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Franco Milazzo in Central London ★★★★★ 12 December 2025 There are towns where everyone minds their own business, and then

Tom Bolton on the South Bank ★★★☆☆ 10 December 2025 Rajiv Joseph’s play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which

Robert Schneider in Connecticut 9 December 2025 ★★★★★  Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler has often been produced as a tragedy of female neurosis and alienation. The title

Dana Rufolo in Vienna 5 December 2025 ★★★☆☆ Von Mäusen und Menschen, the stage adaptation at the Kammerspiele der Josefstadt

Franco Milazzo in the West End 4 December 2025 ★★★★☆ If you ever doubted that a well-meaning bear with a

Glenda Frank in Midtown Manhattan 27 November 2025 Sarah, a nurse, has never been warm and fuzzy, but she’s Ethan’s

Tom Bolton in West London ★★★★☆ 27 November 2025 Yimei Zhao, the designer for Porn Play, has upholstered the entire

Jeremy Malies in the West End ★★★★★ 25 November 2025 Playing Joe Keller, the father figure and World War II

Neil Dowden on the South Bank ★★★★☆ 24 November 2025 David Eldridge’s End is the final part of his loose

Glenda Frank in New York 11 November 2025 ★★★☆☆ Climate change makes the news almost every day with one disaster

Jeremy Malies in East Sussex 8 November 2025 ★★★★☆  You wait 49 years for a play about the Grunwick Dispute of 1976 and then two

Robert Schneider in Chester, Connecticut 4 November 2025 ★★★☆☆ It’s not every day that you get to see a musical

Glenda Frank in Midtown Manhattan 3 November 2025 ★★★★☆ Art by Yasmina Reza is about the delicate balance of friendship

Jeremy Malies in North London ★★★★☆ 3 November 2025 Jack Holden, adaptor of Alan Hollinghurst’s 2004 Booker Prize winning novel

Mark Brown on Clydeside 2 November 2025 ★★★★★ It is 10 years since Hamilton – Lin-Manuel Miranda’s famous hip-hop stage musical –

Neil Dowden in South-West London ★★★★☆ 31 October 2025 As part of a growing trend of revitalizing/modernizing classics, this year

Franco Milazzo in the City ★★★★☆ 29 October 2025 There are two things the Royal Shakespeare Company is especially good

Jane Edwardes in North London ★★★★☆ 27 October 2025 A splendid Christmas tree adorns the stage at the start of

Neil Dowden in West London ★★★★☆ 27 October 2025 Nick Payne – best-known for his award-winning, multiverse romantic drama Constellations

Robert Schneider in New Haven, Connecticut 26 October 2025 ★★★★★ The story of Zora Neale Hurston is one of a

Jeremy Malies in the West End 26 October 2025 ★★☆☆☆ I like productions of the frequently performed The Maids to

Neil Dowden in the West End ★★★☆☆ 20 October 2025 Jermyn Street Theatre deservedly had a big hit in 2023

Jeremy Malies in North London 19 October 2025 ★★☆☆☆ “What can the world learn from Srebrenica, thirty years on?” ask

Mark Brown in Scotland’s capital 16 October 2025 ★★★★☆ The first thing one notices about the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh’s

Jeremy Malies in South-East London 14 October 2025 ★★★★☆ Did Joe Penhall start the trend for plays about medical ethics

Glenda Frank in Manhattan 13 October 2025 ★★★★☆ Many of us believed that the Shoah, the Nazi extermination of six

Mark Brown on Clydeside 12 October 2025 ★★★★★ Puccini’s great opus La bohème is one of the four most performed works

Jane Edwardes on the South Bank 12 October 2025 ★★★☆☆ Thirty years ago, audiences were horrified by the menace of

Mark Brown on Tayside 10 October 2025 ★★★★☆ Tennessee Williams’s great, poetic play The Glass Menagerie (which premiered in Chicago

Simon Thomas in South West England ★★★★☆ 10 October 2025 Who would have had Ralph Fiennes down as a hoofer?

