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    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Review
      The Witches at the National Theatre — a mischievous musical take on Roald Dahl

      Plus: festive romcom ‘Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)’ and historical spectacle ‘The Mongol Khan’

    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      HTSI
      Bernadette Peters’ pet project comes to London

      The musical theatre star has joined forces with Elaine Paige to host West End Woofs in aid of rescue cats and dogs

      Bernadette Peters on Shubert Alley on Broadway, New York, with (from left) Charlie and Rosalia
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Review
      Nineteen Gardens, Hampstead Theatre — ex-lovers confront their past in a sharp and surreal play

      Plus: privilege under the spotlight in ‘Mates in Chelsea’ and fast and funny social media satire ‘Flip!’

      A man and woman stare at each other in profile against a blue background, with the man’s hand resting on her face
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Review
      Waiting for Godot, New York review — role-reversal gives fresh edge to Modernist masterpiece

      Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks offer unusual takes on Beckett’s characters at the Theatre for a New Audience

      Michael Shannon as Estragon, Paul Sparks as Vladimir
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      ‘There’s no TV screen keeping you safe’ — Stranger Things and horror on the stage

      Stage fright? The Netflix series gets a 1950s origin story of sorts while The Enfield Haunting dramatises real-life 1970s events

    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Review
      Backstairs Billy is a droll portrait of a curious royal relationship — review

      Also opening in London: Richard Bean’s comedy To Have and to Hold; a musical version of The Time Traveller’s Wife

      Amid plush furnishings and pink decor, a woman wearing a flowery dress and pearls sits on a sofa looking at two boiled eggs on a table while a man in the uniform of a flunkey looks on
    • Saturday, 4 November, 2023
      Sarah Hemming
      The joy of early theatre is getting home without the drama

      Moving curtain-up to 6.30pm allows audiences to watch, dine, discuss, and still make the last train

      Audience members watch a production at the Royal Albert Hall Kensington, London.
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Review
      Sabbath’s Theater review — John Turturro brings Philip Roth’s salacious character to life

      Adaptation at New York’s Signature Center relishes its unwholesome material

      Two men sit laughing together; one of them is gesturing by raising his hand in the air
    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      Review
      Kenneth Branagh’s King Lear has intelligence but lacks emotional depth

      Also opening in London: Kristin Scott Thomas in ‘Lyonesse’; ‘Death of England’ trilogy concludes with ‘Closing Time’

      Two women and a man wearing warm clothing huddle together
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      Review
      The Confessions, National Theatre — a tough, moving portrait of a woman’s life

      Also on the London stage: Lynn Nottage’s warm-hearted ‘Clyde’s’ and a revival of the contemporary classic ‘Portia Coughlan’

      In a room with a large dining table, people stand, sit and dance; in the foreground, a woman dances on her own with her arms outstretched, smiling
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      Interview
      Class comedy — playwright Marcelo Dos Santos on Backstairs Billy

      The playwright’s farce about the Queen Mother and her servant examines the dynamics of an unlikely friendship

      Wilton sits on a sofa with a corgi while Evans stands behind the sofa in full livery
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Review
      Hamnet — moving stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about Shakespeare’s son

      Lolita Chakrabarti’s rich drama for the RSC comes to London’s Garrick Theatre

      A woman wearing a nightgown stands while a man writes with a quill pen against her back
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Review
      Nicole Scherzinger is magnetic in a stunning new Sunset Boulevard

      Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical is reimagined for our image-obsessed age at London’s Savoy Theatre

      A woman performs on stage with impassioned arm gestures
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Review
      Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along bounces back on Broadway — review

      Daniel Radcliffe gives a great performance in this revival of Maria Friedman’s production at the Hudson Theatre

      A woman and two men sit in a row singing heartily; the woman and one of the men are wearing tartan dressing gowns
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      Review
      Shooting Hedda Gabler — gripping film-industry update of Ibsen’s classic

      Also opening in London: Tanika Gupta tackles Victorian imperialism in ‘The Empress’

      A woman and a man sit near each other on the floor of an open space; the man is smoking a cigarette and looks pensive
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Review
      Ironbound at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin balances misery and mirth

      Martyna Majok’s play follows the chequered fortunes of a Polish woman in New Jersey

      In downbeat surroundings, a woman stands next to a man at a bus stop
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Review
      The Loved Ones, Dublin — grief and infidelity in a tense, vibrant drama

      The Gate Theatre’s production of Erica Murray’s new play moves from farce to melancholy

      Two women stand in a cosy book-lined room, apparently shouting at each other
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Review
      Somewhere Out There You, Dublin — girl meets himbo in zany metatheatrical comedy

      Nancy Harris’s play at the Abbey Theatre has sharply observed performances

      A man and a woman stand close together, laughing; nearby a man plays an accordion
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Review
      The Hypochondriac at Sheffield Crucible can’t cure all of Molière’s ailments — review

      Slapstick-heavy production heightens the comic but misses the tragic

      A man and a woman wearing 17th-century clothes stand next to each other with expressions of despair; he wears a strange-looking cap
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Interview
      Theatre director Lynette Linton: ‘You need to eat before you come, because we’re grilling’

      Her new production of Lynn Nottage’s play ‘Clyde’s’ finds much metaphorical mileage in the sandwich

      Woman and two men on a theatre set of a restaurant kitchen, standing in a row at a table preparing sandwiches
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Review
      Scottish referendum astutely remembered in Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape

      Peter Arnott’s intimate and articulate play is impressively staged at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre

      A group of people interacting
    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      Review
      Mahabharata, Barbican — Sanskrit epic made modern

      Complex cycles of revenge and powerplay feel newly fresh in Ravi Jain’s production

      Two women stand back to back with their arms raised forward. One is wearing an orange robe, the other a golded on
    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      Review
      Old Friends is a five-star celebration of Stephen Sondheim

      Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead a stellar cast through the composer and lyricist’s hits

      A man in a tuxedo is flanked by two women in black dresses and two more men in tuxedos. All are singing
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Review
      Five stars for Andrew Scott in a stunning solo Vanya — review

      Also on the London stage: ‘The White Factory’ at the Marylebone Theatre; ‘Mlima’s Tale’ at the Kiln

      A casually dressed man sits next to a desk on which is placed a lamp and a bottle of vodka
    • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
      HTSI
      HTSI editor’s letter: the icons-only issue

      Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Lucas, David Shrigley, Bernadette Peters, Albert Hammond Jr, Sudan Archives and many more

      Albert Hammond Jr at home in LA with his La Marzocco GS3 coffee machine
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