Jane Edwardes in the West End ★★★☆☆ 22 October 2026 Actor and playwright Danny Lee Wynter has written a coming-of-age ...

The Orange Tree works almost on a repertory basis, and charismatic actors from other productions sat in the chancel as ...

John Murphy in North East England ★★★★☆ 18 October 2026 Last month saw the debut of Sheffield Theatres’ new Shakespeare ...

Jane Edwardes on the South Bank ★★★☆☆ 18 October 2026 Imagine that you are a middle-aged woman, standing on a ...

David Wootton in East London ★★★★☆ 16 October 2026 The political theorist Hannah Arendt is probably best remembered for the ...

Neil Dowden in West London ★★★★☆ 11 October 2026 Tim Crouch has performed his ground-breaking play An Oak Tree in ...

Neil Dowden in the West End ★★★★☆ 16 October 2026 Ever since Anton Chekhov’s final play The Cherry Orchard was ...

And that show’s original London home The Other Palace is now hosting Babies, billed as “a newborn musical” about a group of teenagers who are learning some parenting skills by being assigned robot ...

Jean Rogers on the birth of the National Theatre. Actor and activist, Jean Rogers is famed for her long-running role as Dolly Skilbeck in television soap Emmerdale, and, if not quite so widely known ...

Shaan Sahota’s impressive debut play The Estate is an intoxicating cocktail of political satire and family drama, exploring issues of race and patriarchy. There’s scandal and intrigue in Westminster, ...

Jean Chan’s eye-catching design sets the tone. The stage is dominated by a huge cartoon-like, wooden-slatted sun with its rays spreading out into the audience in the lower galleries, while through a ...

collection of images for The Royal Ballet. Among the previous eight issues, three of our covers have featured your photographs. That’s because of the warmth in those photos. That’s your style – to get ...