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Letitia Wright, Cate Blanchett and Sandra Oh to star in National Theatre shows

Lineup for 2026 includes a Molière adaptation and a mash-up of Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman

The Guardian - UK

Cate Blanchett to headline National Theatre’s ambitious 2026 line-up

Oscar-winning actor will star alongside Nina Hoss and Ella Lily Hyland in Benedict Andrews’ new production Electra / Persona this August

The Independent UK

Cate Blanchett to perform at National Theatre as 2026 programme released

Killing Eve star Sandra Oh will also make her debut at the London theatre, while The Crown’s Lesley Manville will perform alongside Aiden Turner.

Evening Standard

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Hamlet at National Theatre: the Prince has ADHD in uneven production

3/5 Hiran Abeysekera in Hamlet at the Lyttelton Theatre is a production with plenty of ideas even if it is hit and miss

Evening Standard

Transaction: release date, cast, plot, trailer and everything we know

Transaction is a new ITV comedy set in a supermarket starring Jordan Gray and Nick Frost.

WhatToWatch

Will there be another season of Silent Witness and is Emilia Fox leaving the BBC drama before its 30th anniversary?

The Silent Witness season 28 finale introduced an intriguing opportunity for Emilia Fox's Nikki Alexander and it's got us asking questions

Woman & Home

Maggie Steed on joining Silent Witness: 'I'm the new head honcho'

Former EastEnders actor Maggie Steed talks about her new role on long-running forensic crime drama Silent Witness

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How to watch 'Trooping the Colour' 2025 online from anywhere

British troops marching about, royals waving, 41 gun salute and RAF flypast. Here's how to watch "Trooping the Colour" 2025 online, on TV and from anywhere in the world.

Tom’s Guide

Huge Silent Witness new series update and big reveal about the show's future

Silent Witness is getting two major new cast members, while we wonder if Nikki and Jack will get wed...

WhatToWatch

Maggie Steed to head up forensic laboratory in Silent Witness

She will be joined by Francesca Mills as new cast members.

Evening Standard

‘Expect more from me’: actor Francesca Mills on Shakespeare and shifting expectations

The rising star of stage and screen talks bullies, ballet and what playing a 17th-century duchess taught her about life today

The Guardian - UK

From Hollywood to your headphones: meet the cast of Audible’s new adaptation of 1984

A-list talent and emerging stars bring Orwell’s classic novel to life in a new audio production

The Guardian - UK

The Duchess of Malfi review – revenge tragedy goes hard on the humour

Toxic masculinity rears its head in Rachel Bagshaw’s Globe debut which proves less interested in horror effects than the characters’ emotional journeys

The Guardian - UK

The Duchess of Malfi at the Sam Wanamaker review: a bracing revival that finds humour in the bloody chaos

An atmospheric production that brings out Jacobean playwright John Webster’s savage poetry and bleak world vision

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The Week

A Midsummer Night’s Dream review: an ‘assured’ new staging at the Globe

“Many critics sigh at the prospect of yet another ‘Dream’, Shakespeare’s most accessible and most performed play,” said Fiona Mountford in The i Paper. Yet for me the play – a “joyful skip through the Athenian forest, packed as it is with errant lovers, mischievous fairies and some joyously bad…

The Guardian - UK

‘Hardly seen as human at all’: will fantasy ever beat its dwarfism problem?

From the idea that people with dwarfism are fictional creatures to deeply weird on-screen portrayals, our depiction has long been insulting. Might Willow and The Witcher change all that?

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: All of Us; Jarman – review

Disablism, austerity and therapy-speak fuel Francesca Martinez’s jolting drama, while Mark Farrelly channels Derek Jarman in a rush of memories

The Guardian - UK

All of Us review – Francesca Martinez’s urgent call for radical empathy

Personal, political and polemical, this intensely moving play about disability and austerity challenges preconceptions

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Evening Standard

All of Us at the National Theatre review: a compelling, rage-filled portrait of disabled life under austerity

Illuminating and sporadically witty look at being disabled in Tory Britain

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