Tag: Theatre

‘I knew I was being followed’: Keira Knightley on her hacking nightmare – and new Stasi spy play The Lives of Others

As the Oscar-winning Stasi surveillance film hits the stage, Knightley and co-star…

Nina review – a riveting series of horribly invasive auditions for The Seagull

Battersea Arts Centre, LondonWomen up for a role as Chekhov’s aspiring actor…

John Maynard Keynes: the cultured economist who governments turn to in a crisis

A new play about the art-loving Bloomsbury Group member speaks of the…

Two Doors Down review – outrageously sharp, joyously sweary return of the Latimer Crescent favourites

OVO Hydro, GlasgowAhead of the sitcom’s new series in 2027 the full…

First Encounters: Julius Caesar review – so thrilling it kept a hall full of teens in pin-drop silence

Ormiston Bushfield Academy, PeterboroughAn intro to Shakespeare doesn’t get any better than…

The Guardian view on Keynes in the West End: James Graham’s latest play captures the zeitgeist | Editorial

As the chancellor, John Healey, ponders options ahead of his first budget,…

Can a ballerina do a stomp? Natalia Osipova on making her fearsome, foul-mouthed acting debut

Osipova plays the wife of bisexual economist John Maynard Keynes in a…

Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists review – It caused fury across Europe. In the UK? Laughter and coughing

National Theatre, LondonTiago Rodrigues’s play has incensed audiences abroad with one character’s…

Hang Time review – a chilling picture of the horrors of racial violence

Royal Lyceum theatre, EdinburghThree men bicker and reflect like they’re chatting at…

Dirty Dancer review – Swayze stan is like a whirlwind as she replays 80s favourite

Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghMelissa Firlit recreates Dirty Dancing in a one-woman show that…