• June 21 2025
  Interview

  Playwright Laura Wade on why moving from Jilly Cooper to Somerset Maugham isn’t such a leap

  Having worked on streaming hit ‘Rivals’, she has now ‘remixed’ 1920s comedy of sexual politics ‘The Constant Wife’

  
• June 19 2025
  Review

  Eight theatre shows to see in London now

  
• June 18 2025
  Eight theatre shows to see in London now

  Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis still feels startlingly original

  Revived at London’s Royal Court Upstairs 25 years after its premiere, this account of severe depression is painfully frank

  
• June 17 2025
  Review

  Storehouse — immersive show about misinformation is itself muddled

  Taking place in a vast London warehouse, this ambitious piece set in a failing organisation is blunted by a bewildering plot

  
• June 16 2025
  Eight theatre shows to see in London now

  Stereophonic — 1970s rock drama is a sublime, five-star hit

  David Adjmi’s Tony-winning play about a Fleetwood Mac-style band comes to London’s Duke of York’s Theatre

  
• June 9 2025
  Eight theatre shows to see in London now

  Miss Myrtle’s Garden brings a tender touch to thorny subjects

  Danny James King’s moving new drama explores dementia, grief and anxieties about coming out at London’s Bush Theatre

  
• June 7 2025
  Sarah Kane’s plays are hugely influential — so why are they rarely staged?

  Her work shocked audiences and critics in the 1990s — but new revivals point to the enduring potency of the playwright’s vision

  
• June 6 2025
  Eight theatre shows to see in London now

  Exhilarating revival of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a paean to love and theatre

  Nicholas Hytner’s semi-immersive production at London’s Bridge Theatre is endlessly playful

  
• June 4 2025
  Eight theatre shows to see in London now

  Fiddler on the Roof — dazzling musical simmers with contemporary resonance

  After its success at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, the fizzing production fills London’s Barbican Theatre with spirit and song

  
• June 4 2025
  How To Spend It In...

  Jeremy O Harris’s guide to Williamstown Theatre Festival

  The playwright and actor tours the event’s ‘hallowed’ Berkshires home

  
• June 3 2025
  Eight theatre shows to see in London now

  In Praise of Love — revival of Terence Rattigan’s poignant drama of deception

  A married couple conceal much from each other in this chamber piece at the Orange Tree, Richmond upon Thames

  
• June 2 2025
  Review

  This Is My Family — charming musical contrasts fairytale with reality

  Tim Firth’s show about a fragmented household has a zesty revival at London’s Southwark Playhouse

  
• May 30 2025
  Eight theatre shows to see in London now

  Marriage Material — a sweeping saga of British Sikh family life

  The Lyric Hammersmith’s adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera’s novel is full of heart and humour

  
• May 28 2025
  Eight theatre shows to see in London now

  The Crucible — Arthur Miller’s tale of paranoia feels dismayingly relevant

  Director Ola Ince brings the febrile atmosphere of the Salem witch trials to Shakespeare’s Globe

  
• May 27 2025
  Review

  After the Act — raucous show recalls a notorious anti-gay law

  Staging at London’s Royal Court traces the impact of Section 28, which banned ‘promoting homosexuality’

  
• May 26 2025
  Review

  Imelda Staunton and her daughter bring subtle eloquence to Mrs Warren’s Profession

  Staunton and Bessie Carter make a wonderful double act in this tough staging of Shaw’s drama at London’s Garrick Theatre

  
• May 24 2025
  HTSI

  HTSI editor’s letter: Ebon Moss-Bachrach is this year’s big Thing

  The ambivalent charm of the Hollywood anti-hero, Maria Grazia Chiuri’s next act, and a drink with Gen Z

  
• May 24 2025
  InterviewMusic

  How to write a (fictional) Seventies superhit

  In ‘Stereophonic’, a band makes winning harmonies amid personal disharmony — a relatable story for Will Butler, the ex-Arcade Fire member who composed its music

  
• May 21 2025
  Review

  Shucked is a supremely silly musical comedy with a rich crop of corn-based gags

  Groan-worthy puns abound in this joyous show at the Open Air Theatre in London’s Regent’s Park

  
• May 21 2025
  Review

  The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry — hit novel becomes a schmaltzy musical

  At Chichester’s Minerva Theatre, stage version of Rachel Joyce’s bestselling book about a long, soul-searching walk eventually finds its feet

  
• May 21 2025
  ReviewTelevision

  The Rehearsal season 2 — deadpan trickster Nathan Fielder is finally dead serious. Or is he?

  The reality-blurring comedian is trying to revolutionise the aviation industry with his ambitious Sky/HBO series

  
• May 19 2025
  Review

  Martin Freeman and Jack Lowden spar in crisply funny Alcoholics Anonymous play The Fifth Step

  A candid, compassionate examination of honesty, faith and masculinity is revived at Soho Place, London

  
• May 17 2025
  Primal, elemental and unpredictable — the magic of open-air theatre

  Actors and directors on their experiences of drama al fresco

  
• May 16 2025
  Review

  Tamsin Greig gives an exquisite, aching performance in The Deep Blue Sea

  Terence Rattigan’s portrait of stifled desire is sensitively played at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

  
• May 15 2025
  ReviewMusic

  Weill triptych, La Scala review — Weimar vice meets ecological Armageddon

  Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s radical collaboration is the focus of this triple bill in Milan, which grew out of an ambitious lockdown-era experiment