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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jens Harzer as Oscar Wilde in the Berliner Ensemble production at the Coronet Theatre, directed by Oliver Reese.

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

Frankie Bradshaw’s extremely handsome design takes its cue – suitably enough for such a thespian play – from the W.G.R. Sprague-designed sumptuous interior of Wyndham’s Theatre itself, including ...

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