#MeToo Takes the Stage
In London, Mamet’s new “Weinstein play” repels critics but delights audiences
A Monster Among Angels
The Night of the Iguana, now in an eloquent production in London, is Tennessee Williams’s last great work
Louche Cannon
With Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge has caught lightning in a bottle. When someone hits with such a seismic wallop, it’s both a miracle and a mystery. Why now? Why her?
The Panto Season ’Tis upon Us
The British pantomime is noisy, camp, and a complete hoot
Lost Worlds Retrieved
Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard’s new (and perhaps last) play, is an act of historical excavation and personal reparation
The View from Here
Ralph Fiennes and David Hare put the coronavirus on trial
Father of the Blues
August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom soars in a new film adaptation with Viola Davis, bringing the playwright’s voice to a whole new generation
The Good, the Bach, and the Ugly
Playwright Nina Raine unpicks the difficult personality of the 18th-century composer
The Bright Side of Life
A swarm of musicals open in London’s West End, proving that both the fun and the show must go on
A Four de Force
The sole performer onstage, actor and director Ralph Fiennes brings T. S. Eliot’s words to life and into the now
Behind Enemy Lines
A new play revisits the bellicose 1968 Gore Vidal v. William F. Buckley Jr. presidential-nominating debates with the benefit of hindsight
Come to the Cabaret
It’s a night of re-invention and immersion with Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley in a new revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s decadent musical
Trump in Iambic Pentameter
Meet the British playwright who has turned modern-day American politics into a Shakespearean comedy
Making a Murderer
In London, a new play about President Vladimir Putin and Boris Berezovsky, from the man behind The Crown, is both topical and terrifying
Along Came Marilyn
A newly discovered letter by Arthur Miller about his young bride, Marilyn Monroe, reveals the playwright’s rookie mistake: marrying a bombshell blonde he barely knew
Solid Sender
A new immersive production of Guys and Dolls in London is an all-around delight
Barry Humphries
John Lahr remembers the vivacious comedian whose profound observations about life both shocked and delighted audiences for almost seven decades
In the Rehearsal Room
A new play about Richard Burton and Sir John Gielgud offers a rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes politics of the theater
The Iannucci Treatment
Boris Johnson and his successors, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, are skewered on the London stage in a caustic new play by Veep and The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci
Stanislavsky’s Method
Performed in Paris and set in America, Tony Award winner Richard Nelson’s new play reimagines a day on tour with Konstantin Stanislavsky’s Russian theater troupe
Talking to the Hand
Fifteen years after Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth’s new play is a rich and masterful portrait of a divided family of women