• December 6 2025
  InterviewTheatre

  Felicity Kendal on love, loss — and the ‘gentle genius’ of Tom Stoppard

  As she stars in a revival of the late playwright’s ‘Indian Ink’, the actress reflects on a life in the theatre

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• December 4 2025
  Ten theatre shows to see in London and beyond

  Fallen Angels joyously propelled by booze and sexual abandon

  Noël Coward’s 1920s comedy is riotously led by Janie Dee and Alexandra Gilbreath at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory

  
• December 1 2025
  Ten theatre shows to see in London and beyond

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream recast as disturbing winter psychodrama

  Staging at London’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse dives into the play’s darker recesses

  
• November 30 2025
  Ten theatre shows to see in London and beyond

  Paddington The Musical brings the stowaway bear gorgeously to life

  Show at London’s Savoy Theatre emphasises empathy and acceptance — and features a bonkers song-and-dance tribute to marmalade

  
• November 30 2025
  ObituaryTheatre

  Tom Stoppard, playwright, 1937-2025

  On stage and screen, the writer turned the weightiest of topics into dazzling, humane drama

  
• November 25 2025
  Ten theatre shows to see in London and beyond

  The Horse of Jenin — a moving celebration of the spirit of ordinary people

  Palestinian actor and comedian Alaa Shehada delivers an ebullient one-man show at London’s Bush Theatre

  
• November 24 2025
  Ten theatre shows to see in London and beyond

  Bryan Cranston is superb in a stupendously well-acted All My Sons

  Ivo van Hove’s production of Arthur Miller’s play at Wyndham’s Theatre, London, lays bare the American dream

  
• November 22 2025
  Theatre

  How Paddington became a living, breathing, sneezing stage performer

  From darkest Peru to TV, film and now a London musical — meet the puppeteers bringing Michael Bond’s much-loved bear to life

  
• November 21 2025
  Ten theatre shows to see in London and beyond

  Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves bring a tender trilogy to a close in End

  At the National Theatre, love, death and the messiness of being human are deftly explored through one couple’s relationship

  
• November 18 2025
  Ten theatre shows to see in London and beyond

  After Sunday — Caribbean cooking becomes gruelling group therapy in astute debut

  Sophia Griffin’s play at the Bush Theatre centres on simmering tensions among men in a secure hospital

  
• November 17 2025
  Ten theatre shows to see in London and beyond

  Porn Play is a funny, bleak take on a very unsexy addiction

  Ambika Mod leads a fine cast in a nimble new drama at London’s Royal Court Upstairs

  
• November 12 2025
  ReviewTheatre

  The Hunger Games: On Stage pulsates with energy but lacks a beating heart

  Dystopian spectacle about children fighting and dying in combat should hit hard emotionally — but it doesn’t

  
• November 12 2025
  ReviewTheatre

  Coven is musically powerful but dramatically flawed

  New show at London’s Kiln Theatre tells the grim story of 17th-century witch-hunts in northern England

  
• November 3 2025
  ReviewTheatre

  The Barbican’s Wendy & Peter Pan never quite soars

  A feminist revision of JM Barrie’s children’s classic is sumptuous but overlong

  
• October 29 2025
  ReviewTheatre

  The Line of Beauty — a captivating portrait of Thatcher’s Britain

  At London’s Almeida Theatre, this moving adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s novel is a drama of materialism and polarisation

  
• October 28 2025
  ReviewTheatre

  Hedda, Orange Tree Theatre review — a stinging twist on Ibsen’s masterpiece

  Tanika Gupta’s adaptation reframes the troubled heroine as a retired Hollywood film star with a secret

  
• October 24 2025
  ReviewTheatre

  The Assembled Parties — Tracy-Ann Oberman is glorious in this Jewish family drama

  Wry and witty, Richard Greenberg’s play at the Hampstead Theatre, London is a beautiful evocation of a changing New York

  
• October 22 2025
  ReviewTheatre

  The Maids, Donmar Warehouse — Jean Genet’s drama becomes a vicious satire of the TikTok age

  The Australian director Kip Williams brings a queasy contemporaneity to the suffocating 1947 play

  
• October 21 2025
  ReviewTheatre

  The Unbelievers review — Nicola Walker is heartbreaking as mother tortured by grief

  Nick Payne’s purgatorial drama at the Royal Court is relentless — but at its best, intensely moving

  
• October 13 2025
  ReviewTheatre

  Ralph Fiennes reckons with the past in Small Hotel

  The third and final production in the actor’s season at Theatre Royal, Bath, is an elusive study of guilt and shame

  
• October 11 2025
  InterviewTheatre

  Actor David Harewood on Othello: ‘I was trying to de-blackface the whole character’

  The Rada president discusses his long relationship with the play — and why this time it’s the misogyny that troubles him most

  
• October 9 2025
  ReviewTheatre

  Susan Sarandon is transfixingly wonderful in Mary Page Marlowe

  She is one of five actors portraying the life of a woman in Tracy Letts’ gentle, elusive play at the Old Vic, London

  
• October 8 2025
  ReviewTheatre

  Adrian Lester revels in swordplay and wordplay as Cyrano de Bergerac

  Simon Evans’ RSC production at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon is both mischievous and moving

  
• October 6 2025
  ReviewTheatre

  Troilus and Cressida — topical tapestry of war, tattered myths and inadequate leaders

  Owen Horsley’s anti-heroic production at Shakespeare’s Globe is pungent and bitterly comic but wearying

  
• October 4 2025
  InterviewTheatre

  Tracy Letts on his new family drama, conspiracy wildfires and why he deletes all of his work

  The writer and actor, who returns to the London stage with ‘Mary Page Marlowe’, believes ‘plays are better than movies and movies are better than TV’