Theatre The Tragedy of Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre: here, nothing is polite Yaël Farber’s production, starring James McArdle and Saoirse Ronan, summons up an energy that is raw and bloody. By Rosemary Waugh
Music & Theatre The Royal Swedish Opera’s La Passion de Simone: a philosopher’s life By Rosemary Waugh
TV & Radio Nora: A Doll’s House explores Ibsen’s classic in three different contexts By Rosemary Waugh
Music & Theatre Teenage Dick at the Donmar: clever, nuanced and huge amounts of fun By Rosemary Waugh
Blood Wedding at Young Vic: a woozy, inky world Entering the world of Blood Wedding is like stepping inside a Rembrandt painting. By Rosemary Waugh
Caryl Churchill’s Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. – intruiging, brilliantly performed plays The 81-year-old dramatist’s taste for slyly shape-shifting theatre is on display in this quartet of four new works for the… By Rosemary Waugh
Robert Icke’s Oedipus: a time-bending, contemporary take on Sophocles’s tragedy Robert Icke has a thing for playing with time. The British director’s Oedipus for Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, which premiered… By Rosemary Waugh