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16 October 2024
  • Proud day … celebrations in Bradford as it’s named UK City of Culture 2025.

    ‘Lady Gaga went to our chippy’: how Yorkshire became a cultural powerhouse

  • Brandon Bassir in Land of the Free

    Land of the Free review – deft investigation of a presidential assassin

  • Gary Oldman portrait

    Gary Oldman announces his long-awaited return to the stage in Beckett classic

  • Deeply felt … Phia Saban (Antigone), Mark Strong (Oedipus), Lesley Manville (Jocasta), James Wilbraham (Polyneices) and Jordan Scowen (Eteocles) in Oedipus.

    Oedipus review – Lesley Manville and Mark Strong electrify ancient saga turned political thriller

15 October 2024
  • Plenty of energy … Paige Peddie, Joseph Vella and Joseph Peacock in Becoming Nancy.

    Becoming Nancy review – coming out musical fails to hit the high notes

  • Tautly dramatic … (l to r) Dorothea Myer-Bennet, Caroline Catz, Joshua Malina, Gabriel Howell and Simon Yadoo in What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.

    What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank review – charged chat explores Jewish identity

13 October 2024
  • Michael Ahomka-Lindsay and Eleanor Tomlinson in Reverberation

    Reverberation review – Matthew López’s romcom is rooted in violence and rejection

    Fussy filmic visuals hobble the affecting acting in the Inheritance writer’s study of three characters struggling for connection
  • Everything and everywhere … The New Real.

    The New Real review – facts are an illusion in David Edgar’s post-truth political play

    Two political strategists from the US and New Labour are recruited to help win a ruthless election in a former Russian colony

    • Girls Don’t Play Guitars review – Liverbirds musical is just ho-hum

    • The week in theatre: Juno and the Paycock; The Other Place – review

    • ‘I could not get through the script without crying’: Adrien Brody talks to the death row survivor who he’s playing on the London stage

12 October 2024
  • Kate Maltby

    Artistic freedom in our theatres is being lost to fear and self-censorship

    Kate Maltby
    The conflict in Gaza and a funding crisis are neutering the traditional home of nuanced debate about difficult issues
  • I Will Return play, performed in Kyiv at The Golden Gate Theatre. Kateryna Vyshneva, performing a teacher at the summer camp.

    I Will Return: play brings to life stories of Ukrainian children taken by Russia

    Journalist Oksana Grytsenko’s play based on interviews with teenagers is imbued with the dark humour of a nation living with tragedy
  • Makenzie Leigh, Lewis Pullman, Alfre Woodard, Jordan Preston Carter and John Benjamin Hickey in Salem’s Lot.

    Going out, staying in
    Salem’s Lot to Rivals: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

    Stephen King’s classic vampire horror is resurrected, and Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster book gets the Disney treatment
10 October 2024
  • Adrien Brody as Nick Yarris in The Fear of 13.

    The Fear of 13 review – Adrien Brody lacks space to shine in death row drama

  • George Banks, Felicity Kendal, Matthew Kelly, Hilary Tones and Fabrizio Santino in Filumena.

    Filumena review – Felicity Kendal and Matthew Kelly go toe to toe in Naples

  • BRACE BRACE by Oli Forsyth ; Production ; Cast: Craig Els, Anjana Vasan & Phil Dunster ; Directed by Daniel Raggett ; Set design by Anna Reid ; Lighting design by Simeon Miller ; Sound design by Paul Arditti ; Video design by Matt Powell ; Fight director: Alex Payne ; Movement director: George Mann ; Stage manager: Lavinia Serban ; Deputy stage manager: Lizzie Cooper ; Royal Court Theatre ; Jerwood Theatre Upstairs ; London, UK ; 2 October 2024 ; Credit & copyright: Helen Murray ; www.helenmurrayphotos.com ;

    Brace Brace review – high-stakes plane hijack drama is bumpy ride

  • Newfound freedom and pressure-free privilege … Emma McDonald as Alice and Christopher York as Jay.

    Foreverland review – dystopian drama probes ethics of life extension

9 October 2024
  • He sits in an armchair, a manic look on his face

    King Troll (The Fawn) review – this nerve-jangling thriller never lets up

  • Romeo & Juliet 2019 shown on youtube in lockdown vi Romeo & Juliet 2019 shown on youtube in lockdown The Shakespeare Globe / Youtube

    In fair Shoreditch, where we lay our scene … the shape of Shakespeare’s stage

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