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The week in theatre: The Second Woman; Brokeback Mountain; Once on This Island – review
Ruth Wilson mesmerises in a 24-hour breakup with 100 different actors; tender moments illuminate a faithful yet distanced adaptation of Annie Proulx’s cowboy love story; and voodoo comes to Regent’s Park
Susannah Clapp
28, May, 2023 @9:30 AM
The week in theatre: Operation Mincemeat; 4000 Miles; The Circle – review
SpitLip honour as well as spoof with their all-conquering espionage musical. Plus, Eileen Atkins at her most subtle, and a new twist on Somerset Maugham
Susannah Clapp
21, May, 2023 @9:30 AM
The week in theatre: August in England; Blue Now; The Vortex – review
Lenny Henry draws his audience deep into the life – and its shattering – of a Windrush evictee; Derek Jarman’s final film is reverentially revisited; and Lia Williams and son ignite Noël Coward at his darkest
Susannah Clapp
14, May, 2023 @9:30 AM
The week in theatre: The Motive and the Cue; A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction; Jules et Jim; Supernova – review
Sam Mendes reignites Gielgud and Burton’s Broadway Hamlet; a climate crisis play is powered by bikes (and eco-shaming); Timberlake Wertenbaker has fun with Jules et Jim; and Rhiannon Neads hits escape velocity
Susannah Clapp
07, May, 2023 @9:30 AM
The week in theatre: Retrograde; The Secret Life of Bees; Dixon and Daughters – review
Kiln; Almeida; Dorfman, London
In his quickfire new McCarthy-era play, For Black Boys… creator Ryan Calais Cameron speaks his mind; a civil rights musical buzzes with potential; and Deborah Bruce’s domestic abuse drama is full of surprises
In his quickfire new McCarthy-era play, For Black Boys… creator Ryan Calais Cameron speaks his mind; a civil rights musical buzzes with potential; and Deborah Bruce’s domestic abuse drama is full of surprises
Susannah Clapp
30, Apr, 2023 @9:30 AM
The week in theatre: Dancing at Lughnasa; Private Lives – review
Brian Friel’s thoughtful 1930s drama remains absorbing, while Noel Coward’s classic has fine cigarette work but fails to ignite
Susannah Clapp
23, Apr, 2023 @9:30 AM
The week in theatre: Hamnet; You Bury Me; Pussycat in Memory of Darkness – review
Shakespeare’s wife moves centre stage in Lolita Chakrabarti’s pivotal adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, while urgent productions from two small London theatres tackle recent history head on
Susannah Clapp
16, Apr, 2023 @9:30 AM
The week in theatre: A Little Life; Sea Creatures – review
James Norton elevates Ivo van Hove’s knotty adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestseller. And to the sea as Cordelia Lynn’s breezy new play sets a family adrift
Susannah Clapp
09, Apr, 2023 @9:30 AM
The week in theatre: Debate, Black Superhero, Further than the Furthest Thing – review
An intimate venue brings Baldwin and Buckley’s clash back to life; Danny Lee Wynter falls foul of a caped crusader (and too much exposition); and an island is threatened by outsiders
Susannah Clapp
26, Mar, 2023 @9:30 AM
The week in theatre: five stars for Guys & Dolls, plus Marjorie Prime and The Tragedy of Macbeth – review
The audience is swept along with the action in Nicholas Hytner’s thrillingly immersive new Guys and Dolls; Nancy Carroll and Anne Reid surf memory and identity; and Shakespeare’s witches multitask
Susannah Clapp
19, Mar, 2023 @10:30 AM
The best free spring culture in Britain, chosen by Observer critics
Here are 25 inspiring events to enjoy, from the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery to free gigs in Manchester
19, Mar, 2023 @10:00 AM
The week in theatre: Women, Beware the Devil; Romeo and Julie; Shirley Valentine – review
Director Rupert Goold and co have a field day with Lulu Raczka’s elusive new Jacobean folk horror; star-crossed Cardiff teenagers snare hearts and minds; and Sheridan Smith makes Willy Russell’s midlife monologue her own
Susannah Clapp
05, Mar, 2023 @10:30 AM
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