The best theatre to stream this month: Andrew Scott’s Vanya and an Othello with three Iagos
The Fleabag star delivers a bravura solo version of Chekhov’s classic, plus new perspectives on Shakespeare and a starry Rodgers and Hammerstein hoedown
August 2024
The week in theatre: Death of England: The Plays; Grapes of Wrath; Please Right Back – review
Thomas Coombes and Paapa Essiedu grip in an all too timely revival of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation monologues. Plus, slow-motion Steinbeck and 1927’s latest flight of fancy
The Grapes of Wrath review – dark moments on a long jalopy ride through a shattered world
The hardship in Steinbeck’s classic Depression-era novel is well captured in Frank Galati’s atmospheric adaptation, but you long for more tension, more to happen
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: comedians do Chekhov, Into the Woods and Dear Octopus
Get a taste of Edinburgh fringe, enjoy Shakespearean insights from illustrious actors and sing along with a handful of musicals in our pick of streaming shows
July 2024
‘It’s the talent pipeline’: inside the National Theatre’s hit-making hothouse
The week in theatre: Hello, Dolly!; The Hot Wing King; Fangirls – review
The Hot Wing King review – Katori Hall’s comedy sizzles with joy
The play that changed my life
The play that changed my life: ‘Comedians got me the job running the National Theatre’
Hope, hopelessness and heroism: why theatre is making a splash with sport
The week in theatre: Mnemonic; The Secret Garden; The Herds – review
Mnemonic review – Complicité’s brainteaser goes back to the future
A night to remember: the return of Complicité classic Mnemonic – in pictures
May 2024
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: David Suchet’s Poirot secrets, Oklahoma! and more
Don Webb obituary
Ian Gelder obituary
Grief, guilt and white working-class ‘fury’: Death of England heads to London’s West End
April 2024
Ncuti Gatwa cast in National Theatre production of The Importance of Being Earnest
London Tide review – Dickens and PJ Harvey team up for a melodrama as murky as the Thames
2024’s Olivier awards remain too white, too male – and too safe
Arifa Akbar
The week in theatre: Player Kings; Red Pitch; Underdog: The Other Other Brontë – review
