Tennant previously played Shakespeare’s Scottish thane in a BBC Radio 4 adaptation
Henry can confidently add ‘playwright’ to his already polymathic CV
Tuppence Middleton is joined in The Motive and the Cue by Johnny Flynn as her husband Richard Burton and Mark Gatiss as Sir John Gielgud
In this look at Richard Burton and Sir John Gielgud’s staging of Hamlet on Broadway, the play is not the thing
Her breakout theatre role in Prima Facie earned four nods in total
Plus reviews of Ain’t Too Proud - The Life and Times of The Temptations, and the new revival of Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre
It will mark the actor and director’s first stage role since The Winter’s Tale in 2015
She is starring in one-woman show about the climate crisis A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction
The actress and director brings her new take on the vilified king to the Rose Theatre
Compilation musicals have had a bad press, but this is a hugely superior example of the genre.
The show asks complex questions and has some funny lines but could have made twice the impact in half the time
Even if you missed all the subtext, this show would still delight in its acute depiction of family dynamics
Plus, reviews of Black Superhero and Sea Creatures
After Elizabeth I was excommunicated she began to build links with the Islamic world, which is reflected in some of Shakespeare’s plays
This show was clearly planned as a crowd-pleaser, a reappraisal of a classic and a star vehicle, but it doesn’t fully satisfy on any of those counts
Plus our reviews of A Little Life and Ryan Calais Cameron’s latest show...
From musicals to Shakespeare, performances of all stripes are being interrupted by booze-fuelled and up-for-a-party audiences. So is good etiquette a thing of the past? Nick Curtis reports
The judge in Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial will be played by a former barrister-turned-actor
The suffering is on an operatic scale in this adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s Booker-nominated novel — but to what end, asks Jason Okundaye
This play has fallen prey to Hampstead Theatre’s many woes
Though relentlessly bleak, this is a superb piece of theatre
Plus, Paul Mescal in A Streetcar Named Desire and Berlusconi: A New Musical
The writer and actor was shocked by the mental health issues in his old neighbourhood, and knew he needed to get it on the page. Next week the play opens in the West End
This show transposes the off-key weirdness of the original, but the story could use more jeopardy, darkness and more of the monsters
The 1997 novel now becomes a play with music
This aimless musical is more a minestrone of ideas than a bunga-bunga romp
The production wonderfully brings to life the dry comedy and compelling strangeness of the original text
The controversial former Italian prime minister and self-styled ‘Jesus Christ of politics’ gets the musical treatment
Plus, we review Further Than the Furthest Thing and Marjorie Prime...
World Theatre Day will be be marked with big-screen showings of plays and opera.
The cast boast brilliant musical theatre voices but the show is let down by the dialogue
Actor Danny Lee Wynter’s debut play is lively, full of punchy dialogue and quippy one-liners
The landlord of the Waterloo tunnels has advised the leading London live performance festival to find a new home
Loved the TV show? Now see it live in London
The Australian will star as Abigail in Lyndsey Turner’s National Theatre production
This revival of Zinnie Harris’ play that premiered in 2000 reveals much of its magic, without quite remaking it for a new era
Marjorie Prime offers stimulating ideas and some great acting, but it’s not a great play
