Here are our main takeaways from London theatre’s biggest night.
Musicals and theatre in London
Theatre reviews, tickets and offers – it’s your one-stop guide to plays and musicals in the West End and the best shows in London.
The best new London theatre openings in April
From Ian McKellen’s four-hour Shakespeare epic to PJ Harvey’s Dickens adaptation, it’s an epic month on the London stage
The best dance and ballet shows in April 2024
From Hofesh Shechter at the Southbank to Boy Blue at the Barbican
The top London comedy shows to see in April
From the return of hipster American clown Doctor Brown with his first show in 12 years to angry ‘journalist’ Jonathan Pie making his West...
‘The most distilled, pure version of a Punchdrunk show’ – the immersive legends return with ‘Viola’s Room’
They’re back already, just a few months after the epic ‘Burnt City’ closed
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Latest theatre reviews
The Comeuppance
It feels like just yesterday that ‘millennial’ was synonymous with ‘young’. But in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins rancorous dark comedy, a...
Islington
Player Kings
Yes, the presence of soon-to-turn-85 stage and screen legend Ian McKellen tackling Shakespeare’s great character Sir John Falstaff is the big draw in...
Covent Garden
Gunter
This enjoyably feral offering from all-female, historian-led theatre company Dirty Hare is a very unconventional dramatisation of a very specific historical...
Sloane Square
Underdog: The Other Brontë
‘What’s your favourite Brontë novel?’ demands Gemma Whelan’s bolshy Charlotte Brontë, as she accosts a succession of random...
South Bank
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What to book for this year.
Immersive theatre in London
London is bursting with plays which welcome you into a real-life adventure…
Shakespeare plays in London
All the Bard in town this month.
London musicals
There are a hell of a lot of musicals running in London at any given time…
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Read the latest theatre news
Five things we learned at the 2024 Olivier Awards
It was London theatre’s big night – and we were there
The producers of the Tom Holland-starring ‘Romeo & Juliet’ have condemned ‘deplorable racial abuse’ towards a cast member
It’s understood the producers are referring to comments about Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who plays Juliet in the sold-out West End show
The best new London theatre openings in April
Ian McKellen, Brian Cox and PJ Harvey head up a busy month on the London stage
James Corden and Anna Maxwell-Martin star in new play ‘The Constituent’ at the Old Vic
The political drama is Corden’s first stage role since ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’
The best London theatres
National Theatre
National Theatre
Arguably the greatest theatre in the world, the Royal National Theatre is also one of London's most recognisable landmarks and perhaps this country's foremost...
Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court Theatre
London's premiere new writing theatre, the Royal Court made its name in the 1950s when it was synonymous with kitchen sink dramas and the Angry Young Men, and...
Shakespeare's Globe
Shakespeare's Globe
Built in 1599 and destroyed by fire in 1613, the original Globe Theatre was at the heart of London’s seedy South London entertainment district in William...
Lyric Hammersmith
Lyric Hammersmith
A beacon of culture in Hammersmith, the Lyric's distinctive look is largely down to a fusion of the building's 1970s structure, the theatre's Victorian...