64 stories by "Houman Barekat"
Mark Gatiss plays a Charlie Chaplin-like dictator in a timely Royal Shakespeare Company revival.
A new London production highlights the story's racial element and shows how much has changed since the play's 1963 premiere.
Critics reflect on the 2026 Olivier Awards, which recognized homegrown British talent and some productions headed for New York.
The sincerity of the play's two stars shines through in Robert Icke's new London production.
The singer Self Esteem, aka Rebecca Lucy Taylor, is an incarnation of late 1960s counterculture in a new London production of David Hare's "Teeth 'n' Smiles."
The "Wicked" actress plays 23 roles in a one-woman show on London's West End.
A new London production of the playwright's masterpiece has extra poignancy just months after his death.
Jade Franks mines the awkwardness of social mobility in her one-woman show "Eat the Rich."
There is plenty of stimulation for young theatergoers in the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved book.
A new London staging of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical makes the most of its comedic elements and delivers a visual treat.
Arthur Miller and Ivo van Hove are a perfect match again, in a new production starring Bryan Cranston and Paapa Essiedu.
The screen star is making her London stage debut in Tracy Letts' portrait of embattled womanhood.
Alice Birch's latest play offers two modish genres for the price of one: the trauma narrative and the earnest inquiry into masculinity.
"Born With Teeth," which premiered in the West End of London this week, imagines the writers' working relationship as heavy on bawdy flirtation.
Several theater productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including drama, comedy and musicals, deal with the effects of psychic pain.
The shows that have gotten tongues wagging this year include stand-up gigs, character skits and a routine that ends with its performer covered in goo.
The "Succession" star, playing the ghost of the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith, is a bright spot in a new play about the 2008 banking crunch.
"Inter Alia," at the National Theater in London, is a successor to the award-winning "Prima Facie." It brings familiar tropes, and melodrama.
The actress is making her West End debut in Jamie Lloyd's latest take on an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
The band's frontman, Thom Yorke, created a show with the Royal Shakespeare Company that is both admirably ambitious and a little foolish.
"My Master Builder," a new take on the Ibsen classic, reduces a complex play to a tawdry marital melodrama.
The star actor returns to the theater where he started almost a half-century ago, with Samuel Beckett's bleak one-man play.
A new play by Robert Icke about a real-life police chase takes the form of an imagined trial.
Times critics discuss the big winners " a new play about Roald Dahl, a "Fiddler on the Roof" revival and a folk-rock "Benjamin Button"" at London's theater awards.
A new one-woman show from the producer of "Baby Reindeer" and "Fleabag" is an irreverent allegory about wildfires and global warming.
