Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
11 Nisan 5785
The message of this 1959 absurdist play survives. But instead of looking back at the horrors of conformism in 20th-century Europe, it now warns of the stampede ahead
By John Nathan
Fiddler on the Roof and Giant lead the wins
By Ellie Grant
John Donnelly’s hybrid play combines the occult with urban social realism
The original play allowed no space for the reality of Israel or Gaza today – and the film follows suit
By Jane Prinsley
How good to able to sit in a theatre and with some justification, rather than deluded hope, feel the unashamed urge to cry ‘Come on England’
This athletic Dracula send-up certainly puts the vamp into vampire
The star is ceaselessly flamboyant in Thomas Ostermeier’s staging of the Chekhov comedy
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There is much to enjoy in the London premiere of this darkly comic play set in Nazi-occupied Paris, but its premise means it is ultimately unconvincing
By Imogen Garfinkel
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This is a wonderful resurrection of gilded comedians Tommy Copper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse
Having explored a gay couple being attracted to a straight relationship in the play Cock, Mike Bartlett now turns to a heterosexual relationship where a spouse wants a same-sex affair
The granddaughter of the great classical violinist on her first stage play, an adaptation of the 1938 German novel The Passenger
The American President, not known for his appreciation of Shakespeare, won’t watch this, but he should
Jeffrey Sweet delivers a dark play about a previously blacklisted Jewish comic who refuses to let go of the past, even if it’ll destroy him
Is this a must-see production of the classical work? As Elektra puts it (throughout): no
The message that it is possible to replace trauma with inner peace is reassuring, but it is prioritised over the drama of Holocaust survivor Miriam Freedman’s story
Simon Lipkin’s Fagin is the best but not only reason to buy a ticket for this sublime revivial of the masterpiece
