Donmar Warehouse
Cush Jumbo to join David Tennant in Macbeth at London’s Donmar Warehouse
The actor, who has previously starred as Hamlet at the Young Vic, is to play Lady Macbeth among a wave of star-powered Shakespeare productions this year
Chris Wiegand
15, May, 2023 @11:01 PM
David Tennant to play Macbeth at Donmar Warehouse
The actor will take to the stage as the Scottish king in December, in the last production of the London theatre’s 30th-anniversary season
Chris Wiegand Stage editor
05, May, 2023 @10:12 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
Private Lives review – Coward’s comedy becomes a stark theatre of cruelty
Stephen Mangan and Rachael Stirling bare their teeth in a show that dials up the violence and sometimes struggles to navigate the humour
Kate Wyver
14, Apr, 2023 @9:48 AM
Trouble in Butetown review – humanity and heroism in wartime Cardiff
While Diana Nneka Atuona’s deft script could do with a final polish, its heart, humour and spirit sing in the hands of a luminous cast
Arifa Akbar
21, Feb, 2023 @1:57 PM
The week in theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire; Watch on the Rhine
Rebecca Frecknall’s headlong take on Tennessee Williams captivates. And Lillian Hellman’s 1941 call to arms resonates anew
Susannah Clapp
22, Jan, 2023 @10:30 AM
Watch on the Rhine review – Lillian Hellman’s call to arms is a must-see
Patricia Hodge stars in Hellman’s play about a liberal American family confronted by war in Europe and the dangers of inaction
Arifa Akbar
11, Jan, 2023 @1:42 PM
‘She’s writing in a state of emergency’: Lillian Hellman’s thrilling Watch on the Rhine
As Hellman’s 1941 play is revived at the Donmar Warehouse in London, director Ellen McDougall and dramaturg Emma Jude Harris explain how it remains a call to arms
David Jays
12, Dec, 2022 @8:00 PM
Wednesday briefing: Inside Arts Council England’s devastating cuts
In today’s newsletter: As enraged arts workers protest, we explore what the new world might look like for our cultural institutions – and why even opera haters should care about the fate of English National Opera
Archie Bland
23, Nov, 2022 @6:57 AM
The week in theatre: Good; The Band’s Visit; The Boy With Two Hearts – review
As a mild-mannered German academic who drifts into becoming an SS officer, David Tennant is transfixing
Susannah Clapp
16, Oct, 2022 @9:30 AM
‘Maybe you set the theatre on fire?’: directors on staging the unstageable
Scenes that skip between universes, 100 eyeballs emerging from the floorboards, whole plays set on a slope … The scripts for Constellations, Wonder Boy and other hits have provided instructions to unleash the imagination
Miriam Gillinson
11, Oct, 2022 @10:37 AM
The Band’s Visit review – entrancing musical about nothing and nowhere
When an Egyptian orchestra accidentally tips up in a sleepy Israeli backwater, lives are changed in the quietest of ways
David Jays
07, Oct, 2022 @10:51 AM
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