This Seagull soars away to over three hours, as there are also some Billy Bragg songs to perforate the fourth wall from the start and later to underline the working class credentials of Simon ...

Edward II (Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon) Edward II is a play beloved of students hoping to combine political protest with sexualised barbarism. That makes it an interesting choice for the ...

Robert Icke's contemporary adaptation of 'Oedipus' dominated the U.K. Critics' Circle theater awards 2025, taking home three ...

Last night, director Thomas Ostermeier’s production of The Seagull, which he adapts from Chekhov alongside Duncan Macmillan, celebrated its official opening at the Barbican Theatre. Cate Blanchett ...

estate should note that the film star doesn’t make conventional theatre choices. Whether it’s Susan Traherne, the wartime secret agent falling apart in David Hare’s Plenty, or When We Have ...

Planning discussions are in progress to transform the Saville Theatre into a performance venue and hotel – but a new ...

The U.K.’s National Theatre Live has unveiled cinema release plans for “Inter Alia,” starring Rosamund Pike as a London Crown Court Judge navigating professional demands and family life.

As Simon mentions in his opening patter, the show is directed by the great German Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director of Berlin’s hugely influential Schaubühne theatre. It’s quite the coup ...

Wynton Marsalis is a great man, but his Fourth, “The Jungle”, is no masterpiece, not even a symphony – a dance suite, maybe, with enough bold textures to recall wandering attentions. We needed less of ...

The competition for nominations has been intense in what has proven to be a transformative year for London theatre, marked by a rich blend of dynamic new works, innovative interpretations of ...

It runs at the Barbican until early April ... Crimp’s When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other at the National Theatre in 2019. Here, she takes on the role of fading actress Arkadina.

A young man can’t sleep, nervous. A young woman can’t stay quiet, nervous. Anxiety floods the little room, two kids fumbling towards adulthood the way we all did and now, conveniently, forget.