846 stories by "Susannah Clapp"
Bush; Kiln, LondonMohamed-Zain Dada makes a darkly comic drama out of a speed awareness course, while clever design elevates Amy Ng's play about Madame Mao
My attitude to stage design change…
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court; Park theatre, London Robert Icke's pulsating new drama about the 2010 hunt for killer Raoul Moat boasts a powerhouse performance from Samuel Edward-C…
Almeida, London; Theatre Royal, BathA bold revival of Ionesco's play about the dangers of conformity rings all too true. And Hitchcock's murderously droll back catalogue is turned into a sty…
Barbican theatre; Young Vic, LondonCate Blanchett is magnetic " and maddening " as faded actor Arkadina in Chekhov's supreme play about writers. Plus, James Graham's bracing real-life drama …
Lyttelton; Royal Court, LondonA black British tailor dreams big in Michael Abbensetts' 70s comedy, made new by director Lynette Linton and designer Frankie Bradshaw. Plus, a one-woman show a…
Almeida theatre, London; Donmar Warehouse, LondonChris Bush's insightful take on the trans experience drifts into the fantastical; Tamsin Greig and Celia Imrie spar as discomfited daughter a…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Bridge, LondonLuke Thallon is a compelling, all-at-sea Hamlet, Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston sizzle as Beatrice a…
Garrick, London; Orange Tree theatre, RichmondErin Doherty, Stephen Mangan and Nicola Walker rise to the challenge in Mike Bartlett's witty dissection of a throuple. And Roger Allam makes a …
Old Vic; Duke of York's, London In a busy week for Sophocles and star casting, Rami Malek is the weak link in a radical new Oedipus with dancing chorus, while Brie Larson's snarling Elektra …
Our ​theatre critic welcomes inspiring developments at stages across the UK,​ from the Young Vic to the Liverpool Everyman while, below, some of the top new recruits talk about…
Wyndham's; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonSteve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith turn into their own live tribute act; plus, a bold attempt to make sense of Shakespeare's wayward late tragicom…
Bristol Old Vic; Royal Court; Barbican, LondonThe spirit of Duke Ellington pulses through a glorious musical spin on Twelfth Night; neighbourliness has its limits in Amy Jephta's South Afric…
Gielgud; Southwark Playhouse, London Lionel Bart's great musical is a gift for Matthew Bourne; a nifty reworking of Shaw's comedy would surely have pleased him; and a fresh start for Welsh t…
Almeida; Young Vic; Hampstead theatre, LondonDaisy Edgar-Jones is on the prowl; Anne-Marie Duff channels Bette Davis; and Simon Russell Beale gleams in the literary afterlife
It is fascinati…
Kudos to five Annie Ernauxs, a memorably storm-lashed Lear and that Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial musical, while Oedipus reigns supreme
1. OedipusWyndham's, London; October (runs until 4 January…
Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Donmar Warehouse; secret location, LondonSigourney Weaver's Prospero is all at sea in Jamie Lloyd's overblown West End Shakespeare; War and Peace the musical really…
Olivier; Lyttelton; Dominion; Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonAt the National, Noel Streatfeild's classic flies while Oscar Wilde's wit is gorgeously unleashed. Elsewhere, a slavishly fai…
Bush; Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London An on-off romance is all tumbling dialogue and tiny details in Eleanor Tindall's agile new play. Plus, a grooming scandal tale seen throug…
Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon; Bush, LondonThe shoes do the talking, eventually, in the RSC's handsome yet overpolite take on Andersen's grisly fairytale. And action outruns plot as two Bow boys…
Ambassadors; Finborough; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonJethro Compton's folky Cornish musical sweeps into the West End with fiddles and fudge; writer Ché Walker plays a fiery ex-con on a m…
Noël Coward; Duke of York's; Barbican Pit, LondonIn a week of underused talent, Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley merely recreate Kubrick's biting cold war satire; Lily Collin…
Her acting has seen her as the Roy family matriarch, an assassin in Killing Eve and in no fewer than 21 Shakespeare theatre roles. In her new book she imagines what the Bard's female charact…
Park theatre, London; Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonOver five hours, John Galsworthy's family epic unfolds with intimate clarity on an almost bare stage. At the RSC, Emilia a…
Wyndham's; Donmar Warehouse; Trafalgar, LondonMark Strong and Lesley Manville transfix as Robert Icke wires Sophocles into the present; Adrien Brody excels in a sharp prison drama; and how n…
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court; Almeida, LondonJohn Lithgow is magnificent as Roald Dahl in Nicholas Hytner's production of an extraordinary debut play; Morfydd Clark finds her voic…
