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David Wootton in West London ★★★★☆ 13 September 2026 From the outset, Rachel O’Riordan’s staging of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children,

Jeremy Malies in East London ★★★★☆ 13 September 2026 Ava Pickett is an embodiment of the Jane Austen dictum that

Neil Dowden in East London ★★★☆☆ 11 September 2026 One of London fringe theatre’s most enterprising venues over the last

Mark Brown on Clydeside ★★★★☆ 10 September 2026  The pairing of Chris Hannan as adapter and Dominic Hill as director

Louise Penn in South London ★★★★☆ 9 September 2026 This musical adaptation of Jane Eyre (music and lyrics by Paul Gordon,

David Wootton on the South Bank ★★★☆☆ 7 September 2026 Written and set in 2003, Tracey Scott Wilson’s The Story

Neil Dowden in the West End ★★★★☆ 7 September 2026 Lyndsey Turner has already successfully directed Brian Friel’s adaptation of

Jeremy Malies in Central London ★★★★☆ 5 September 2026 A 69-year-old man hunches over a reel-to-reel recorder on his birthday.

Neil Dowden on the South Bank ★★★☆☆ 4 September 2026 Electra/Persona is a fascinating if flawed hybrid by Australian auteur

David Wootton in the West End ★★★★☆ 28 August 2026 The trope of the last people alive, surviving an apocalypse,

Jeremy Malies in the West End ★★★★☆ 21 August 2026 “Young people will see it as a retro piece.” This

Robert Schneider in Connecticut ★★★★★ 19 August 2026 She tells her accomplice that they had to drive four hours to

Neil Dowden on the South Bank ★★★★☆ 15 August 2026 Alan Ayckbourn’s 1969 play How the Other Half Loves not

Franco Milazzo in Central London ★★★★☆ 13 August 2026 Screen-to-stage musicals are, let us be honest, well-intentioned money grabs which

Franco Milazzo in North London ★★★☆☆ 9 August 2026 Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is boldly billing this Cats as

David Wootton in the West End ★★★★☆ 3 August 2026 The creators of Tao of Glass, Phelim McDermott and Philip

Tom Bolton in North London ★★★★★ 30 July 2026 Rebecca Frecknall signs off her highly successful time as Associate Director

Mark Brown on Clydeside ★★★★☆ 28 July 2026  Bard in the Botanics (BiB) – Glasgow’s mini-festival of Shakespeare and other

Franco Milazzo in the West End ★☆☆☆☆ 24 July 2026 Choose the West End. Choose a Thursday. Choose gilt and

Simon Jenner in West Sussex ★★★★☆ 23 July 2026 “We start in space just above the Kármán line; the official

Louise Penn in South London ★★★★☆ 22 July 2026 The place is the back of the Never Get, a cabaret

Simon Thomas in the Midlands ★★★☆☆ 19 July 2026 Directed by incoming Artistic Director Joe Murphy, Birmingham Rep’s Sweeney Todd is surely

Neil Dowden on the South Bank ★★★☆☆ 17 July 2026 The Oresteia “written and directed by Simon Stone after Aeschylus

Mark Shenton in West Sussex ★★★★☆ 16 July 2026 Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics, adapted closely from George Bernard

Robert Schneider in Connecticut ★★★★★ 15 July 2026 In a programme note, director Michael Fling lauds this show as “light,

Maryam Philpott in the West End ★★★☆☆ 12 July 2026 Be careful what you wish for in Peter Quilter’s new

Dana Rufolo in Antwerp ★★★★☆ June 27, 2026 Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (OBV) again displayed its signature talent for plummeting the

Franco Milazzo in the West End ★★★★☆ 8 July 2026 And. lo, after forty days (and quite a few years),

Jeremy Malies in the West End ★★★★☆ 5 July 2026 What is it about Danish films that their screenplays prompt

Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg ★★★★☆ 30 June, 2026 Mike Bartlett has been a shining star in London’s playwright firmament since

Jane Edwardes in the West End ★★★★★ 2 July 2026 When Tom Stoppard died last November, only two months before

