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Theatre

Theatre’s plague year
A delicate ecosystem has been disrupted. The effects are dire
Gemma Bodinetz

Infectious enthusiasms
Hard times on stage—and off it
Mark Lawson

Honour and courage
Tom Stoppard’s roots and Caryl Churchill’s dystopia
Mark Lawson

Special affects
The National finds a niche in staging literary adaptations while Shakespeare returns to school in the Donmar's Teenage Dick
Mark Lawson

Pulling the trigger
The Royal Shakespeare Company tames the Shrew
Mark Lawson

Jane Austen plus Doctor Who
A play based on the unfinished The Watsons has a familiar setting but takes a turn into existential crisis
Kirsty Lang

Ibsen perplexed
Why modernise old plays when their message is already topical?
Mark Lawson

Verbal warfare
State of the nation plays like 1980s-set Hansard now have to compete with extraordinary real life drama
Kirsty Lang

Playing the Wall game
Ella Hickson’s new play is a clever—and technically inventive—portrayal of East Germany in the 1960s
Anne McElvoy

Miller’s tales and Nordic gloom
Willy Loman is back in town, still pursuing the American dream, while Ibsen’s unhappy ghosts return too
Anne McElvoy

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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