Rufus Norris

The week in theatre: Orlando; Hex review – an elemental Emma Corrin, and a bit of a beast at the National

Corrin shape-shifts to perfection in Neil Bartlett’s zestful take on Virginia Woolf, while a bad fairy casts a spell on Rufus Norris

Susannah Clapp

11, Dec, 2022 @10:30 AM

Hex review – musical Sleeping Beauty casts a darkly dazzling spell

No theatrical effect is spared in this emotional show, which returns to Charles Perrault’s grisly and grief-ridden fairytale for inspiration

Arifa Akbar

07, Dec, 2022 @11:40 AM

‘We put Disney in the bin’: Victoria Hamilton-Barritt on being theatre’s top Christmas villain

She starred in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights while eight months pregnant and played Cinderella’s stepmother in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s abruptly closed musical. Now Hamilton-Barritt has bounced back as a tormented ogress in Hex

Chris Wiegand

22, Nov, 2022 @2:42 PM

How do you make a lavish spectacle sustainable? Theatre’s radical green agenda

A meeting of minds at the National Theatre showed ways to stage drama along environmentally sound lines. But is everyone on board?

Michael Billington

07, Jun, 2022 @2:54 PM

National Theatre to stage The Crucible with Erin Doherty and Brendan Cowell

Revival of Arthur Miller’s allegory is part of a new season featuring The Boy With Two Hearts and a 40-week tour of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Chris Wiegand

10, May, 2022 @10:00 AM

Small Island review – enthralling Windrush drama makes stylish return

A superb new cast show this story of love, war and racial prejudice has earned its place in the National Theatre pantheon

Arifa Akbar

04, Mar, 2022 @4:00 PM

Hex: National Theatre cancels opening night of Covid-cursed musical

‘Blighted’ by pandemic, Rufus Norris’s festive production will end current run without a press night but return in November

Chris Wiegand

06, Jan, 2022 @1:08 PM

Hamlet, Cabaret and a fistful of Romeos: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2021

Cush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage

Arifa Akbar, Brian Logan and Lyndsey Winship

26, Aug, 2021 @7:00 AM

National Theatre commits to more plays from outside London

Reopening plans include a musical based on Sleeping Beauty and a play telling the story of Gandhi’s killer

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

04, Jun, 2021 @3:56 PM

Michael Sheen to star in Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre

Reconfigured Olivier theatre will show Dylan Thomas classic in June reopening with Jack Thorne play set for Dorfman stage

Chris Wiegand

25, Mar, 2021 @10:24 AM

David Harewood: 'I felt that they wanted me to go on TV, talk, and cry. I was a news item’

The British actor on his new documentary about Covid and people of colour, his breakdown aged 23, and having days left to finish his memoir

Kate Kellaway

28, Feb, 2021 @9:30 AM

Waiting in the wings: how a second lockdown halted theatre's comeback

New shows from Manchester’s Hope Mill, London’s National Theatre and the Red Ladder touring company have all been cut short by Covid as venues close their doors once more

Chris Wiegand

10, Nov, 2020 @12:30 PM