I helped found Shazam, now I write crime novels: Job hopping is a joy Opinion Long gone are the days of life-long jobs and thank goodness – job-hopping is a joy, writes Shazam-investor-turned-play-director Ajay Chowdhury.
Gillian Anderson is magnetic in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Life&Style Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup electrify Albee’s caustic marital battleground at @sohoplace; book now for a bruising West End night.
Hay Fever review: Richard E Grant is perfect Coward fodder Life&Style Hay Fever review and star rating: ★★★★ Of course, darling: Richard E Grant simply must play David Bliss, the blinkered, posho patriarch at the centre of Noel Coward’s drawing room comedy, Hay Fever. This is how I imagine the casting conversations went, anyway. Shockingly, E Grant – everyone’s favourite aristo-portrayer – has until now never [...]
Josh O’Connor shines in Golden Boy, a boxing epic at the Almeida September 28, 2026 Golden Boy | Almeida | ★★★★★ Boxing – and fighting more generally – has always made for thrilling pop culture. Raging Bull, Rocky, The Fighter, The Wrestler, The Smashing Machine: there is something inherently dramatic about stepping into the ring: two people, cordoned off from the world, engaged in a violent battle of wills. One [...]
As You Like It review: A Bridgerton look and a Celtic sound make for a truly mad production September 3, 2026 For those who remain sceptical that Shakespeare can be fun, allow me to prescribe the Globe's latest production of As You Like It.
Death Note: The Musical review – a high-shine, high school take on the trolley problem August 12, 2026 Adapted from a much-loved Manga series, Death Note the Musical is an impressive, high-shine production, with rudimentary philosophy.
Cleansed is still the most harrowing play you’ll ever see August 3, 2026 Cleansed | Almeida | ★★★★☆ There’s a hint at what you’re in for with Cleansed when the Almeida staff tape over everyone’s phone on the way in to prevent any photography; there is a lot of nudity in this play, and none of it is the good kind. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Sarah [...]
Archduke play at the Royal Court: A fascinating comedy about radicalisation June 30, 2026 Archduke | Royal Court | ★★★★☆ I’m not sure what I expected from this play about the days preceding the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand – the event credited with starting the First World War – but it wasn’t a comedy of errors whose influences run the gamut from Withnail and I to Chris [...]
The Misanthrope at the National Theatre: Sandra Oh shines in a play that flatters to deceive June 30, 2026 The Misanthrope | National Theatre (Lyttelton) | ★★★☆☆ True to its name, this new version of The Misanthrope is a difficult play to love. Mercilessly updated from Moliere’s 17th-century comedy of manners by the mercurial Martin Crimp, it’s a jagged diatribe against… well everything. The literary world, the privileged, the young and the old, the [...]
Pride musical at the National Theatre review: I’ve never seen so many people in tears June 26, 2026 Pride musical at the National Theatre review: ★★★★ Could there be a story more ready-made for a musical than the tale of the unlikely partnership between the gays and the Welsh miners? Based on the true, incredible account of the miner strikes of 1984 and 1985, and following the brilliant 2014 film of the same [...]