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A charismatic, empathic Yousef Sweid stars in his and Isabella Sedlak\'s solo play about a twice-divorced Palestinian Israeli search for identity in an ever more binary world
"Paddington" got seven Olivier gongs, but "Into the Woods," "Evita," and the sleeper success that is "Kenrex" held their own
Damien Molony and a miscast Richard Schiff play Heisenberg and Bohr in he first London revival of Michael Frayn's Tony-winning drama; Alex Kingston plays Margrethe, for which Blair Brown won…
Jocelyn Bioh's five-time 2024 Tony-nominated play comes to west London in Monique Touko's hyper-exuberant production; Paul Wills is the top-class designer
Northern Ireland-set play is funny, sparky and ultimately savage, with a superb star turn from Julia Dearden
Tracy-Ann Oberman and Adrian Lukis head a sterling cast in blistering revival of Ryan Craig's play about familial fallout prompted by the situation in the Middle East
Andor's Elizabeth Dulau gives a star-making performance as Mary Ann Evans before she became George Eliot; Tony winner Owen Teale co-stars as her father, Robert.
The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe is the possibly unlikely berth for the UK premiere of a 2005 play about Black-on-Black violence from the late, much-missed Chadwick Boseman
Clive Francis, 80 this year, delivers the standout performance in writer and co-director Jonathan Lynn's farewell to the beloved Yes, Minister TV and stage franchise.
Long-aborning Finn Anderson musical has a gorgeous score but needs work on its clotted, overly earnest book; Tanya Azevedo directs the mostly-female cast of 8.
The word made flesh takes on renewed meaning when it comes to Woolf Works, Wayne McGregor's impassioned response to the writing of Virginia Woolf. First seen in 2015, since which time McGreg…
Bel Powley is in bruising form as Nigel Lindsay's outspoken daughter in Sam Grabiner's messy but always-interesting play, directed by James Macdonald
Felicity Kendal shifts roles in this splendid 30th-anniversary production of a minor Top Stoppard play, here delivered with feeling and empathy by the director Jonathan Kent and a genuine fi…
Patrick Heusinger makes a ripped West End debut in this stage iteration of the hugely popular film franchise, here directed by Punchdrunk's Felix Barrett and co-starring Melissa James ("Moul…
The protean Kathryn Hunter fills in brilliantly for an indisposed David Threlfall in the European premiere of Rajiv Joseph's 2011 Broadway play about the ravages of war, directed by the ever…
2022 co-commission between the Royal Opera and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama is back for a longer run of a work inspired by the Gus van Sant film of the same name about onetime Nir…
Janie Dee dazzles afresh in this centenary revival of Noel Coward's fragile if sexually audacious 1925 comedy, last seen in London a quarter-century ago
An appreciation of Sir Tom Stoppard, arguably the greatest English-language dramatist of his generation
Neil Hurst and Jodie Prenger co-author a ribald, rude, riotously funny take-down of the 2003 film, directed by Alex Jackson, who gave us "Homo Alone"
Alaa Shehada's hit solo play from Edinburgh transfers to London, mixing humour, history - and horror
Grace Galloway and Damon Gould are amongst the terrific cast in the European premiere of this quirky, sweet Off Broadway hit, seen originally in Canada; Lizzie Gee directs and choreographs.
Christine Rice gives a tremendous performance as Sister Helen Prejean in the ENO premiere of Jake Heggie's scorching opera
Jennifer Westfeldt makes her London stage debut alongside Tracy-Ann Oberman in the UK bow of Richard Greenberg's 2013 Broadway hit, with sterling support from Alexander Marks, marking his pr…
Owen Horsley makes his Globe debut with a patchy version of Shakespeare's take-no-prisoner satire, here starring Kasper Hilton-Hille as Troilus, with Samantha Spiro as a female Pandarus
Tamzin Outhwaite impresses once again as Kath in Nadia Fall's sterling revival of Joe Orton's breakout play; hip-hop star Jordan Stephens plays Sloane.
A game John Hodgkinson has replaced Simon Russell Beale in this transfer from Stratford of the RSC version of Shakespeare's abiding, cruelly timely gorefest
Irish writer-director Mark O'Rowe of Howie the Rookie fame brings his frantic and furious family drama to London with a standout performance from Peter Corboy
Jos Vantyler's Feste is the standout in the director Robin Belfield's Shakespeare debut at this address; Pearce Quigley makes a notably deadpan Malvolio
Tony winner Enda Walsh's book lets down this energetic adaptation of the 2016 Dublin-set film which still isn't Broadway-ready; Tony winner Rebecca Taichman, as before, directs
Writer-director Conor McPherson's diffuse musical is back, this time with two-time Olivier-winner Katie Brayben (Tammy Faye) leading those singing the Dylan songbook
Sonia Friedman looks forward and back on a producing career that exists without parallel
Billy Porter shifts from starring on the West End in Cabaret to directing this politically charged two-hander, starring Omari Douglas and Alexander Lincoln
A look at the Tony roster's potential for a London transfer
Georgina Onuorah follows on from Tony winner Alex Newell in riotously entertaining London outing of the tangy, twangy C&W show, directed as on Broadway by Jack O'Brien
Emily Ling Williams' direction finds humour and levity in what could devolve into a mere history lesson, and Tommy Sim'aan's sterling solo performance is a marvel
Tim Crouch's maverick two-hander returns, with Jessie Buckley kicking off the sequence of guests
John Lithgow returns in even more devastating form in Giant, ramped up for the West End by a scorching London theatre debut from Aya Cash, replacing Romola Garai
Justina Kehinde plays a dying woman with an unusual request in Neil LaBute's circular, repetitive, often contrived play, now in its UK premiere
Nikesh Patel plays Abz in a terrifc new play from 2024 Olivier nominee Mohamed-Zain Dada (Blue Mist.).
A view from inside the Albert Hall at a ceremony at which "Benjamin Button"'s John Dagleish brought the audience to tears and Simon Lipkin's Fagin and "Fiddler"'s bottle dance prompted cheers
Laura Whitmore and Bryan Dick in John Donnelly play directed by Blanche McIntyre, fresh on the heels of The Invention of Love at the same address
James Daly repeats his star turn as a vampy, bare-chested Count Dracula in London premiere of Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen's Off Broadway romp; Charlie Stemp, from Crazy for You, co-star…
Hit French play comes to London, translated by Jeremy Sams and with a scene-stealing supporting performance from onetime Olivier winner, Nigel Harman (Shrek): Michael Fox and Jennifer Kirby …
Julia McDermott is a solo sensation in her partner Brian Watkins's scorching solo play set amidst a world on the cusp of meltdown
Cliff Curtis and Olivier Award winner Luke Treadaway in dense new play by the Oscar-nominated American writer Beau Willimon
Omari Douglas and Wil Johnson in baggy if big-hearted play that also stars its non-binary author, Coral Wylie
Futuristic play is also deeply humane, and superbly served by its ensemble cast headed by Helen Schlesinger and Tim McMullan.
Earl Gregory plays the Duke in inspired musical transposition of Shakespeare's buoyant comedy
Nicholas Burns gets gifted with a surprise lump of excrement in Dave Florez's existential comedy
Martina Laird and Gabrielle Brooks shine in shrewd, witty Shakespeare reappraisal