Dan McCabe's play about ageing hiphop stars makes a winning European debut Watching Dan McCabe's 2019 play, older folk might be reminded of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's indelible lyrics, "Ca…
Rajiv Joseph's play pitting beauty against duty gets an impressive staging It's 1648 in Agra, and an excitable young guardsman has come up with an idea: a giant flying platform that he calls…
A magnificent Adrien Brody leads a moving production by Justin Martin There is star casting, and there is casting the right star " not the same thing. The Donmar's new production, The Fear o…
Zinnie Harris's modern take robs the play of its tragic potential John Webster's sour, bloody tale of brotherly greed and vice has been updated by the playwright Zinnie Harris, who also dire…
Nathan Englander probes a divide in modern Jewish identity; Patrick Marber directs An incendiary play has opened at the Marylebone, the adventurous venue just off Baker Street. Bigger houses…
Josh Azouz and Kathryn Hunter concoct an uneasy mix of comedy and tragedy The writer-director Josh Azouz and actor-director Kathryn Hunter have collaborated on a piece exploring the ethics o…
Daisy Hall's astonishing debut is both darkly funny and deadly serious As hurricanes rip into the American Gulf states with increasing ferocity, eastern Europe disappears underwater and eve…
Changgeuk Company bring an epic poem quality to the familiar tale What do the cult TV show Squid Game and National Changgeuk Company of Korea's Lear have in common? Oddly, a K-Pop producer, …
Pinero's play emerges fresh-minted in an exquisite production The stock of the late 19th century playwright Arthur Wing Pinero has just received a significant boost, thanks to the brilliant …
Spirited performances of Elvis Costello's bland songs can't save this new musical It's hard to work out why Kwame-Kwei Armah chose to end his tenure at the Young Vic by directing this soggy …
Lyndsey Turner's fast-paced production doesn't let the audience engage with its hero The National's new production of Coriolanus has to be one of the most handsome to appear on the Olivier s…
Timberlake Wertenbaker's updated version takes particular aim at colonialism The latest Greatest Hit to land at the Lyric is Timberlake Wertenbaker's 1988 award-winning play about a performa…
A wealth of musical talent keeps this gig musical afloat The signs in the Peacock's foyer warn that this show features "very loud music". Exactly what Janis Joplin fans want to hear. This is…
Patrick Barlow's brand of silly still delivers a sly Hitchcock spoof Before the Plays That Went Wrong and the multi-role six-hander Operation Mincemeat, there was Patrick Barlow's adaptat…
Roy Williams and Clint Dyer's protagonists rage against the limits of their lives Two boys in east London, one Black, one white, grow up together, play pranks at school, then decades later h…
The National's finely acted staging of Steinbeck's grim classic is a tough watch It's a brave company that embarks on a staging of John Steinbeck's award-winning 1939 novel The Grapes of Wra…
Michael Bennett's 1975 hit has plenty of pizzazz but not enough emotional oomph A Chorus Line reigned supreme on Broadway from 1975 to 1990, a bold, bare-bones piece that for once put musica…
Timely arrival for Lucas Hnath's play about the cost of winning Before Lucas Hnath wrote Red Speedo, he had heard a 2004 speech at a hearing investigating baseball doping that declared the p…
Nassim Soleimanpour's latest 'cold read' work is a unique experience The Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour is many things, some seemingly contradictory: a) a clever, poetic playwright w…
Cardboard Citizens shine an unforgiving light on poverty in the UK A stark end-title at the end of this collection of short films sums up the dire situation the UK is in: one in five people,…
Christopher Hampton's love of Stefan Zweig's text becomes a drawback Who was Stefan Zweig? It's likely that it's mostly older folk who studied German literature at A-level who have encounter…
Two awkward science nerds and a violent alcoholic father are oddly likeable company Sarah Power, the writer of Grud, now in the Hampstead's smaller space, is a self-confessed geek who…
A fine cast spell out the cost of survival in today's ailing industries For a long stretch of its first half, Dominique Morrisseau's 2016 award-winner, Skeleton Crew, seems a conventional…
Fans of the film will love it, but it's like being in a pink fever dream Nothing anybody over the age of 30 says about the new Mean Girls musical, spawn of Tina Fey's witty script for the 20…
A production with a green message for younger audiences It's a bold move by Regent's Park Open Air Theatre to tackle Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic, a story that's been notably…