Editor's picks
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Sir Donald Sinden dies aged 90
News: Veteran actor with string of stage, screen and TV credits had been ill with cancer
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That's neat: Chinnichap's hits become a musical
With his songwriting partner Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn created catchy tracks for Sweet and Mud. As a new jukebox musical shows off their back catalogue, he recalls the duo's highs and lows -
The new producers
Exciting young talents such as Vicky Graham, Emily Dobbs and Nicola Seed are breaking into the theatre production boys' club, and bringing new life and authenticity to the stage, writes Lyn Gardner -
The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd
Paul Miller gets off to a fine start as the Orange Tree's new director with this intense version of Lawrence's hard-hitting working-class tragedy, writes Michael Billington -
Mind your language
Lyn Gardner: Great surtitles make foreign productions accessible, but poor ones are a distraction. Should surtitles sometimes be shown the stage door?
Kenneth Lonergan’s breakout play revived with three young stars in a cruel to be kind portrayal of disillusioned adolescence
Becky Mode’s comedy about an out-of-work actor manning the phones in a New York restaurant delivers a virtuoso display of character switching – but not much more, writes Lyn Gardner
Tim Pigott-Smith gives the performance of his career in Mike Bartlett’s intelligent meditation on the pressures and purpose of monarchy today, writes Michael Billington
Brisbane’s La Boite and Sydney’s Belvoir St theatres tackle Henrik Ibsen’s seminal feminist play and arrive at the same conclusion
Strauss’s first completed ballet score, criticised as ‘undanceable’, is played here with sensuous immediacy by the Weimar Staatskapelle, writes Tim Ashley
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