Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Marc Brenner

Alterations at the National Theatre review: 'a finely tailored play'

4/5 This rediscovered gem from the Black Plays Archive comes alive from the very start

Evening Standard

Tom Hiddleston is on winning bum-wiggling form in Much Ado About Nothing

4/5 Hiddleston and Marvel co-star Hayley Atwell quip their way through this calculatedly naff Shakespeare revamp featuring Noughties pop ballads

The Independent UK

Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell have potent chemistry in this rave-tastic Shakespeare production

5/5 Jamie Lloyd’s Much Ado About Nothing proves stunt casting works when the stars have this much rizz

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Festen at The Royal Opera review: gripping adaptation of a taboo-breaking film masterpiece

4/5 This adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg’s film is a skillful and gripping rendering of a taboo-busting story

Evening Standard

Cate Blanchett and Emma Corrin pictured in rehearsals for London play

Photos from the rehearsals also show Tom Burke playing Blanchett’s lover Trigorin, and Sex Education star Tanya Reynolds in the role of Masha.

Evening Standard

Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright at Wyndham’s Theatre: part smart reinvention and part lazy cash-in

3/5 Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s dark anthology TV series his the stage with mixed results

Evening Standard

Cymbeline at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review: a bold and vivid version of a Shakespeare deep cut

4/5 This production of this late Shakespeare romance blends comedy, horror and absurdity to vivid effect

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

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

Evening Standard

The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre review: Ncuti Gatwa stars in a fizzing production

4/5 Expect Bridgerton-style colourblind casting and sexual fluidity in this radical reinvention of a 19th-century classic

Evening Standard

All’s Well That Ends Well at The Globe review: brisk, brutal and delightfully succinct

3/5 It’s not one for the ages, but this is a welcome chance to enjoy Shakespeare’s early ‘problem’ play

Evening Standard

Barcelona at the Duke of York’s Theatre review: Lily Collins makes a sensational stage debut

3/5 The Emily in Paris star and Money Heist’s Álvaro Morte carry this implausible play rather than the other way around

Evening Standard

Shifters review: This epic new romcom has West End audiences swooning

With fine performances from Tosin Cole and Heather Agyepong, Benedict Lombe’s will-they-won’t-they love story – which has high-profile backing from Idris Elba, Little Simz and Maya Jama – is another fresh hit originating from the Bush Theatre

The Independent UK

Next to Normal star Caissie Levy: ‘The crying, the running, the screaming – it’s a lot... but I’ve never been more satisfied'

The Broadway star on the return of the hit musical to the West End, mental health struggles, and how she’ll be singing Let it Go for the rest of her life

Evening Standard

Dear England playwright to alter ending depending on Euro 2024 result

An England win at this summer’s tournament could affect the ending of Olivier-winning play

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Romeo & Juliet review roundup: What critics are saying about Tom Holland’s Shakespeare starring role

‘It is all very clever, but to what end?’ one writer asked

The Independent UK

Olivier Awards: Andrew Scott, Nicole Scherzinger and Sarah Jessica Parker among nominees

Annual British theatre awards will take place in April

Evening Standard

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on The Comeuppance: ‘Why write subtly – who cares? Give me something to talk about'

The award-winning American playwright on writing about Covid in his new work, being embraced by London and why the culture wars have got ‘Black Out’ nights all wrong

The Guardian - UK

Hadestown review – thrilling songs from an American underworld

Anaïs Mitchell’s musical melds two classical myths, folk and jazz with tremendous soul and offbeat spirit

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Dear Octopus; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Just for One Day – review

Lindsay Duncan and co create a living period piece in Dodie Smith’s rarely performed marvel of a family portrait; Sarah Snook’s one-woman Wilde is so wrong it’s almost right; and the music carries a tame Live Aid nostalgiafest

The Guardian - UK

King Lear review – Yaël Farber’s modern-dress take is shockingly vicious and supremely moving

The set is a marvel, the performances are electric and the ending – with Lear raging and trembling in a hospital gown on the heath – is profoundly tragic

The Guardian - UK

Samuel Takes a Break review – a stomach-churning tourist trip around an old slave castle

Yard theatre, LondonA Ghanaian tour guide struggles to maintain his composure in the face of historical ignorance and requests for selfies, in Rhianna Ilube’s poignant critique of colonialism and tourism

The Guardian - UK

The Picture of Dorian Gray review – Sarah Snook plays 26 characters in dazzling, dangerous solo show

Aided by elaborate tech, multiple screens and an angelic wig, the Succession star gives a performance that is mischievous, swaggering and operatic

The Guardian - UK

Dear Octopus review – Lindsay Duncan leads a warm drama about a bickering family

Dodie Smith’s play presents a beautifully drawn, four-generation celebration of a golden wedding anniversary on the eve of the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Tosca review – full of thrills but star soprano Ausrine Stundyte doesn’t quite rise to this challenge

The Lithuanian singer is a superb actor but was not on her best form vocally here. She is strongly supported by Marcelo Puente and Gabriele Viviani and terrific conducting from Karen Kamensek

Evening Standard

Going going gone! From Frozen to Backstairs Billy, the shows now closing in the West End

Frozen shocked theatreland this month by announcing its September 2024 closure. These are the other shows not to miss before it's too late

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.