Tuyen Do's playwriting debut marks first-ever British Vietnamese play seen in the UK There’s a moment in Summer Rolls, at the Nguyen family dinner table, when a veil is briefly pulled bac…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:42AMGreed is good or at least entertaining in feisty Off West End revival Deft and funny and nicely cast, what's not to like about Other People's Money, the era-defining Jerry Sterner play in r…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:06AMSolo play looks back blandly at the celebrated screen dad in "Mary Poppins" I am deeply jealous of Miles Jupp's dressing gown in The Life I Lead, the solo play at the Park Theatre. It's a si…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:53PMMental distress takes centre-stage in metaphor-heavy play We're Staying Right Here, Henry Devas's debut play premiering on the smaller of the Park Theatre's two stages, carries a trigger wa…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:00AMCanny update of a 17th-century classic locates real laughs in today's censorious landscape Breathe in the love and breathe out the bullshit. After the Arcola Theatre's founder and artistic d…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:30AMNational Theatre transfer hits the West End sweet spotThe Fifties? They were terrible: bone-cold houses where people huddled round the fireplace for heat, empty Sundays that lasted a month, …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:42AMAmerican play from mid-'90s resonates afresh todayIn the history of early photography in the Middle East, it was the Armenian Christian traders and their descendents who became the pion…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:36AMThree interconnected stories struggle to add up A road tunnel through the Alps, stretching underneath Mont Blanc: Tel (Shaun Mason) is ploughing home to London in a borrowed Merc, strung out…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:32AMChé Walker play provides a lively platform for the formidable Sheila Atim Confessions first: I fell asleep mid-way through Time Is Love/Tiempo es Amor, from too much time on trains and plan…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:36AMAward-winning adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel retains its ingenuity and pathos One emotional high point in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the much-lauded Simon Ste…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:18AMLast year's festive-season hit, re-cast, continues to enchant The Old Vic's revival of its successful Christmas Carol first seen this time last year had me at the mince pies: they were …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:24AMInternational sensation stirs the heart anew in its return homeWar Horse at the National Theatre on Sunday’s Armistice Day centenary: there were medalled veterans and at least one priest i…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:54AM
