National Theatre

Ballet Shoes review – an elegant Christmas cracker of a show

Noel Streatfeild’s classic about three adopted sisters who go to stage school is spirited, spiky and spectacular

Arifa Akbar

08, Dec, 2024 @12:15 PM

Rochelle Stevens obituary

Other lives: Literary agent who showed as much care and dedication for smaller passion projects as she did for commercial big hitters

Deborah Moggach

29, Nov, 2024 @4:27 PM

The Importance of Being Earnest review – Ncuti Gatwa leads a Wilde party of irresistible anarchic charm

Gatwa’s Algernon brings delightful mischief to a high-camp production pointing up the classic Victorian comedy’s subversive queerness

Arifa Akbar

29, Nov, 2024 @12:01 AM

Christmas performances shouldn’t be the only theatre at school | Chris Wiegand

You’ll never find an audience or a cast more invested than at a seasonal show, where kids find their feet in front of you. But performing arts provision for the youngest is in peril

Chris Wiegand

26, Nov, 2024 @10:47 AM

Lynne Kirwin obituary

Other lives: Theatre publicist who worked on productions at the National, the Young Vic and the Donmar in the 1980s, 90s and 00s

Valerie Grove

13, Nov, 2024 @2:59 PM

Deck the stalls! 20 of the UK’s best festive theatre shows

Theatre’s boom season offers puppy puppetry, hungry houseplants and fresh spins on Dickens, Dumas and Disney

Arifa Akbar

05, Nov, 2024 @3:07 PM

Urban planning and the long legacy of brutalism

Letters: Readers respond to Simon Jenkins’ analysis of shifting architectural trends

01, Nov, 2024 @5:56 PM

The best theatre to stream this month: Starlight Express, Nye, Beat the Devil and more

A cast recording for the souped-up train musical is released, Michael Sheen plays the NHS hero at the National and David Hare delivers his Covid memoir

Chris Wiegand

01, Nov, 2024 @12:01 AM

The play that changed my life: Jim Broadbent on Ken Campbell’s electrifying epic Illuminatus!

In the 1970s, Campbell’s sprawling sci-fi odyssey was a huge education and a hysterical adventure for an eclectic bunch of actors

Jim Broadbent

22, Oct, 2024 @5:00 AM

The Other Place review – a searing, gasp-inducing take on Sophocles

Every performance is compelling in this rivetingly naturalistic modern-day reworking of Antigone, written by Alexander Zeldin

Arifa Akbar

09, Oct, 2024 @1:26 PM

Emma D’Arcy: ‘I’m desperate for a sword on House of the Dragon next season’

The actor on modernising the Greek myths, performing opposite a tennis ball, and how their love of a negroni went viral

Alice Saville

06, Oct, 2024 @8:30 AM

‘If audiences are crying, I’ve done my job’: closing the stories of a generation of British south Asians

Actors Meera Syal and Shobna Gulati, with playwright Tanika Gupta, explain how their National Theatre production springs from the anguish of losing their mothers

Arifa Akbar

01, Oct, 2024 @10:24 AM