Tim Walker
28 November 2025
David Copperfield is London’s best Christmas show of the year
Eddy Payne is reminiscent of Ralph Richardson in a night full of fun and charm
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Bryan Cranston is superbly seditious in All My Sons
Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Paapa Essiedu make for magnificent theatre - just ignore the tree
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The Line of Beauty is dazzling and devastating
There’s more humanity in this standout play about Thatcher’s Britain than in the decade itself
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Mary Page Marlowe is a boring waste of Susan Sarandon
Despite the star power, it’s hard to feel engaged or uplifted by a self-indulgent snooze
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Remember this name: Hiran Abeysekera is going to be a star
This Hamlet is an unignorable feat of acting genius
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Joe Orton: Still entertaining, no longer dangerous
Once shocking, Mr Sloane now feels quaint - but still fun
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Review: Brendan Gleeson, boss of the bar stool
The actor excels as a pub philosopher in Conor McPherson’s The Weir
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Review: A bloody entrance for the National’s new chief
Indhu Rubasingham banishes the doldrums of her predecessor with a big, bold Bacchae
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Rosamund Pike is seriously good in Inter Alia
In Suzie Miller’s latest legal drama, the Hollywood favourite plays a judge and mother facing her worst nightmare
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Do not go and see this play
A distinctly unappetising production has somehow made its way to the West End. Do not be fooled
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Sitting in the crowd, yearning for something fun
An earnest adaptation of a novel about suicide, sex and capital punishment is an impressive looking production, but a barrel of laughs it is not
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Intimate Apparel will make you fall in love with theatre again
The Handmaid’s Tale star Samira Wiley offers a haunting portrait of dignified pain
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Disney’s Hercules: big, bland, and American
A by-numbers musical lacks heart and humour - but tourists will love it
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Imelda Staunton and Jenny Seagrove, the great pretenders
Two of our British theatre’s finest are outstanding in Mrs Warren's Profession and The Anastasia File
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Corny country musical Shucked is no Book of Mormon
The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s US hit is a sub-prime Oklahoma
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This role will win Tamsin Greig a best actress Olivier award
Lindsay Posner’s revival of The Deep Blue Sea understands the power of silence
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Why did they bother with this mis-shaped monument to Sondheim?
The posthumously completed Here We Go has no songs, no story and no reason to be on stage
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Jessie Buckley and the worst night of theatre in 50 years
Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree is a boring, self-indulgent mess
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The critics love Chris O’Dowd’s new play. They’re wrong
Conor McPherson’s The Brightening Air is a slow-burner without much to say
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Ewan McGregor is superb as Ibsen meets Succession
My Master Builder is a twisting climbing frame of revenge and misery
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The play that gets Oscar Wilde right
The Importance of Being Oscar is a personal triumph for actor Alastair Whatley
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Review: You wait ages for a great role for a woman.. in Backstroke, two come at once
Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig are funny, tragic and unforgettable
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Review: Tom Hiddleston’s CBeebies Shakespeare is a waste of space hopper
Hayley Atwell can’t save a witless update of Much Ado About Nothing
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Vulnerable, terrifying Rami Malek will have you in rhapsodies
The man who played Freddie Mercury stuns in an Oedipus revival
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Terence Rattigan’s mainline to the human condition
A revival of two of his best-loved plays from the 1950s have plenty to say today
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A Bad Sister’s very good stage return
The Little Foxes confirms Anne-Marie Duff as a true great
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What’s the point of reproducing this Mel Brooks classic?
Patrick Marber’s unremarkable revival delivers polite laughs only
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An Oscar Wilde reboot that’s not earnest enough
Max Webster's production of The Importance of Being Earnest fails to commit to doing something truly innovative
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Only a humbug could resist John Simm’s Scrooge
The Old Vic’s Dickens classic still carries a powerful message about poverty and greed
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What’s the point of the Dr. Strangelove revival?
Yes, it’s amusing - but Steve Coogan is no Sellers and this can’t match the Kubrick classic
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A Greek king stalks the West End
A new production of Oedipus shows how it should be done
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Lehman Brothers collapses… again
A good show first time round is back for an ill-advised encore
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