Terry Johnson's Ken pays homage to one of theatre's strangest eccentrics, the irrepressible fringe favourite, director, writer, actor and prankster, Ken Campbell, aided by an outstanding tur…
Long Day's Journey Into Night at London's Wyndham's Theatre is a powerful and moving production, but would be even more compelling with about an hour taken out of it.
In this touring production, Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men highlights the effects of climate change, economic uncertainty and migration on people's lives.
Annie Baker's absorbing and quirky John, which has just opened on the National Theatre's Dorfman stage, is a slow burner full of the playwright's trademark long-drawn-out silences and awkwar…
At the heart of the story of Rothschild & Sons at the Park Theatre, London is a family and race trying to carve out a place for themselves in history.
The Open House comes to The Print Room, Notting Hill, from a successful premiere at Theatre Royal Bath's Ustinov Studio and it is an engrossing character study of family life, post-The Ameri…
But this starry revival of The Birthday Party which has just opened at " where else? " the Harold Pinter Theatre " is immensely enjoyable " even if you occasionally lose the plot.
It has taken more than 20 years but Jennifer Saunders this week returned to the West End stage to make her mark in Lady Windermere's Fan at the Vaudeville Theatre.
A Passage to India opened its short national tour at Northampton's Royal & Derngate Theatre last week and is now thrilling fans at Salisbury Playhouse.
Shocking, provocative and poetic. Steven Berkoff's punchy verse play, East, has returned to its roots. No, not Bethnal Green or the Mile End Road, but the King's Head Theatre Islington, wher…
Phil Willmott navigates a steady course through Bernard Shaw's turbulent Heartbreak House though he occasionally drifts away from meaningful satire and into jolly farce.
It's been 12 years since I first saw The Rat Pack Live and not much has changed. That's not a bad thing if you're going to see this tribute show for a love of the music.
James Norton and Imogen Poots find disappointment as Americans In Paris, in Amy Herzog's shocking, disturbing and riveting drama, Belleville.
Murder, ambition, back-stabbing and sex. Politics is a dirty business but never less than thrilling in Mike Poulton's Imperium, his terrific adaptation of Robert Harris's Cicero Trilogy.
'Tis the season to remember those less fortunate than ourselves and David Edgar's stirring new adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, doesn't st…
The Old Vic's gloriously exuberant production is a wonderful combination of classic Dickens with a touch of Brucie's Generation Game thrown in. Presiding over it all is the belligerent Ebene…
The Woman In White, a play about a vulnerable woman, preyed upon by a powerful man, couldn't be more timely with strong performances from its cast.
Unpredictable, thrilling and tense. Lizzy Watts is bold and fearless as Hedda Gabler in Patrick Marber's engrossing update of the Ibsen classic.
Ria Jones dazzles in the poignant, wonderfully melodramatic and tragic Sunset Boulevard that is both a love letter to movies and a eulogy to Hollywood's silent era.
It's more than 30 years since the world fell in love with Jennifer Beals' bad-ass welder turned dancer, Alex Owens, in the iconic dance movie Flashdance. The stage adaptation, Flashdance The…
Patriotism, propaganda and paranoia are played out in the shadowy and thrilling tale of spies and intrigue in Anders Lustgarten's The Secret Theatre.
London's Theatre Lab Company has triumphed with Lisa Evans' dark and atmospheric adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier classic, Jamaica Inn. It's a thrilling production with, at its heart, a l…
The Wales Millennium Centre has come of age with its first major foray into story-telling on a truly epic scale. Tiger Bay The Musical is the most significant, largest and innovative product…
James Graham has turned his attention to national greed and our addiction to TV game shows for his latest factional stage play, Quiz, which opened last night on the Minerva stage at Chichest…
At one time Billy Haines, the subject of Claudio Macor's play, The Tailor-Made Man, was as big as Clark Gable, Ramon Novarro and Montgomery Clift (look 'em up if the names mean nothing to yo…