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July 2024

  • Chariots of Fire at the Crucible, Sheffield.

    Chariots of Fire review – hugely enjoyable production that’s not just running on the spot

  • Seconds of glory … Chariots of Fire at the Crucible.

    Chariots of Fire review – breathless staging of classic Olympic dash

December 2022

  • Arifa Akbar

    From Wagatha Christie to Donald Trump: can rapid-fire real-life drama upstage the news?

    Arifa Akbar
    Dramatising the latest watercooler story doesn’t guarantee you box-office success. The stiffest competition may come from reality’s own high drama

September 2022

  • Tim Pigott-Smith in Mike Bartlett’s play King Charles III at Wyndham’s theatre, London, in 2014.

    From King Charles III to King Lear: what theatre tells us about taking the throne

  • Tim Pigott-Smith in Mike Bartlett’s play King Charles lll

    ‘Future history’: how Charles III first trod the boards of London stage

May 2022

  • Jade Anouka and Jonathan Bailey bow at the curtain call for Cock at the Ambassadors theatre

    ‘What happened to Free Willy?’ Cock ticket prices drop after shock at £400 seats

    ‘Dynamic pricing’ sees ticket costs fluctuate wildly for the acclaimed production’s final performances in the West End

April 2022

  • Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City.

    The week in theatre: Punchdrunk: The Burnt City; Scandaltown

  • Bertie Carvel as Donald Trump in The 47th.

    The week in theatre: The Great Middlemarch Mystery; The 47th; For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide…

  • Lady Susan Climber (Rachael Stirling) and Peter  Media (Henry Everett) in Scandaltown.

    Scandaltown review – smut and silliness in modern Restoration comedy

  • Some are born great, some achieve biglyness … Bertie Carvel as Donald Trump in The 47th.

    Sad! Is Donald Trump just too boring for a grand Shakespearean makeover?

  • The 47th review – Bertie Carvel is devilishly good but this Trumpian satire feels too soon

  • Taron Egerton quits lead role in West End play for ‘personal reasons’

March 2022

  • ‘I look for more of the essence of the person’ … Tamara Tunie.

    ‘I keep hope alive’: Tamara Tunie on playing Kamala Harris in political dystopia The 47th

  • Rachael Stirling photographed at the Lyric Hammersmith theatre for the Observer by Pål Hansen, March 2022. Hair and makeup by Sadaf Ahmad.

    When Covid shut the theatres, I became my mother’s carer. Returning feels defiant

  • A double-act of bickering and physical comedy … Taron Egerton and Jonathan Bailey in Cock.

    Cock review – Jonathan Bailey and Taron Egerton locked in a love triangle

  • ‘I am completely fine’ … Taron Egerton pictured on 3 February.

    Taron Egerton to return ‘with a vengeance’ after fainting during West End debut

February 2022

  • Donald Trump

    ‘Shakespearean’ Donald Trump to be subject of play in blank verse

    The 47th by Mike Bartlett stars Bertie Carvel as the ex-president making attempt to regain the White House

December 2021

  • Mrs Delgado. Ellen Robertson (Helen). Credit - Alex Harvey-Brown. 3

    Lockdown culture
    Mrs Delgado review – Mike Bartlett’s lockdown fable brims with life

    Compassion and community lie at the heart of this hilarious one-woman show about curtain-twitching neighbours

February 2021

  • Blindness at the Donmar Warehouse

    Lockdown culture
    The lockdown boom in audio plays: 'it's drama the pandemic can’t touch'

    Mike Bartlett, Alan Ayckbourn, Adjoa Andoh and other top theatre-makers reflect on why listening to drama is perfect for our times

November 2020

  • Haunting ... Headlong’s The Ghost Caller

    Lockdown culture
    Phoenix/The Ghost Caller reviews – spiked satire and phone spooks

    Mike Bartlett’s monologue brings us the inner life of a despotic public figure and Luke Barnes’s over-the-phone drama is profoundly creepy
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