Stranger Things

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From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025
From Thom Yorke’s Shakespearean score to 25 years of Tate Modern, Bridget Jones to Leigh Bowery, our writers anticipate the most exciting shows, releases and events of the year

04, Jan, 2025 @1:00 PM

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‘Pedal to the metal’: what can we expect from Stranger Things season five?
A behind-the-scenes tease gives some new details on what we might get from the much-anticipated final episodes

Stuart Heritage

16, Jul, 2024 @2:04 PM

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Top-price West End theatre tickets rise by 9% in a year and reach £300
The Stage’s annual survey found that, for the first time, three plays in London – including Romeo and Juliet with Tom Holland – are charging more than £200 for their most expensive seat

Chris Wiegand Stage editor

13, Jun, 2024 @12:46 PM

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Maya Hawke: I’m OK with having a life I don’t deserve due to nepotism
Actor, daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, says she rejected path of ‘changing name and getting nose job’

Sarah Haque

01, Jun, 2024 @12:08 PM

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Djo: Joe Keery on short attention spans, social media and swapping Stranger Things for pop stardom
Joe Keery used to perform his psychedelic electro-pop disguised by a wig. Now End of Beginning has raced into the Top 5, he’s happy to reveal his numerous talents

Shaad D'Souza

19, Mar, 2024 @4:16 PM

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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

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Maya Hawke: ‘I would have found a way to be an artist, even if I had been adopted’
As the child of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, the star has had to fight off ‘nepo baby’ claims. But, after acclaimed roles in Stranger Things and Tarantino and Wes Anderson films, she’s now forging her own path with a daring folk album

Owen Myers

17, Feb, 2024 @11:55 AM

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‘That’s impossible!’ Why theatre’s gone mad for magic and wild special effects
Need to make an elephant vanish, an aeroplane take off or a wizard fly? As magic grips the stage, illusionist supremos reveal how they turn the likes of Stranger Things into eye-popping spectaculars

Kate Wyver

29, Jan, 2024 @4:18 PM

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The week in theatre: Macbeth; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Ulster American – review
David Tennant and Cush Jumbo wire you into the Macbeths’ innermost thoughts; Stranger Things takes theatrical spectacle to the next dimension; and Woody Harrelson and co fire off David Ireland’s machine-gun provocations

Susannah Clapp

24, Dec, 2023 @10:30 AM

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Stranger Things: The First Shadow review – breathtaking theatre
This origin story has all the dark mystery of the Duffer Brothers’ Netflix series and delivers one coup de theatre after another

Arifa Akbar

14, Dec, 2023 @11:30 PM

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The Duffer Brothers: ‘The last series of Stranger Things is the biggest it’s ever been’
The record-breaking show made twins Matt and Ross Duffer the saviours of Netflix. They talk about bringing the show to the stage and ‘landing the plane safely’ in its final season

Tim Lewis

10, Dec, 2023 @1:00 PM

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Run! Hide! It’s the 13 most terrifying TV episodes to watch this Halloween
From Buffy’s grinning ghouls to the spoof that traumatised a generation, here are the shows guaranteed to send a shiver down your spine over Halloween

Michael Hogan

31, Oct, 2023 @5:00 AM

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