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Theatre

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Review
    The Producers is a gleeful, dialled-up-to-the-max musical

    Patrick Marber’s take on Mel Brooks’s bad-taste comedy lights up London’s Menier Chocolate Factory

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    ReviewDance
    Ballet Shoes — Noel Streatfeild’s tale of self-discovery gets a vivid stage version

    Kendall Feaver’s dramatisation at the National Theatre galvanises the classic children’s novel into a modern work

  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Review
    The Devil Wears Prada is a slim, superficial musical

    Not even Elton John’s songs can redeem this predictable show at London’s Dominion Theatre

    A stylishly dressed woman wearing dark glasses stands looking cool and authoritative amid a crowd of dancers waving items such as notebooks
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Review
    Six theatre shows to see in London
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    Expendable is a kitchen sink drama for today

    Emteaz Hussain’s drama at the Royal Court Upstairs vividly depicts the texture of ordinary life for a British Pakistani household

    A middle-aged woman stands talking on a mobile phone, which is pressed between her ear and her shoulder
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    A melancholic, musical Twelfth Night gets to the heart of the play

    A 1940s setting, filled with both grief and hope, helps the Orange Tree Theatre’s production to sing

    A man and a woman wearing elegant 1940s-style evening wear stand together; he places his hands on her shoulders and appears to be singing
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    Ncuti Gatwa is a flirtatious agent of mischief in The Importance of Being Earnest

    The ‘Doctor Who’ star leads Oscar Wilde’s romantic comedy, delivered with a huge wink at London’s National Theatre

  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    Interview
    Anne-Marie Duff: ‘Drama is about a point of crisis’

    The ‘Bad Sisters’ star on playing an uncompromising sister in her latest stage role in ‘The Little Foxes’ — and why she is drawn to playing women under pressure

  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Review
    James Joyce’s The Dead becomes an infectiously festive promenade piece

    Immersive Dublin production of the short story is performed in a playful, easy-going style

    A woman and a man in formal evening wear from the early 20th century stand together in a room, smiling
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    The Purists is an effervescent comedy of verbal battles

    A group of New York hip-hop lovers and haters clash and connect in Dan McCabe’s play at London’s Kiln Theatre

    A woman and a man are having an intense conversation while sitting on steps outside a building
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    All’s Well That Ends Well — mischief mixed with dark undercurrents

    Shakespeare’s ‘problem’ play is given a sprightly staging at London’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

    A man wearing a neckerchief and a vest kneels on a stage scattered with tufts of wool or cotton; in the background a man lurks on a platform
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Immersive theatre group You Me Bum Bum Train: ‘It’s like an empathy machine’

    Ahead of their top-secret new London show, the creators discuss making the audience the star — and changing lives

  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Review
    Wolves on Road — timely drama captures the slippery nature of crypto

    The residents of a London housing estate invest in digital currencies in a fascinating new play at the Bush Theatre

    A young man and woman are grinning with excitement; she stands behind him, her arms around his chest, while he raises his arms. Next to them is a large projection of a man’s face from a smartphone
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Review
    The Red Shoes, Swan Theatre review — grisly and gorgeous but oddly muted

    New adaptation results in a mismatch between the gruesome details the original and a bewildering modern reading

    A woman in a black dress and red shoes stands on a table surrounded by men and women in evening wear
  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI’s guide to making this festive season the best ever
    Inside the brilliantly bonkers Wintershall nativity

    Sisters Charlotte de Klee and Henrietta Fiddian-Green have staged a festive pilgrimage on their estate for decades. It’s a thing of wonder

    From left: Mike Keane (a shepherd in the nativity), Henrietta Fiddian-Green, Joss Stoddart and Rupert de Klee
  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
    ‘I still feel it’s pretty revolutionary’ — making a Ballet Shoes for our age

    As Katy Rudd brings the children’s classic to London’s National Theatre, can it enjoy the success of adaptations like ‘Matilda’ and ‘War Horse’?

    Three smiling young women in a rehearsal room: on the left in a pink zip-up top and baggy grey tracksuit pants; in the middle, wearing a green hoodie with black lycra and arms outstretched; on the right in baggy green combat pants and a black and red Adidas tracksuit top
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Review
    Laurie Anderson’s ARK: United States V — an artistic voyage hits turbulence

    The performer and musician’s new show at Aviva Studios, Manchester tackles big themes but lacks direction

    Against a deep blue background, a woman stands behind a microphone on stage, her arms extended in a quizzical gesture; behind her is a man playing a drum kit and a projection of a nuclear mushroom cloud
  • Saturday, 9 November, 2024
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: the holiday issue 2024

    Our Christmas gift guide is back – and it’s more colourful than ever

    Clara Denison wears Dior virgin wool Check N Dior dress, POA. Vivienne Westwood leather boots (just seen), POA. Socks, stylist’s own
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    FT Series
    HTSI meets the arts stars of the AW24 season

    The shows are on and you’ve read the reviews; now revisit our interviews with the people transforming stage and screen this season

    Cillian Murphy
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button makes an improbably enchanting musical

    First an F Scott Fitzgerald story, next a film starring Brad Pitt, now an unexpected joy at London’s Ambassadors Theatre

  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    Review
    Slave: A Question of Freedom — harrowing play about modern slavery in Sudan and London

    The Riverside Studios show tells the real-life story of Mende Nazer

  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Review
    Reykjavik — fishing boat drama splices realism with the supernatural

    Ghost stories abound in Richard Bean’s 1970s-set play at London’s Hampstead Theatre

  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Review
    Barcelona — Lily Collins stars in a drama that keeps you guessing

    A seemingly mismatched couple are thrown together in this uneven play at the Duke of York’s, London

    A man and a woman sit in a kitchen, talking; he looks confident, gesturing with one hand, while she appears nervous; on the table is a bottle of wine
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Review
    Steve Coogan is terrific in a timely Dr Strangelove

    The London stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 classic is faithful to the original but doesn’t quite hit all the right buttons

    Two men stand in discussion; one wears a suit, the other military uniform. Behind them, around a large oval table and lit by a ring of lights, sit men in military uniform; a map of the world is projected to the rear
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Review
    What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank — darkly comic and riveting

    Nathan Englander’s play, at London’s Marylebone Theatre, uses a prickly encounter to explore what it means to be Jewish today

    Two women sit at a kitchen table; one is showing the other a photograph. Behind them a young man in a vest holds up a bottle of vodka
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