Thursday, August 11, 2016
Vicky Featherstone's wonderfully fluent and vivid production of Alan Warner's award-Âwinning 1998 novel The Sopranos is a boozy, raucous rite of passage
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:13AM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2016
A deft work that brings Lorca's tragedy about the agonies of childlessness bang up to date
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:07AM[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2016
Paul Taylor is left still visibly shaking from the play's effects on the Tube home
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:15AM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2016
Timothy Sheader's 45th anniversary production is the first time the show has ever been presented al fresco
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:51AM[SHARE]The Young Vic is welcoming visits by foreign companies and engaging with local communities and young people. Its latest show, Now We Are Here, has been created by refugee writers in workshop…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:39AM[SHARE]Friday, July 22, 2016
Declan Bennett's hipster Jesus has go-for-broke soul-bearing intensity
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 21, 2016
Little attention has been paid to Terence Rattigan's While The Sun Shines, the 1943 wartime comedy that, during his lifetime, was his longest West End hit
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:51AM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2016
It is excessively difficult to relate Anne Archer's Fonda to the figure from the fascinating footage
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2016
If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a rather delightful surprise. Fiasco, a US-based ensemble theatre company, specialise in playfully pared-down productions that put the e…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2016
The motion of a train loosens the tongue opines Pozdnyshev, the local government bureaucrat who is our garrulous travelling companion for the hundred minutes of this horribly compelling mono…
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:54PM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2016
If you're drawn to the dark and taboo-breaking side of Anthony Neilson's imagination, as exemplified by plays such as The Censor and Relocated, then the chances are that you'l…
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2016
An all-female cast of thirteen Syrian refugees takes to the stage for this remarkable venture. They weave their own personal stories into an eloquent modern re-working of an ancient text -- …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2016
Monday, June 13, 2016
It's twenty years since Isabelle Huppert last appeared in a London theatre. She certainly makes up for lost time now, delivering a tour de force of extraordinary physical abandon and me…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2016
After winning awards for their collaboration on Medea, Helen McCrory and director Carrie Cracknell resume their partnership in this revival of Terence Rattigan's 1952 masterpiece
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Michael Crawford returns to the West End, after a five year break, in a piece that's appreciably different from the kind of shows (Barnum, Phantom of the Opera) that rocketed him to sta…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:30AM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2016
Lola Arias deals with agonising material in a manner that is always honest and drily self-aware
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:15AM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2016
Don't let recent self-penned efforts by US screen actors Zach Braff and Matthew Perry put you off
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2016
Playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell's new production on Greece's economic descent lacks immediate subtance
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Playwright Charlene James writes with great power and sensitivity about the trauma of female genital mutilation
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2016
An evening of five political satirical playlets from David Hare, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill and Alistair Beaton ​
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Monday, May 23, 2016
From the moment Joe Penhall's play was premiered back in 2000, it was obvious that here we have a contemporary classic. Matthew Xia's remarkably vibrant and punchily performed revi…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2016
The comedian's new stand-up show is "a twisted love letter" to his Jewish parents
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Lucid direction by John Dove, but this play is too bitty and lacks momentum
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:26AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2016
An often very funny production, but Emma Rice needs to relax and let things breathe
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
An ambitious update of Marlowe's play pulls in young audiences with Game of Thrones star Kit Harington as Faustus
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:28AM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2016
The four-and-a-half hour compression of Shakespeare's Henry V, three Henry VI plays and Richard III is impressive
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2016
Sam Gold's production is exquisitely paced, taking its time with real dramatic purpose
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State, Temporary Theatre, National Theatre
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Essiedu radiates the impudent charisma, energy and wounded idealism of youth
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:38AM[SHARE] 
