Wednesday, December 5, 2018
While Harington impresses, it's Johnny Flynn whose comic perfection elevates this wonderfully warped production
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:36AMMonday, November 12, 2018
Jamie Lloyd's six month season celebrating the complete corpus of Pinter's short plays continues
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:12PMTuesday, November 6, 2018
You can't help but raise a cheer for Smith and for this lively, light-footed take on her work
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:18PMThursday, November 1, 2018
debbie tucker green's piece gives us snapshots of African American and black British experience at a time of deep frustration with the racist forces at the top
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:42PMWednesday, October 24, 2018
From the man who wrote and directed 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' comes this determinedly dark and twisted fable that fails to live up to expectations
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:12PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Bobby becomes Bobbie in this female-led version of the sexual revolution classic
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:04PMWednesday, October 10, 2018
Play starring Sian Brooke and Alex Hassell is a bemusing work that seems to be operating in a kind of vacuum or alternative past
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:42AMThursday, September 27, 2018
Simon Godwin's production of the Shakespearian tragedy proves to be an astute and moving work
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:24AMThursday, September 13, 2018
Part of the appeal of the cult 1989 movie is how it traces a fine line between satire and bad taste as it tackles peer pressure, bullying, body image, teen suicide and mass school shootings
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:32PMTuesday, September 11, 2018
Zegerman's astringent comedy is in the theatre's best traditions of being provocatively topical
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:54AMFriday, September 7, 2018
Insecurities stalk this bitterly funny and piercingly sad play
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:33AMThursday, August 30, 2018
There's real delicacy of feeling in this production as well as full-blooded fun
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:42AMMonday, August 27, 2018
A company of 200 Londoners of all ages and backgrounds has joined forces with professional actors for this show
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:48AMFriday, August 24, 2018
A stimulating, fluent, and strongly cast production that's trenchantly alive to Christopher Marlowe's provocative black comedy
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:48AMThursday, August 16, 2018
Paul Taylor reviews the stunning Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's extraordinarily rousing new play
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:54PMWednesday, August 15, 2018
Shakespeare effectively invented the sitcom with the only play he set in England in his own times
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:36AMAlan Menken and Howard Ashman's tongue-in-cheek 1982 musical tells the Faustian story of a hapless Skid Row florist who wins love, fame and fortune when he cultivates a rampantly bloodthirst…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:33AMTuesday, August 14, 2018
Lyndsey Turner, the director of the Benedict Cumberbatch Hamlet and Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica, directs the first major revival of Brian Friel's 1979 play since his death three years ago
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:32AMMonday, August 13, 2018
Alan Mencken and Howard Ashman's tongue-in-cheek 1982 musical tells the Faustian story of a hapless Skid Row florist who wins love, fame and fortune when he cultivates a rampantly bloodthirs…
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:24AMFriday, August 3, 2018
Does anybody need The Importance "decoding" in this heavy-handed, pseudo-radical way?
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:48PMThursday, August 2, 2018
Shakespeare's Globe's great founding artistic director stars as Iago in this production directed by his wife, Claire van Kampen
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:33AMWednesday, August 1, 2018
Laura Wade's first original play since Posh sees 38-year-old Judy's doomed attempt to achieve marital bliss by becoming a 1950s-style Domestic Goddess
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:12AMThursday, July 26, 2018
Broadway's arch-parodist Gerard Alessandrini takes a swipe at Lin-Manuel Miranda and 'Hamilton'
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:48AMFriday, July 20, 2018
Rory Mullarkey's absurdist cartoon about a society that topples into apocalyptic anarchy is not well served by Sam Pritchard's relentlessly jokey production
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:24AMThursday, July 19, 2018
This feels like bonus treat from the 84-year-old: a play about our imperilled National Health Service that somehow leaves you bobbing on a wave of happiness
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:32AMWednesday, July 18, 2018
Sally Cookson's adaptation of this best-seller about a boy coming to terms with grief is a wondrous feat of communal story-telling
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:24AMFriday, July 13, 2018
Magnificent performers multitask in this epic story of the Lehman Brothers family business
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:24AMThursday, July 5, 2018
Michael Grandage's splatter-fest revival is exuberantly gruesome
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:06AMWednesday, July 4, 2018
Is it ironic that this anti-establishment maverick should have her work celebrated at the other Stratford by the RSC? A bit – but you're soon swept up
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:48AMTuesday, July 3, 2018
There's a smack of imperial condescension in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, but this is a culturally cogent account from Bartlett Sher
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:06PMFriday, June 29, 2018
Jemma Kennedy's ambitious play has Enfield playing both Marx and God, while Jenni Murray lends her voice to a talking womb
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:24AM 
