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11 October 2024

  • Adrien Brody as Nick Yarris in The Fear of 13.

    The Fear of 13 review – Adrien Brody lacks space to shine in death row drama

    Oscar winner makes London debut in Lindsey Ferrentino’s busy play that sometimes lacks intensity

10 October 2024

  • George Banks, Felicity Kendal, Matthew Kelly, Hilary Tones and Fabrizio Santino in Filumena.

    Filumena review – Felicity Kendal and Matthew Kelly go toe to toe in Naples

    Eduardo de Filippo’s ode to the family is revived with a stylish design but does not reach enough comical or emotional peaks
  • BRACE BRACE by Oli Forsyth ; Production ; Cast: Craig Els, Anjana Vasan & Phil Dunster ; Directed by Daniel Raggett ; Set design by Anna Reid ; Lighting design by Simeon Miller ; Sound design by Paul Arditti ; Video design by Matt Powell ; Fight director: Alex Payne ; Movement director: George Mann ; Stage manager: Lavinia Serban ; Deputy stage manager: Lizzie Cooper ; Royal Court Theatre ; Jerwood Theatre Upstairs ; London, UK ; 2 October 2024 ; Credit & copyright: Helen Murray ; www.helenmurrayphotos.com ;

    Brace Brace review – high-stakes plane hijack drama is bumpy ride

    Oli Forsyth’s play about a honeymooning couple caught up in a disaster is let down by unconvincing dilemmas and characterisations
  • Newfound freedom and pressure-free privilege … Emma McDonald as Alice and Christopher York as Jay.

    Foreverland review – dystopian drama probes ethics of life extension

    A thirtysomething couple try a biotech breakthrough in Emma Hemingford’s time capsule of hot button issues

9 October 2024

  • He sits in an armchair, a manic look on his face

    King Troll (The Fawn) review – this nerve-jangling thriller never lets up

  • Romeo & Juliet 2019 shown on youtube in lockdown vi Romeo & Juliet 2019 shown on youtube in lockdown The Shakespeare Globe / Youtube

    In fair Shoreditch, where we lay our scene… the shape of Shakespeare’s stage

  • She wears a velvet dress and a crown

    Enda Walsh delivers a five-star dazzler and Forced Entertainment make mischief at Dublin theatre festival

  • ‘If a husband had a girlfriend on the side, that was me’ … Bishop.

    ‘I was always the sexy tootsie’: Kelly Bishop on Broadway hits, Gilmore Girls – and how to do the Dirty Dancing lift

  • The Other Place review – a searing, gasp-inducing take on Sophocles

  • Julian Assange: new play about WikiLeaks founder’s life to debut in 2025

8 October 2024

  • The Cat and the Canary at Minerva theatre, Chichester.

    The Cat and the Canary review – 1920s mystery stuffed with preposterous pleasures

    Colourful characters gather for a will reading in this horror-comedy, given a larky update with stylish sequences

7 October 2024

  • Heather Knight crouches over an old stone and brick foundation with scaffolding around it

    How the excavation of Shakespeare’s Curtain theatre has changed stage history

  • Michael Billington

    Leonard Rossiter’s manic physicality was a revelation in British theatre

    Michael Billington
  • Hofesh Shechter’s Theatre of Dreams.

    Hofesh Shechter: ‘The biggest insult I’ve received is that I’m the rockstar of contemporary dance!’

  • Aisling Kearns, J Smith-Cameron, Mark Rylance and Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty in Juno and the Peacock.

    Juno and the Paycock review – Mark Rylance delights as a drunken fantasist Dubliner

6 October 2024

  • Citizen of the world … Khalid Abdall in Nowhere at Battersea Arts Centre.

    Nowhere review – an audacious and radical message for peace

    Mixing the personal and political into one consciousness-raising ‘anti-biography’, Khalid Abdalla’s solo show takes in western colonialism, 9/11, British identity, the typecasting of Arab actors, Hamas’s terror and the war in Gaza
  • Almeida Theatre's performance of Look Back in Anger.

    The Guardian view on Look Back in Anger: still shocking

    Editorial:Toxic masculinity is centre stage in a timely revival of John Osborne’s 1956 classic

    • Dear Evan Hansen: Australian production of Broadway hit puts mental health centre stage

    • White Rabbit Red Rabbit review – a game Michael Sheen hops to it

    • Bright Lights Over Bentilee review – UFO show shines a light on Stoke

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