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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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May 2024

  • Francesca Amewudah-Rivers as Juliet, with Kody Mortimer (camera operator) in Romeo & Juliet.

    The week in theatre: Romeo & Juliet; Richard III; Passing Strange review – no fault in these stars

  • Withnail & I W&I Production Pic 067 - Morgan Philpott (Wanker), Adonis Siddique (Marwood) and Robert Sheehan (Withnail). Credit Manuel Harlan

    The week in theatre: Withnail and I; Spirited Away; Mary Said What She Said; Boys on the Verge of Tears – review

  • Nina Hoss and Adeel Akhtar facing each other on stage

    The week in theatre: The Cherry Orchard; Minority Report; Laughing Boy – review

  • Dee Ahluwalia, arms outstretched, as Karim, in 70s clothes in The Buddha of Suburbia.

    The week in theatre: The Buddha of Suburbia; Love’s Labour’s Lost – review

April 2024

  • Buffy Davis (Mother) and Rosie Sheehy (Young Woman) in Machinal at The Old Vic

    The week in theatre: Machinal; Blue Beard; The Cord – review

  • Bella Maclean (Bella Wilfer) in London Tide

    The week in theatre: London Tide; The Comeuppance; Gunter – review

  • ian mckellen in a leather jacket holding a drink, as falstaff

    The week in theatre: Player Kings; Red Pitch; Underdog: The Other Other Brontë – review

  • Patricia Clarkson and Louisa Harland in Long Day’s Journey Into Night.

    The week in theatre: Long Day’s Journey Into Night; The Lover/The Collection; The Divine Mrs S – review

March 2024

  • Robert Portal as Bamber Gascoigne and Will Jennings as Patrick in Starter for Ten.

    The week in theatre: Starter for Ten; Uncle Vanya review – fingers on buzzers, and samovars

    Bamber goes to Bristol in a buoyant musical of David Nicholls’s University Challenge romcom, while Trevor Nunn’s impeccably traditional Chekhov works like a charm
  • Michael Sheen (centre) in Nye.

    The week in theatre: Nye; The Lonely Londoners; Hadestown – review

    Larkiness overtakes Tim Price’s hallucinatory new play about the founder of the NHS; Roy Williams’s adaptation of Sam Selvon’s great Windrush novel pulses with brio; and Anaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical squeezes into the West End
  • Tosin Cole (Dre) and Heather Agyepong (Des) in Shifters

    The week in theatre: Shifters; The Human Body; Nachtland – review

    Benedict Lombe’s new play about two almost-lovers is alive and unpredictable; Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport have a glimmering brief encounter; and a Hitler painting causes a family rift in Patrick Marber’s latest production

February 2024

  • Matt Smith (Dr Stockmann) and Nigel Lindsay (Morten Kiil) in An Enemy of the People.

    The week in theatre: An Enemy of the People; King Lear; Double Feature – review

    Matt Smith heads a rousing adaptation of Ibsen for a bruised world; Danny Sapani and co lean into the storm in Yaël Farber’s liberating Lear. Plus, Hollywood power play the hard way
  • Laura Donnelly's character sits at the piano talking to the younger sisters

    The week in theatre: The Hills of California; Metamorphosis; Candace Bushnell: True Tales of Sex, Success and Sex in the City – review

    Dreams of fame trap and inspire in Jez Butterworth’s female-centred, Blackpool-set new play; Lemn Sissay takes a personal approach to Kafka; and the Sex and the City creator is full of unsurprises
  • Lucy Black (Hazel) and Derek Riddell (John) in Till the Stars Come Down at the National Theatre

    The week in theatre: Till the Stars Come Down; Othello; Plaza Suite – review

    Beth Steel’s battling Notts wedding guests are a treat; Ola Ince’s Met police Othello makes horrible sense; and Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker star in a creaking Neil Simon revival

January 2024

  • AK Golding (Iz), Rebecca Banatvala (Cath) - credit Pamela Raith

    The week in theatre: Northanger Abbey; The Most Precious of Goods – review

  • Ins Choi, centre, with Jennifer Kim and Miles Mitchell in Kim’s Convenience

    The week in theatre: Kim’s Convenience; Kin – review

  • Catherine Tate (Peggy) in The Enfield Haunting, David Threlfall (Maurice) in The Enfield Haunting,

    The week in theatre: The Enfield Haunting; The Last Show Before We Die; Exhibitionists – review

  • Vincent Van Gogh's Self-Portrait, 1889; Adrian Lester in Renegade Nell; Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie; Taylor Swift on stage; Matt Smith in An Enemy of the People; the Royal Ballet's Manon; New York City Ballet. Centre: Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal in All of Us Strangers

    2024 culture preview
    From Bong Joon-ho to Van Gogh: Observer critics’ culture highlights for 2024

December 2023

  • Paul Mescal and Anjana Vasan in the Almeida’s A Streetcar Named Desire.

    Observer critics' review of 2023
    Theatre: Susannah Clapp’s 10 best shows of 2023

  • David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Macbeth.

    The week in theatre: Macbeth; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Ulster American – review

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