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Thomas Ostermeier

February 2024

  • Matt Smith as Thomas Stockmann in An Enemy of the People.

    An Enemy of the People review – Matt Smith’s groovy firebrand swings from rebel to conspiracist

  • Matt Smith photographed in London by Perou for the Observer New Review, January 2024.

    ‘I want to do stuff that pushes things to the edge’: Matt Smith on friendship, fame and radical theatre

December 2023

  • Serving up the unexpected … Ian McKellen in Player Kings and comedian Julia Masli

    2024 culture preview
    The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book in 2024

    The new year’s hottest shows include stage versions of Minority Report, Spirited Away and La Strada, performances by Keeley Hawes and Ian McKellen – plus laughs from Julia Masli, Rhod Gilbert and Ania Magliano

August 2020

  • Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) in the RSC’s 1992 production at the Barbican in London.

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Method and madness: Branagh, Rylance and Rickman as Hamlet – in pictures

    In a new series, we delve into Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton’s amazing archive of stage photos. This week: Hamlet, as played by actors including Damian Lewis, Paapa Essiedu and Michelle Terry

August 2017

  • Kirill Serebrennikov

    Cate Blanchett joins stars urging Russia to drop 'flimsy' charges against director

    Leading arts figures sign petition calling on Moscow’s public prosecutor to end investigation into Kirill Serebrennikov

July 2017

  • Michael Billington

    Theatre blog
    David Mamet's move to punish theatres for debating his work is absurd

    Michael Billington
    It’s true that plays often defy instant analysis but Mamet’s attempt to prevent post-show discussions perpetuates the notion of theatre as a sanctified temple
  • Nina Hoss in Returning to Reims, based on the memoir by Didier Eribon and directed by Thomas Ostermeier.

    Returning to Reims review – Nina Hoss is magnetic in poignant political drama

    The Homeland star impresses in Thomas Ostermeier’s engrossing staging of a memoir about political change and the left’s disregard of the working class
  • German actor Nina Hoss.

    Nina Hoss: 'The left is in a state of absolute chaos – we have lost our way'

    When she was a little girl, the German actor used to sit in on her father’s union meetings. Now she’s directing her political fervour into Returning to Reims, a new play by Thomas Ostermeier seeking to explain Trump, Brexit and Le Pen

June 2017

  • Michael Billington

    Theatre blog
    You, the jury: plays are giving power to the people

    Michael Billington
    A new show, Terror, restores drama to its classical function by asking us to make a moral decision. But it doesn’t go nearly far enough
  • Clockwise from top left … Ink; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Nina Hoss; Girl from the North Country; and The Tempest.

    Summer arts preview 2017
    Summer 2017's essential theatre: from the rise of Murdoch's Sun to Dylan's dustbowl blues

    The Kids Company inquiry becomes a musical, Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams star as sisters, Sienna Miller and Jack O’Connell hit the roof and rhinoceroses rampage through Edinburgh
  • Arcade Fire.

    10 of the brightest stars of Manchester international festival 2017

    Arcade Fire, Thomas Ostermeier, Yael Bartana and more make the trip to Manchester

February 2017

  • Lars Eidinger menaces the Little Princes puppets in Richard III at the Barbican.

    Richard III review – a thoroughly modern game of thrones

    Lars Eidinger is a visceral, manipulative monarch in Thomas Ostermeier’s explosive German-language production
  • Michael Billington

    Theatre blog
    We're in crisis – so why has Ostermeier stripped Richard III of politics?

    Michael Billington
    Shedding his clothes and seducing the audience, Lars Eidinger’s Gloucester is the classic charming narcissist – but why soften the play’s political bite at such a crucial time?
  • Beware of Pity, directed by Simon McBurney

    Simon McBurney: Beware of Pity is chillingly resonant in the Trump era

    The director describes the gruesome appeal of staging Stefan Zweig’s novel about the faultlines running through a society on the brink of destruction

January 2017

  • Lyn Gardner

    Theatre blog
    Why David Hare is wrong about the state of British theatre

    Lyn Gardner
  • 2. RUTH WILSON (Hedda Gabler), RAFE SPALL (Brack) HEDDA GABLER By Henrik Ibsen In a new version by Patrick Marber Director - Ivo van Hove Designer - Jan Versweyveld

    Theatre blog
    We need to talk about Hedda: why the National's Ibsen shocker isn't sexist

October 2016

  • Interior of the Globe theatre

    The Guardian view on staging Shakespeare: we must keep the Bard alive and speaking to us now

  • Cate Blanchett in Del Kathryn Barton’s short film Red

    Adelaide festival 2017 program: Cate Blanchett and Shakespeare get dark, weird and surreal

August 2016

  • Lars Eidinger, right, a ‘darkly humorous’ Richard III at the Lyceum in Edinburgh.

    Richard III review – a beautifully executed spectacle

  • Lars Eidinger stars in Thomas Ostermeier’s Richard III at the Lyceum theatre, Edinburgh.

    Richard III review – monstrous monarch rocks the mic in Ostermeier's thunderous show

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