Mark Brown in Highland Perthshire ★★★★☆ 2 July 2026  Scottish dramatist Douglas Maxwell has enjoyed some notable highs, and occasional,

Neil Dowden in North London ★★★☆☆ 1 July 2026 A king visits a US president using soft power to advocate

Jeremy Malies in West London ★☆☆☆☆ 29 June 2026 Rajiv Joseph’s script gives the background to the assassination of Archduke

Neil Dowden in the West End ★★★★★ 29 June 2026 After entertaining audiences in Stratford-upon-Avon last autumn with its sharp

John Murphy in North East England ★★★★☆ 29 September 2026 If you’re going to revive Summer Holiday – originally adapted

Louise Penn on the South Bank ★★★★★ 28 June 2026 It’s 1984, and the pre-show tunes and slides remind us

David Wootton in the West End ★★★★☆ 27 June 2026 Over the last dozen years, the plays of Florian Zeller

Neil Dowden on the South Bank ★★★☆☆ 27 June 2026 Martin Crimp is evidently fascinated by Molière’s classic satirical comedy

Louise Penn in the West End ★★★☆☆ 25 June 2026 Classic crooner Bing Crosby famously said, “Frank is a singer

Maryam Philpott in West London ★★★☆☆ 25 June 2026 Billed as a family drama about siblings gathering in the aftermath

Robert Schneider in Connecticut ★★★★★ 22 June 2026 Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street marks the first ever

Simon Jenner in East Sussex ★★★★☆ 21 June 2026 It’s probably difficult to mount what many good judges claim to

Jane Edwardes on the South Bank ★★★★☆ 19 June 2026 Why would anyone want to do an all-female production of

Simon Thomas in South West England ★★★★☆ 17 June 2026 It’s extraordinary to think that by 1927, when The Marquise

Mark Brown in the Scottish Highlands ★★★★☆ 13 June 2026 The appointment of Alan Cumming – who is truly a

Neil Dowden in North London ★★★★☆ 12 June 2026 Under the Shadow has been adapted by Carmen Nasr from Babak

Jane Edwardes in North London ★★★☆☆ 19 June 2026 Martina Laird is better known as an actor than a playwright,

Andreas Rey in Paris ★★☆☆☆ 8 June 2026 The opera is directed by Florent Siaud under the baton of Laurence

David Wootton in Central London ★★★★☆ 7 June 2026 During recent summers, the Barbican Theatre has established itself as the

Maryam Philpott in West London ★★★☆☆ 7 June 2026 There is an alarming passivity inherent in watching Georgie Dettmer’s debut

Franco Milazzo on the South Bank ★★★★☆ 4 June 2026 Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once: if

Robert Schneider in Connecticut ★★★★☆ 3 June 2026 For Circus Fire, Theaterworks Hartford has created an arena stage inside the

Tom Bolton in West London ★★★★☆ 3 June 2026 Waleed Akhtar’s two-hander The P Word returns to the Bush Theatre

Robert Schneider in Connecticut ★★★★★ 1 June 2026 After a funeral, family members, once close but now estranged, get together

Franco Milazzo in the West End ★★★☆☆ 31 May 2026 Let us cut to the chase: no matter what the

Neil Dowden in South-West London ★★★☆☆ 28 May 2026 Having died 10 years ago aged 90, Peter Shaffer is enjoying

Jeremy Malies on the Southbank ★★★★☆ 25 May 2026 Peter Shaffer’s plays often create a duel between opposing cultures or

Mark Brown on Clydeside ★★★★☆ 23 May 2026 The mercurial, Andalusian comic hero Figaro was a creation of French author

Simon Jenner at the Brighton Festival 23 May 2026 ★★★★☆ “It’s far darker than I remembered” an audience member muttered.

