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InterviewTheatre
Benedict Andrews on shaking up Chekhov: ‘You want to feel you’re watching life in all its spontaneity’
...“I think he uses the theatre, almost in the way John Cage uses [silent musical piece] ‘4’ 33”’, for us to collectively experience and meditate on being in time . . ....
April 20, 2024
ReviewTheatre
Double Feature — John Logan’s drama explores power and art in filmmaking
...John Logan, who writes for both film and theatre, has mischievously picked up on this idea. His latest drama, Double Feature, splices together what are essentially two plays, or at least two scenarios....
February 28, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewTheatre
Opening Night — Sheridan Smith shines but the show struggles to connect
...For a film that was panned at its own premiere, John Cassavetes’s 1977 Opening Night is experiencing a remarkable extended life....
March 27, 2024
Six theatre shows to see in London
London Tide, National Theatre — Dickens turned into restless river drama with music by PJ Harvey
...Wight and Stephen Kennedy are lovely as kindly elders; Tom Mothersdale’s mysterious John Rokesmith drifts through the action like a ghost....
April 17, 2024
ReviewTheatre
The Divine Mrs S, Hampstead Theatre, London — entertaining portrait of an actress ahead of her time
...It’s her brother, the theatre manager and notably less talented actor, John Philip Kemble, who gets Hamlet, Lear, Richard III....
April 3, 2024
ReviewTheatre
Nachtland is a queasy black comedy that asks urgent questions — review
...Philipp (a wonderfully fickle John Heffernan), who has been suggesting reasons to keep the painting, is now all in favour of selling....
February 28, 2024
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
ReviewTheatre
The Duchess of Malfi — Francesca Mills shines in a richly atmospheric staging
...But the real menace lies in the emotional journey in John Webster’s 17th-century tragedy: its depiction of brothers so depraved that they kill their sister to smother her freedom and of a society corroded...
March 6, 2024
ReviewTheatre
Sarah Jessica Parker is a joy in Plaza Suite at the Savoy Theatre — review
...The main draw of John Benjamin Hickey’s production is the evident bond between Parker and Broderick as they play out multiple variations of marital misery....
January 29, 2024
ReviewTheatre
Northanger Abbey at the Orange Tree, Richmond — a sweet, smart response to Jane Austen
...She falls in love with mild, muslin-loving Henry Tilney, or at least persuades herself she does, fends off the attentions of caddish John Thorpe and forms a close attachment with Thorpe’s sister Isabella...
January 31, 2024
ReviewTheatre
Just for One Day, Old Vic — Live Aid musical hits the stage with fresh look at epic concert
...And it is them that this heartfelt, though flawed, musical from Luke Sheppard (direction), John O’Farrell (book) and Matthew Brind (musical arrangements) seeks to remember, staged like a gig with the band...
February 13, 2024
ReviewTheatre
Cold War combines love, politics and art in a stirring drama — review
...Though written from the point of view of the Japanese, and drawing on Japanese music and Kabuki, the show is the work of two American artists (Sondheim and John Weidman)....
December 13, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Nineteen Gardens, Hampstead Theatre — ex-lovers confront their past in a sharp and surreal play
...But then John, having so much, also has a lot to lose. That’s where Aga spies her opportunity for leverage....
November 15, 2023
InterviewTheatre
Sam Mendes on the ‘absurdity, heroism and beauty’ of making theatre
...Written by Jack Thorne and based on eyewitness accounts, Motive (originally staged at the National Theatre last spring) peers into the combustible rehearsal period for John Gielgud’s 1964 Broadway Hamlet...
November 30, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Mahabharata, Barbican — Sanskrit epic made modern
...The score, composed by John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran and blending ancient and modern instruments, underpins the evening, and there is some mesmerising dance, particularly from Ellora Patnaik and Jay Emmanuel...
October 4, 2023
ReviewTheatre
The Witches at the National Theatre — a mischievous musical take on Roald Dahl
...The story (written by Lkhagvasuren Bavuu and translated, for the surtitles, by John Man and Timberlake Wertenbaker) rolls slowly forward towards the restoration of order....
November 22, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
InterviewTheatre
Theatre director Lynette Linton: ‘You need to eat before you come, because we’re grilling’
...But while buns and baps are just bread and butter to Clyde, the mysterious head chef Montrellous, the “John Coltrane of sandwich-making”, sees something more....
October 6, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Joyous 42nd Street rides a wave of dazzling hoofing
...Another eccentric 1993 movie also finds musical voice in the shape of Mrs Doubtfire, adapted by John O’Farrell and Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick, but with less consistent results....
June 29, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Richard Burton and John Gielgud’s dramatic encounter brilliantly portrayed in The Motive and the Cue
...Theatre (Lyttelton), London There are fireworks and fights aplenty in The Motive and the Cue, but the image that lingers from Jack Thorne’s brilliant, compassionate new play is of two household names, John...
May 3, 2023
FirstFT
FirstFT: The main takeaways from Biden’s State of the Union speech
...Sarah Hemming talks to Brian Cox about his next act. Additional contributions from Gary Jones and Benjamin Wilhelm...
March 8, 2024
ReviewTheatre
Patriots is a mighty tragedy about the battle for Russia — review
...Adrian Scarborough makes an ebullient, restless and ambitious Churchill, while Stephen Campbell Moore is intense and tormented as the young John Reith (founder of the BBC)....
June 14, 2023
Theatre
How Dear England puts the physicality and psychology of football on stage
...It can offer routes into discussing racism (Roy Williams’ Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads), sexuality (John Donnelly’s The Pass) or acceptance (Bend it Like Beckham: The Musical)....
June 9, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Ruth Wilson’s stunning 24-hour performance in The Second Woman — review
...The scene, inspired by John Cassavetes’ 1977 film Opening Night, is simple enough. Virginia — blonde wig, red velvet dress, pointy slingbacks — sits in a room awaiting a visit from Marty....
May 24, 2023
InterviewTheatre
Actor Ruth Wilson on her marathon 24-hour performance in The Second Woman
...The scene itself, inspired by John Cassavetes’s 1977 film Opening Night, is scripted, but each iteration hangs entirely on the stranger who walks on to the stage....
May 11, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Dancing at Lughnasa — a beautiful new staging of Brian Friel’s play at the National Theatre
...Whitney White’s eloquent staging, often bathed in honey-coloured light by Neil Austin, is marked by radiant performances — particularly from Rachel John as the matriarch who runs the farm, Abiona Omonua...
April 27, 2023
The Weekend Essay
Hamnet reborn: a pandemic bestseller moves from page to stage
...‘Hamnet’, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, April 1-June 17; then Garrick Theatre, London, September 30-January 6 2024, rsc.org.uk Sarah Hemming is the FT’s theatre critic Find out about our latest stories...
March 31, 2023

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