Theatre

A drama critic looks back on a lifelong quest to answer one question

America’s Deep South in the 1930s comes to 21st-century Southwark

A new “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” from the star of “La Cage aux Folles” and the director of “Skyfall” 

Ben Whishaw is the ethereal star of “Peter and Alice”

“The Book of Mormon”, a joyous new musical about America 

In a revival of a Peter Nichols farce

It’s a part that calls for high status, wit, the ability to show a spirit broken

One of the greatest living playwrights is also a sought-after screenwriter and a conservative modernist

Jonathan Pryce’s well-timed King Lear

Simon McBurney’s adaptation of “The Master and Margarita”