They don't come much more glitzy than a new Sondheim production in the West End. That Company is one of Sondheim's most popular if not THE most popular of his musicals could be gauged by the…
As opening statements go, Kwame Kwei-Armah's musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, imported from New York's Public Theater is probably as joyous a marker of future intent as you…
I'm a Phoenix, Bitch is Bryony Kimmings' story of survival but told with a flair, emotional and physical honesty and theatrical artistry that is, often, breathtaking in its courage.
There's every reason why Josie Rourke should have chosen Measure for Measure to direct in her final season as the Donmar's artistic director. Anyone with half an ear to public events in the …
After huge UK successes with The Father, The Mother, The Truth and The Lie, now comes Florian Zeller's The Height of the Storm, once again in the limpid, easy-on-the-ear translation of Chris…
In Gemma Kerr's economic but effective production of To Have to Shoot Irishmen for Lizzie Nunnery's own company, Almanac Arts, it is the atmosphere conjured of the complexities of a blood-ri…
You enter dark places when you enter the Royal Court and sometimes that can be enthralling and exhilarating. But there needs to be some kind of uplift. Sadly this time, it wasn't present.
Timing is everything. When Foxfinder opened at the Finborough in December 2011, it was hailed as a 'darkly thrilling' new voice and subsequently earned its writer, Dawn King, a glut of award…
Sometimes you just know you've seen the future. I missed seeing Misty at the Bush. I can only imagine that for once, the transfer has settled it into an even better, more appropriate venue.
Missing is made by the brilliant quality of its performer/dancers as well as Dave Price's pounding sound-track and Chris Swain and Lahav's lighting underscoring changes of scene, mood and ou…
Midsummer is indeed a sweet, imaginative rom-com celebrating the madness and delirium of midsummer and the value of taking risks in life and love.
John Goodwin, who has died at the age of 97, was one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures of British subsidised theatre in the latter half of the 20th century, admired and somet…
There is no mistaking the anger that informs and pulsates through the piece like a roaring fire. But this is an Emilia for our life and times, bringing the past and present and hopefully the…
Aristocrats does show once again Brian Friel's remarkable ability to understand and cross religious and personal boundaries, but this time it fails to grapple the heart with quite the keenne…
Overall, then, Van Kampen's production of Othello is a bold, zippy, lively affair that slips neatly into today's sensibilities, underlining its message of the destructiveness of jealousy, th…
A small, quiet important play for our times, Charlotte Jones' The Meeting is led by a luminous, fiercely honest performance by Lydia Leonard as Rachel and Gerald Kyd as the puzzled ultimatel…
Like two of its major successes last year, Oslo and Network, and despite some flaws, The Lehman Trilogy is another unmissable state-of-our-world account from the NT. Do see it if you can.
The Wooster Group's Town Hall Affair is a beautiful, dedicated piece of craftsmanship, highly technically and artistically accomplished but in comparison with material in earlier years, it s…
Notes From the Field is an even more searing, brilliant, majestic account " an examination, profound in its detail and presentation by Anna Deavere Smith of disenfranchisement and the broken…
Findlay's finely tuned production is full of nuance and provides a singular, emotive finale in which responsibility, influence, life choices, aspiration and limitation are all beautifully co…
Natalie Abrahami has done Sophie Treadwell proud. A great, absorbing revival. Wouldn't it be nice to see other Treadwell plays given a run?!
Within a stone's throw of Grenfell Tower, Gregory Evans' tale of greed, ambition and plain heartlessness, Shirleymander tells the darkest of stories with a very light touch.
Here, in Shakespeare's, 400 years ago, actors 'conjured' and beguiled their audiences. And so here, too, in 2018, theatre and As You Like It has again worked its magic.
In its incorporation of Howards End and the conversation between its fictional literary inspiration and its contemporary " Matthew Lopez " The Inheritance manages to create something wholly …
One helluva writer, that Kelly and his 'muse', Carey Mulligan. Will Girls & Boys transfer? It would be a sell-out, if arduous to maintain, I imagine for Mulligan. Time will tell…