‘We put Disney in the bin’: Victoria Hamilton-Barritt on being theatre’s top Christmas villain
She starred in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights while eight months pregnant and played Cinderella’s stepmother in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s abruptly closed musical. Now Hamilton-Barritt has bounced back as a tormented ogress in Hex
June 2022
How do you make a lavish spectacle sustainable? Theatre’s radical green agenda
A meeting of minds at the National Theatre showed ways to stage drama along environmentally sound lines. But is everyone on board?
May 2022
National Theatre to stage The Crucible with Erin Doherty and Brendan Cowell
Revival of Arthur Miller’s allegory is part of a new season featuring The Boy With Two Hearts and a 40-week tour of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane
March 2022
Small Island review – enthralling Windrush drama makes stylish return
A superb new cast show this story of love, war and racial prejudice has earned its place in the National Theatre pantheon
January 2022
Culture in peril
Hex: National Theatre cancels opening night of Covid-cursed musical
‘Blighted’ by pandemic, Rufus Norris’s festive production will end current run without a press night but return in November
August 2021
Autumn arts preview 2021
Hamlet, Cabaret and a fistful of Romeos: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2021
Cush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage
June 2021
National Theatre commits to more plays from outside London
Reopening plans include a musical based on Sleeping Beauty and a play telling the story of Gandhi’s killer
March 2021
Michael Sheen to star in Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre
Reconfigured Olivier theatre will show Dylan Thomas classic in June reopening with Jack Thorne play set for Dorfman stage
February 2021
Observer New Review Q&A
David Harewood: 'I felt that they wanted me to go on TV, talk, and cry. I was a news item’
The British actor on his new documentary about Covid and people of colour, his breakdown aged 23, and having days left to finish his memoir