Glenda Frank in New York 8 October 2025 ★★★☆☆ Two British theatre companies, arriving with minimal fanfare in New York,

Franco Milazzo in the West End 1 October 2025 ★★★☆☆ Fresh from dismembering Romans for the RSC in Titus Andronicus

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 28 September 2025 ★★★★☆ Looking at Peter McKintosh’s design for this revival of Joe

Franco Milazzo in the West End 28 September 2025 ★★★★☆ James Graham has built his career interrogating power, politics, and

Jane Edwardes on the South Bank 28 September 2025 ★★★☆☆ The National Theatre’s new artistic director Indhu Rubasingham makes a

Neil Dowden in East London 28 September 2025 ★★★★ Perry Henzell’s 1972 film The Harder They Come was a cultural

Simon Jenner in West Sussex 25 September 2025 ★★★★  Some works seep into the culture so completely they take up

Mark Brown on Clydeside 24 September 2025 ★★★★ Uma Nada-Rajah is a graduate of the young writers’ programmes of two

Mark Brown in Clydesdale 23 September 2025 ★★★★ The splendidly named theatre company Braw Clan has taken upon itself the

Neil Dowden in North London 22 September 2025 ★★★  The title of Irish theatre and film writer/director Mark O’Rowe’s play

Jeremy Malies in the West End 22 September 2025 ★★★ You need to be a good and precocious observer to

Franco Milazzo on the South Bank 21 September 2025 ★★★  With his first play in 30 years, David Lan plunges

Mark Brown on Tayside 20 September 2025 ★★★★ The purpose of Great Yarmouth-based drama company Contemporary Ritual Theatre (which was

Mark Brown on Clydeside 18 September 2025 ★★★★★ The story of Mary, Queen of Scots – the head of the

Jane Edwardes in North London 19 September 2025 ★★★ Alice Birch’s new work intrigues before one even enters the theatre.

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 19 September 2025 ★★★★ Anyone expecting a slice of nineteenth-century Nordic noir from The

Simon Thomas in South West England 18 September 2025 ★★★ While they have been adapted for both the big and

Jeremy Malies in West London 16 September 2025 ★★★★ Emma Dennis-Edwards deals with the experiences of a black working-class child

Jeremy Malies in West London 15 September 2025 ★★ A Foley artist makes the sound of a cow’s amniotic sac

Simon Jenner in South West London 14 September 2025 ★★★★★ Tom Littler and Howard Brenton have enjoyed what the latter

Mark Brown in Glasgow 13 September 2025  Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre has been closed for major redevelopment work, not for the

Mark Brown in Glasgow 12 September 2025  On 23 December 1978 the Scottish academic and prominent left-wing activist Malcolm Caldwell

Simon Thomas in South West England 11 September 2025 ★★★★★ Lindsay Posner’s new production of Endgame at Bath’s Ustinov Studio opens with

Jeremy Malies in South London 9 September 2025 ★★★★ If there are playwriting equivalents of the Newtonian laws of physics

Jeremy Malies in West London 7 September 2025 ★★ Occupying soldiers in an Eastern European country shoot dead a deaf

Jeremy Malies in the West End ★ 4 September 2025 Poet and travel writer Edward Thomas would speak about how

Neil Dowden in the West End 31 August 2025 ★★★ Juniper Blood at the Donmar Warehouse is Mike Bartlett’s second

Mark Brown in Edinburgh 20 August 2025 In 2003 – in the midst of the second Palestinian Intifada (“Uprising”) against

Mark Brown in Edinburgh 15 August 2025 It is widely agreed that Miles Davis is to jazz what Ravi Shankar

Simon Thomas in South West England 15 August 2025 ★★★★  A “reimagining” of a classic non-English-language play can mean anything

Jeremy Malies in central London 14 August 2025 ★★★  Drew McOnie is both director and choreographer for the last show

Neil Dowden in the West End  10 August 2025 ★★★ The cult hit play Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan

Mark Brown in Edinburgh 9 August 2025 Andy Goldsworthy – the English artist whose unique work is made, for the

Tom Bolton in Central London 8 August 2025 ★★★★★ The last major production of Far Away, directed by Lyndsey Turner

Simon Jenner in East Sussex 7 August 2025 Anne Carson’s translations of Greek tragedy – like Antigone – have reframed

Tom Bolton in East London 3 August 2025 The interior of Thomas’s flat consists of white, wipe-clean surfaces, and functional

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 27 July 2025 Australian Suzie Miller wrote plays as a child and studied law

Simon Jenner in East Sussex 24 July 2025 Glyndebourne revives Barrie Kosky’s 2015 vision of Handel’s early oratorio Saul, now

Mark Shenton in West London 24 July 2025 There’s something inherently thrilling about watching young people find their voice –

