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  • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
    Interview
    Broadway composer David Yazbek: ‘It’s about two disparate tribes connecting’

    His Tony-winning ‘The Band’s Visit’, about an Egyptian orchestra’s accidental, eventful stay in Israel, is coming to London

  • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
    Review
    Highlights from a teeming line-up at the Edinburgh Fringe — review

    Despite setbacks and obstacles, this year’s Fringe is staging a wealth of theatrical experiences

  • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
    Review
    All of Us, National Theatre review — furious drama of disability, politics and society

    Francesca Martinez’s play excels when it focuses on grim details

  • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
    Review
    Auto-erotic passion and chip-shop romance at the Traverse Theatre — review round-up

    Wilf tells of a man who falls in love with his car. Also reviewed: Bloody Elle, Blood Harmony, Exodus and Psychodrama

  • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
    Review
    Counting and Cracking review — epic family drama plays out against Sri Lankan political strife

    At the Edinburgh International Festival, S Shakthidharan’s story weaves together modern life and historical pain

  • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
    Review
    Alan Cumming stars in Burn, an eccentric portrait of Robert Burns — review

    This one-man show in Edinburgh uses choreography, music and words to portray Scotland’s national poet

  • Monday, 8 August, 2022
    New Taipei Performing Arts Center aims to connect high culture and local communities

    Delayed and nearly double its budget, the project from architects OMA in Taiwan puts public access at its heart

  • Friday, 5 August, 2022
    Interview
    Author Charlotte Higgins: ‘Every generation has used Roman Britain as a mirror for its own anxieties’

    The writer of ‘Under Another Sky’ and the playwright David Greig discuss bringing the book to the outdoor stage in Pitlochry

  • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
    Review
    Theatre review — The Tempest at the Globe is gaudy, playful and smart

    Plus: Chasing Hares at the Young Vic; Sister Act at the Eventim Apollo

  • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
    Review
    Crazy for You — deliriously daft musical is revived in Chichester

    Also reviewed: London openings of 101 Dalmatians at the Open Air Theatre; Patrick Marber’s Closer at the Lyric Hammersmith

  • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
    Review
    Much Ado About Nothing is now popping up everywhere

    The National Theatre’s new production is the latest to tackle Shakespeare’s sorrow-stained comedy

  • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
    Review
    Jack Absolute Flies Again — a cheerful farce at the National Theatre

    New knockabout comedy updates Sheridan’s The Rivals to a second world war setting

  • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
    Review
    Putin and Berezovsky play chilling power games in Patriots at the Almeida Theatre

    Tom Hollander and Will Keen excel in Peter Morgan’s riveting new drama. Plus: Emilia Clarke in The Seagull; Peaky Blinders goes immersive

  • Saturday, 9 July, 2022
    Interview
    Director Timothy Sheader on letting 101 Dalmatians off the leash

    Puppets stand in for the pups in the latest of the Open Air Theatre’s productions to grace London’s Regent’s Park

  • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
    Review
    The RSC’s Richard III is a powerful portrait of savagery

    The production features a magnetic central performance from Arthur Hughes. Plus: The Southbury Child at the Bridge Theatre

  • Monday, 4 July, 2022
    Obituary
    Ground-breaking theatre director Peter Brook dies at 97

    A visionary who revolutionised how we stage Shakespeare, he left his native Britain to travel in search of ‘outside contexts’

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    One Man, Two Guvnors duo on reuniting for wartime comedy Jack Absolute Flies Again

    Richard Bean and Oliver Chris have given Sheridan’s ‘The Rivals’ a modern twist but warn: ‘It’s not just a fluffy laugh factory’

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Review
    Sun & Sea is an intensely beautiful experience

    Also opening on the London stage: Mad House at the Ambassadors, and Roy Williams’s new drama The Fellowship at the Hampstead Theatre

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Review
    Theatre review — a superbly acted revival of August Wilson’s Jitney at the Old Vic

    Also opening in London: A Doll’s House, Part 2 at the Donmar Warehouse; That Is Not Who I Am at the Royal Court

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Review
    Tony! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera) — a premier painted in broad strokes

    This lively show at the Park Theatre, London, is an unsubtle portrait of the Labour leader

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Interview
    Theatre director Gregory Doran: ‘In Richard III you see a whole society brutalised by war’

    The RSC leader on staging the play with a disabled actor in the title role, the loss of his husband Antony Sher and stepping down after 10 years

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    How cutting-edge drama Rock / Paper / Scissors makes theatre 3D

    Three interrelated plays set in a factory will run simultaneously on different stages in an ambitious take on a world riven by culture wars and blame games

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    Review
    Howard Brenton’s Cancelling Socrates — a smart, sparkily topical drama

    Plus two more classically themed plays on the London stage: Britannicus at the Lyric Hammersmith; Girl on an Altar at the Kiln

  • Friday, 3 June, 2022
    UK business & economy
    A northern English town lauds the ‘Shakespeare effect’

    A new theatre opening in July is already attracting businesses to Prescot on Merseyside

  • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
    Review
    Amy Adams stars in a sensitive staging of The Glass Menagerie

    Also on the London stage: Legally Blonde in the open air; Henry VIII at Shakespeare’s Globe

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