Jodie Whittaker returns to London stage to play The Duchess
The Doctor Who star’s performance coincides with David Tennant’s Macbeth and Ncuti Gatwa appearing in The Importance of Being Earnest
May 2024
Neil Gaiman’s Coraline to become ‘dark, spangly’ stage musical
Playwright Zinnie Harris and composer Louis Barabbas’s adaptation of the novel will open at Leeds Playhouse and tour in 2025
February 2023
Macbeth (An Undoing) review – Lady M does what Shakespeare didn’t dare
Zinnie Harris’s reworking has Macbeth’s wife driving the plot, rationalising a grisly campaign, while he becomes unbalanced by their murderous path
March 2022
The Scent of Roses review – a squirming study of truth and lies
Zinnie Harris’s bold drama is a funny, frequently disorienting look at the evasion and deceits that corrode relationships
December 2020
Lockdown culture
Lyceum Christmas Tales review – make a date with this Advent anthology
A melancholic fairytale, African shadow puppetry and a haunted proscenium are among the first five offerings from the Lyceum’s series of Christmas plays
July 2020
Theatres that made us
Theatres that made us: from Stratford-upon-Avon to the Savoy
Continuing our series, Lolita Chakrabarti shares an electric memory and Ben Weatherill recalls stolen kisses in a historic building
May 2019
The Duchess (of Malfi) review – critique without context
The Duchess (of Malfi) review – indictment of patriarchal power
April 2018
Gut review – the corrupting fear of stranger danger
A mother’s fear that her toddler has been abused sends her into a nightmarish state of anxiety in Frances Poet’s play
September 2017
Drinking and thinking: raise a glass to Glasgow's plays, pies and pints
Since 2004, a boozy lunchtime institution has launched careers, staged 40 new plays a year and changed the landscape of Scottish theatre
August 2017
Five of the best… theatre shows
Oresteia and Rosalind: this week’s best UK theatre and dance
Zinnie Harris brings stampeding rhinos and marooned lovers to Edinburgh
July 2017
From Fleabag to Flying Lovers: 15 surefire Edinburgh festival shows
Maddie Rice performs Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s filthy smash, Stacey Gregg delivers a scorching study of gender fraud and there are life lessons at a wake
June 2017
Summer arts preview 2017
Summer 2017's essential theatre: from the rise of Murdoch's Sun to Dylan's dustbowl blues
Theatre blog
Edinburgh festival 2017: what to see and where to go
January 2017
Theatre blog
Beyond Blasted: how the 90s changed theatre in the UK
The decade is still associated with the ‘In-Yer-Face’ moniker but it brought us a thrilling variety of new writing and fresh, boundary-breaking styles of theatre
May 2016
The Iphigenia Quartet review – picking over a Greek myth's bloody bones
This Restless House five-star review – Zinnie Harris's electrifying Oresteia
January 2016
Theatre blog
Artists can't survive on thin air
Sexism on the stage – meet the women tearing up the script
