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Uncle Vanya review at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London – ‘Toby Jones stars in a polished and affecting adaptation’

The Welkin review at the National Theatre, London – ‘ambitious, gripping and richly textured’

Remaking a West End landmark – how Cameron Mackintosh transformed the Queen’s into the Sondheim Theatre

Editor's Picks

Opinion

Jack Evans: For too long tap dance has been seen as a gimmick – let’s trust the art form to tell stories

Jan 24, 2020

Opinion

Liam O’Dell: Access to theatre is a lottery for deaf people – it’s time to see more from venues

Jan 23, 2020

News

News

Production news round-up: Baby Reindeer to transfer to the Ambassadors Theatre and Paul Merton to make West End musical debut

Jan 24, 2020

News

Winsome Pinnock. Photo: Bronwen Sharp

Winsome Pinnock and Sabrina Mahfouz to celebrate history’s ‘neglected women’ at Globe Theatre

Jan 24, 2020

News

Audience member saves Macbeth after actor pulls out due to injury

Jan 24, 2020

News

The Comedy About a Bank Robbery to close after four years in West End

Jan 24, 2020

Reviews

Reviews

Flights review at Project Arts Centre, Dublin – ‘bleak, tender and intricately written’

Jan 24, 2020

Reviews

Lullabies for the Lost review at Old Red Lion, London – ‘thoughtful play about mental health’

Jan 24, 2020

Reviews

Uncle Vanya review at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London – ‘Toby Jones stars in a polished and affecting adaptation’

Jan 24, 2020

Reviews

Peeping Tom: Child review at Barbican Theatre, London – ‘hugely inventive and mercilessly bleak’

Jan 23, 2020

Opinion

Opinion

The Welkin at the National Theatre, London by Lucy Kirkwood – review round-up

Jan 24, 2020

Opinion

Variant 31 (left) and Wolf of Wall Street (right) closed after just a few weeks. Photos: Ali Wright/Matthew Walker

Andrzej Lukowski: Recent collapses show immersive theatre is hard to get right

Jan 24, 2020

Features

Promoted

Sylvia Young Theatre School: Preparing students with raw talent to be the stars of tomorrow

Jan 24, 2020

Interviews

Gerald Barry. Photo: Frances Marshall

Opera composer Gerald Barry: ‘The most money you got was for an opera: so I decided to write one’

Jan 24, 2020

Obituaries

Obituary: Terry Jones – Writer, director and actor who with Monty Python reshaped the course of British comedy

Jan 23, 2020

Promoted

The International College of Musical Theatre: Triple-threat training with a degree

Jan 23, 2020

Advice

Scholarships

Italia Conti Juniors students

The Stage Scholarships 2020: Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts

Jan 22, 2020

Advice

West End Producer

Dear West End Producer: ‘What opportunities are there if I can dance but not sing?’

Jan 22, 2020

International

Interviews

WMO founder Marko Stojanovic: ‘These are exciting times for the art of mime’

Jan 14, 2020

Features

BE Festival's artistic directors, Miguel Oyarzun and Isla Aguilar. Photo: Samuel Sanchez

BE Festival founders: ‘Our sacking from Madrid’s Conde Duque arts centre is an attack on artistic freedom’

Jan 8, 2020

Broadway

Opinion

Actor Cynthia Erivo at the press night for Aladdin at the Prince Edward Theatre. Photo: David Tett/Disney

Richard Jordan: Cynthia Erivo’s success shows that in theatre you never know what’s around the corner

Jan 23, 2020

Interviews

US actor Lois Smith: ‘People retire because they think it’s time – I haven’t felt that way’

Jan 21, 2020

In case you missed it

Features

The Stage 100 2020: The full list

Jan 7, 2020

News

Ian McKellen. Photo: Sarah Dunn

The Stage 100 2020: Ian McKellen first actor to be named theatre’s most influential figure

Jan 2, 2020

News

Slow progress on diversity exposed as The Stage survey shows 92% of top theatre bosses are white

Jan 2, 2020

Features

Philip Cairns as Peter Gynt at the National Theatre, Lucy Phelps and Sandy Grierson in Measure for Measure, Keegan Joyce in Solaris. Photos: Manuel Harlan/Helen Maybanks/Mihaela Bodlovic

Show reports 2019: a comedy of errors

Dec 16, 2019

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