What I watched in Stop & Search has less to do with stop and search and more a jumble of thoughts and ideas thrown up in the air and left to sort themselves out into some semblance of a…
There are no balloons or party poppers but a good time is guaranteed with Party Time and Celebration, a standout Pinter Six from the consistently strong Pinter at the Pinter season in London…
If you want to understand why working-class Americans voted for Donald Trump or even why people in Sunderland voted for Brexit then look no further than Lynn Nottage's complex, urgent and mo…
Borrowing a technique from American long-form TV drama, The Tragedy of King Richard The Second begins in medias res. The wonderful Simon Russell Beale steps forward, ashen-faced, to deliver …
Journalist and playwright Jonathan Maitland will be kept on his toes rewriting his latest play, The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson, nightly to ensure it keeps up with the politician's ever…
Neil McCormick's autobiography has now been turned into an engaging new musical play, Chasing Bono, which has opened at London's Soho Theatre.
Former law professor, author and academic Norman S Poser is spending his retirement writing about his two passions, the Georgian era and English theatre, and, in particular, the life and tim…
Paulette Randall's gender-swap, colour-blind, version of Christopher Marlowe's fiendish morality tale Doctor Faustus succeeds in ticking a lot of trendy boxes but fails to create innovative,…
Sibling rivalry and dysfunctional families are at the heart of Sam Shepard's True West, a black comedy that has emerged from an initial drubbing Stateside with a revival in the West End.
The twist in Plaid Tidings at London's Bridge House Theatre is, of course, that the stars are dead, killed in a car crash. But when has a trivial mishap like that ever stopped a group from s…
It has been nearly 80 years since Aimée Stuart's enchanting and whimsical comedy, Jeannie, has been performed in London so thank god for the Finborough Theatre in staging a revival.
Michael McManus' An Honourable Man which has arrived at London's White Bear Theatre, after a successful tryout earlier this year.
Hadestown's journey onto the stage of the National Theatre " and, indeed, its upcoming transfer to Broadway " has been as tortuous and precarious as the story it tells.
Parents, if the thought of sitting through yet another (yawn) pantomime this Yule fills you with dread, then I'd recommend the dazzling, cheery musical Nativity! The Musical as an outstandin…
As we mark #Armistice100 it seems right that Benjamin Till's award-winning musical Brass should return to remind us, as if we need any reminding, of the terrible price paid by communities du…
The the funny, heartfelt stories of Sholom Aleichem were turned into what became Fiddler On The Roof. Now Saul Reichlin’s one-man show, Sholom Aleichem In The Old Country, imagines the…
The Pinter at the Pinter season continues with parts Three and Four which showcase both Pinter's comic brilliance and his ability to move an audience.
Actor and writer William Gaminara plumbs Ayckbourn territory for The Nightingales, an odd bird which has just opened at Theatre Royal Bath with TV actress Ruth Jones tempted back to the stage
Musicians have a reputation for being highly strung and that finely tuned temperament is tested to the extreme in Jesse Briton's absorbing new play A Pupil at London's Park Theatre.
The past catches up with the whisky-swilling ex-DI in Rebus: Long Shadows, a brooding, noirish, thriller especially written by Rankin for the stage and skilfully adapted by Rona Munro.
The Greater Game tells the remarkable true story of what happened when 41 members of Leyton Orient Football Club, including ten first team players, officials and backroom staff, enlisted at …
Brexit is a farce. Of all the things Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky's Brexit could have been, their critically-acclaimed satire about the current Euro-debacle is not the play this mired, polit…
Joanna Murray-Smith's 2003 play Honour is surprisingly relevant to the current #MeToo debate while highlighting a generational division over the question of love and fidelity.
This transfer of Soldier On, which has toured the UK and won public and critical acclaim, is a powerful, explosive and compelling piece of storytelling from a former soldier-turned-actor, no…
David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr's 1983 Broadway hit Baby has finally made it over the pond for a UK premiere in London but you have to ask yourself, was it worth the wait?