Succession’s Sarah Snook is returning to West End in one-woman show
The Golden Globe-winning Australian actress will play 26 different characters in the Theatre Royal Haymarket show starting in January 2024
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The best theatre to see in June and July - From Macbeth to SpongeBob
We’ve picked out London’s top stage performances opening over the next month
The Pillowman at the Duke of York’s: audacious and wickedly funny
Martin McDonagh’s swaggering play wrong-foots the audience throughout
A Strange Loop’s Michael R Jackson: ‘I wrote it as a little lifeboat’
The creator of the multi-award winning Broadway show on being credited with reinventing the American musical, his run-in with Liz Phair and why he’s fed up with modern TV
Dear England makes an unlikely stage hero out of Gareth Southgate
Our football correspondent puts on his commentators’ hat for the National Theatre’s latest kickabout
Dear England at the National Theatre review: thrilling football drama
The Nottingham playmaker takes on the England football team’s recent highs and lows in a brilliant fusion of sport and art
The Third Man at the Menier Chocolate Factory: why is this a musical?
The creative team has a record of turning unlikely subjects into musical gold. Not this time
Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image the Musical, Phoenix: shockingly funny
I wasn’t expecting this to be so outrageously entertaining
National Theatre director Rufus Norris announces plan to step down
Rufus Norris describes time in charge as ‘the most challenging in our history’
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play review: that’s so fetch
Bioh’s dialogue fizzes with both laugh-out-loud quips and savage insults
When Winston Went to War With the Wireless at the Donmar Warehouse
The feud between Conservative politicians and our national broadcaster has been ongoing for longer than you think
West End show tickets on sale for £25
The sale includes famous productions, such as The Mousetrap and newly adapted productions including a revival of Guys & Dolls
Podcast: The curious case of reversing Benjamin Button’s age on stage
Plus our reviews of Patriots at the Noël Coward Theatre and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe
Groundhog Day at the Old Vic: good enough to watch again and again
If this show doesn’t quite escape the shadow of its source material, it adds dimension and depth to it
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at Southwark Playhouse: a delight
This musical version of the well-loved tale is full of rich, lovely numbers
Sarah Jessica Parker set to make West End debut in Plaza Suite
The Golden Globe-winner will appear at the Savoy Theatre from January 15
Andrew Scott, Fleabag’s sexy priest, announces one man show in London
Sherlock star to appear in Vanya, a Simon Stephens adaptation of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya
We Will Rock You at the London Coliseum: we will rob you, more like
A lazy, exploitative piece of work
Is Brokeback Mountain really the queer story we need right now?
There’s much to love about this new stage adaptation but surely it’s time for bolder queer narratives, says Jason Okundaye
Tim Sheader named as the new Donmar Warehouse boss
He comes straight from a long tenure at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Patriots at the Noel Coward Theatre: the fight for Russia’s soul
This hectic, tragicomic tale has already gained new weight and prescience as it transfers into the West End from the Almeida
Kate O’Flynn on All of It & working with Danny Dyer in Henpocalypse!
Plus our reviews of Great Expectations and Bleak Expectations...
Tickets go on sale for manga adaptation Death Note: The musical
This will be the award-winning musical’s English language premiere
The Shape of Things at Park Theatre: precision engineered black comedy
Though slightly dated, the play is slick and efficient - and funny
Theatre Podcast: Mark Gatiss on playing Sir John Gieldgud
And how he got a little help from his famous friends...
Shows will go on: West End strike risk lifted after pay deal
A pay rise was backed by cast members in sell out shows including Frozen, Moulin Rouge and Cabaret
Aspects of Love at the Lyric: why revive this silly, creepy musical?
The dislikeable characters and preposterous plot, despite the stylish staging, make this revival hard to love
West End theatres to dim their lights for Tina Turner
As a mark of respect, London’s theatres will go dark for The Best singer
West End tributes for Tina Turner as fans hail ‘electric’ musical show
Fans laid flowers outside the venue showing the musical based on her extraordinary life
Luke Newton on returning to the stage, glow-ups and Colin Bridgerton
As he prepares to star in The Shape of Things at the Park Theatre, everyone’s favourite Bridgerton brother says he’s excited to look audiences in the eye again
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Globe: a fresh take on the forest romp
I’ve seen this play a hundred times, so it’s always a delight when a production shows it in new light
Showstopper! at the Cambridge Theatre review: still going strong
Creating shows from scratch is seemingly effortless for this ensemble, who never seem to lose their way
Podcast: Eddie Izzard on her solo adaptation of Great Expectations
Plus, open audience rehearsals around UK for her new Hamlet show
Ruth Wilson’s masterful stage marathon
The award-winning actor performed the same scene for a whole day opposite a revolving cast of 100 actors and amateurs. It was superb
Bleak Expectations at the Criterion Theatre: a mediocre Dickens parody
To borrow one of the show’s parodic lines: please sir, could we have some less
Once on This Island at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: told with verve
There are many stirring performances in this revival of the show that puts a Caribbean spin on the story of The Little Mermaid
How to Succeed... at Southwark Playhouse: should have stayed lost
This musical, with its dodgy sexual politics, has been justly neglected