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A Doll’s House at the Almeida Theatre review: Romola Garai is wonderfully layered in Ibsen's tragedy

4/5 Joe Hill-Gibbins’s production feels both faithful to Ibsen and thrillingly new

Evening Standard

Olivier awards 2026: full list of nominations

Into the Woods and Paddington: The Musical are this year’s most-nominated shows with 11 nods each. See who else is in the running at this year’s awards

The Guardian - UK

"We Have Less to Lose and More to Say": Why Smaller Brands are Still Leading the Charge on Catwalk Inclusivity in 2026

Prioritising a sense of community when it comes to casting their fashion shows helps connect with audiences in a way that feels authentic

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American Psycho in London: Arty Froushan on playing Patrick Bateman

Arty Froushan on taking up serial killing in American Psycho: The Musical, the smash hit satire that takes on Trump, toxic masculinity and Phil Collins

Evening Standard

American Psycho review – yuppies making a killing offers a chilling origin story for our corrupt times

In a bloody, brilliant, full circle Rupert Goold bows out as artistic director of the Almeida with a timely revival of the musical he first staged here in 2013

The Guardian - UK

Christmas Day review – Sam Grabiner serves up gripping dinner-table debate

A north London Jewish family share a meal – and heated arguments – in this complex and courageous drama

The Guardian - UK

Michael Shannon on stage acting, General Zod, and performing as REM’s Michael Stipe: ‘I’ve had a career that’s all over the shop’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: The admired actor talks to Patrick Smith about the painful truths of Eugene O’Neill, the treatment of Zack Snyder, and his issue with autograph hunters

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A Moon for the Misbegotten review – even Ruth Wilson can’t redeem this long night

Rebecca Frecknall’s usually bold directorial hand seems stilled in a glacially paced revival co-starring Michael Shannon and David Threlfall

The Guardian - UK

Ruth Wilson on her return to the West End stage, the threat from AI, and why London tops New York

Ruth Wilson fears for screen stars, but as she returns to the West End stage, she says theatre is in fantastic shape — and things are looking up for women of a certain age, too

Evening Standard

Dominic Cooke appointed as the Almeida theatre’s artistic director

Cooke, who ran the Royal Court for several years, will succeed Rupert Goold at the illustrious London venue in 2026

The Guardian - UK

Gawn Grainger obituary

Actor, playwright and screenwriter who was a stalwart of the National Theatre under Laurence Olivier

The Guardian - UK

1536 review – three Tudor friends throw sharp light on Anne Boleyn’s execution

Ava Pickett’s bold debut shows how a trio of ordinary women in rural Essex learn of the queen’s death, and speaks clearly to our own age

The Guardian - UK

US playwright ak payne wins Susan Smith Blackburn prize

Furlough’s Paradise, a ‘lyrical’ journey about grief, scoops award for female, transgender and non-binary playwrights

The Guardian - UK

‘It is absolutely, fundamentally not autobiography’: Chris Bush on her new play about the trans experience

The award-winning British dramatist had a huge hit with her Richard Hawley musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge. Her latest, Otherland, is a much more personal piece – and, she says, frightening

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Plays from RSC, National and Almeida theatres in running for Susan Smith Blackburn prize

Plays join shortlist for prestigious international award honouring scripts by female, transgender and non-binary playwrights

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Rebecca Frecknall’s cultural highlights

The theatre director on the best novel she’s read in a long time, Tracey Emin’s latest exhibition, exercising in the dark, and a Middle Eastern vegetarian restaurant

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Little Foxes; The Invention of Love – review

Daisy Edgar-Jones is on the prowl; Anne-Marie Duff channels Bette Davis; and Simon Russell Beale gleams in the literary afterlife

Evening Standard

Cat On a Hot Tin Roof at the Almeida review: Daisy Edgar-Jones is a force of nature in this striking revival

4/5 Director Rebecca Frecknall’s vivid interpretation makes a hazily-remembered classic feel new and strange

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The week in theatre: Tender; Expendable review – small provocations

An on-off romance is all tumbling dialogue and tiny details in Eleanor Tindall’s agile new play. Plus, a grooming scandal tale seen through the eyes of British-Pakistani women

The Guardian - UK

Rupert Goold is an audacious innovator. He will make waves at the Old Vic

Having worked his magic as director of the Almeida theatre, the gifted Goold is bound for greater glories: the National had better watch out

Evening Standard

Rupert Goold to join The Old Vic as artistic director after leaving the Almeida

Goold oversaw productions such as Tammy Faye, Spring Awakening, Richard III, Patriots, King Charles III and Ink at the Almeida

The Guardian - UK

Rupert Goold named as next artistic director of Old Vic

Goold says he is seeking new challenge after more than a decade in charge at the Almeida theatre

The Independent UK

The Old Vic announces Rupert Goold as new artistic director

Goold said he will be joining with ‘excitement and trepidation’

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Look Back in Anger: still shocking

Editorial: Toxic masculinity is centre stage in a timely revival of John Osborne’s 1956 classic

Evening Standard

Roots/Look Back in Anger at the Almeida review: the ferocious roar of angry young men and women resonate down the decades

It is a particularly ripe moment to bring back two plays about the anger of younger generations with two plays that couldn’t be more different

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