Five actors plus loads of silly hats and accents add up to a hilarious evening It's back yet again, Operation Mincemeat, a gift of a story that goes on giving. It surfaced as the 1956 film T…
The Windrush scandal embodied with wrenching power Reggae hits are already playing over the speaker system at the Bush when the audience enters, some jigging to the sounds as they find their…
Bizarre directorial choices derail the play's serious content There was a jolting eco-themed work onstage in London recently, but sadly A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction, a Headl…
Lynn Nottage and a faultless cast offer a story that's a hymn to hope The cast of The Secret Life of Bees first parade onto the Almeida stage hefting big glass storage jars full of a golden …
Giles Terera delivers a dramatic lecture on the legacy of slavery There's a moment in the opening stretch of Giles Terera's The Meaning of Zong where you think the former Hamilton star has …
Eugene O'Hare treads familiar ground with his confessional about alcoholism Eugene O'Hare's The Dry House is the kind of spare but oddly lyrical three-hander that would have made a good Wedn…
A terrific ensemble make an exhilarating plea for Black boys with blighted lives For a show that comes with a trigger warning about the themes of racism, gang violence, toxic relationships, …
Pulitzer finalist asks how good an ally is modern technology Artificial intelligence has become an even hotter topic since Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime was first staged in Los Angeles in…
Nicholas Hytner and a crack cast deliver a fresh take on the classic musical It now seems an inevitability that Marisha Wallace will be a frontrunner at next year's theatre awards, not just…
It's more adult panto than mature musical, with the sauce liberally ladled on If you are hoping for some harmless fun at The Great British Bake Off Musical, probably with a few dodgy jokes a…
A vivacious cast are great fun to hang out with Can a play ever be a bit too much like real life? The thought came to me while watching Matilda Feyisayo Ibini's entertaining new play Sleepo…
Michael John O'Neill's debut stirs up questions but not emotions Michael John O'Neill's first full-length play, premiering at the Hampstead's studio space downstairs, is a puzzler. There's t…
Affecting revival of Tom Kempinski play about an ailing musician and her therapist This 1981 two-hander was opened out for a film in 1986, starring Julie Andrews no less, with all its offst…
The dark arts of diplomacy get a makeover as a comedy workshop Who better to write a piece about the game-playing of a peace-talks negotiation than a former peace-talk negotiator, Daniel Tau…
Danny Robins' clever play gains a creditable star turn in its fifth run The set of 2:22 A Ghost Story is open to the auditorium when we arrive and locates us at once in gentrification-land. …
Shakespeare's tragedy as a tight thriller, with its racist elements fully exposed Frantic Assembly's Othello, originally co-developed with the Lyric in 2008, is back in its third iteration, …
Told by an Idiot return with a celebration of silent-movie antics and daft gags Imagine what would have happened if the young Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel were cabin-mates on a transatlan…
A cast with an infectious gift for fun give this French confection a touch of stage magic First came Yasmin Reza's 1994 long-runner Art; now another French hit, The Art of Illusion, has arri…
Clint Dyer's new take makes Othello a victim of mob mentality Clint Dyer is the first black director of Othello at the National Theatre, a venue that once staged the piece with its actor …
Jonathan Slinger commands the stage in this dark, funny monologue The American author of The Sarah Book, on which the monologue Sarah is based, is called Scott McClanahan, as is his main cha…
Tania Nwachukwu creates a warm hour of music and memories with hidden bite The Bush studio space is proving a fruitful launch pad, not just for new writing but for new performers. It previo…
Absurdly romantic notions about love and war have never been funnier For his final bow as artistic director of the Orange Tree, Paul Miller has decided to go out with a bang, amid much gigg…
Frank McGuinness's new play about T S Eliot and Groucho Marx is a poetic puzzle The set at the Arcola for Frank McGuinness's Dinner with Groucho naturally features a table with two place set…
★★★★ ELEPHANT, BUSH STUDIO Stirring solo show from rising star Anoushka Lucas A beguiling debut play with both charm and an angry message It lasts only an interval-fr…
Pearl Cleage's play about thwarted dreams in Prohibition era Harlem gets a stellar production The cynical might think Pearl Cleage's play had been expressly written to address the over-ridin…