Tanika Gupta’s play follows a mother whose mind is disintegrating as her children rally around
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:32AMCostello and playwright Sarah Ruhl adapt the 1957 film about the rise of a populist demagogue in this new, uneven Young Vic production
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:12AMWith more than 3,500 shows, the world’s biggest arts festival is back at full power. But what’s worth running up and down the Royal Mile for? Tim Bano picks the best theatre and comedy t…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:06AMAndrew Lloyd Webber’s singing, roller-skating steam trains are back for a night of absolute maximalism. Yes, it’s more spectacle than sense – but your inner child (and actual children)…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:54PMLacking a musical identity and feeling spiritually like a period piece, this stage adaptation of Tina Fey’s Noughties classic feels like an exercise in doing the bare minimum
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:32PM‘Motherland’ star Anna Maxwell Martin and James Corden have to battle with starchy direction and a clunky script in Joe Penhall’s new play about the threats facing MPs
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:42AM‘Line of Duty’ star Adrian Dunbar teams up with Broadway legend Stephanie J Block for another perfectly pitched Cole Porter revival at the Barbican
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:12PM‘The Crown’ star is a man in freefall in a Miller revival that works its magic by being that rare thing: a really decent production of a really great play
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:02AMLeading political playwright James Graham is burdened by the need to preserve this classic piece of writing about unemployed men in 1980s Liverpool, but the show comes alive when it finds th…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:18AMAlienating production of Maggie Nelson’s 2009 philosophical memoir, is not a good showcase for the lead actors’ talents
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:54AMHot on the heels of his triumphant ‘Sunset Boulevard’ revival, Jamie Lloyd has recruited one of the biggest young stars in Hollywood to take on Shakespeare – but this stripped back pro…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:36PMBafta-winner Adeel Akhtar and ‘Tár’ star Nina Hoss are excellent, but Benedict Andrews’s clever but annoying contemporary Chekhov revival insists on a grating quirkiness
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:32AMBen Power’s deft adaptation of Dickens’ sprawling novel emphasises its brilliant characters and eternally relevant themes, but the bleak production and dour music wrestle with one anothe…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:36PMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins's production is rich in ideas and beautifully staged, but it’s still two hours of listening to middle-aged millennials feeling sorry for themselves
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:42PMThe veteran actor stars in a long uneven new production fusing both parts of Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV’ at London’s Noël Coward Theatre
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:32AMThe ‘Succession’ star returns to his stage stomping ground, and it’s where he stomps best. Alongside an extraordinary Patricia Clarkson, he owns the stage in Jeremy Herrin’s spare, b…
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:24AMWhy is the National Theatre staging this frightfully old fashioned play from the 1930s? A superb performance from Lindsay Duncan and a production tinged with foreboding are reason enough
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:42AMAfter multiple manifestations at Theatre Royal Bath and a southern UK tour, Noel Coward’s deathless comedy hits the West End in a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00PMChristian Czornyj’s video game-inspired musical is the first by Adam Lenson’s exciting new production company, which gives voice and space to artist-led
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PMIt’s one of those shows that has almost become too familiar. In the last two decades every number of Jason Robert Brown’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:37AMWhat is it about the Bible and musical theatre? While the UK has the gospel according to Andrew Lloyd Webber – Joseph
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMEven if Ben Elton’s successful sitcom about William Shakespeare had been given a fourth series, it seems only natural that they would
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58PMThere’s a fierce relevance in the story of a woman failed by a patriarchal justice system and seeking justice her own way.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMTom Stoppard has spent a career searching for the key to the human condition through metaphor: quantum mechanics, gymnastics, Latin love poetry,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMBrexit gets only a couple of mentions in this roar of a monologue by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams. But the play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:28AMMaybe it’s a little histrionic to stage a play about existence and extinction right now. Maybe not. If director Richard Jones does
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38PMAs soldiers piss in phone boxes, smash things up, generally kick and punch objects both animate and not, it becomes clear that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:43AMLucy Prebble’s debut play, The Sugar Syndrome, about two people who meet in an online chat room, premiered at London’s Royal Court
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMThe Waitress composer and singer-songwriter, fresh from winning her first Grammy, is taking to the West End stage to star in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00PMAlthough Cormac McCarthy is best known as a novelist, winning the Pulitzer for The Road in 2006, he has also written two
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AMAfter a six-month closure, the home of Les Misérables is back with a new name and lavish decor. Owner Cameron Mackintosh tells
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