Robert Icke

The best theatre of 2022

In a superb year for the stage, our chief critic gives 10 shows an extra round of applause. Plus, Guardian theatre reviewers each pick their 2022 standout

Arifa Akbar

15, Dec, 2022 @3:00 PM

The Doctor review – a repeat prescription for acute intellectual stimulation

Robert Icke’s combative 2019 play about medical ethics, identity politics and antisemitism returns to the West End to divide and challenge audiences

Arifa Akbar

09, Oct, 2022 @11:01 PM

‘How many litres of blood do we need?’: Ivo van Hove’s ITA on 20 years of shocking theatregoers

They’ve supercharged Shakespeare, staged impossible novels and stunned with scandalous cinema adaptations. Internationaal Theater Amsterdam reveal their radical secrets

Interviews by Chris Wiegand

01, Aug, 2022 @5:00 AM

Top 10 theatre shows of 2019

Katori Hall gave us a miracle, Caryl Churchill delivered a dark quartet and Tom Hiddleston astounded in Betrayal. But the year’s highlight was a breathtaking Ibsen with Hayley Atwell

Michael Billington

17, Dec, 2019 @6:00 AM

Electra, Oresteia and an execution: the daring designs of Hildegard Bechtler – in pictures

The theatre designer on creating a family dinner at Agamemnon’s, an election night Oedipus and the night Fiona Shaw got stuck

David Jays

23, Oct, 2019 @5:00 AM

The week in theatre: The Doctor; Mythos: A Trilogy: Gods, Heroes, Men – review

Robert Icke concludes his dazzling run at the Almeida with another masterstroke

Susannah Clapp

25, Aug, 2019 @7:00 AM

The Doctor review – Robert Icke offers brilliant diagnosis of modern ills

Juliet Stevenson delivers one of the peak theatrical performances of the year in Icke’s striking reimagining of Schnitzler

Michael Billington

21, Aug, 2019 @10:08 AM

On my radar: Robert Icke’s cultural highlights

The writer and theatre director on OJ Simpson and Monet’s garden

Robert Icke

18, Aug, 2019 @9:00 AM

Edinburgh theatre roundup: Oedipus; Roots; Total Immediate Collective – review

Emotion is pared to the bone in Robert Icke’s thrilling new real-time adaptation of Sophocles

Kate Kellaway

17, Aug, 2019 @12:00 PM

Oedipus review – Robert Icke's take exerts thriller-like grip

An updating of Sophocles’ classic, set on election eve, has such political resonance you can imagine Boris Johnson not far away

Mark Fisher

16, Aug, 2019 @10:46 AM

Robert Icke: 'British theatre often thinks of itself as church'

As his bold new Oedipus heads to Edinburgh, the director discusses revamping Sophocles and the ‘poisonous nostalgia’ behind Brexit

Mark Fisher

24, Jun, 2019 @11:50 AM

Edinburgh festival 2019: 50 theatre, comedy and dance shows to see

There’s a Belle and Sebastian play, a show in a hair salon, Frances Barber performing Pet Shop Boys songs and top comics including Josie Long and Stephen Fry. Here’s our guide to the world’s biggest arts festival

Mark Fisher, Lyndsey Winship and Brian Logan

14, Jun, 2019 @6:00 AM