Northern Stage is taking its inspiration from Peaky Blinders for a new production of Charles Dickens' classic story of ghosts, greed and goodwill, A Christmas Carol.
Director Jude Christian's othellomacbeth, two-for-one offer on Shakespearean tragedies at the Lyric Hammersmith, sounds like a bad idea. Crammed into two and half hours, there's too much mat…
Terence Rattigan was understandably consumed with thoughts of love and death " and the right way to die " when he wrote his last great play, In Praise Of Love. Dying himself from leukaemia "…
Arrows and Traps Theatre Company has followed up last year's autumnal treat of Frankenstein with a new adaptation of Dracula.
The West End transfer of Matthew Lopez's modern masterpiece The Inheritance, nearly seven hours of epic storytelling, is a phenomenal play which sold out when it first opened at London's You…
David Greig's riveting adaptation of Simpson's Touching The Void has made the transition for an innovative co-production, led by Bristol Old Vic, which is now touring.
Florian Zeller's new play The Height Of The Storm at Wyndham's Theatre is as enigmatic as it is engaging. Even the title confounds.
With a winning combination of heavyweight storytelling and punchy performances, The Sweet Science of Bruising gives a ringside seat not only to the true story of women boxers in the Victoria…
Inspired by the events of the 1916 Easter Rising, Lizzie Nunnery's To Have To Shoot Irishmen a damning look at militarism, violent revolution and a Dublin community torn apart by conflict.
Cheeky little romp Moll Flanders, through the life of a fictitious and notorious London whore, has now been turned into a saucy theatre production, complete with the occasional ditty, premie…
I was enthralled by this fiery revival of Cock which may have lost its initial shock value in the intervening, increasingly liberated, years, but is still capable of being moving, comical an…
You can see immediately why Ian Hislop and his partner in satire, Nick Newman, came up with the idea of Trial By Laughter, as their next stage project.
It seems anyone who is anyone has signed up for Jamie Lloyd's ambitious season of Harold Pinter plays at the appropriately named Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End.
Writer Michael Morpurgo calls his magnum opus, War Horse, an anthem for peace. Certainly, a play's influence has never been so persuasive after sitting, enthralled at Milton Keynes Theatre, …
Lifeboat is a play that has the potential to say a lot about the human capacity for survival in life or death situations, and the extremes we can endure when faced with losing the ones we lo…
Alan Bennett's The Habit Of Art has returned to its meta-spiritual home this week, arriving at the Oxford Playhouse to amuse and entertain its erudite audience with in-jokes about the city's…
Still Alice is a sharply observed, bold and courageous portrait that captures the bravery of one woman's battle against a malevolent and unrelenting disease.
Black musical comedy Heathers The Musical has graduated with honours to the West End, opening at the Theatre Royal Haymarket to whoops of laughter and screams of delight from enthusiastic au…
Eyam, the final production of The Globe's summer season, drags in the autumn with a grim tale of human endurance and sacrifice, reimagining for the stage the true story of a plague-ridden pa…
Tartuffe could be an episode from a TV sitcom and proves, if any proof was necessary, that a satire written in 1664 " albeit much rewritten and refined by 21st-century adaptors " is still ca…
Flowers For Mrs Harris, a 2016 Sheffield hit for director Daniel Evans when he was there, is the big musical flourish for Chichester Festival Theatre, where Evans is now completing his secon…
Enter the Elephant Jazz Bar at Wilton's Music Hall, London for the Watermill Ensemble's coats-and-tails dive into the 1920s, where the cast of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night serve up a deliciou…
Suicide is the single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK. It's a sobering fact to be presented with at the start of Alex McSweeney's exceptional new drama, Distance, which has opened a…
You're riveted from the very first second of The Lovely Bones. Shocking, horrifying and heart-wrenching this remarkable 100-minute stage adaptation of Alice Sebold's international best-selle…
It's been 26 years since Tony Harrison's anti-war polemic Square Rounds baffled and amused audiences and it has lost none of its bite.