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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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August 2024

  • 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

    Thomas Coombes and Paapa Essiedu grip in an all too timely revival of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation monologues. Plus, slow-motion Steinbeck and 1927’s latest flight of fancy

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

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

  • 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

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