Franco Milazzo in the West End 24 July 2025 Now directed by its star Todrick Hall, the stage musical Burlesque

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 19 July 2025 Shaan Sahota’s impressive debut play The Estate is an intoxicating cocktail

Franco Milazzo on the South Bank 10 July 2025  Out with the new, in with the old: as Conor McPherson’s

Neil Dowden in North London  10 July 2025  Malorie Blackman’s bestselling young adult novel Noughts & Crosses (2001) – the

Robert Schneider in Connecticut  8 July 2025  A full-length play for two actors that doesn’t fall into a rut, keeps

Simon Thomas in South West England 4 July 2025 Bath’s Theatre Royal has had its fair share of highs in

Mark Shenton in the West End 3 July 2025 In putting the Lloyd into Andrew Lloyd Webber, auteur theatre director

Neil Dowden in the West End 1 July 2025 Double Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage is back at the Donmar

Jeremy Malies in North London 29 June 2025 James Tyrone Jr is a young actor showing promise despite ill-discipline and

Tom Bolton in North London 26 June 2025 Dickie Beau, wearing a white jumpsuit, stands on the edge of the

Franco Milazzo in the West End 26 June 2025 At long last, Theatre Royal Drury Lane has let Frozen go.

Simon Jenner in East Sussex 24 June 2025 Like Parsifal itself, this is a worthy challenge for Glyndebourne. Musically it’s

Jane Edwardes in North London 23 June 2025 “Remember,” urges Connie to the members of her choir, “you sound best

Jeremy Malies in West London 23 June 2025 Is there a narrative to this essay on suicide? Does absence of

Neil Dowden in the West End 18 June 2025  David Adjmi’s Stereophonic premiered Off-Broadway in 2023 then transferred to Broadway

Franco Milazzo in the West End 12 June 2025 Let’s start with the obvious: in lesser hands, the Live Aid

Annie Loui in Newport Beach, California 7 June 2025 I may be the last critic in the world who has

Neil Dowden in south-west London 6 June 2025 Following shortly after Theatre Royal Bath’s poignant production of Terence Rattigan’s The

Dana Rufolo in Vienna  30 May 2025 The big cultural event opening the 2025 Wiener Festwochen which runs from May

Dana Rufolo in the Czech Republic 29 May 2025 Patriots by stage and screen writer Peter Morgan is a historic

Neil Dowden in the West End 30 May 2025 Sathnam Sanghera’s 2016 debut novel Marriage Material has been adapted for

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 28 May 2025 Shakespeare’s Globe has successfully staged a couple of classic modern dramas

Mark Shenton in West London 27 May 2025 For those of us who lived through it, the very public naming

Jeremy Malies in the West End 27 May 2025 Everything in this production directed by Dominic Cooke (set and costumes

Annie Loui in Los Angeles 22 May 2025 Ainadamar is a spectacle of music, movement, and projection circling around the

Mark Shenton in North London 21 May 2025 In the 1943 musical Oklahoma! that revolutionized the Broadway musical the corn

Jane Edwardes in the West End 20 May 2025   David Ireland’s Cyprus Avenue, seen at the Royal Court Upstairs in

Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg City 18 May 2025 In 1891, when Frank Wedekind wrote Frühlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening), sexual mores

Neil Dowden in the West End 18 May 2025 First seen at Theatre Royal Bath last year, Lindsay Posner’s revival

Dana Rufolo in Belgium 16 May 2025 The theatrical opera Intolleranza 1960 as interpreted by OperaBalletVlaanderen (OBV) is the canary

Kat Mokrynski in the West End 15 May 2025 After celebrating ten years of The Play That Goes Wrong in

Tom Bolton in West London 15 May 2025 Kjersti Horn’s production of Jon Fosse’s Einkvan, visiting the Coronet Theatre on

Neil Dowden in North London 14 May 2025  Already a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and successful screenwriter, David Mamet made

Mark Shenton on the South Bank 10 May 2025 Barring the discovery of another previously unproduced show, Here We Are

Tom Bolton in West London 9 May 2025  Joel Tan’s new play Scenes from a Repatriation is an ambitious overview

Glenda Frank in Manhattan 6 May 2025 Since the groundbreaking Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 1998, there have been

Jane Edwardes in the West End 4 May 2025 The poster for My Master Builder – as opposed to The

Simon Jenner in West Sussex 2 May 2025 Who inspects the inspectors? Not the custodians of power, certainly, as this

