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5 May 2025

  • Slickly performed … The Empire Strips Back

    The Empire Strips Back review – Chewie gets jiggy in galactic burlesque parody

  • ‘Dear Loll’ … letters between Gerard and Alice Fay, sent while they were apart during the second world war.

    Homefires burning: how a cache of passionate love letters shows the second world war on two fronts

4 May 2025

  • Helena Bell

    Helena Bell obituary

  • Dharmesh Patel (Prince), Colm Gormley (Lord Capulet), Marcus Adolphy (Lord Montague) and Calum Callaghan (Tybalt) in Romeo and Juliet.

    Romeo and Juliet review – star-crossed lovers transported to the wild west

3 May 2025

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    Going out, staying in
    Parthenope to Poker Face: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

    Gary Oldman stars in Paolo Sorrentino’s latest paean to Italy, and Natasha Lyonne is the sleuth with a nose for fibs in Rian Johnson’s mystery comedy

2 May 2025

  • Roger Foss

    Other lives
    Roger Foss obituary

  • Sara Lemkov, in yellow, dancing the can-can in John Huston’s 1952 film Moulin Rouge.

    Other lives
    Sara Lemkow obituary

  • Tom Rosenthal as Khlestakov and Christopher Middleton as the Head of Schools in The Government Inspector at Chichester Festival theatre

    The Government Inspector review – Tom Rosenthal stirs up Gogol’s political satire

  • Tremendous … Hannah Barrie and Paul O’Mahony in Out of Chaos's Macbeth at Oxford Playhouse.

    Macbeth review – something wicked this way whizzes as dynamic duo play all the roles

  • Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular review – an irresistible, 40th anniversary love letter

  • Holy Krapp! Gary Oldman and Stephen Rea unspool Beckett’s masterpiece about memory

1 May 2025

  • Robin Khor Yong Kuan in Scenes from a Repatriation.

    Scenes from a Repatriation review – 12 ingenious questions about cultural ownership

  • men in suits stand on stage

    Tonys 2025: George Clooney and Nicole Scherzinger land first nominations as Othello snubbed

  • Adi Alfa, Bene Sebuyange and Bill Caple in Takeaway.

    Takeaway review – enormously fun family drama is full of heart

  • Studio3 at Tron theatre.

    Studio3 review – triple whammy of comedy is ferociously funny

  • Brendan Gleeson to make West End debut in Conor McPherson’s The Weir

  • The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: how Stranger Things shook the stage

30 April 2025

  • Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare Directed by Max Webster Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Thursday 17 April – Saturday 7 June

    Titus Andronicus review – Simon Russell Beale is sublime amid epic horrors

    Echoes of Gaza and Guantanamo ripple through the violence of Shakespeare’s paradoxically poetic play, immaculately staged by the RSC
  • Finlay McKillop as Will, AKA the Wolfman, and Kyle Gardiner as Ronnie, AKA the Clown, in Restless Natives

    Restless Natives: The Musical review – rambling remake sings different tune to cult 80s movie

    Two working-class lads become modern-day highwaymen in this adaptation of the Scottish film but the plentiful songs slow down the story
  • Middle aged male and female actor sat at a kitchen table that is part of on a stage set

    My Master Builder review – Ewan McGregor’s cheating starchitect is torn down

    Ibsen is moved to the Hamptons in Lila Raicek’s play, co-starring Kate Fleetwood and Elizabeth Debicki, about the destruction wreaked by adultery
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