Simon Jenner at the Brighton Festival ★★★★★ 23 May 2026 A South African history of the American nineteenth century? It

David Wootton in East London ★★★★☆ 23 May 2026 First appearing in 1977, Quartet in Autumn was the comeback novel

Tom Bolton on the South Bank ★★★★★ 20 May 2026 Alexander Zeldin’s Care begins before the audience has realized. The

Glenda Frank in Midtown Manhattan ★★★☆☆ 19 May 2026 I was surprised by Beaches which has been adapted into a

Jeremy Malies in Brighton ★★★★☆ 18 May 2026 What is the collective noun for a set of productions of this

Franco Milazzo in North London ★★★★☆ 18 May 2026 New approaches to the Holmes mythos have broadened and increased considerably

Jeremy Malies in the West End ★★★★★ 17 May 2026 Lucy Kirkwood does it in The Welkin with a setting

David Wootton in North London ★★★★☆ 17 May 2026 When Stage Kiss was first produced in Chicago in 2011, it

Jeremy Malies in West London ★★★★☆ 16 May 2026 In a post-Mandelson (certainly end of his active career) world, director

Mark Brown in Stratford-upon-Avon ★★★★★ 14 May 2026 If there is a play in the theatrical canon that speaks more

Maryam Philpott in the West End ★★★☆☆ 15 May 2026 For the people of Malawi, the choice between the hyena,

Simon Thomas in West London ★★★★☆ 12 May 2026 The Royal Court has a long relationship with the works of

Mark Brown in Glasgow ★★★★★ 11 May 2026 This staging of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat (which is co-produced by the

Jeremy Malies in South London ★☆☆☆☆ 9 May 2026 It was one big roll call, a list of activists for

Andreas Rei in Austria ★★★★☆ 8 May 2026 This past May 7, the Vienna Opera resumed its production of Donizetti’s

Tom Bolton in West London ★★★★☆ 7 May 2026 Caryl Churchill’s unsettling, beautifully crafted play is presented at the Coronet

David Wootton in the West End ★★★★★ 6 May 2026 There can be little in life that is worse than

Andreas Rey in Austria ★★★☆☆ 6 May 2026 The Vienna Opera has revived its production of Richard Strauss’s Salome, staged

Mark Brown on Clydeside 4 May 2026 ★★★☆☆  Currently, across the UK, the number of trade unionists stands at 6.4

Jeremy Malies in the West End 2 May 2026 ★★★★☆ “If you have to think why you’re doing a play,

Glenda Frank on Broadway ★★★★☆ 29 April 2026 I’ve had mixed feelings about Arthur Miller. Not about his importance in

Simon Thomas in the South West ★★★★☆ 29 April 2026 Samuel Beckett’s one-man play Krapp’s Last Tape, which premiered in

David Wootton in North London ★★★★☆ 28 April 2026 Though the plays of the American writer Arthur Miller have often

Jeremy Malies in North London 27 April 2026 ★★☆☆☆ Michael Caine, who was actually there, once said that the 60s

David Wootton in the West End ★★★★☆ 27 April 2026 On the one occasion that Virginia Woolf turned to writing

Neil Dowden in West London ★★★★☆ 25 April 2026 The slogan “From the river to the sea” is of course

Louise Penn on the South Bank ★★★★☆ 23 April 2026 Clint Dyer’s revival of Dale Wasserman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s

Mark Brown on Clydeside ★★★★☆ 21 April 2026 This two-act ballet – inspired by and built around Gene Kelly’s short

Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg 21 April 2026 Ivanov as a character in the eponymous drama must be one of the

Franco Milazzo in the West End ★★★★★ 20 April 2026 The return of Avenue Q to the West End 20

David Wootton in West London ★★★☆☆ 19 April 2026 In devising Nayatt School Redux, the legendary American ensemble The Wooster

Andreas Rey in Munich 14 April 2026 ★★★★☆ The Bayerische Staatsoper (Bavarian State Opera) has revived its production of Puccini’s

Andreas Rey in Munich 13 April 2026 ★★★★☆ The Munich opera house (Bayerisches Statsoper) has revived for three dates its

Andreas Rey in Bavaria 13 April 2026 ★★★★☆ The Bavarian State Opera in Munich is reviving its production of Verdi’s

Jeremy Malies in north London ★★☆☆☆ 10 April 2026 The bare brick rear wall of the Almeida needs no additions

Neil Dowden on the South Bank ★★★★☆ 10 April 2026 Christopher Hampton’s 1985 dramatization of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s 1782

