Philippa Gregory's first play tries to exonerate Richard III, with mixed results History is very present in Philippa Gregory's new play about Richard III. Literally - History is a character,…
A British-Indian family celebrate their first Diwali, with mixed results "It's nothing like Christmas," Rachel (Amy-Leigh Hickman) hisses at her brother David (Kishore Walker). She's trying…
Revival of Neil La Bute's ruthless 2001 drama let down by clumsy writing It's been more than 20 years since the premiere of The Shape of Things, Neil LaBute's prickly drama about couples and…
Modern touch-up of Joe DiPietro's seminal gay play is rollicking but lacking "This audience is very diverse, isn't it?" joked one of the audience members at Fucking Men at Waterloo East The…
Second instalment of urgent documentary drama condemns the system that let the tower burn It's been five years since 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in West London. Five years and …
Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's collaboration somehow forgets about the laughs We all have that friend. The person you met on holiday and couldn't shake off. You added each other on Facebook…
Hannah Khalil's playful retelling of the 1001 Nights puts women centre stage Do you remember how the 1001 Nights ends? You know how it starts: Scheherazade has been married to a king who ki…
Backflipping newsboys take on press barons in this hyper-energised UK premiere of the Broadway hit What do you mean you haven't heard of the newsboys' strike of 1899? It's a classic David an…
David Tennant is a bone-chillingly affable Nazi in C P Taylor's uneven look at morality "The bands came in 1933." So begins C J Taylor's Good, a play that tries its hardest to resist being G…
Robert Icke's whip-smart adaptation puts identity politics on the dissection table Robert Icke is an expert in corporate tragedy. I don't mean that in a bad way - just that he has a penchant…
Fraser Grace adapts a Russian story of love and survival in a world turned upside-down When Bliss, a new play adapted from an Andrei Platonov short story by Fraser Grace, made its debut in R…
Pamela Carter's slippery tale of a school trip to Nazi Germany explores the price of a stiff upper lip "We all make history, one way or another." But some of us make more history than other…
With boisterous lyricism, Ryan Calais Cameron explores what it means to be a Black man The title is so long that the Royal Court's neon red lettering only renders the first three words, foll…
1970s German classic skewers capitalism, but leaves emotional depths unplumbed It's not hard to see, watching Tom Fool at the Orange Tree Theatre, why Franz Xaver Kroetz is one of Germany's…
Award-winning hymn to Stephen Sondheim leans too heavily on in-jokes Steven (David Ames) is having a birthday party. He's invited his closest friends " two of whom have recently started dati…
Sonali Bhattacharyya's new play explores sisterly love and Islamophobia with warmth and wit "You could read at home," says Bettina (Anoushka Chadha), Year 10, her school uniform perfectly p…
Emma Rice's punk-rock reworking of the classic is brilliant - when it's good "If you want romance," the cast of Emma Rice's new version of Wuthering Heights say in unison just after the int…
Aptly-named new play from Paul Anthony Morris shows the effects of racism on one man's psyche Conundrum is a tricky play. Written and directed by Paul Anthony Morris, founder of Crying in th…
Zadie Smith's updated Chaucerian tale has a spring in its step and a twinkle in its eye Zadie Smith might not be the only writer who can rhyme "tandem" with "galdem", but she's the only one…
Spellbinding adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel reminds us of the terror and beauty of childhood This show has been a long time coming. Neil Gaiman had the first inklings of The Ocean at the…
Bombastic karaoke adaption of Jane Austen classic gives the spotlight to the servants "We haven't started yet!" Hannah-Jarrett Scott, dressed in Doc Martens under a 19th-century shift, reas…
Edited Inquiry transcripts expose the hypocrisy and incompetence behind the tragedy Grenfell: Value Engineering isn't actually a play. It's an edited version of the testimony heard by the G…
Race and belonging are interrogated unevenly in this Australian drama "Careful, there's a hole in the floor." The warning's an unusual one, passed along conscientiously by the stewards at t…
Canadian writer Jordan Hall's exploration of modern relationships provokes without fully satisfying Despite its painfully relevant title, How To Survive An Apocalypse was written in 2016. I…
Strong performances and a gorgeous set just about save a lacklustre script The Coronet Theatre is a beautiful space " it's a listed Victorian building, and the bar's like something out of a …