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Chris Wiegand

Chris Wiegand is the Stage editor of the Guardian

October 2025

  • Coming to NT at Home … Chris O'Dowd in Conor McPherson’s The Brightening Air.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Chris O’Dowd rules the roost in Conor McPherson’s family saga

    The Irish actor returns to the stage in farmhouse drama The Brightening Air, stars of The Jewel in the Crown reunite for Creditors and choreographer Mark Bruce reanimates Frankenstein

September 2025

  • Joe Layton (Robbie) and Hannah Sinclair Robinson (Jess) in Lost Atoms.

    Lost Atoms review – Frantic Assembly scale the highs and lows of a very modern romance

  • Kontakthof: Echoes of 78.

    ‘Trippy’: the Pina Bausch classic being revived by its original cast – dancing with their younger selves

  • ‘A repertoire of blunt four-letter curses’ … Tony Harrison

    Tony Harrison’s poem V to be performed in the Leeds cemetery that inspired it

  • Georgina Castle, Chad Saint Louis and Josh St Clair in a diner in 50 First Dates: The Musical.

    50 First Dates: The Musical review – sunny ensemble serve up breezy romcom

  • The Lodger review – ingenious penny dreadful take on Hitchcock’s foggy mystery

  • The Harder They Come review – electrifying reggae musical is sweet, dandy and catchy as hell

  • Romeo and Juliet review – turbocharged tragedy has a dream duo at its heart

  • The Weir review – a riveting return for Conor McPherson’s lonesome barflies

  • Dracula review – Mina Harker bites back but drama is deadened by tricksy retelling

  • Hamlet review – Giles Terera dives deep into the prince of Denmark’s torment

  • Chadwick Boseman play about police brutality to receive UK premiere in London

  • High Noon heads for the West End as Billy Crudup takes on Gary Cooper role

  • Self Esteem to star as raging rock star in revival of David Hare’s Teeth ’n’ Smiles

  • Kenneth Branagh returns to the RSC for The Tempest and The Cherry Orchard

  • Cow | Deer review – extraordinary sound journey into the lives of animals

  • The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Basil’s back as Fawlty Towers reopens for business

24 August 2025

  • A white woman with blond hair in dungarees scrunches her face a little

    Golden Time (and Other Behavioural Management Strategies) review – a magic hour

    Kate Ireland’s warmly delivered one-woman show considers the pressures of productivity, rules and rewards at school and beyond
  • Four black acrobats in formal attire perform on a stage set with a 1950s theme

    Black Blues Brothers: Let’s Twist Again! review – circus pals rock, roll, jump and jive

    The sharply dressed quintet perform acrobatics that often complement the 50s chart hits on the jukebox
  • Alexander Burnett and Ellie Whittaker in The Crawl.

    The Crawl review – madcap swimming comedy performed by synchronised duo

    Alexander Burnett and Ellie Whittaker dive into multiple roles in a bubbly show with plenty of audience participation
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