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4 November 2025

  • (from left) Toby Jones, Caitlin FitzGerald and David Harewood in Othello at Theatre Royal Haymarket.

    Othello review – David Harewood makes a commanding return to landmark role

    Harewood is captivating alongside Toby Jones and Caitlin FitzGerald but Tom Morris’s stylish staging could probe greater depths

3 November 2025

  • 8th October-LONDON ; Rehearsals for the production of War Horse at the National Theatre, London. Actors work with life-sized puppets by the Handspring Puppet company in the play, based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, set in the first world war. Commissioned ( Photo by Graeme Robertson)

    Adrian Sutton obituary

    Acclaimed British composer best known for War Horse, Coram Boy and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  • Carmela Corbett (Sheila Birling) and Clive Francis (Mr Birling) in An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley @ Playhouse Theatre. Directed by Stephen Daldry.Designed by Ian MacNeil. (Opening 10-11-16) ©Tristram Kenton 11/16 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    An inspector’s calling: JB Priestley’s plea for justice echoes beyond his best-known play

    His parable of collective social responsibility is a hardy classic but the Yorkshire playwright’s wider legacy should not be neglected
  • Anthony Hopkins

    The big interview
    ‘I knew I needed help. I knew it was over’: Anthony Hopkins on alcoholism, anger, Academy Awards – and 50 years of sobriety

    As the actor approaches his 90th year and publishes an autobiography, he reflects on his early years on stage, being inspired by Laurence Olivier, becoming a Hollywood star and conquering his demons

1 November 2025

  • The new-look Paddington.

    Big belly, wavy fur and a nose for trouble: we exclusively reveal the new-look Paddington

    It’s been the biggest secret in theatre: what will the marmalade-loving, hyper-polite Peruvian look like in Paddington the Musical? As the curtain rises, we speak to the new bear’s creator, a veteran of Star Wars and PG Tips ads
  • Jack Wolfe as the Balladeer, centre, in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, at Chichester Festival theatre.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry goes an extra mile

    Passenger reworks songs from his hit musical while Tanika Gupta gives Ibsen a Hollywood makeover and TikTok becomes a stage for young playwrights
  • Emma Stone in Bugonia.

    Going out, staying in
    From Bugonia to All’s Fair: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

    Yorgos ‘Poor Things’ Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone for a weird kidnapping thriller, while Kim Kardashian and Sarah Paulson get the right side of the law in Ryan Murphy’s LA story

31 October 2025

  • Upper-body shot of Nicholas Brown, Glenn Hazeldine and Hannah Waterman standing together, bare-topped, with Glenn in the centre wearing sunnies and holding a large open book, and Hannah to his left holding bunches of grapes in front of her breasts and smiling

    Naturism review – nude climate crisis comedy is fun but skimps on substance

  • Sarah Jessica Parker backstage at the Savoy Theatre.

    Priced out of the West End? Go to Glasgow or the Globe instead

  • Daniel Casey in The Killings at Badger’s Drift.

    Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger’s Drift review – TV detective adaptation is occasionally lethal

  • Prunella Scales as Vicky in Hobson's Choice.

    Letter: Prunella Scales obituary

  • Joburg Ballet: Communion of Light review – pointe-shoe prettiness and mad, itching murder

  • ‘I’ve played a lot of sneery bastards’: Roger Allam on bad singing, big paydays and Elgar’s level of ‘gitacity’

  • ‘We stick two fingers up at Henry VIII’: can the riotous all-Japanese Six out-Tudor-queen the original?

30 October 2025

  • Genevieve Morris in Dying: a Memoir, a stage adaptation by Benjamin Law of Cory Taylor's 2016 memoir

    Dying: A Memoir review – Benjamin Law’s adaptation of Cory Taylor’s book fails to satisfy

  • Nabil Shaban in Haroun and the Sea of Stories @ The Cottesloe, National Theatre. Directed by Tim Supple. ©Tristram Kenton 10/98

    Nabil Shaban obituary

  • Hot-crushing … Hannah Saxby as Wendy and Daniel Krikler as Peter Pan.

    Wendy & Peter Pan review – sugar-rush spectacle with an awfully big hormonal hot-crush

  • Elisabeth Gunawan, Daniel York Loh and Jasmine Chiu in Prayers For A Hungry Ghost by KISS WITNESS/Elisabeth Gunawan @ Barbican, Pit Theatre. (Opening 29-10-25) ©Tristram Kenton 10-25 tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Prayers for a Hungry Ghost review – a monster take on family trauma

  • Yvonne Brewster obituary

  • Wayne McGregor review: shimmering dance spectacular without a live dancer in sight

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