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Theatre

  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    Review
    Adrien Brody is spellbinding in death row drama The Fear of 13

    Lindsey Ferrentino’s truth-based play about an innocent man locked up for 22 years is at London’s Donmar Warehouse

    A prison guard holding a truncheon gives orders to an inmate in sleeveless vest and handcuffs
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    Lunch with the FT
    Actor Harriet Walter: ‘I’m not tough. I’m nothing like the characters I play’

    The stage and screen star on portraying Succession’s ice queen, reimagining Shakespeare’s women — and taking on Margaret Thatcher

    An illustration of an older women with her hair pulled back. She has a slight smile on her face. In the background is a restaurant
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    The Other Place is a blazing, shockingly frank take on Antigone

    Alexander Zeldin spins Greek myth into modern psychodrama at London’s National Theatre, with Emma D’Arcy and Tobias Menzies on stunning form

    Two young women sit and an older woman and man stand around a dining table; the man has an expression of shock
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Review
    Enda Walsh’s powerful Safe House lights up Dublin Theatre Festival — review

    Plus: wanton revelry in Tom Murphy’s ‘The House’ and Good Friday revisited in Owen McCafferty’s ‘Agreement’

    A woman wearing a crown and a flouncy dress holds a microphone and smiles; behind her are stacked household items such as a television and a folded-up sunlounger
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    Mark Rylance’s vaudevillian turn unbalances Juno and the Paycock

    The Gielgud’s revival of the Irish civil war-era drama includes a subtle performance by J Smith-Cameron

    Two men in shabby clothing stand, talk and josh with each other
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    A Tupperware of Ashes — Meera Syal stars in an immensely poignant drama

    She plays a matriarch stricken by the onset of dementia in Tanika Gupta’s play at London’s National Theatre

    A woman sits in an armchair with a blanket covering her legs. She is smiling but with some sadness as a man sitting next to her places his hands on her arm
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    The Aids Plays Project honours a lost generation of writers

    Alastair Curtis is reshaping the queer theatrical canon, starting with a maligned work by the writer of ‘A Chorus Line’

    Two men sit together in theatre seats; one has a large book on his knee
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    InterviewTelevision
    Actor Adeel Akhtar on following his instincts and ‘not being a minority in a room’

    The Bafta-winner and star of ‘Sherwood’ and ‘Showtrial’ discusses the twists and turns of his acting career

  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    InterviewArts
    Es Devlin’s next act

    From her spectacular set designs to intimate portraits, the polymathic creative won’t be boxed in

    A woman in a yellow jumper, white trousers and yellow Crocs sits in a chair with her legs crossed. She holds a paintbrush in one hand. Paintings decorate the wall behind her
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    HTSI
    John and Bob Crowley, brothers in arts

    The theatre designer and the film director have become two of the most established voices in the worlds of stage and screen. What’s the secret to their creative DNA?

    The brothers sit either side of a painting by Howard Hodgkin
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Review
    At the Almeida, theatre’s angry young men still hit a nerve

    Powerful stagings of ‘Roots’ and ‘Look Back in Anger’ remain disturbingly resonant

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Review
    John Lithgow is sensational as Roald Dahl in antisemitism drama Giant

    This astonishingly good writing debut by longtime director Mark Rosenblatt focuses on the fallout from a review penned by the children’s author

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Music
    London’s K-Music Festival brings traditional Korean sounds with a contemporary twist

    Season of shows gift performances that are far from the ultra-processed offerings of K-pop

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Review
    Robert Downey Jr is oddly restrained as an AI-using novelist in Broadway debut McNeal

    Ayad Akhtar’s latest topical play muses on concerns over technology but fails to capture the messiness of real life

  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    ObituaryArts
    Maggie Smith, actor, 1934-2024

    Versatile star whose work across eight decades spanned crowd-pleasing comedy, Shakespearean tragedy and wizardry

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Film
    Maggie Smith, star of Downton Abbey and Harry Potter, dies at 89

    Oscar-winning actor was renowned for her acerbic wit and ‘formidable talent’

    Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
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    Rebecca Hall is ready to show us her secret project

    The actress and filmmaker has conquered Shakespeare, Hollywood, motherhood and mourning. Now she’s flexing a new artistic muscle

  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Review
    Six theatre shows to see in London
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    Here in America — when Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan locked horns

    David Edgar’s drama at Richmond’s Orange Tree Theatre focuses on a dispute between the two theatrical giants

    Two men sit facing each other, talking. One holds an American football
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    Coriolanus, National Theatre — David Oyelowo shines as Shakespeare’s troubled warrior

    Past and present blur in Lyndsey Turner’s stunning production

    A muscular man, his shirt hanging from his wrist, is held aloft by a group of men and raises his fist, grimacing
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Interview
    Actor Khalid Abdalla: ‘This is my first work that has come so personally from me’

    After roles in ‘United 93’ and ‘The Crown’, he has written a solo show that reflects on his mixed heritage — and how the world sees him

    A man stands wearing a thoughtful expression
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Review
    A Face in the Crowd, Young Vic — Elvis Costello musical is a satire for our times

    The show, based on a 1957 film, tackles populism with a broad brush

    A man sits on a chair singing into an old-fashioned microphone; he is leaning to one side as a woman sitting next to him reaches towards him with one hand
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    Interview
    Playwright Alexander Zeldin on reworking Antigone for our times: ‘Art is a moral act — we need it’

    ‘The Other Place’ draws on Sophocles’s tragedy to ask: what do we do when faced with suffering around us?

  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Six theatre shows to see in London
    Five stars for a stunning Waiting for Godot with Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati

    James Macdonald captures the play’s emotional depth and its political power at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket

    Two men in shabby clothes stand facing us, one with his left arm outstretched
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    FT SeriesWhat to wear this autumn – the menswear special
    Steve Coogan is feeling Strangelove

    The actor, comedian and director on bringing Stanley Kubrick’s blackest comedy to the West End stage

    Steve Coogan photographed at Holborn Studios, London
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