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Susannah Clapp

Susannah Clapp is the theatre critic of the Observer. She is the author of With Chatwin and A Card from Angela Carter and a regular broadcaster. Twitter
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November 2024

  • A woman in red shoes dances on a table, surrounded by other cast members

    The week in theatre: The Red Shoes; Wolves on Road – review

    The shoes do the talking, eventually, in the RSC’s handsome yet overpolite take on Andersen’s grisly fairytale
  • musicians dancing on stage in THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

    The week in theatre: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Burnt-Up Love; More… Ghost Stories – review

    Jethro Compton’s folky Cornish musical sweeps into the West End with fiddles and fudge; writer Ché Walker plays a fiery ex-con on a mission; and new ghost stories offer more charm than alarm
  • Giles Terera (Turgidson), Steve Coogan (President Muffley), Tony Jayawardena (Bakov), Mark Hadfield (Faceman) and Oliver Alvin-Wilson (Jefferson) in Dr Strangelove.

    The week in theatre: Dr Strangelove; Barcelona; Quiet Songs – review

    In a week of underused talent, Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley merely recreate Kubrick’s satire; Lily Collins totters through a bland night in Spain; and Ruth Negga graces a trance-like hour

October 2024

  • Harriet Walter photographed in London by Phil Fisk for the Observer New Review, October 2024. Hair by Narad Kutowaroo @ Carol Hayes and makeup by Lucy Wearing @ Forward Artists

    ‘You get more confident as the parts run out’: Harriet Walter on her stage career, Succession and Shakespeare’s women

  • in period dress on stage, with only a red curtain behind them, Joseph Millson as Soames, Flora Spencer-Longhurst as Fleur and Fiona Hampton as Irene in The Forsyte Saga.

    The week in theatre: The Forsyte Saga, Parts 1 and 2; Othello – review

  • Mark Strong and Lesley Manville as Oedipus and Jocasta, with Jordan Scowen (Eteocles) and James Wilbraham (Polyneices).

    The week in theatre: Oedipus; The Fear of 13; The Duchess (of Malfi) – review

  • John Lithgow sitting at a table reading a copy of the Literary Review.

    The week in theatre: Giant; Roots; Look Back in Anger – review

September 2024

  • Lucian Msamati and and Ben Whishaw as Estragon and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London

    The week in theatre: Waiting for Godot; Coriolanus; A Face in the Crowd – review

    Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati add star power to James Macdonald’s thoughtful Beckett; David Oyelowo’s Coriolanus is dwarfed by epic staging; and an Elvis Costello-scored musical has too few high notes
  • Selorm Adonu in G,

    The week in theatre: G; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; The Real Thing – review

    Reality is up for debate in Tife Kusoro’s rapid-fire new drama, David Eldridge’s nuanced take on John le Carré, and Tom Stoppard’s most loving play
  • Archie Christoph-Allen and Curtis Kemlo laughing in the history boys

    The week in theatre: The History Boys; A Chorus Line – review

    Fresh talent shines, though nuance could try harder, in a 20th anniversary revival of Alan Bennett’s glinting schoolroom comedy

August 2024

  • Jack Lowden and Sean Gilder in The Fifth Step.

    Edinburgh festival theatre 2024: The Fifth Step; The Outrun; I Wish You Well; Gwyneth Goes Skiing – review

  • Jennie Lee, starring, from left, Eddie Ahrens, Georgina Liley, Lauren Robinson and Mark Emmons dancing and playing instruments

    The week in theatre: Jennie Lee; Fiddler on the Roof; Antony and Cleopatra – review

  • Romola Garai in the years

    The week in theatre: The Years; Pericles – review

  • Thomas Coombes in a suit, leaning over a coffin draped in a union flag

    The week in theatre: Death of England: The Plays; Grapes of Wrath; Please Right Back – review

July 2024

  • six actors on stage, two seated, a seventh, seated, obscured, looking at the central standing three – a woman gesturing to calm down as a man restrains another man

    The week in theatre: Slave Play; Skeleton Crew; Alma Mater – review

  • Richard Katz, Kostas Philippoglou and Sarah Slimani in Mnemonic

    The week in theatre: Mnemonic; The Secret Garden; The Herds – review

June 2024

  • James Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin in The Constituent at the Old Vic

    The week in theatre: The Constituent; Kyoto; Mean Girls – review

  • Amalia Vitale, centre, as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe

    The week in theatre: Much Ado About Nothing; Kiss Me, Kate – review

  • An audience member wearing headphones listens to the narration for Viola's Room

    The week in theatre: Viola’s Room; A View from the Bridge – review

  • Denise Gough (Emma) and Sinéad Cuack (Doctor/ Therapist/Mum) in People, Places And Things by Duncan Macmillan @ Trafalgar Theatre.

    The week in theatre: Bluets; People, Places & Things – review

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