Neil Dowden in Central London 2 May 2025 Samuel Beckett’s 1958 one-act play Krapp’s Last Tape seems to be on

Neil Dowden in the West End 2 May 2025 Patrick Marber’s award-winning debut play Dealer’s Choice explores the tensions between

Glenda Frank on Broadway 29 April 2025 Good Night, and Good Luck demands attention for reasons that go beyond George

Jeremy Malies in North Yorkshire 28 April 2025 Worried perhaps about potassium intake, Harold Pinter dispensed with the bananas when

Simon Jenner in South-West London 26 April 2025 “I pull people in,” says Benjamin Britten in September 1952, to a

Jeremy Malies in the West End 26 April 2025 Rosie Sheehy pecks out a few diminished chords on an upright

Franco Milazzo in the West End 25 April 2025 There have been various stage adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s epochal

Neil Dowden in North London 25 April 2025 The UK premiere of Neil LaBute’s 2017 play How to Fight Loneliness

Tom Bolton in West London 17 April 2025 The back of the Captain’s heavy, balding head is literally papered onto

Neil Dowden in North London 13 April 2025  A British–Hong Kong author, Amy Ng was a political historian before writing

Franco Milazzo in West London 9 April 2025  After Jack Thorne’s TV drama Adolescence and James Graham’s critically acclaimed play

Jeremy Malies in North London 5 April 2025 Is it an act of hubris (or worse) to both translate and

Neil Dowden in the West End 3 April 2025 The great Irish stage actor Micheál Mac Liammóir co-founded the Gate

Jane Edwardes in North London 3 April 2025 The dominant image of John Donnelly’s new play Apex Predator is of

Glenda Frank on Broadway 3 April 2025 Musicians are centre-stage here in this thrilling, rejuvenating musical about the passion for

Simon Thomas in Southwest England 29 March 2025 Turning well-loved films into stage musicals has been a thing for some

Glenda Frank 27 March 2025 This play tells the poignant compelling story of the improbable rise of a boy –

Neil Dowden in south-west London 25 March 2025 Female actors underpaid compared with their male counterparts, struggling to find substantial

Sasho Ognenovski in Bulgaria 21 March 2025 “Stronger than a lover’s love is a lover’s hatred. The wounds they inflict

Robert Schneider in New York 24 March 2025 Jordan Harrison’s new play is known colloquially as The Antiquities, but the

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 23 March 2025 There have been almost as many updates and repeat runs of

Robert Schneider in New Haven, Connecticut 21 March 2025 Am I suffering from blue funk? Advanced anhedonia? How is it

Tom Bolton in the West End 20 March 2025 New York performance duo Natasha Roland and Xhloe Rice are fringe

Neil Dowden in East London  March 15 2025  Tennessee Williams made his name in 1944 with the lyrical domestic drama

Glenda Frank in New York 13 March 2025  One of the ways to attract new audiences into theatres is to

Neil Dowden in central London 13 March 2025  Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director of Schaubühne in Berlin since 1999, has had

Glenda Frank in New York City 7 March 2025 The unexpected lurks around every corner in this piece by Rajiv

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 7 March 2024 Another play in a tailor’s shop, this one set (and written)

Simon Jenner in the West End 28 February 2025 Spring 1747. God-fearing late baroque father of music tells truth to

Franco Milazzo in the West End 28 February 2025 Paul Hendy’s The Last Laugh takes three iconic British comedians from

Tom Bolton in West London 28 February 2025 The significance of Khawla Ibraheem’s one-woman play about life in Gaza has

Jane Edwardes in the West End 22nd February 2025 Anna Mackmin was brought up on a hippyish commune in Norfolk

Simon Jenner in North London 22 February 2025 “It doesn’t mean all women, okay.” Between a joyous wedding and breaking

Neil Dowden in North London 21 February 2025 Plays about different aspects of artificial intelligence seem to be all the

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 19 February 2025 Perhaps I’m not enough of a purist? I’m a sucker for

Neil Dowden in the West End 17 February 2025 Mike Bartlett’s new play Unicorn is a sort of companion piece

Jeremy Malies in the West End 17 February 2025 Director Jessica Lazar begins her portrayal of the island in David

Tom Bolton in West London 15 February 2025  The Passenger is adapted from a remarkable book. Its author Ulrich Alexander

Neil Dowden in the West End 15 February 2025  Eline Arbo, who succeeded Ivo van Hove as artistic director of

