Home, I’m Darling review – a retro rebrand reveals ruffles not frills
In Laura Wade’s clever play, her heroine becomes a 50s housewife but 21st-century gender politics lurk under the Formica surface
June 2021
Lack of support for theatre is to discourage dissent, says top playwright
Laura Wade, writer of Posh and Home, I’m Darling, criticises government’s attitude to industry as unions fight cuts to performing arts degrees
July 2020
'The nearest to God we get': stars pick the Beethoven work they cherish
Ali Smith does an opus a month, Tony Hall saw Fidelio on Robben Island, and Lady Brenda Hale used to march to his Grosse Fuge. As the Proms celebrate Beethoven’s 250th anniversary, stars reveal a favourite work
June 2020
Cancelled! Cancelled! Cancelled! Stars on the shows that couldn't go on
How does it feel to see a show you’ve spent years working on being pulled? From Love Islanders to Foals, Laura Wade and Wayne McGregor, artists reveal their darkest days – and deepest worries
December 2019
'He holds us to account!' Theatre greats celebrate Michael Billington
Patrick Stewart, Peter Brook and Sonia Friedman are among those who give their verdict on a critic with ‘razor-like intelligence and a tender heart’
October 2019
Sanditon and The Watsons: TV and theatre finish what Austen started
Unfinished Jane Austen novels have been adapted for television and the stage. Theatre’s room for experiment delivers the most satisfying imaginative leap
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The 50 best theatre shows of the 21st century
A hip-hop history lesson, a dizzy Dahl musical and a continent-hopping barbershop … we pick the finest new works of theatre since 2000
July 2019
Prose and cons: Boris Johnson’s long history of fictional cameos
The new PM saw literary potential in his career – as did his own father and a string of other writers. So how does he come across?
April 2019
Danny Dyer's 'shout out to the Duchess!' – the Olivier awards' best quotes
Danny Dyer saluted royalty, Akram Khan told us to keep moving and Laura Wade remembered meeting her partner
February 2019
Culture webchats
Katherine Parkinson on vintage frocks, hating honeycomb and rebooting herself
The IT Crowd star, currently on stage in Home, I’m Darling, talks about Chekovian Maltesers adverts and aspiring to play Peppa Pig
December 2018
Best culture 2018
Top 10 theatre shows of 2018
A gender-switch Company got Sondheim’s blessing, Sam Mendes probed the doomed Lehman dynasty and Austen had a sparkling rewrite. But the year belonged to Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins facing the anguish of dementia
November 2018
Laura Wade: ‘Theatre has something important to offer in these dark times’
The Watsons review – Austen heroine brought stunningly back to life
July 2018
Home, I'm Darling review – cupcakes, cocktails and fetishising wifeliness
Katherine Parkinson is superb in Laura Wade’s play about a woman who wants to live like a 1950s housewife in the 21st century
April 2017
Posh review – Laura Wade's Bullingdon boys become lairy ladies who lunch
Wade’s riotous Oxford students get a gender reversal in a revival of her 2010 play that brims with high camp and swagger
November 2016
Posh to be staged with all-female cast
Play loosely based on the Bullingdon Club will be performed as it was initially written, using the male names and the ‘he’ pronoun
October 2015
Tipping the Velvet review – top talent, shame about the sex
Laura Wade’s adaptation of Sarah Waters’s best-selling lesbian love story lacks ardour in both its politics and songs
September 2015
Tipping the Velvet review – Sarah Waters' novel staged with wit and style
Performed by a fine ensemble, this adaptation of the picaresque novel is a good night out and a rousing tribute to feminist principles
July 2015
Kreutzer vs Kreutzer; Lakmé review – love affairs with strings attached
Beethoven, Janácek and private passions are played out to perfection in Laura Wade’s Kreutzer vs Kreutzer
April 2015
Tipping the Velvet to be adapted for stage
Sarah Waters’ debut novel about an affair between two women in Victorian London is being adapted by playwright Laura Wade for Lyric Hammersmith
