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Theatre

  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Review
    Titanique — a deliriously silly musical spoof

    Mischievous show at London’s Criterion features a 150-year-old Céline Dion and an iceberg in the form of Tina Turner

    A man and a woman stand on stage behind a metal railing recreating a scene from the film ‘Titanic’
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Interview
    How the small print of the Kyoto Protocol became a gripping piece of theatre

    Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s play about the 1997 conference creates drama out of the climate crisis

    A man at a circular conference table, wearing a headset with headphones and microphone, stands up pointing his finger with urgency
  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    The Big Read
    The West End is enjoying a theatre revival. Can Broadway keep up?

    The trend is a decisive shift in the balance between two cities that have long vied to be the world capital of the stage

    Times Square traffic by night, left, and a double-decker bus outside the Sondheim Theatre in London
  • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
    2025’s most anticipated hot tickets
    From Sophocles to Sarah Kane: theatre and dance to look forward to in 2025

    Cate Blanchett on the London stage, Sondheim’s swan song and a ballet of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots

  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Life & Arts
    2025’s most anticipated hot tickets

    The FT’s critics pick the cream of the crop, from film and TV to art exhibitions, theatre, dance, games, pop and classical music

  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Review
    Sigourney Weaver stars in a bleakly spectacular The Tempest

    Production at London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is visually striking but lacks emotional depth

  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Review
    Six theatre shows to see in London
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — a bruising, claustrophobic drama

    Daisy Edgar-Jones stars in Tennessee Williams’s searingly unhappy play at London’s Almeida Theatre

    A woman in a shimmering dress crawls on the closed top of a grand piano laden with drinks; she has an urgent expression
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 — War and Peace musical succeeds against all odds

    With zippy choreography and sizzling songs, Tolstoy’s epic becomes a transcendent show at London’s Donmar Warehouse

    Two men in 19th-century Russian military dress stand in front of a neon disco background
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    A masterful Simon Russell Beale ignites The Invention of Love

    Tom Stoppard’s erudite study of AE Housman gets a powerful revival at London’s Hampstead Theatre

    A grey-haired, bearded man wearing Victorian/Edwardian clothing stands with a hand raised
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Review
    Little Shop of Horrors — musical about a carnivorous plant struggles to thrive

    Revival at the Sheffield Crucible is both madcap and underpowered

  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    Anne-Marie Duff’s sly turn rescues The Little Foxes

    Lillian Hellmann’s savage family drama at the Young Vic suffers from an excess of melodrama

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    The Producers is a gleeful, dialled-up-to-the-max musical

    Patrick Marber’s take on Mel Brooks’s bad-taste comedy lights up London’s Menier Chocolate Factory

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    ReviewDance
    Ballet Shoes — Noel Streatfeild’s tale of self-discovery gets a vivid stage version

    Kendall Feaver’s dramatisation at the National Theatre galvanises the classic children’s novel into a modern work

  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Review
    The Devil Wears Prada is a slim, superficial musical

    Not even Elton John’s songs can redeem this predictable show at London’s Dominion Theatre

    A stylishly dressed woman wearing dark glasses stands looking cool and authoritative amid a crowd of dancers waving items such as notebooks
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Review
    Expendable is a kitchen sink drama for today

    Emteaz Hussain’s drama at the Royal Court Upstairs vividly depicts the texture of ordinary life for a British Pakistani household

    A middle-aged woman stands talking on a mobile phone, which is pressed between her ear and her shoulder
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Review
    A melancholic, musical Twelfth Night gets to the heart of the play

    A 1940s setting, filled with both grief and hope, helps the Orange Tree Theatre’s production to sing

    A man and a woman wearing elegant 1940s-style evening wear stand together; he places his hands on her shoulders and appears to be singing
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    Ncuti Gatwa is a flirtatious agent of mischief in The Importance of Being Earnest

    The ‘Doctor Who’ star leads Oscar Wilde’s romantic comedy, delivered with a huge wink at London’s National Theatre

  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    Interview
    Anne-Marie Duff: ‘Drama is about a point of crisis’

    The ‘Bad Sisters’ star on playing an uncompromising sister in her latest stage role in ‘The Little Foxes’ — and why she is drawn to playing women under pressure

  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Review
    James Joyce’s The Dead becomes an infectiously festive promenade piece

    Immersive Dublin production of the short story is performed in a playful, easy-going style

    A woman and a man in formal evening wear from the early 20th century stand together in a room, smiling
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Review
    The Purists is an effervescent comedy of verbal battles

    A group of New York hip-hop lovers and haters clash and connect in Dan McCabe’s play at London’s Kiln Theatre

    A woman and a man are having an intense conversation while sitting on steps outside a building
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Review
    All’s Well That Ends Well — mischief mixed with dark undercurrents

    Shakespeare’s ‘problem’ play is given a sprightly staging at London’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

    A man wearing a neckerchief and a vest kneels on a stage scattered with tufts of wool or cotton; in the background a man lurks on a platform
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Immersive theatre group You Me Bum Bum Train: ‘It’s like an empathy machine’

    Ahead of their top-secret new London show, the creators discuss making the audience the star — and changing lives

  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Review
    Wolves on Road — timely drama captures the slippery nature of crypto

    The residents of a London housing estate invest in digital currencies in a fascinating new play at the Bush Theatre

    A young man and woman are grinning with excitement; she stands behind him, her arms around his chest, while he raises his arms. Next to them is a large projection of a man’s face from a smartphone
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Review
    The Red Shoes, Swan Theatre review — grisly and gorgeous but oddly muted

    New adaptation results in a mismatch between the gruesome details the original and a bewildering modern reading

    A woman in a black dress and red shoes stands on a table surrounded by men and women in evening wear
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