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Theatre

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Review
    Eight theatre shows to see in London now
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Eight theatre shows to see in London now
    Marriage Material — a sweeping saga of British Sikh family life

    The Lyric Hammersmith’s adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera’s novel is full of heart and humour

  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Eight theatre shows to see in London now
    The Crucible — Arthur Miller’s tale of paranoia feels dismayingly relevant

    Director Ola Ince brings the febrile atmosphere of the Salem witch trials to Shakespeare’s Globe

  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Eight theatre shows to see in London now
    After the Act — raucous show recalls a notorious anti-gay law

    Staging at London’s Royal Court traces the impact of Section 28, which banned ‘promoting homosexuality’

  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    Eight theatre shows to see in London now
    Imelda Staunton and her daughter bring subtle eloquence to Mrs Warren’s Profession

    Staunton and Bessie Carter make a wonderful double act in this tough staging of Shaw’s drama at London’s Garrick Theatre

    Two women in Victorian-era clothes sit on opposite ends of a bench amid flowering plants; they wear frosty expressions as they look at each other
  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: Ebon Moss-Bachrach is this year’s big Thing

    The ambivalent charm of the Hollywood anti-hero, Maria Grazia Chiuri’s next act, and a drink with Gen Z

    Ebon Moss-Bachrach wears Junya Watanabe Man x Levi’s coated denim jeans and matching jacket, both POA.  Officine Générale recycled organic cotton T-shirt, €70. Hermès leather and brushed-palladium-finish metal belt, €900. Manolo Blahnik leather shoes, £745. Silk scarf, Ebon’s own, from a selection at 282 Portobello London
  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
    InterviewMusic
    How to write a (fictional) Seventies superhit

    In ‘Stereophonic’, a band makes winning harmonies amid personal disharmony — a relatable story for Will Butler, the ex-Arcade Fire member who composed its music

    A view through a recording studio window of a band of musicians: a woman on piano, two men playing guitar, a female vocalist and a male drummer
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Eight theatre shows to see in London now
    Shucked is a supremely silly musical comedy with a rich crop of corn-based gags

    Groan-worthy puns abound in this joyous show at the Open Air Theatre in London’s Regent’s Park

    In a wooden barn, a man lies back on the floor in a relaxed manner while another man stands over him with one foot resting on a low table
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Review
    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry — hit novel becomes a schmaltzy musical

    At Chichester’s Minerva Theatre, stage version of Rachel Joyce’s bestselling book about a long, soul-searching walk eventually finds its feet

    A middle-aged man stands looking determined amid a group of people standing around him; one holds a placard that reads ‘Queenie Queenie Queenie’
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The Rehearsal season 2 — deadpan trickster Nathan Fielder is finally dead serious. Or is he?

    The reality-blurring comedian is trying to revolutionise the aviation industry with his ambitious Sky/HBO series

  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Eight theatre shows to see in London now
    Martin Freeman and Jack Lowden spar in crisply funny Alcoholics Anonymous play The Fifth Step

    A candid, compassionate examination of honesty, faith and masculinity is revived at Soho Place, London

    Two men stand face to face, in a confrontational scene
  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
    Primal, elemental and unpredictable — the magic of open-air theatre

    Actors and directors on their experiences of drama al fresco

    Raised view of an outdoor theatre staging what looks like a period-costumed Shakespeare play in front of a packed audience, with rugged, coastal granite rocks and a bright blue ocean visible behind the stage
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Eight theatre shows to see in London now
    Tamsin Greig gives an exquisite, aching performance in The Deep Blue Sea

    Terence Rattigan’s portrait of stifled desire is sensitively played at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    ReviewMusic
    Weill triptych, La Scala review — Weimar vice meets ecological Armageddon

    Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s radical collaboration is the focus of this triple bill in Milan, which grew out of an ambitious lockdown-era experiment

    A woman in a white gown flings her arm towards the audience — men dressed in hats and sunglasses surround her from behind
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Review
    1536 is a cracking new play about turmoil in Tudor England

    Ava Pickett’s debut drama at London’s Almeida Theatre follows the impact on three ordinary women of Henry VIII’s actions

  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Review
    Hampstead Theatre’s House of Games can’t quite pull off the hustle

    An adaptation of David Mamet’s neo-noir thriller doesn’t fully persuade

  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    Eight theatre shows to see in London now
    Sondheim’s musical Here We Are is a bonkers, sometimes brilliant, final work

    Staged at London’s National Theatre, the piece is superbly delivered by a terrific cast

  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Review
    Hamlet Hail to the Thief is a discordant union of Shakespeare and Radiohead

    There’s more madness than method to an ambitious adaptation at Aviva Studios, Manchester

  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Review
    Jessie Buckley is hypnotised by Tim Crouch in remarkable play An Oak Tree

    Buckley is the first star to take on a role sight unseen in a moving exploration of loss at London’s Young Vic

    A man and a woman sit next to each other on a row of plastic chairs
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Review
    Chichester’s The Government Inspector undercooks Gogol’s satirical masterpiece

    Gregory Doran’s production captures the play’s frenzied comic energy but misses its shocking undertow

  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Review
    A Wild West Romeo and Juliet kicks off the Globe’s summer season in style

    A new setting for the star-crossed lovers smoulders with heat, dust and energy

    A woman in a pink gingham dress stands close to a man in a black workman’s jacket
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    How London, not Broadway, became a crucible of Black theatre

    While non-white presence on Broadway has faltered, London’s stages are having a Black renaissance

  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    Review
    Dealer’s Choice — Patrick Marber’s laddish 1995 drama still speaks to a brittle masculinity

    Hammed Animashaun is the comic heart of a swaggering revival at London’s Donmar Warehouse

  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    Review
    Simon Russell Beale stars in a blood-soaked staging of Titus Andronicus

    Contemporary resonances echo through the Swan Theatre, Stratford’s production of Shakespeare’s most brutal play

  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    Review
    Ewan McGregor struggles to animate My Master Builder

    Lila Raicek’s play is a wooden and contrived take on Ibsen’s drama at Wyndham’s Theatre, London

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