Young Vic
Fake noses, lucky tokens and a bed of nails – Sarah Jessica Parker, Joseph Fiennes and other stars reveal their secret dressing room routines
Whoever wins next month’s Olivier awards, global stars will continue to flock to the West End of London to give the stage their all. We take a peek behind the curtain …
David Levene and Miriam Gillinson
09, Mar, 2024 @7:00 AM
‘I loved every single word’: tributes to the blistering brilliance of Edward Bond
Marianne Faithfull, Simon Callow, Tanya Moodie, Richard McCabe and Sean Holmes remember working with the remarkable British playwright who died on Sunday
Mark Fisher
07, Mar, 2024 @5:00 AM
Nachtland review – a provocative plunge into art history
The discovery of what could be a painting by Hitler leads to a moral quagmire in Patrick Marber’s punchy staging of Marius von Mayenburg’s play
David Jays
28, Feb, 2024 @11:55 AM
Theatre needs risk-takers like Kwame Kwei-Armah whose Young Vic has been dynamite | Arifa Akbar
The first African Caribbean figure to lead a major British theatre has announced his departure but his bold approach must remain
Arifa Akbar
08, Feb, 2024 @12:07 PM
Kwame Kwei-Armah steps down from Young Vic and calls for ‘government intervention’ for theatres
Artistic director will leave in the autumn after six years in the post, and says without further investment the stage sector’s ‘pipeline of talent’ could be lost
Chris Wiegand Stage editor
08, Feb, 2024 @10:00 AM
Readers’ favourite stage shows of 2023
This year, our readers were blown away by productions from Machinal to Free Your Mind – with one theatregoer returning to watch Groundhog Day four times
Guardian readers
25, Dec, 2023 @11:00 AM
The week in theatre: Infinite Life; The Homecoming; Pacific Overtures – review
Chronic illness is captured to extraordinary effect in Annie Baker’s slow yet absorbing new play. Elsewhere, snarling Pinter lacks bite, while the songs eclipse all in rarely revived Sondheim
Susannah Clapp
10, Dec, 2023 @10:30 AM
The Homecoming review – Pinter’s timeless study of toxic masculinity
Playing a man meeting his daughter-in-law for the first time, Jared Harris brings out the dark comedy in Pinter’s snapshot of misogyny
Arifa Akbar
06, Dec, 2023 @10:38 AM
Ibsen’s Ghosts: a resounding flop that still returns to haunt us
Despite being panned as ‘a dirty act done publicly’ on its London premiere, the tragedy is now regarded as a classic – here are three productions that radically shifted our perspective
Michael Billington
06, Nov, 2023 @8:17 PM
The play’s the thing – but its success depends on the theatre too | Michael Billington
Not all buildings are created equal. From sightlines to acoustics to the alchemy of actor-audience rapport, the physical facts of a dramatic space are fundamental
Michael Billington
18, Jul, 2023 @4:35 PM
Patrick Marber to direct Nachtland, a play about Hitler’s art and ‘rise of the new right’
Satire by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg will open next year at the Young Vic in London which will also revive Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming
Chris Wiegand
18, Jul, 2023 @9:00 AM
Beneatha’s Place review – the future of Black America and the shadows of colonialism
Kwame Kwei-Armah’s play takes a character from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun on a journey to Africa
David Jays
06, Jul, 2023 @9:48 AM
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