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The Oresteia review: Aeschylus compellingly updated for our times ★★★★

Some will criticise Simon Stone’s adaptation for straying from the original trilogy but this is an evening of theatre you will not forget

By John Nathan

2 min read

Cycle of violence: Mary-Louise Parker and David Morrissey (Credit: Johan Persson)

Superstar treatment: the chorus of the latest production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical on stage at Drury Lane Credit: Johan Persson

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Jesus Christ Superstar review: ‘seems to get better the older it gets’ ★★★★

By John Nathan

2 min read

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Cyrano De Bergerac review: Adrian Lester’s Cyrano is bang on the nose ★★★★★

By John Nathan

2 min read

Theatre

London theatre to be renamed after late playwright Sir Tom Stoppard

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Pitch perfect: Dorothy Myer-Bennett plays much hated office manager Williamson (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

Theatre

Glengarry Glen Ross review: David Mamet’s desperate estate agents ★★★★

By John Nathan

2 min read

Theatre

We Had a World review: Joshua Harmon’s mother and grandmother are at war in this gripping drama ★★★★

By John Nathan

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Comic superpower: Maureen Lipman with Bailey Patrick Credit: Marc Brenner

Theatre

Allegra review: Maureen Lipman is the clowning glory ★★★

By John Nathan

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High Society review: Fizzing stage reboot starring Felicity Kendal ★★★★

The individual performances are all excellent in this iteration of Cole Porter masterpiece

By John Nathan

2 min read

June 9, 2026 17:06

High stakes: (left to right) James Hume, Felicity Kendal and Naomi Pacquette Photo: Pamela Raith

Black Comedy review: Peter Shaffer’s big idea lacks the light to really shine★★★

Characters are plunged into the dark for most of this escalating slapstick show

By John Nathan

2 min read

June 2, 2026 18:23

Equus review: Gripping revival of Shaffer’s foray into a troubled teenager’s mind ★★★★★

Noah Valentine should win awards for a performance of the stable boy who blinds the six horses he adores

By John Nathan

1 min read

May 26, 2026 16:55

Wild ride: Toby Stephens as Martin Dysart and (right) Noah Valentine as Alan Strang

NIUSIA review: ‘it increasingly feels as if we’re listening to the wrong story’ ★★★

Beth Paterson’s journey to her Jewishness is a worthy story, but her Holocaust survivor grandmother steals the show

By John Nathan

2 min read

May 20, 2026 09:38

Beth Paterson in her one-woman show, NIUSIA (Photo: Mayah Salter)

‘Here, I’m a star’: Richard Kind on the victory lap that is his West End run

Playing Max Bialystock in The Producers is a full-circle moment for the oh-so Jewish actor, who can’t help but be a leading man

By John Nathan

4 min read

May 6, 2026 17:50

Richard Kind as Max Bialystock in 'The Producers' on the West End. (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

The Price review: ‘If this is Henry Goodman’s swansong, he’s going out on a high’ ★★★★

The actor’s performance is a career highlight in this sure-footed production of the Arthur Miller play

By John Nathan

2 min read

April 26, 2026 12:23

My play about families being ripped apart by Israel and Gaza

Ryan Craig on The Holy Rosenbergs, his work that dares to explore the moral turmoil of diaspora Jews when the Jewish state is at war

4 min read

April 24, 2026 16:25

Dorothea Myer-Bennett as Ruth Rosenberg and Adrian Lukis as Stephen Crossley (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

Exclusive interview: Henry Goodman on Arthur Miller, mental health and his own ‘Swansong’

The star opens up about his father’s schizophrenia and his personal link to playing Gregory Solomon in The Price

By John Nathan

5 min read

April 23, 2026 16:27

Les Liaisons Dangereuse review: ‘why revive it?’★★

Lesley Manville’s predictably superb performance is not enough to redeem a new stage production of the sexually exploitative 18th century novel

By John Nathan

1 min read

April 15, 2026 17:23

Lesley Manville as Marquise de Merteuil and Aidan Turner as Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the National Theatre. (Photo: Sarah Lee)

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theatre

The Oresteia review: Aeschylus compellingly updated for our times ★★★★

Jesus Christ Superstar review: ‘seems to get better the older it gets’ ★★★★

Cyrano De Bergerac review: Adrian Lester’s Cyrano is bang on the nose ★★★★★

London theatre to be renamed after late playwright Sir Tom Stoppard

Glengarry Glen Ross review: David Mamet’s desperate estate agents ★★★★

We Had a World review: Joshua Harmon’s mother and grandmother are at war in this gripping drama ★★★★

Allegra review: Maureen Lipman is the clowning glory ★★★

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