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Chris Wiegand

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Chris Wiegand is the Stage editor of the Guardian

November 2026

  • French author Gisèle Pelicot, wearing a silk scarf, looks at the camera

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: the Gisèle Pelicot trial becomes an all-star play that ‘just floors you’

    An unmissable documentary play, Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia with luminous Isis Hainsworth and ecstatic dance in a Norwegian museum are among November’s highlights

October 2026

  • Close-up portrait of Michael Gambon

    ‘I laughed so hard my Tampax fell out’: Michael Gambon’s pranks revealed by the stars he cracked up

  • David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust kneels on stage, singing into a microphone in a striped bodysuit

    Getting Ziggy with it: David Bowie’s alter egos inspire dance show that will transform his songs

  • Julie Hesmondhalgh, with short blonde hair, wears a red dress, sitting in a wooden pew

    Celebrity Traitors’ Julie Hesmondhalgh: theatres should be 100% faithful to ‘local stories’

  • Jaha Koo

    ‘Jelliness is my life motto’: jackpot theatre prize winner Jaha Koo on kimchi, K-pop and his robotic eel

  • Franz & Marie review – Woyzeck folk musical finds heart amid the horror

  • Rowan Atkinson to bring Mr Bean, Blackadder and more to West End in new show

  • RSC embraces ‘hugely challenging’ task of staging Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

  • The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Jack Lowden locks horns with Martin Freeman in The Fifth Step

September 2026

  • Jenny Maple, in a fur-collared coat, looks tense as Bob leans close behind her

    Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky review – the bell tolls for Patrick Hamilton’s lost Londoners

  • Actors Joey Bradick and Connor Payne play guitars and sing energetically in Million Dollar Quartet

    Million Dollar Quartet review – jumping jukebox show reignites rock’n’roll classics

  • Josh O'Connor in Golden Boy, bloodied and shirtless, leaning against a punch bag

    Golden Boy review – Josh O’Connor swings between hope and despair in boxing melodrama

  • Sacha Baron Cohen in a cream suit and tie smiles while buttoning his jacket

    Sacha Baron Cohen lined up for Quentin Tarantino’s West End playwriting debut

  • Nick Mohammed takes Claudia Winkleman’s role in stage version of The Traitors

  • ‘This is not sustainable’: London’s Gate theatre to close after nearly 50 years

  • Richard Alston, trailblazer and guiding light of British dance, dies aged 77

  • New musical to give intimate portrait of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller’s marriage

  • The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Bryan Cranston cranks up the tension in All My Sons

August 2026

  • Actors from Underground Monk Show embrace and laugh together in dark robes on stage

    Underground Monk Show review – hysterical visions enrobed in mystery

  • Four actresses from Bliss sing joyfully in colorful period costumes on stage. Alexandra Emmerson-Kirby, Miriam Nyarko, Akshara Gunda, Matilda Shapland

    Fairytales pending: the fringe musicals hoping to live happily ever after

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