Saturday, February 10, 2024
Laura Donnelly is the muse and star of her partner Jez Butterworth’s plays. As his latest show, ‘The Hills of California’, opens in the West End with her in the lead role, the Olivier …
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:54AMWednesday, January 3, 2024
This week Andrew Scott revealed he stopped performing Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy on stage when he spotted an audience member doing his emails. But is the relentless debate on ‘audien…
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:24PMSunday, December 31, 2023
A-listers are treading the boards in force and your favourite films are being transformed for the stage. Jessie Thompson brings you our ultimate guide to what to see at the theatre in 2024
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:03AMThursday, June 15, 2023
British director joked that he wanted to be remembered as ‘someone whose dress sense got better as time went on’
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:43AMThursday, May 18, 2023
Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges are underserved by a clunky production as Annie Proulx’s story reaches the stage
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:36PMWednesday, May 3, 2023
Mark Gatiss is superb as Sir John Gielgud in Jack Thorne’s affecting play about Hamlet rehearsals with Richard Burton
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:54AMSunday, April 23, 2023
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Duncan Sheik’s score is the true pleasure of this adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s 2001 novel
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:48AMFriday, April 14, 2023
Rachael Stirling and Stephen Mangan play the sparring ex-lovers in a production that emphasises domestic violence
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:18AMSaturday, April 1, 2023
Leaked photographs of the ‘Happy Valley’ star performing nude in ‘A Little Life’ has plunged the theatre world into crisis mode. It speaks to a grotesque violation of the unspoken co…
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:32AMThursday, March 2, 2023
Willy Russell’s 1986 warm, wistful play about a bored housewife is the perfect vehicle for Smith’s return to the stage
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:30AMSaturday, February 18, 2023
Jodie Comer and Harry Styles have both won awards from gender-neutral categories, but much more needs to be done to make industries inclusive than simply renaming prizes, writes Jessie Thomp…
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:30AMSunday, February 5, 2023
Thursday, February 2, 2023
The ‘Albert Nobbs’ and ‘Ozark’ star is about to play Phaedra in a new Simon Stone production. She talks to Jessie Thompson about ‘one of the most vilified anti-heroines ever’, em…
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:07AMWednesday, February 1, 2023
It’s nice that Sam Steiner’s 2015 fringe gem has been plucked out for the West End, but it doesn’t seem the best way to serve a bright new writing talent
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:15AMFriday, January 13, 2023
The ‘Aftersun’ actor gives an entrancing performance in Rebecca Frecknall’s intense Tennessee Williams revival at the Almeida
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:42AMSunday, January 1, 2023
‘A Little Life’ comes to the stage, Sheridan Smith and Lily Allen return to the West End, and ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is transported to 1930s Cable Street – we bring you our guid…
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:08AMMonday, December 19, 2022
The Independent’s theatre critics have chosen their top stage shows of 2022, a year in which fresh new writing and charming musicals reigned supreme
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:42AMMonday, December 5, 2022
Michael Grandage’s production has an inventiveness and creativity that’s true to the spirit of Virginia Woolf’s novel
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:36PMThursday, October 27, 2022
Rupert Goold’s production at the Almeida about the televangelist, with music by Elton John, is gloriously OTT and packed with great performances
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:19AMSaturday, October 22, 2022
With the hit Broadway show about Michael Jackson set to arrive on the West End, Jessie Thompson asks whether a production that completely avoids the more troubling questions of his legacy is…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:03AMWednesday, July 20, 2022
The Olivier award-winning playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s short play ‘Maryland’, written in response to the murders of several women, has been made into a BBC film. She talks to Jessie Thom…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:03AMSunday, July 17, 2022
The ‘IT Crowd’ and ‘Here We Go’ star is playing Beatrice in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. She talks to Jessie Thompson about using wit as a defence, problematic Shakespeare plays and…
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:37AMWednesday, July 13, 2022
Although written before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, this political play by the writer of ‘The Crown’, taps into current world events with masterful precision
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:37AMFriday, July 8, 2022
Indira Varma is excellent, but this self-referential rewrite of Chekhov’s 1895 play feels slow and self-indulgent
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:48AMSaturday, June 25, 2022
The versatile actor speaks to Jessie Thompson about how his experiences with mental health led to his new West End play, family life with pop star Lily Allen, and ‘the problem with James B…
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:54AMMonday, June 20, 2022
The playwright’s identity was subject to frenzied speculation, which was fitting for a play about online conspiracy theory-ism
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:12AMFriday, June 17, 2022
Noma Dumezweni stars in Lucas Hnath’s schematic Broadway hit about what Nora Helmer did next
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:03AMWednesday, May 18, 2022
Anne-Marie Duff is on spectacular form as the family matriarch in this century-spanning new play
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:06AMThursday, October 3, 2013
He’s just played Gordon Brown in the West End (in The Audience), and he’s now gearing up to play Henry VIII – complete with beard – in the RSC adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s novels…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:04AM 
