Sapani’s ex-cop faces down the past

    Strong performances and jibing humour propel this exuberant but flawed revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2014 play about racism in the New York police forc

April 2024

  • On guard … The Divine Mrs S.

    ‘We still haven’t cracked it!’ How much does a play change during previews?

    It is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites – and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone’s ready to face the music

March 2024

  • Woman in crisis … Rachael Stirling as Sarah Siddons.

    The Divine Mrs S review – larky and good-natured historical comedy

    There are shades of Blackadder in April De Angelis’s play about the great tragedian of 18th-century British theatre

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

    Matt Smith heads a rousing adaptation of Ibsen for a bruised world; Danny Sapani and co lean into the storm in Yaël Farber’s liberating Lear. Plus, Hollywood power play the hard way
  • Neil D’Souza (Dev), James Hillier (Michael) and Peter Bramhill (Chris) in Out Of Season by Neil D’Souza @ Hampstead Theatre, Downstairs. Directed by Alice Hamilton. (Opening 22-02-2024) ©Tristram Kenton 02-24 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Out of Season review – bangers and brawls as happy hour turns sour in Ibiza

    Neil D’Souza’s sharp script is packed with loaded regret and affection as old bandmates get together to relive the glory days on holiday
  • Joanna Vanderham and Ian McNeic in Double Feature at Hampstead theatre, London.

    Double Feature review – Hitchcock and Hedren meet the Witchfinder General

    John Logan’s play combines the stories behind two films made in the 1960s but each needs more space to truly hit home

December 2023

  • Natalie Klamar and Oscar Adams in This Much I Know at Hampstead theatre, London.

    This Much I Know review – an invigorating theatrical brainteaser

  • Nancy Carroll with Nathaniel Parker in Rock 'n' Roll credit Manuel Harlan

    Rock’n’Roll review – Tom Stoppard’s blast from the past

November 2023

  • ‘I may have stopped writing without realising it’ … Tom Stoppard.

    ‘Is my play still relevant? I don’t care!’ Tom Stoppard on his Gaza quandary and reviving Rock ’n’ Roll

    As his Velvet Revolution drama returns, the great writer talks about his mounting Israel-Gaza uncertainties, the epiphanies he has in every hot shower – and our one-star ‘corker’ review of The Crown
  • Detail from a portrait of Sarah Siddons by Thomas Gainsborough

    ‘Queen of Drury Lane’ Sarah Siddons celebrated in new play

    April De Angelis comedy, to be premiered in Hampstead, explores life of actor at a time when married women were ‘legally dead’

    • The week in theatre: Knocking on the Wall; To Have and to Hold; Mates in Chelsea – review

    • Nineteen Gardens review – gripping account of an illicit affair’s aftermath

    • To Have and to Hold review – fond family comedy from the writer of One Man, Two Guvnors

September 2023

  • Jemma Redgrave and Ewan Miller in Octopolis at Hampstead theatre.

    Octopolis review – cerebral romcom about two humans and an octopus

  • A healing or a creepy response? … L to r, MyAnna Buring and Dakota Blue Richards in Anthropology.

    Anthropology review – clever AI missing-person mystery

July 2023

  • Geraldine James as Rosalind and Maureen Beattie as Celia in As You Like It

    The week in theatre: As You Like It; Tambo & Bones; Stumped – review

    Seasoned actors turn Shakespeare’s romcom on its head in an enchanted RSC production; US race relations meet Waiting for Godot; and at the crease with Beckett and Pinter
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