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Susannah Clapp
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: two and a half hours of smouldering, slow-burning imagination
Fri 12 Dec 2025
Katherine Cowles
The BFG comes to life on stage
Mon 8 Dec 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
Comedy or error: is Shakespeare actually funny?
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Katherine Cowles
Paddington The Musical is an irresistible love letter to London
Mon 1 Dec 2025
Susannah Clapp
Ivo van Hove’s All My Sons is a revelation
Fri 28 Nov 2025
Clare Brennan
Mutton: the story of the Yorkshire Witch
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Clare Brennan
Murder most fowl: Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Susannah Clapp
Porn Play is an unflinching portrayal of self-destructive addiction
Fri 21 Nov 2025
Susannah Clapp
Faustus in Africa! is a vivid study of colonialism through puppets
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Katherine Cowles
The Hunger Games on stage is all spectacle, no soul
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Susannah Clapp
David Harewood finally makes Othello the hero of his own drama
Fri 7 Nov 2025
Clare Brennan
Javaad Alipoor transports Elmet to a disused depot
Sun 2 Nov 2025
Katherine Cowles
The Line of Beauty is an almost great gay play
Fri 31 Oct 2025
Susannah Clapp
The Unbelievers is a swirling study of catastrophe
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Clare Brennan
Campus drama Safe Space tackles the statue wars head-on
Sat 25 Oct 2025
Clare Brennan
James Brining’s The Seagull delivers laughs but lacks heft
Sun 19 Oct 2025
Susannah Clapp
Mary Page Marlowe is a disappointing play
Fri 17 Oct 2025
Clare Brennan
Bad Lads is a theatrical call for justice
Sun 12 Oct 2025
Susannah Clapp
A high-speed Hamlet is too fast and too flat
Sat 11 Oct 2025
Clare Brennan
Lost Atoms has spectacular staging but the drama is underdeveloped
Sun 5 Oct 2025
Susannah Clapp
London’s new directions
Sat 4 Oct 2025
Kate Maltby
Why Cabaret sank across the pond
Mon 29 Sept 2025
Clare Brennan
Alan Ayckbourn has a question for you
Sun 28 Sept 2025
Susannah Clapp
Simon Stone’s 21st-century Ibsen
Fri 26 Sept 2025
Katherine Cowles
Alice Birch’s bold, baffling history of masculinity
Fri 19 Sept 2025
Clare Brennan
What should we make of Mrs Mary Whitehouse?
Sat 13 Sept 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
Haywire: an entertainingly meta take on The Archers
Fri 12 Sept 2025
Susannah Clapp
Marlowe and Shakespeare are the ultimate double act in Born With Teeth
Fri 5 Sept 2025
Susannah Clapp
The new pastoral
Sun 31 Aug 2025
Susannah Clapp
Brigadoon is proof musicals are not just about the music
Sun 24 Aug 2025
Rachael Healy
Sami Abu Wardeh: “Laughter is restorative”
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Rachael Healy
This year’s fringe is a delightful gamble
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Rachael Healy
Consumed is a portrait of intergenerational trauma
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Katherine Cowles
Good Night, Oscar makes a comedy of misery
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Susannah Clapp
The fall of RBS encapsulates our time of greed
Thu 7 Aug 2025
Olivia Ovenden
The rumours are true: Stereophonic’s debt to Fleetwood Mac
Thu 7 Aug 2025
Susannah Clapp
Inter Alia – far from a feminist revolution
Fri 1 Aug 2025
Clare Brennan
Riders to the Sea and Macbeth – a thrilling play-pairing united against tyranny
Sun 27 Jul 2025
Susannah Clapp
The problems of The Winter’s Tale
Sat 26 Jul 2025
Katherine Cowles
A Noughts & Crosses staging misses the moment
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Clare Brennan
The Constant Wife plays Somerset Maugham for laughs
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Susannah Clapp
David Hare’s ode to 150 years of theatre
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Susannah Clapp
Intimate Apparel is one of the great American plays
Sat 5 Jul 2025
Katherine Cowles
Jamie Lloyd’s audacious Evita
Fri 4 Jul 2025
Clare Brennan
How to Win Against History: the real Henry Paget
Sun 29 Jun 2025
Susannah Clapp
God give me strength: the labours of Disney’s Hercules
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Dorian Lynskey
Conor McPherson: I had to get into Bob Dylan’s soul
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Katherine Cowles
Stereophonic: Anatomy of a band on the brink
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Susannah Clapp
The Herds makes the case for public art
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Clare Brennan
Review: Tick, tick… Boom!
Sat 14 Jun 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream is back in delirious splendour
Sat 14 Jun 2025
Susannah Clapp
Theatre reviews: In Praise of Love and Elephant
Mon 9 Jun 2025
Clare Brennan
Theatre review: Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt
Sun 8 Jun 2025
Dan Rubins
West End hits face tough race at the Tonys
Sun 8 Jun 2025
Miranda Sawyer
How Sarah Kane ‘ripped down the veil on the abyss’
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Dorian Lynskey
Three plays follow relationships and racism across the generational divide
Tue 3 Jun 2025
Simon Mc Burney
Remembering Pierre Audi, visionary founder of the Almeida
Sun 25 May 2025
Susannah Clapp
Imelda Staunton and daughter light up brothel drama
Sat 24 May 2025
Clare Brennan
Our imperilled planet in three acts
Sat 24 May 2025
