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  • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
    Person in the News
    Martin McDonagh, a reluctant playwright turned movie director

    Oscar nominations for ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ are a landmark in his creative evolution

  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    Review
    George Takei stars in Allegiance, a gripping musical about Japanese internment — review

    Plus: social awkwardness in ‘The Unfriend’; a Jewish comedian amid white supremacists in ‘Just for Us’

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Interview
    Complicité brings murder-mystery eco-fable Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead to the stage

    Director Simon McBurney and actor Kathryn Hunter have adapted Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s novel

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    Review
    Paul Mescal is brilliantly brutal in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Almeida Theatre

    Also opening in London: ‘Watch on the Rhine’ at the Donmar Warehouse, a second world war drama with lessons for today

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    InterviewFilm
    Screenwriter Tony Kushner on getting inside Steven Spielberg’s head with The Fabelmans

    The ‘inveterate Freudian’ discusses his dual role as the director’s collaborator and unofficial therapist, and why film-making is ‘in a genuine crisis’

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    Interview
    Sentenced to 140 words a day in Sam Steiner’s drama

    The playwright and director Josie Rourke talk about ‘Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons’, which explores a world where language is rationed

  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    Godot at 70: waiting for Beckett’s classic to evolve

    The author’s 1953 play established his reputation — but is it now ripe for a rethink?

  • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
    Arts
    From Vermeer to Joni Mitchell: hot tickets for 2023

    Amsterdam’s show of dozens of Vermeer works is set to be one of the highlights of a year that promises blockbusters, comebacks and a final farewell

  • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
    Review
    As You Like It, Soho Place review — wintry enchantment with besotted lovers

    Also on the London stage: ‘Hakawatis’ at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse spins stories for survival

  • Wednesday, 28 December, 2022
    The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2022
    Best theatre shows of 2022

    A scintillating political drama, a tender Japanese film adaptation and a reimagined classic musical made our critic’s list

  • Tuesday, 27 December, 2022
    Arts
    The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2022
  • Thursday, 22 December, 2022
    Review
    Ian McKellen sends festive feathers flying in Mother Goose

    Also on the London stage: ‘Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol’ takes Dickens to east Tennessee for a heart-melting musical

  • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
    Review
    Paperboy walkout makes for a striking musical in Newsies

    Plus: Mandela at the Young Vic has exhilarating choreography but insufficient depth

  • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
    Review
    Emma Corrin is luminous in gender-switching fantasy Orlando

    Plus: a searing staging of ‘Othello’ at the Lyttelton and complicated and macabre fairytale ‘Hex’ at the Olivier

  • Saturday, 3 December, 2022
    Interview
    Playwright Hannah Khalil: ‘I want to write roles for the really brilliant Arab women I know’

    Her new play at Shakespeare’s Globe revisits the story of Scheherazade and the One Thousand and One Nights

  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    Review
    Five stars for Best of Enemies, a scintillating, perfectly-timed play

    James Graham’s show is a hit; more national soul-searching in ‘Henry V’; Royal Court launches memory play ‘Baghdaddy’

  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    Interview
    Theatre director Michael Grandage: ‘I think we are just catching up with Virginia Woolf’

    The director’s new adaptation of ‘Orlando’ comes at a critical moment for conversations about gender fluidity

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
    Review
    Mrs Warren’s Profession review — a stinging satire on family and exploitation

    Plus: ‘Pickle’ is a sparky one-woman show; ‘Dinner with Groucho’ is hard work

  • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
    Interview
    Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh: ‘Stories are out there, you just have to look’

    The actor and director on her year in Oxford, ‘the power of story’ and the Netflix show’s transformative legacy

  • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
    Review
    Blackout Songs — witty and toxic show at Hampstead Theatre

    Plus: ‘Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World’ is a metatheatrical treat and ‘The Sex Party’ disappoints

  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    Interview
    When American ideologies collide: James Graham on his play Best of Enemies

    As his Gore Vidal vs William F Buckley Jr drama hits the West End, the playwright reflects on ‘making sense of the world’ through art

  • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
    Review
    Should a white male playwright invent black or female characters?

    Martin Crimp asks unsettling questions at the Royal Court; an all-black cast in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’; wartime spy story ‘Noor’

  • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
    Review
    A Dead Body in Taos — a fascinating new play about technology and identity

    Also opening on the London stage: ‘Mary’ at the Hampstead Theatre and ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ at the Theatre Royal Stratford East

  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    ReviewFilm
    Bros — a Hollywood gay romcom that subverts expectations

    Frantic self-awareness is folded into a barrage of gags with the energy of solo stand-up thanks to star Billy Eichner

  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    Review
    Tammy Faye, Almeida Theatre review — Elton John’s delirious glitz-bomb of a musical

    With book by James Graham and lyrics from Jake Shears, the show about a televangelist is a camp riot

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