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July 2024

  • Joseph Fiennes as Gareth Southgate

    Gareth Southgate tried to unite rather than divide, says Dear England writer

    Manager ‘was everything we didn’t have in our politics’, insists James Graham as he rewrites ending of play

May 2024

  • Francesca Amewudah-Rivers as Juliet, with Kody Mortimer (camera operator) in Romeo & Juliet.

    The week in theatre: Romeo & Juliet; Richard III; Passing Strange review – no fault in these stars

    Jamie Lloyd’s youthfully intense staging gives us a Juliet for the ages; Michelle Terry’s king rises above the disability row; and the European premiere of a Broadway musical rocks but doesn’t soar
  • Giles Terera has a microphone while the rest of the band sit behind him

    Passing Strange review – an all-out wild ride of a rock musical

    Giles Terera is sublime as the guitar-wielding musician looking back on his tearaway years in this rowdy production
  • Nadia Fall

    Young Vic theatre announces Nadia Fall as new artistic director

    Fall, who currently runs Theatre Royal Stratford East, will succeed Kwame Kwei-Armah in January

March 2024

  • Behind the scenes with Sarah Jessica Parker as she prepares for her role as KAREN NASH / MURIEL TATE / NORMA HUBLEY in Plaza Suite at the Savoy Theatre, London. London. Photograph by David Levene 25/2/24. Additional processing by David McCoy, Guardian Imaging.

    Fake noses, lucky tokens and a bed of nails – Sarah Jessica Parker, Joseph Fiennes and other stars reveal their secret dressing room routines

  • ‘Everything he said was spot on’ … Michael Feast and Morgan Watkins in Saved at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, directed by Sean Holmes in 2011.

    ‘I loved every single word’: tributes to the blistering brilliance of Edward Bond

February 2024

  • Angus Wright, John Heffernan and Dorothea Myer-Bennett in Nachtland.

    Nachtland review – a provocative plunge into art history

    The discovery of what could be a painting by Hitler leads to a moral quagmire in Patrick Marber’s punchy staging of Marius von Mayenburg’s play
  • Arifa Akbar

    Theatre needs risk-takers like Kwame Kwei-Armah whose Young Vic has been dynamite

    Arifa Akbar
    The first African Caribbean figure to lead a major British theatre has announced his departure but his bold approach must remain
  • ‘Skill, courage and clarity of vision’ … Kwame Kwei-Armah.

    Kwame Kwei-Armah steps down from Young Vic and calls for ‘government intervention’ for theatres

    Artistic director will leave in the autumn after six years in the post, and says without further investment the stage sector’s ‘pipeline of talent’ could be lost

December 2023

  • Rosie Sheehy in Machinal at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath.

    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
  • Kristine Nielsen (Ginnie), Brenda Pressley (Elaine), Christina Kirk (Sofi), Marylouise Burke (Eileen) and Mia Katigbak (Yvette) in Infinite Life at the National Theatre

    The week in theatre: Infinite Life; The Homecoming; Pacific Overtures – review

    Chronic illness is captured to extraordinary effect in Annie Baker’s slow yet absorbing new play. Elsewhere, snarling Pinter lacks bite, while the songs eclipse all in rarely revived Sondheim
  • Jared Harris, David Angland and Nicolas Tennant in The Homecoming at the Young Vic theatre.

    The Homecoming review – Pinter’s timeless study of toxic masculinity

    Playing a man meeting his daughter-in-law for the first time, Jared Harris brings out the dark comedy in Pinter’s snapshot of misogyny

November 2023

  • Lesley Manville (Helene Alving) and Jack Lowden (Oswald Alving) in Ghosts at Almeida Theatre in 2013.

    Ibsen’s Ghosts: a resounding flop that still returns to haunt us

    Despite being panned as ‘a dirty act done publicly’ on its London premiere, the tragedy is now regarded as a classic – here are three productions that radically shifted our perspective

July 2023

  • Michael Billington

    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
  • Marius von Mayenburg’s production of Nachtland at the Schaubühne in Berlin in 2022.

    Patrick Marber to direct Nachtland, a play about Hitler’s art and ‘rise of the new right’

    Satire by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg will open next year at the Young Vic in London which will also revive Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming

    • Beneatha’s Place review – the future of Black America and the shadows of colonialism

    • ‘I want to take the audience further than they’d like’: Kwame Kwei-Armah on Beneatha’s Place

    • untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play review – ferociously funny satire calls out centuries of colonialist dramas

June 2023

  • Rehearsal images for Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon play, Royal Exchange Manchester. L-R Rochelle Rose (narrator) Roy Alexander Weise (Director) Jeff D'Sangalang (Afi) Mei Mac (Kim) Kimber Lee (writer)

    ‘Miss Saigon is offensive’: the satire savaging the ‘racist, imperialist and misogynistic’ musical

    Playwright Kimber Lee was so shocked when she first saw the musical, she wrote a vitriolic sendup, called untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play. As it finally hits the stage, she warns: ‘This is no soft pedal’

May 2023

  • Ruth Wilson in The Second Woman.

    The week in theatre: The Second Woman; Brokeback Mountain; Once on This Island – review

    Ruth Wilson mesmerises in a 24-hour breakup with 100 different actors; tender moments illuminate a faithful yet distanced adaptation of Annie Proulx’s cowboy love story; and voodoo comes to Regent’s Park
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