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John Russell Taylor in the West End 2 April 2020 I suppose we all have our own particular bêtes noires

Neil Dowden on two Caryl Churchill plays1 March 2020 During six decades as a playwright, Caryl Churchill has not only

Jeremy Malies in the West End 1st March 2020 It may be a signature throughout Anton Chekhov that his characters

Julie Sorokurs on the South Bank 23 January 2020 If Lucy Kirkwood’s previous projects are anything to go by —

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 1 December 2019 Athol Fugard considers his 1982 play Master Harold… and the Boys

Bill Grantham in Dublin 1 December 2019 This year’s Dublin Theatre Festival was as packed with plays as ever, so

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank1 December 2019 There seem to be two current styles of presenting Chekhov: making the

Bill Grantham in Dublin and Galway 1 November 2019 I’ve long been an admirer of the Italian film director Pier

Jo Briggs in central London In his 1927 essay on humour, Sigmund Freud considered the ways in which comedy might

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 26 September 2019 Yaël Farber is on record as saying that: “Directing is asking

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 6 September 2019 Lucy Prebble’s brilliantly inventive new play A Very Expensive Poison is

Neil Dowden in the West End 1 September 2019 There was much hype ahead of the world premiere of David

Mohammad Reza Aliakbari 1 September 2019 Life in the metropolis of Tehran is characterized by a combination of overcrowding, rushing,

1 September 2019 I am immediately surrounded by mystical, seemly unearthly sounds that make me feel suspended in space when

Jo Briggs on the South Bank1 June 2019 Ten minutes before this play begins, we have the opportunity to investigate

Eva de Valk in central London1 June 2019   The characteristically to-the-point announcement: “This play is called Our Town” is

Iran report1 June 2019 Iranshahr Theatre is one of the oldest and most popular theatres in Tehran. From its two

Jeremy Malies in north London17 April 2019 At most productions of Chekhov’s Three Sisters I end up longing for the

Jeremy Malies in Cumbria 4 April 2019 Cumbria-based Theatre by the Lake is touring a production of Willy Russell’s Educating

7 March 2019 Jeremy Malies’s feature covers Simon Stone’s lnternationaal Theater Amsterdam’s Medea which was at London’s Barbican Theatre from

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 14 February 2019 Twice in less than a year I’ve seen bankers during the

Jo Briggs at The Royal Court14 December 2018 I am old enough to remember a cane at my village primary

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank1 December 2018 There is theatre critic equivalent of locker room gossip suggesting that director

Neil Dowden sees two productions of Richard II  at the Almeida Theatre and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. 1 December 2018 This

Jeremy Malies in Essex 26 October 2018 You hardly needed to be a scheduling genius to realize that a prolonged

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 25 October 2018 Martin McDonagh’s new play A Very Very Very Dark Matter depicts

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 10 October 2018 Sir David Hare’s I’m Not Running which had its world premiere

Jeremy Malies in East Sussex 13 September 2018 In his The Habit of Art, Alan Bennett uses a play within

Michael Ajzenstadt in Tel Aviv 1 September 2018 In the autumn of 1993, the newest play of the time by

Jeremy Malies in West Sussex 26 August 2018   The best theoretical physicists, notably Lawrence Krauss and the late Stephen

Jo Briggs in Covent Garden14 August 2018   The only son among the last of the O’Donnells of Ballybeg Hall

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 21 October 2018 Emma Rice’s adaptation of Angela Carter’s Wise Children at the Old

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 17 July 2018 “It lit a match and the explosion was Trump.” This is

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 8 June 2018 The style of playwright Polly Stenham has been compared to Tennessee

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank23 October 2019 Orson Welles said that writers hit peak popularity two or three years

Dana Rufolo in Constance In 1776, Adam Smith wrote An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 8 May 2018 End-on, in-the-round with a promenade option and now a thrust. The

Christine Eccles on the South Bank 13 May 2018 The Old Vic’s version of Ingmar Bergman’s celebrated semi-autobiographical 1982 film

Jeremy Malies in Covent Garden 7 April 2018 If William Congreve’s The Way of the World is the jewel in

Jeremy Malies in Hampshire 5 June 2018 In her programme notes, director Chelsea Walker says: “This is a play which

Neil Dowden in the West End 6 February 2018 Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece Long Day’s Journey into Night was not staged

Neil Dowden in North London 17 December 2017 The 1995 West End premiere of Simon Gray’s play Cell Mates was

Hans-Jürgen Bartsch in Berlin Last November, the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, one of Berlin’s oldest playhouses in the historic city centre,

Robert Schneider in Connecticut 28 January 2018 Nick Payne’s two-hander Constellations at Hartford Theatre Works is an invitation to imagine

Jeremy Malies in West Sussex 13 February 2018 Observing the substantial number of school children at the Chichester Festival Theatre

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 28 January 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Baker has seen her 2015 play John premiered

Jeremy Malies in West Sussex 28 April 2014 Rival meteorologists squabble for 72 hours over the most important weather forecast

Glenda Frank in New York 6 February 2018 What kind of stories do theatre artists choose to dramatize: stories about

David Cowan in Paris 23 January 2017 Provincial life features on the main stage of the Comédie Française in Le

Doron Elia in Jerusalem 11 December 2017 The ruler of the underworld Samedi says, “Only here in the theatre, every

Jeremy Malies in north London8 March 2018 Writers from Virgil through to Sylvia Plath have obsessed about the relationship between

David Cowan in Paris 1 February 2018 Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play J’étais dans ma maison et j’attendais que la pluie vienne,

Jeremy Malies in Covent Garden 14 February 2018 Peter Gill’s The York Realist depicts two men falling in love during

Neil Dowden in Kensington and Chelsea 17 February 2018 Dennis Kelly may have had a lot of popular success writing

John Russell Taylor in the West End 18 January 2018 In 1958 when The Birthday Party was first performed, apparently

John Russell Taylor in the West End 23 January 2018 Oh dear! Alas, what a fall is here. The opening

Christine Eccles in Kensington and Chelsea 16 October 2017 In reviewing Rita, Sue and Bob Too it has become almost

Jeremy Malies in Covent Garden 24 February 2017 One of the numbers in George and Ira Gershwin’s An American in

Margaret Leask in Sydney 10 August 2017 The Bell Shakespeare Company’s production of The Merchant of Venice, directed by Anne-Louise

Christine Eccles on the South Bank 17 February 2017 It is always a bit uncomfortable for me to watch a

Christine Eccles in west London 2 August 2017 This is a fantastic and very well-timed revival of Jim Cartwright’s ground-breaking

Vera Liber in north London 6 July 2017 The stain and stink of ink leaves hands and souls black. The

Vera Liber on the South Bank 24 May 2017 Influenced by Shakespeare. Goethe, and the Sturm und Drang movement, Georg

Christine Eccles on the South Bank 5 August 2016 Yerma is not the name of Lorca’s heroine in this version,

Jeremy Malies in the West End 12 March 2018 “Extraordinary how potent cheap music is” comes from another Noël Coward