209 stories by "Honour Bayes"
St James Theatre, London: What a delight to have this sparkling Ustinov Studio production at the St James Theatre. This is a comedy that is knowing but not patronising; a delicate examinatio…
Southwark Playhouse, London: Taking as her starting point Sophocles' Ajax, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Ajax brings old and new worlds together to interrogate the psychological cos…
Unspecified location, London Zone 1: Secret Theatre follows much the same form as Secret Cinema - where audiences buy tickets to an unspecified location/film, which is then revealed on the d…
Southwark Playhouse, London: Deafinitely Theatre reinvent Jim Cartwright's Two into a dynamic four-hander that cleverly entwines sign language and spoken text. Paula Garfield and Matthe…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London: There's a lot of swagger to <a href="http://stratfordeast.com/home">Somalia Seaton's Crowning Glory</a>. Seven women tak…
Tabard Theatre, London: After impressing with Good Morning, Alamo! at this venue earlier this year, writer and director Mark Giesser's Code of the West came with expectations high. But …
Southwark Playhouse, London: This is the first production of The Love Girl and the Innocent to be done in London for 30 years. It's easy to see why many would be daunted by Aleksandr So…
Park Theatre, London: Adult Supervision marks Jez Bond's Park Theatre debut and is a world premiere for writer in residence Sarah Rutherford. It is a bold start and a polished productio…
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London: Traffic Of The Stage's upbeat take on this Shakespeare comedy is fluffy and enjoyable but the finer nuances of the play are often lost. The cast have …
Finborough Theatre, London: In a cramped office under a whirring fan two avenging angels eyeball each other. Gabriel Chibamu is a war criminal. Eunice Ncube is on the new Truth and Justice C…
The Shed, National Theatre, London: The ambition on display within Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's expansive new play - both from her characters and the playwright herself - is extraordinary. T…
Theatre 503, London: Land of Our Fathers is a meaty debut from a playwright Howard Brenton has called 'a brilliant talent'. Commissioned as part of 503Five 2012/13 Chris Urch has w…
Platform Theatre, London: Inspired by the short stories of Anton Chekhov and Ivan Bunin, Sunstroke examines forbidden love from two different perspectives. Chekhov's The Lady with the D…
The Edinburgh Playhouse: Black Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied's new artistic collective, L.A. Dance Project, present an evening of dance that is as moving as it is provocative.
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Park Theatre, London: Gary Henderson's Skin Tight turns romance into a gladiatorial contest. Two reminiscing lovers violently spar before tenderly taking care of the resultant wounds. T…
Finborough Theatre, London: Originally written in 1976, Pam Gems' feminist classic Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi has held up remarkably well. As an exploration of female social roles and pers…
Jermyn Street Theatre, London: Spoonface Steinberg is a gregarious little girl who likes to play with toys, listen to her walkman and dream about the future. She's also severely autisti…
King's Head Theatre, London: It seems remarkable that Thorton Wilder's sentimental look at small town America still plays at least once somewhere in the US every day. In its 75th annive…
Lion and Unicorn, London: Part brash comedy, part tale of redemption, part soap opera Ali Salem's The Comedy of Oedipus is a beast of a play. In Ahmed El-Alfy's overwrought product…
Old Red Lion, London: Part of its Summer of Love season, Grassroots Shakespeare London's Romeo and Juliet is a straightforward, pared down production. But although it doesn't bring…
Old Red Lion, London: Grassroots Shakespeare London are giving us a Summer of Love at the Old Red Lion, presenting two plays in repertory - the Bard's most famous love story, Romeo and …
Daniel Radcliffe has revealed that he would "definitely" like to appear in a Shakespeare production, and that he hopes to one day play the roles of Hamlet and Romeo. Radcliffe, who is best k…
With a growing worldwide audience and technological advances, the prospects for filmed theatre have never looked brighter. Honour Bayes finds out whether a recorded stage show can be as good…
The Drayton Theatre, London: The idle love games and sexual machinations that power Playing with Fire are not a million miles away from those keeping E4 viewers hooked on Made in Chelsea - w…
Finborough, London: Plugging into society's obsession with all things youthful as well as our current interest in dystopias, Bekah Brunstetter's new play is perfect for the MTV gen…