Maryam Philpott in North London ★★★☆☆ 8 April 2026 Do humans have the right to destroy each other, and should

David Wootton in the West End ★★★☆☆ 8 April 2026  Inter Alia begins more like a rock concert than a

Glenda Frank in Midtown Manhattan ★★★★☆ 7 April 2026 Giant by Mark Rosenblatt, winner of three Olivier Awards, directed by

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank ★★☆☆☆ 4 April 2026 There is irony in the title of Winsome Pinnock’s new

David Wootton in West London 31 March 2026 ★★★☆☆ Rodney Ackland is best remembered for Absolute Hell, his riotous, baggy

Jane Edwardes in West London ★★★★☆ 29 March 2026 It is a provocative title. Especially that little word “the”. John

Neil Dowden in the West End ★★★☆☆ 29 March 2026 David Hare’s early play Teeth ’n’ Smiles returns to the

Robert Schneider in New Haven, Connecticut ★★★★☆ 24 March 2026 With Rhinoceros (1959), Eugene Ionesco etched the portrait of a

Mark Brown in the Scottish Highlands ★★★★☆ 24 March 2026 Flora MacDonald is the Jacobite hero who smuggled Charles Edward

Glenda Frank in Manhattan ★★★★☆ 24 March 2026 Since 1992 the Mint Theatre on Theatre Row has been resurrecting brilliant

Franco Milazzo in the West End ★★★☆☆ 23 March 2026 As the old saying goes, the fact that there’s a

Mark Brown in Inverclyde ★★★★★ 23 March 2026 The first staging of this Medea – a crisp and vital adaptation

Jeremy Malies in South-West London ★★★★★ 23 March 2026 “It takes a while to find the knack of liking English

Mark Brown on Clydeside ★★★★☆ 21 March 2026 SCOTS – a comic musical about the origins and history of Scotland,

Jane Edwardes on the South Bank ★★★★☆ 19 March 2026 Going home, after watching the National Theatre’s production of Maxim

Mark Brown in Scotland’s capital ★★★☆☆ 17 March 2026 Scotland’s producing theatres – like their sibling playhouses across the UK

Annie Loui in California ★★★★☆ 15 March 2026 This three-and-a-half-hour-long Philip Glass opera might be daunting you would think, but

Neil Dowden on the Southbank ★★★★☆ 13 March 2026 Ryan Craig’s play The Holy Rosenbergs was searingly topical when first

Glenda Frank in Manhattan ★★★★☆ 9 March 2026 It took many decades for writers to consider comedy as a legitimate

Jeremy Malies in East London ★★★☆☆ 9 March 2026 Director Nicolas Kent has overseen a cycle of five short plays

David Wootton on the South Bank ★★★★★ 9 March 2026 The Young Vic has made something of a speciality of

Neil Dowden in Southwest London ★★★★☆ 8 March 2026 Having risen phoenix-like – or dragon-like? – from the ashes of

Mark Brown on Clydeside ★★★★☆ 24 February 2026 Imagine, if you will, a cross between Miriam Margolyes’s gloriously exaggerated playing

Maryam Philpott in the West End ★★★☆☆ 26 February 2026 Anna Ziegler’s new play at the Donmar Warehouse feels like

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank ★★☆☆☆ 25 February 2026 Chadwick Boseman’s Deep Azure is overwrought and overlong at two

Maryam Philpott in North London ★★★☆☆ 24 February 2026 What makes a famous or celebrated person who they are meant

Mark Brown on Clydeside ★★★★☆ 22 February 2026 Stewart Laing – the auteur theatre-maker behind such memorable shows as The

Mark Brown on Clydeside ★★★★☆ 17 February 2026 The Great Wave Off Kanagawa – the iconic image created in 1831

“The Shitheads” at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs David Wootton in West London ★★★★☆ 16 February 2026 The truism that playwrights

Mark Brown in Mold ★★★★☆ 15 February 2026 The theatre sectors of the nations of the United Kingdom have not

Franco Milazzo in the West End ★★★★☆ 15 February 2026 It has taken six years for this production of William

Franco Milazzo in the West End ★★★☆☆ 13 February 2026 There is something faintly heroic about dragging a once-surgical satire

