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Giant review: ‘Dahl – a very poisonous national treasure’

The children’s author’s deep-seated loathing of Jews is slowly and shockingly revealed in this West End transfer of Mark Rosenblatt’s award-winning play

1 min read

Tense: John Lithgow as Raold Dahl and Elliot Levey as his agent Tom Mascher (Photo: Johan Persson)

Bewitching: Emma Kingston (left) and on stage as Elphaba at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in the West End

‘How being Jewish helps me play the Wicked Witch of the West’

Actor Emma Kingston on why she is relishing playing Elphaba in West End smash Wicked

By Nicole Lampert

4 min read

Leap of faith: Clara Francis, Ilan Galkoff and Ben Caplan. Inset: Shimmy Braun (Photos: Michael Wharley, Ryan Howard)

My play about being young, gay and strictly Orthodox

A formerly frum writer on how he hopes his ex-community will watch his new work

5 min read

Deal or no deal: Brendan Coyle and Kasper Hilton-Hille in Dealer's Choice

Dealer’s Choice review: ‘male inadequacies laid bare’

Set around a poker table, this play anchors on a painful father-son relationship and shows that the stake are always higher than the amount of cash on the table

1 min read

Theatre review: Ghosts ‘Today’s moral landscape imposes itself on Ibsen’s play’

The action is updated to 21st century Britain

1 min read

Dance review: International Draft Works and The Forsythe Programme

New works from the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet

1 min read

Midnight Cowboy review: ‘not cut out for the stage’

Why turn John Schlesinger’s famous 1968 film starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight into a musical? Does the story really need more music?

1 min read

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Rhinoceros review: ‘don’t follow the herd’

The message of this 1959 absurdist play survives. But instead of looking back at the horrors of conformism in 20th-century Europe, it now warns of the stampede ahead

1 min read

Metaphor: Anoushka Lucas (left) and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù Photo: Marc Brenner

Apex Predator review: ‘this supernatural psychodrama just about works’

John Donnelly’s hybrid play combines the occult with urban social realism

1 min read

Sophie Melville as Mia and Bryan Dick as Joe

Balanchine: Three Signature Works ‘This was Balanchine at his best’

A chance to get a bit of American pizzazz

2 min read

Production photo of Balanchine - Serenade, The Royal Ballet ©2025 Foteini Christofilopoulou

Dear England review: ‘permission to be patriotic’

How good to able to sit in a theatre and with some justification, rather than deluded hope, feel the unashamed urge to cry ‘Come on England’

2 min read

Defying expectations: the cast of Dear England, with Gwilym Lee as Gareth Southgate (light sleeves) on stage at the National Theatre Photo: Marc Brenner

A Comedy of Terrors review: ‘a hoot’

This athletic Dracula send-up certainly puts the vamp into vampire

1 min read

Out for blood: James Daly as Dracula Photo: Matt Crockett

The Seagull review: ‘Cate Blanchett gives it pitch–perfect pizzazz’

The star is ceaselessly flamboyant in Thomas Ostermeier’s staging of the Chekhov comedy

2 min read

Zachary Hart as Medvedenko ansd Cate Blanchett as the selfish Irina Arkadina in Chekhov's story about unrequited love Photo: Marc Brenner

Farewell Mister Haffman review: ‘an unlikely ménage à trois’

There is much to enjoy in the London premiere of this darkly comic play set in Nazi-occupied Paris, but its premise means it is ultimately unconvincing

By Imogen Garfinkel

2 min read

Three's a crowd: Alexander Waldmann (Joseph Haffmann), Jennifer Kirby (Isabelle Vigneau) and Michael Fox (Pierre Vigneau) in Fairwell Mister Haffmann at Park Theatre Photo: Mark Senior

Dance review: Romeo and Juliet

The Royal Ballet shines in a classic production

1 min read

Dance review: Romeo and Juliet

The Last Laugh review: ‘a love letter to British comedy and three of its funny men’

This is a wonderful resurrection of gilded comedians Tommy Copper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse

2 min read

A gleam in your eye: Damian Williams as Tommy Cooper; Bob Golding as Eric Morecambe and Simon Cartwright as Bob Monkhouse Photo: Pamela Raith

Unicorn review: ‘Stephen Mangan, Nicola Walker and Erin Doherty in threesome’

Having explored a gay couple being attracted to a straight relationship in the play Cock, Mike Bartlett now turns to a heterosexual relationship where a spouse wants a same-sex affair

1 min read

Throuple therapy: Erin Doherty (Kate), Nicola Walker (Polly) and Stephen Mangan (Nick) in Unicorn Photo: Marc Brenner

This Menuhin show is all about the words, not the music

The granddaughter of the great classical violinist on her first stage play, an adaptation of the 1938 German novel The Passenger

5 min read

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Richard II review: ‘has lessons for Trump’

The American President, not known for his appreciation of Shakespeare, won’t watch this, but he should

1 min read

Right royal: Jonathan Bailey as King Richard Photo: Manuel Harlan

The Value of Names review: ‘a bitter ode to the victims of McCarthyism’

Jeffrey Sweet delivers a dark play about a previously blacklisted Jewish comic who refuses to let go of the past, even if it’ll destroy him

By Imogen Garfinkel

2 min read

Katherine Lyle as Norma, an aspiring actress (left), and Jeremy Kareken as her father, Benny, a retired comic who was blacklisted from Hollywood in the 1950s. Photo: Zack Layton

Elektra review: ‘Oh. Is that it?’

Is this a must-see production of the classical work? As Elektra puts it (throughout): no

2 min read

Just say yes: Stockard Channing as Clytemnestra Photo: Helen Murray

As Long As We Are Breathing review: ‘poignant but not enough punch’

The message that it is possible to replace trauma with inner peace is reassuring, but it is prioritised over the drama of Holocaust survivor Miriam Freedman’s story

1 min read

Hidden treasures: Caroline Gruber as Miriam Freedman in her eighties Photo: Arcola Theatre

September 5 review: ‘superbly constructed account of the 1972 atrocity’

Palestinian activists in New York are calling for a boycott of this film, but any movie houses that cave it will be doing viewers a disservice

2 min read

Reading the room: most of the film takes place in the electric twilight of the control room

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