The best theatre shows to book tickets for in 2021, in London and the UK
Excited about post-lockdown life? Good news: numerous tickets are available, from Andrew Lloyd Webber s Cinderella to a Bob Marley musical
Theatre highlights to come include Ian McKellen s Hamlet
The show will go on! Theatres finally reopened on May 17 with socially distanced audiences, as England moved into Step 3 of the lockdown roadmap. It is hoped that venues can return to full audiences from June 21 (Step 4).
Many shows, including new and returning West End productions, are already selling tickets. Check out our picks below and get booking.
Best theatre shows for 2021
CURRENTLY online before its live theatre tour, Ben Brown’s new play demonstrates that drama without action can hold an audience’s attention if blessed with superb acting and a subject of intense interest.
As a play relating to what happened at the meeting of two people who played a significant part in modern history, A Splinter of Ice is reminiscent of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen. But here the subject is not the reason why Nazi Germany did not achieve the catastrophic breakthrough to splitting the atom before the Allies but why a man who had all the gifts his country could offer would devote his life to betraying it.
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A Splinter of Ice, Original Theatre Company online review - Graham Greene and Kim Philby are friends reunited
Affectionate aplomb from Oliver Ford Davies and Stephen Boxer in Ben Brown s new play
by Tom BirchenoughMonday, 19 April 2021
Appealing balance: Oliver Ford Davies (Graham Greene, left) and Stephen Boxer (Kim Philby)Images: James Findlay
SOMETIME in 2014, I was reading Yvonne Cloetta’s memoir of her life with Graham Greene when I came across a chapter dealing with his relationship with the Soviet spy Kim Philby, who she described as the “one man for whom Graham committed himself totally.”
This sparked my interest, as I knew about Greene and I knew about Philby but I didn’t know that they’d been friends, ever since Greene had worked under Philby at MI6 during the war. Or that Greene had been the only person to defend Philby after he defected to Russia in 1963.
Or that Greene had been to see him in Moscow in the late 1980s, thus satisfying Philby’s long-standing and publicly stated desire “to sit across a table from Graham Greene with a bottle of wine between us.”