Bill Kenwright's first outing with his new The Classic Screen to Stage Theatre Company is a revival of Dan Gordon's Rain Man, based on the Oscar-winning film that starred Tom Cruise and Dust…
Love's Labour's Lost is altogether good fayre and definitely a crowd-pleaser. Michelle Terry's tenure at The Globe continues to gallop confidently forward with this romp of a show.
Jude Owusu cuts a blood-soaked swathe through history in an ambitious, epic and savage retelling of Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
I was as baffled as anyone to explain why I was on the edge of my seat and engrossed by the inner workings of quantum engineering, astrophysics and nuclear fission as explained in Michael Fr…
Tom Latter's production of The Rise & Fall Of Little Voice is, like the title, one of highs and lows. The only time the show delivers any energy is in the second act when LV is thrust o…
Arthur Miller's 1968 play The Price at Theatre Royal Bath gives its star, David Suchet, another landmark stage role in an already exemplary career
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre finishes its summer season with an outrageously kitsch and eccentric production of Little Shop of Horrors that will leave you singing its infectious title song…
The estuary accents, Dolce & Gabbana leggings, bling and selfies are a bit of a giveaway that Fiona Laird's production of cheeky Shakespearean comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor is geogr…
It makes for very uneasy watching. On the one hand, her story-telling is gritty and brave, but there's a strand which is deeply exploitative with a terrified young girl tortured and maimed.
The Actors Centre in London's West End is partnering Blacktress UK to curate the October-December John Thaw Initiative Season, which will feature work by and about black women.
Mark Rylance turns Shakespeare's most sinister & Machiavellian of villains into a fawning clown in his wife's disappointing and workmanlike production of Othello at The Globe.
In The White Rose Ross McGregor gives us a story of a young generation's courage, as they fight to reclaim their country from those who are destroying it.
A chance to turn the clock back and hear Simon and Garfunkel at their very best pops up now an then at the Lyric Theatre. And for fans of the duo, which produced some of the most influential…
Charles Dorfman's Buckland Theatre Company has revived Two For the Seesaw for London's Trafalgar Studios 2 and the intimate space works well for this very intimate story of opposites hoping …
In these ultra-sensitive, snowflake times, writing, and performing, comedy is fraught with danger. One wrong word or gag and a once glittering career can lay in tatters. TV and radio writer,…
Shakespeare's slight and silly comedy As You Like at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is just the thing for midsummer.
Actor Ryan Pidgen will remember this night. It was the moment when he went out on stage an understudy and came back a star after single-handedly saving a show and the neck of its worried dir…
With plastic swords and rubber mezzanine set " complete with safety rails " that wobbled as it lurched from one scene change to another, the only credit to come out of this mess of a musical…
Not everyone knows who Joan Littlewood was but by the end of Sam Kenyon's enthralling biographic musical, Miss Littlewood, we're closer to understanding what drove this maverick director, wh…
The Play About My Dad is a force of nature itself, blowing conventional storytelling out of the window. Poignant and heartbreaking, the hurricane is used as a framing device to tell the stor…
This is a superb and brilliantly performed production of Shakespeare's 'problem' play. If you know the Globe, this Winter's Tale is a terrific summer show. If you don't know the venue, then …
Director Thom Southerland, at the helm since 2013, has created a masterpiece of modern theatre in Titanic that is packed with emotion and winning performances.
A bold and exhilarating production that, at a time when Brexit is uppermost in our minds, looks at the dark side of patriotism and nationalism.
This powderkeg of a play, from award-winning writer Mufaro Makubika, explodes halfway through leaving you in no doubt that this is anything but a feelgood domestic drama. It's incendiary.
There are no overblown performances or histrionics in The Unexpected Guest, but, instead a pacey and engaging thriller with terrific turns by the entire ensemble.