John Murphy in North East England ★★★★☆ 18 October 2026 Last month saw the debut of Sheffield Theatres’ new Shakespeare ...

Jane Edwardes on the South Bank ★★★☆☆ 18 October 2026 Imagine that you are a middle-aged woman, standing on a ...

David Wootton in East London ★★★★☆ 16 October 2026 The political theorist Hannah Arendt is probably best remembered for the ...

Neil Dowden in the West End ★★★★☆ 16 October 2026 Ever since Anton Chekhov’s final play The Cherry Orchard was ...

Neil Dowden in West London ★★★★☆ 11 October 2026 Tim Crouch has performed his ground-breaking play An Oak Tree in ...

Robert Schneider in New Haven, Connecticut ★★★★★ 7 October 2026 Nine chairs in a semi-ellipse on an empty stage; we ...

David Wootton in the West End ★★★★☆ 10 October 2026 For long a powerful element of the German imagination, the ...

Affluenza at Riverside Studios review, starring Noah Schnapp, Janette Manrara, Rupert Young, Juliet Cowan and Wallis ...

Glenda Frank in Manhattan ★★★★☆ 5 October 2026 Performance artist Joey Arias and puppeteer Basil Twist return with their ...

Kwame Kwei-Armah’s final show as director while leading the Young Vic (before he is succeeded as artistic director by Nadia Fall in January) is – perhaps not unexpectedly given his recent work – a new ...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Justin Audibert and Hannah Joss, stars Munya Chawawa ...