Simon Jenner in West London 14 February 2025 1803. A man brought from the gallows will be electrocuted back to

Simon Jenner in West London 13 February 2025 August 1942. “I feel I bring a lump of ice to the

Robert Schneider in New York 12 February 2025 On the evening I attended, audience members at the Samuel J. Friedman

Neil Dowden in the West End 10 February 2025 Robert Icke’s brilliant contemporary version of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre

Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg 9 January 2025  Theatre Re’s Birth is about families. The company founder and artistic director Guillaume

Neil Dowden in the West End 9 February 2025  Consecutive opening nights for radical revivals of ancient Greek tragedies by

Simon Jenner in south-west London February 9, 2025 “To hate all the people your relatives hate— / You’ve got to

Franco Milazzo in West London 5 February 2025 It’s a remarkably quick turnaround from page to stage for Second Best.

Robert Schneider in Connecticut 5 February 2025 My training in dramatic literature was badly bungled: I’d never heard of Steve

Franco Milazzo in the West End 30 January 2025  The beginning isn’t the beginning. The end isn’t the end. And

Dana Rufolo in Germany 18 January 2025  Mutter Courage und Ihre Kinder – Mother Courage and Her Children – at

Tom Bolton in West London 23 January 2025 The set for A Good House starts empty, a bare stage surrounded

Neil Dowden in North London 20 January 2025 Samuel Selvon’s 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners (published two years after George

Dana Rufolo in Ghent 10 January 2025 Daringly, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen produced Salome by Richard Strauss (1905) under the baton

Simon Jenner in the West End 17 January 2025 “The planet is burning.” Such words have long been clichés but,

Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg  8 January, 2025 Under David Mouchtar-Samorai’s sensitive direction, Endspiel (Endgame) is spread out like a poem

Mark Shenton in the West End 15 January 2024 “Oliver! really explains my passion for musicals,” Cameron Mackintosh has said

Jeremy Malies in the West End 14 January 2024 Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean Genet were all influenced

Franco Milazzo in the West End 10 January 2024 This Off-Broadway multi-award-winning smash – or should that be splash? –

Dana Rufolo in Germany 4 January 2025 Fatma Aydemir’s play Doktormutter Faust (“Doctoral supervisor Faust”) is a contemporary rendition of

Jeremy Malies in north London 24 December 2024 “I had that Dionysus in the back of the boat!” is one

Jeremy Malies in east London 23 December 2024 Winnie and Willie’s mound is unusual here. Bored from the start, I

Neil Dowden in North London 22 December 2024 Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1955 play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 18 December 2024 Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes covers themes including indentured or coerced

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 15 December 2024 “Nothing succeeds like excess,” said Oscar Wilde. He might have been

Robert Schneider in New Haven, Connecticut 14 December 2024 Our not knowing makes everyone more attractive. We see someone at

Tom Bolton in West London 12 December 2024 Sutara Gayle has had quite the life. Her one-woman show expresses remarkable

11 December 2024 Glenda Frank on Broadway Some people anguish over theological mysteries. Will we be reunited with family and

Jane Edwardes on the South Bank 9 December 2024 Back in the day, little girls were said to divide into

Mark Shenton in the West End 6 December 2024 In a so far mostly dismal autumn and winter for new

Jeremy Malies in west London 4 December 2024 This one-actor piece sees Ruairi Conaghan give his memories of appearing as

Simon Jenner in West London 29 November 2024 For an unstated reason the press were quietly advised to use the

Simon Thomas in South West England 14 November 2024 Theatre Royal Bath plays host to a touring production of Eduardo

Mark Shenton in the West End 12 November 2024 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a new British folk

Glenda Frank in New York 9 November 2024 Robert Downey Jr’s depiction of the writer in McNeal by Ayad Akhtar’s

Simon Thomas in South West England 8 November 2024 Written by one of the finest of contemporary novelists, Kazuo Ishiguro’s

Tom Bolton in South London 8 November 2024 As part of Forced Entertainment’s continuing 40th anniversary celebration, co-founder Tim Etchells

Robert Schneider in Connecticut 5 November 2024 The new production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at Hartford Stage has

Neil Dowden in City of London 4 November 2024 Hanif Kureishi’s debut 1990 novel The Buddha of Suburbia (which was

Glenda Frank in New York 4 November 2024 I was seduced by theatre in part because of the many moving

Simon Thomas in South West England 1 November 2024  In a first coupling, Theatre Royal Bath and Living Theatre Productions

Neil Dowden in the West End 1 November 2024 The mood has turned apocalyptic in the West End. Stanley Kubrick’s

Neil Dowden in North London 28 October 2024 Richard Bean’s atmospheric new play Reykjavik about distant-water trawlermen from his hometown

Robert Schneider in Connecticut 23 October 2024 Adolescence is a former nationality that we renounce as we emigrate to adulthood.