Neil Dowden on the South Bank ★★☆☆☆ 12 February 2026 National Theatre artistic director Indhu Rubasingham’s first programmed show in

Franco Milazzo in the West End ★★★☆☆ 11 February 2026 There is something quietly audacious about The Unlikely Pilgrimage of

Jeremy Malies in West London ★★☆☆☆ 11 February 2026 Only five years after Dostoevsky had published Crime and Punishment in

Robert Schneider in New Haven, Connecticut ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 9 February 2026 It’s a mystery how Julia Masli’s

David Wootton on the South Bank ★★★★☆ 9 February 2026 Even before a performance of Tom Stoppard’s masterly Arcadia begins

Robert Schneider in Hartford, Connecticut 9 February 2026 ★★★☆☆ It’s not generally appreciated that dramatic credibility, which is absolutely crucial

Neil Dowden in South-West London ★★★★☆ 8 February 2026 August Strindberg’s 1900 psychodrama Dance of Death – a stark portrayal

Mark Brown in Scotland’s capital ★★★★☆ 6 February 2026 In 2001 I had the good fortune to interview Harold Pinter

Tom Bolton in West London ★★★★☆ 5 February 2026 Lost Atoms, written by Anna Jordan, is the 30th anniversary production

Neil Dowden in North London ★★★☆☆ 5 February 2026 This centenary revival of Noël Coward’s youthful play The Rat Trap

Neil Dowden in North London ★★★★☆ 3 February 2026 The wheel has come full circle for the Almeida Theatre’s artistic

Robert Schneider in Connecticut ★★★★☆ 28 January 2026 I thought I knew a lot about teaching and learning a second

Glenda Frank in New York ★★★★★ 29 January 2026 Errors in judgment – and coding – can last a lifetime.

Glenda Frank in Manhattan ★★★☆☆ 26 January 2026 Revivals can be the lifeblood of theatre. Directors get to vie for

Jeremy Malies in West London ★★★★☆ 26 January 2025 A product of Juilliard and to be seen in Game of

Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg ★★★★★ 10 January 2026 Pessoa – Since I’ve Been Me is one of the last performance

Neil Dowden in North London ★★★★☆ 19 January 2026 For those wondering “where have all the gone times gone” they

Dana Rufolo in Vienna ★★★☆☆ 19 January 2026 A woman, the emcee, Solomiya Kyrylova is shouting from the stage, another

Dana Rufolo in Antwerp ★★★★☆ 18 January 2026 The Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (OBV) version of Don Giovanni is above all

Jeremy Malies ★★★★☆ 17 January 2026 By remarkable coincidence this month sees three plays running in London set during the

Franco Milazzo in the West End ★★★☆☆ 14 January 2026 Eric Roth’s adaptation of the classic 1952 film High Noon

Neil Dowden in the West End ★★★☆☆ 9 January 2026  When Alan Ayckbourn’s dark comedy Woman in Mind was first staged in 1985 it

Jeremy Malies in South-West London ★★★★☆ 4 January 2025 Two years on and it’s Sheridan’s The Rivals that has a

Neil Dowden in the West End ★★★★☆ 21 December 2025 J.B. Priestley’s 1938 play When We Are Married is a

Adam Sacks 21 December 2025 ★★★★☆ Thirty years after the event is a good occasion to revisit one of America’s

Jeremy Malies in North London ★★☆☆☆ 20 December 2025 Playing a resident of Gujarat, Mark Carlisle strides onto the veranda

Jane Edwardes in North London ★★★★☆ 19 December 2025 To start with the set. Designer Miriam Buether has excelled herself

Franco Milazzo in the West End ★★★★★ 16 December 2025 If Charles Dickens were alive today, he would surely sue.

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank ★★★★☆ 15 December 2025 The front of house manager, or so I think, shuffles

Neil Dowden on the South Bank ★★★☆☆ 15 December 2025 John Millington Synge’s 1907 The Playboy of the Western World

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

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 8 December 2025 ★★★☆☆  There is a well-executed running gag in Fallen Angels to the effect that down-on-her-luck

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