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    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      Review
      Further than the Furthest Thing, Young Vic review — a volcanic contemporary classic

      Plus: Dance of Death at The Coronet Theatre has bite and bitterness

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Interview
      Ivo Van Hove on the theatre of trauma: ‘It’s devastating, in a good way’

      The Belgian director and purveyor of raw emotion discusses his staging of Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘A Little Life’, starring James Norton

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      FT Magazine
      How Putin’s war destroyed a golden age of Russian culture

      Inside the pain, purges and persecution that have decimated the country’s once-flourishing theatre scene

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Review
      Five stars for a high-energy, finger-snapping Guys & Dolls

      Also opening on the London stage: the darker story of ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ at the Garrick

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      Review
      A wry staging of Tartuffe in Dublin — review

      No one escapes unscathed in Frank McGuinness’s version of Molière’s comedy at the Abbey Theatre

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Review
      Romeo and Julie — a radical, funny modern tragedy at the National Theatre

      Plus: Shakespeare confronted and reassessed in The Merchant of Venice 1936

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      Review
      Sheridan Smith is a transcendent one-woman Shirley Valentine — review

      Also opening on the London stage: a drama of witchcraft and desire in ‘Women, Beware the Devil’

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      FT SeriesHTSI spring arts special: creatives in their communities
      Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Heights society

      The Hamilton creator on his vision to reshape Broadway

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      Review
      Five stars for Standing at the Sky’s Edge, an exhilarating, big-hearted musical

      Also opening on the London stage: a sensational Janet McTeer in ‘Phaedra’; return of ‘The Lehman Trilogy’

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Interview
      Playwright Diana Nneka Atuona: ‘You should write what moves you, as long as it’s sincere’

      The dramatist on multicultural life in wartime Wales and why writing from lived experience isn’t always essential

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      Review
      Linck & Mülhahn — a true story of gender noncomforming makes rich, playful drama

      Also reviewed: Shakespeare’s bloodbath ‘Titus Andronicus’; the return of ‘2:22 — A Ghost Story’

    • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
      HTSI
      La Bayadère boys

      In their restaging of the classic ballet, dancer Benjamin Pech and artist Ignasi Monreal have created the perfect pas de deux

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      Review
      Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is an ingenious, absurdist romcom — review

      Plus: revival of Michael Frayn’s brilliant farce ‘Noises Off’; drag deconstructed in ‘Sound of the Underground’

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      Immersive production Saint Jude pits AI against the audience

      Theatre and gaming are combined in a show that claims to let participants converse with coma patients

    • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
      Person in the News
      Martin McDonagh, a reluctant playwright turned movie director

      Oscar nominations for ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ are a landmark in his creative evolution

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Review
      George Takei stars in Allegiance, a gripping musical about Japanese internment — review

      Plus: social awkwardness in ‘The Unfriend’; a Jewish comedian amid white supremacists in ‘Just for Us’

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Interview
      Complicité brings murder-mystery eco-fable Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead to the stage

      Director Simon McBurney and actor Kathryn Hunter have adapted Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s novel

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Review
      Paul Mescal is brilliantly brutal in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Almeida Theatre

      Also opening in London: ‘Watch on the Rhine’ at the Donmar Warehouse, a second world war drama with lessons for today

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      The Oscars 2023: all you need to know
      Screenwriter Tony Kushner on getting inside Steven Spielberg’s head with The Fabelmans

      The ‘inveterate Freudian’ discusses his dual role as the director’s collaborator and unofficial therapist, and why film-making is ‘in a genuine crisis’

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      Interview
      Sentenced to 140 words a day in Sam Steiner’s drama

      The playwright and director Josie Rourke talk about ‘Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons’, which explores a world where language is rationed

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      Godot at 70: waiting for Beckett’s classic to evolve

      The author’s 1953 play established his reputation — but is it now ripe for a rethink?

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      Arts
      From Vermeer to Joni Mitchell: hot tickets for 2023

      Amsterdam’s show of dozens of Vermeer works is set to be one of the highlights of a year that promises blockbusters, comebacks and a final farewell

    • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
      Review
      As You Like It, Soho Place review — wintry enchantment with besotted lovers

      Also on the London stage: ‘Hakawatis’ at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse spins stories for survival

    • Wednesday, 28 December, 2022
      The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2022
      Best theatre shows of 2022

      A scintillating political drama, a tender Japanese film adaptation and a reimagined classic musical made our critic’s list

    • Tuesday, 27 December, 2022
      Arts
      The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2022
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