Red Speedo review – moral dilemmas and personal fears surface in doping drama
Hope, hopelessness and heroism: why theatre is making a splash with sport
June 2024
Suite in Three Keys review – Noël Coward hotel trilogy stares stylishly into the abyss
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: David Suchet’s Poirot secrets, Oklahoma! and more
April 2024
Testmatch review – smart satire hits casual racism for six
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: Jekyll & Hyde, Daniel Kitson’s Tree and more
March 2024
The week in theatre: Starter for Ten; Uncle Vanya review – fingers on buzzers, and samovars
Uncle Vanya review – Trevor Nunn triumphs with Chekhov’s tragicomedy
January 2024
The week in theatre: Northanger Abbey; The Most Precious of Goods – review
Northanger Abbey review – Janeites, be warned! Austen gets a fanfic makeover
December 2023
2023 in Culture
Readers’ favourite stage shows of 2023
This year, our readers were blown away by productions from Machinal to Free Your Mind – with one theatregoer returning to watch Groundhog Day four times
November 2023
She Stoops to Conquer review – a jolly good Christmas comedy
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: Cloud Gate, Best of Enemies and more
October 2023
Meetings review – cooking with postcolonialism in Mustapha Matura’s sparky drama
In a chic kitchen a Trinidadian couple discuss their high-end lives, but their cook, whose recipes the audience can scent, draws them back to deeper roots
September 2023
The week in theatre: Great Expectations; Infamous; That Face – review
That Face review – stunning revival will tear right through you
August 2023
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: Doctor Who does Shakespeare, and a visit to the nit nurse
Ncuti Gatwa stars in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Zadie Smith relocates Chaucer to Kilburn, plus dance, storytelling and fringe drama
July 2023
The play’s the thing – but its success depends on the theatre too
Michael Billington
Not all buildings are created equal. From sightlines to acoustics to the alchemy of actor-audience rapport, the physical facts of a dramatic space are fundamental
June 2023
The Swell review – a gasp-inducing love-triangle mystery
The intricately tangled lives of three women, and their explosive secret, are revealed in this complicated picture of queer love across the decades
May 2023
The Circle review – love, tears and tender truths when Jane Asher comes to call
Strong emotions rule in a candid and well-judged Somerset Maugham comedy twisting romantic fates across generations of squabbling society
