Tim Walker
14 April 2024
The phenomenon Ian McKellen defies time in Player Kings
An 85-year-old delivers vulnerability beneath the bravado in an astonishing late-career performance
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Theatre Review: Sheridan Smith is mesmerising as a musical star in crisis
Opening Night is intelligent, unusual and unforgettable
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Michael Sheen’s Nye is the opposite of its subject - uninspiring
A show that celebrates the NHS is worthy, surreal but seldom involving
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Great pretender: Billy Crudup is a revelation in Harry Clarke
The Morning Show star shines in a tale of deception
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Theatre Review: A standing ovation for the immersive Guys & Dolls revival
Brave audience members can choose to get right in the thick of the musical’s action
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Theatre Review: His films were horrific.. and so was his acting
But Double Feature’s tale of Vincent Price’s clashes with a director is a misfire
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Theatre Review: A fidgety encounter with Keeley Hawes
The Human Body, also starring Jack Davenport, is a confused homage to a David Lean classic
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Theatre Review: Matt Smith is electrifying in an Ibsen classic with a very modern message
The former Doctor Who’s second-act speech in An Enemy of the People is a tour de force
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Review: A farewell to the ENO
It’s leaving London and going out on a high
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The Handmaid’s Tale is a triumph from the ENO’s turmoil
A row with the Musicians’ Union threatened to overshadow opera’s premiere
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Theatre Review: A vintage musical’s timely lesson
The King And I contains a powerful message about power and decency
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Theatre Review: Comfort but no chemistry from Hollywood royalty
Real-life couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker fail to spark in Plaza Suite
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Theatre Review: Bravo for Daniel Bravo in sexy, sassy Cruel Intentions
A star is born in this high school musical with roots in French literature
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Theatre Review: Woody Harrelson’s Ulster American is funny, brutal and savage
This could be the most truthful play ever about putting on a play
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Theatre Review: The Trumpite who came to tea
Frances Barber is brilliant as a deranged conspiracist in Steven Moffat's play The Unfriend
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Can theatre recover from the Covid shock?
Nothing has been quite the same in theatre since the pandemic – investors are risk-averse and a lot of money has been lost
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Theatre Review: Want to watch a great play? Then go for a Burton
The Motive and the Cue is just as good second time around
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Alone Together, a tribute to Bill Kenwright
This year I learned the last great showman was one of those people I had loved deeply without ever fully realising it
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The mesmerising intensity of David Tennant’s Macbeth
This high-tech masterclass is also an extraordinary piece of unforgettable theatre
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Theatre Review: This Christmas Carol has a chilling resonance
The withering contempt Christopher Eccleston's Scrooge has for the poor and homeless hits particularly hard this year
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Theatre Review: Mandy Patinkin, the Broadway legend going it alone in the West End
The American actor's solo show is eloquent - if sometimes self-indulgent
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Theatre Review: The Queen Mother’s champagne-loving servant is the subject of the funniest West End play in years
Backstairs Billy captures the charm of an eccentric keeper of royal secrets
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Theatre Review: No more Lloyd Webber revivals, please
The latest reboot of Sunset Boulevard veers into self-indulgence
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Theatre Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane feeds the imagination
An adaptation of a Neil Gaiman novel makes for a startling production
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Theatre Review: Flowers for Mrs Harris cleans up with a triumph of Anglo-French co-operation
Patient theatregoers will be richly rewarded with Bronagh Lagan's production of the Paul Gallico book
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Theatre Review: Pygmalion skewers the social climbers
Richard Jones's revival displays perfectly what a preposterous activity our national obsession is
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Theatre Review: This Private Lives was dead on arrival
For a West End production, this show was simply not up to the mark
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Theatre Review: Little Big Things brings large joy
At a time when we have seen so much of the worst of it, this show appears to be tapping into something big
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Theatre Review: Alone Together is a play for your mind
Simon Williams has written a very clever and thoughtful play with an unusually sure grasp of the human condition
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Theatre Review: The timely revival that drags just a little
The return of La Cage Aux Folles, the show that proved too much for Thatcher-era Britain
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Theatre Review: Wash your hands of Dr Semmelweis
The production is intelligent, well-acted, but oh, so boring
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Theatre Review: This Sound of Music is one of my favourite things
Adam Penford’s production of the classic musical speaks to our populist times
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