24 h. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews Krapp's Last Tape at York's Theatre Royal: Gary Oldman's return to the stage after 37 years makes perfect sense

The Hollywood star has chosen to make his stage comeback - after 37 years - in Samuel Beckett's 50-minute monologue about a rueful old git, surveying the paltry wreckage of his life.

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62 h. ago ‘It’s Fleabag’s home – the audience is unshockable’: Phoebe Waller

The central London institution champions new talent, amplifies LGBTQ+ voices and always takes risks. With a new outpost opening in Walthamstow, artists discuss how the West End venue is not just a place – it’s a philosophyA fixture on London’s Dean Street for 25 years, Soho theatre has hatched plays that won Oliviers, shows that earned the Edinburgh comedy award and ideas that became TV hits. On any night, across its upstairs studio theatre, its main house and basement cabaret bar, you’ll find plays from new writers, experimentations in clowning, drag performance, standup comedy, or a hybrid of them all.In those rooms, I’ve watched American clown Natalie Palamides giving such a spirited performance that she vomited on stage, dancer and comedian Adrienne Truscott challenging rape jokes, and performance artist Kim Noble pushing audiences beyond comfort. I’ve sung along to ballads with sketch group Daphne, and folk songs with Sh!t Theatre. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago Restless Natives creator Ninian Dunnet on the new stage version: 'the parallels are still so strong'

Ninian Dunnett wrote Restless Natives 40 years ago, but a new musical version shows how relevant the story remains today, writes Joyce McMillan

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3 d. ago Lau's Martin Green on Keli, his new National Theatre of Scotland show: 'I fell in love with brass bands'

Telling the story of a tenor horn player from a fictional Central Belt mining village who heads to London for a brass band competition, Keli has been a complicated balancing act for its creator Martin Green, who both wrote the script and composed the score. Interview by Mark Fisher

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4 d. ago Personal Values review – shocks as sisters reunite for the first time since their father’s funeral

Hampstead theatre, LondonBea, a hoarder, is visited by Veda, who carries a secret, to fix the rift between them in Chloë Lawrence-Taylor’s debut play, full of vivid dialogue and foreboding rumblesObjects pile and tower as walls in Chloë Lawrence-Taylor’s debut play. Since their father’s funeral, when Bea scratched an obscene picture into Veda’s car bonnet, the two sisters have lost contact, and Bea has been isolated in an ever-growing haven of “stuff”. Old vinyl, books, crockery, bags for life and mountains of cutlery have turned her home into a graveyard of the past. To an outsider, it is the depths of hoarding; to Bea, every dusty item is a relic to be pored over and adored.But, now Veda has stopped by unexpectedly to “fix” things. Lawrence-Taylor’s vivid dialogue paints the sisters both as strangers, with years missing between them, and familiars, bound by their shared youth. They remember intimate details about each other; Veda drinks camomile tea, Bea loves bonsai trees. The ac...

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4 d. ago 'River City' and 'Outlander' star Grant Stott joins cast of Imagine That's 'Sunshine on Leith' production

Sixty-eight of the group's senior musical theatre students will take to the stage at Airdrie's Cairnlea Parish Church for six performances from June 3-7.

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6 d. ago Dream come true for Ayrshire youngster after being cast in Les Misérables

Niamh Lee will take to the stage as Little Cosette in Les Misérables at The King’s Theatre in Glasgow from April 23 until April, 27.

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7 d. ago Inside Princess Isabella's very lavish 18th birthday party: Danish royal welcomed 1000 guests to enjoy performances before receiving £1000 gift

Denmark's royal family arrived at the lavish Royal Theatre's Old Stage in Copenhagen yesterday evening to mark Queen Mary and King Frederik X's second child's coming of age.

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9 d. ago Scottish Ballet: The Crucible, Aberdeen review: 'prayer books wielded like weapons'

Choregraphy and score work in perfect tandem to evoke the hysteria and hatred engulfing Salem in Scottish Ballet’s revival of The Crucible, writes Kelly Apter

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1 week ago Counts Nikolai and Felix of Denmark make a dashing return to public life as they attend Princess Isabella's 18th birthday after being stripped of their titles

The Danish royal family gathered together at the Royal Danish Theatre's Old Stage in Copenhagen on Tuesday night.

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2 w. ago Jack Lowden Filmography 2025: Here are all 14 films the Scottish star of Slow Horses has starred in

Since making his professional stage debut in the National Theatre of Scotland's critically-acclaimed play 'Black Watch' in 2010, Jack Lowden has become a major star.

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2 w. ago Book London Theatre Tickets To The Best True Crime Drama Productions, Live On Stage In London

Book London Theatre Tickets To The Best True Crime Drama Productions, Live On Stage In London  openPR.com

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3 w. ago Stars come out for theatre’s Olivier awards 2025 – in pictures

Nominees, presenters and guests arrive for London theatre’s big night out at the Royal Albert Hall Continue reading...

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3 w. ago No forgetting my encounter with two giants of the stage | Tim Lewis

Old pals Ewan McGregor and Michael Grandage prepare for their new play, My Master Builder, by chuckling about everything that could go wrong and hasFor today’s Observer New Review I had the not-exactly-onerous assignment of spending an hour with the actor Ewan McGregor and director Michael Grandage, as they prepared to put on a new play, My Master Builder, in London’s West End. The two men go way back, and mostly they were cracking each other up with knockabout old stories – much of which there wasn’t room for in my article. McGregor recalled one of his first roles on stage, as Orlando in As You Like It, and how when Simon Callow – multiple Olivier and Bafta award winner – played the part in 1979, he walked out on stage at the National Theatre only to promptly forget the first line of the play.“If you’re a woman and you’re about to have a baby, everybody tells you nightmare stories about childbirth,” said McGregor. “And when you’re an actor about to do a play, everybody tells you te...

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3 w. ago Good Night, and Good Luck review – George Clooney’s Broadway debut never quite lands

Winter Garden Theatre, New YorkThe actor-director brings his 2005 drama to the stage, now playing the lead role, but while it’s timely and nicely staged, it feels stiffTime has been kind to Good Night, and Good Luck, George Clooney’s sincere dramatization of the broadcaster Edward R Murrow’s on-air tangles with Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Sleek, slim and reverent, the 2005 film recalled a time of both cultural panic and promise, before American attention splintered and television’s road forked toward cable news. In its own era, the movie played in implicit contrast to mainstream media’s failure to interrogate the Bush administration’s dubious justifications for the Iraq war. In 2025, well now, as in 1953, the lies run rampant. But in Clooney’s stark black-and-white drama, truth prevails.Wouldn’t that be nice. The ongoing lurch away from due process casts both a haunting pall and a self-congratulatory glow over New York’s Winter Garden Theatre, where Clooney leads a profici...

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3 w. ago Theatre group taking to stage for debut play in Airdrie Arts Centre

Cormac Myles, Alex Burns, Harry Reid and Scott Taylor of Point5 Theatre aiming to make show 'The Ballad of Sonia The Skunk' affordable to audiences.

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4 w. ago Wheel of Time's Rosamund Pike says first theatre role in more than a decade is 'frightening'

The Gone Girl star is returning to the stage after more than a decade and will make her National Theatre debut.

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