Kae Tempest's urgent new adaptation of Sophocles puts women centre-stage Philoctetes, Odysseus, Neoptolemus: the men's names in Sophocles' Philoctetes are all unnecessarily long and weighe…
Michelle Terry is gunning for a second Olivier with her first Viola The greatest version of Twelfth Night is not called Twelfth Night. It is, of course, the 2006 masterpiece She's the Man, …
Emma Corrin and Nabhaan Rizwan perk up one-dimensional drama about a Russian conwoman There just isn't enough there, with ANNA X. Daniel Raggett's production is the third and final of the RE…
The lighting's gorgeous, but Bryony Lavery's drama about theatre friendships never quite clicks Last Easter has become a lot more relatable since it was forced to postpone this run at the Or…
Scott Karim soars in taut revival of Ayad Akhtar's political thriller A lot's changed since Kiln Theatre boss Indhu Rubasingham directed The Invisible Hand's first UK outing in 2016, not le…
Atim and Jeremiah flare bright, Wanamaker and Capaldi burn slow A cosmologist and a beekeeper walk into a barbecue. Or a wedding. The beekeeper is in a relationship, or married, or just out…
Adrian Lukis proves himself far better at portraying Austen's rake than he is at writing him It wasn't Jane Austen's subtlest move, naming her roguish soldier George Wickham. As countless G…
Third instalment of the irreverent series takes on Boris, star signs, and casual sexism "The crocus of hope is, er, poking through the frost." When he uttered that dodgy metaphor back in Feb…
The theatre's local community assembles a strange little show about the apocalypse "Your task is to imagine the future." That's what the citizens of Assembly, a new streamed production perfo…
Playful interactive show casts audience members as amateur detectives I'll admit, I've never been a fan of murder mysteries. Patience is not one of my virtues; if I can't work something out…
Sian Clifford and Nikesh Patel do their best with a show that's as mercurial as grief Good Grief, a new show from American screenwriter and playwright Lorien Haynes, can't work out what it …
Sharon D Clarke and Olivia Colman sparkle in delightful radio play in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital The blurb for Peter Pan: The Audio Adventure, Shaun McKenna's new adaptation of JM …
The Royal Court's experimental piece is political theatre at its finest and fiercest Edition 2 of Living Newspaper: A Counter Narrative, an experimental new piece of online theatre from the …
Gregory Doran's outdated vision of Greek myth is bolstered by five great performances At just under five hours, Troy Story, the RSC's adaptation of as many tales from Greek myth, takes abou…
Scorching adaptation of Ovid is a welcome theatrical respite from lockdown Women have an awful time of it in the Greek myths. Raped, abandoned, blamed for murdering people, blamed for not m…
Socially-distanced dramedy is short and sweet, with a knockout performance from Remmie Milner The first words of Sunnymead Court, a new play at the Tristan Bates Theatre, are ominous. "We a…
Real-life theatre bounces back with this lovely meander through grief and loneliness A woman sits on a bench. She's got a song stuck in her head " she can't remember how one of the lines end…
Bonkers Zoom production is ideal for kids, but leaves adults wanting more I have a confession to make: I don't like Alice in Wonderland. I know, I know, a lot of people disagree. I do apprec…
Polly Findlay's 2015 take on Shakespeare's trickiest comedy pays dividends Ah, 2015. Those halcyon days of packed theatres. Thank God the RSC had the presence of mind to film Polly Findlay'…
Updated Greek tragedy has some good ideas but doesn't fully deliver Medea is the original crazy ex-girlfriend: the wronged woman who takes perfectly understandable revenge on the man who mad…
Socially distanced version of Sebastian Faulks novel clips along at a fair pace Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks' best-selling First World War novel, has been adapted quite a few times in its twe…
Nicholas Hytner makes the familiar gloriously strange in this slippery, sumptuous show Nicholas Hytner's A Midsummer Night's Dream, filmed for NT Live at the Bridge Theatre l…
Andrea Levy's Windrush epic bursts triumphantly onto the stage " and our screens A British-Jamaican man is confused. It's the Second World War, and he signed up for the RAF on the understan…
A triumvirate of talent and a slick set can't in itself speed things along Like an asp eating its own tail, the National Theatre's 2018 production of Antony and Cleopatra, streaming on YouT…
Quick-witted new play tackles a sibling bond in snapshots over 40 years The Tyler sisters start as they mean to go on: bickering. Middle sister Gail (Bryony Hannah) has come home from uni t…