Jeremy Malies in east London 22 October 2024 The ushers at Hackney Town Hall won’t let us in despite the

Robert Schneider in Connecticut 21 October 2024 If Luke Cantarella’s set for Fever Dreams (of animals on the verge of

Glenda Frank in New York 21 October 2024 While The Roommate, a two-hander by Jen Silverman, offers the actors substantial

Mark Shenton in the West End 21 October 2024 Every revival of a classic play is, of course, an opportunity

Tom Bolton in South London 21 October 2024 The title of Jon Berry’s new play is the Welsh word for

Jeremy Malies in South London 21 October 2024 Stage left the drawing of President McKinley struck down by Leon Czolgosz

Neil Dowden in the West End 20 October 2024 Not that it’s ever been in abeyance for too long, but

Glenda Frank in New York 20 October 2024 Yellowface is a quasi-autobiographical work by David Henry Hwang produced by Roundabout

Jeremy Malies in west London 18 October 2024 “What happens to a dream deferred?” In his poem “Harlem”, Langston Hughes

Jane Edwardes on the South Bank 13 October 2024 Playwright Alexander Zeldin is best known for The Inequalities trilogy of

Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg October 9, 2024 It is always a sign that theatre is well integrated into the cultural

Franco Milazzo in the West End 12 October 2024 “Much-anticipated” is a phrase that is often recklessly bandied about in

Jeremy Malies in East Sussex 10 October 2024 Director Iqbal Khan has reinvigorated Art by Yasmina Reza. I wonder how

Jeremy Malies in the West End 9 October 2024 A maimed young man, two paramilitary executions, disappointment over an inheritance,

Simon Jenner in West Sussex 8 October 2024 “Hello. Hi. You don’t know me yet … but my name is

Jeremy Malies in North London 6 October 2024 John Osborne’s 1956 play Look Back in Anger hasn’t been seen in

Neil Dowden in South London 6 October 2024 Born in 1855 – the year between the births of Oscar Wilde

Simon Jenner on the South Bank 5 October 2024 “Queenie! Come in! The water is lovely!” Rarely have such clichés

Jeremy Malies in North London 4 October 2024 “My people are not caricatures. They are real (though fiction), and if

Neil Dowden in west London 2 October 2024 In a 1982 TV interview, when asked how he’d like to be

Jane Edwardes in north London 29 September 2024 Playwright Rob Drummond is not to be trusted. At the beginning of

Neil Dowden in the West End 29 September 2024 At one time Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot tended to be

Simon Thomas in the South West 27 September 2024 It is tempting to think that in 2024 we are edging

Jeremy Malies in south-west London 27 September 2024 A play is a poem in which “the action is not related

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 25 September 2024 Kwame Kwei-Armah’s final show as director while leading the Young Vic

Robert Schneider in East Haddam, Connecticut 17 September 2024 This new musical by Scottish-born country star Johnny Reid in collaboration

Dana Rufolo in the Czech Republic 8 September 2024 If This Is A Man by Primo Levi has always been

Jeremy Malies in west London 15 September 2024 “You can pretend you’re her!” “No, I have to be her –

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 14 September 2024 First staged in 1982, The Real Thing is deservedly one of

Jeremy Malies in north London 12 September 2024 The Boys from Syracuse is a 1938 musical by Richard Rodgers and

Jeremy Malies in north London 10 September 2024 Accustomed to tricksy titles at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe where I missed

Tom Bolton in East London 9 September 2024 In the basement studio at the Arcola Theatre, instruments are set up

Jeremy Malies in West Sussex 4 September 2024 When the novel on which this play is based first came out

Jeremy Malies in the West End 3 September 2024 Peter Hall used to say that good politics always makes bad

Tom Bolton in West London 31 August 2024 Upstairs at the Royal Court the set, by Madeleine Boyd, consists of

Simon Jenner in East Sussex 21 August 2024  Behind every Ideal Husband there’s an idealist wife: or so Wilde mischievously