In Nadim Naaman and Dana Al Fardan's new musical Broken Wings, there are plenty of soaring melodies for lovers and just as many haunted and broken-hearted ballads for the less romantic.
It has been an extraordinarily fruitful partnership between writer Florian Zeller and translator-playwright Christopher Hampton over the past few years with adaptations of Zeller's disconnec…
It may be the second time in as many years that Caryl Churchill's A Number has been performed in London, but it is a play that bears restaging, yielding greater insights every time you see i…
Beautiful, sexy and luminous are words most associated with Hollywood starlets of the 1940s, 50s and 60s, and indeed they were, but they were also talented and savvy movie actors who command…
Stephen Dolginoff's 2003 musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story was the latest in a long line of cultural products inspired by this infamous murder case in 1920s America.
Force Majeure is a random act of God that cannot be predicted or measured that entirely disrupts planned activity, something we can all appreciate a little better in the past two years.
What is a play? A message to the future, a fart in your face or a pain in the arse? What is a play? A message to the future, a fart in your face or a pain in the arse? Just a few of th…
With its interest in identity, ownership, tradition and the 'rules' applied to written rather than oral forms, Nell Leyshon's play, which aired on Radio 3 in 2021, now earns a fully-staged r…
It has been another complicated year for theatres with venues unable to welcome in-person audiences for more than five months of 2021 and the tail end of the year returning to enforced closu…
Directed by Rupert Goold with a cast of highly talented young performers, this energetic production about teenage desire and the failure of parental direction is a rare musical choice for th…
We've all spent far too long sitting alone in our rooms so the cabaret is exactly where we need to be. What emerged as a delicious theatre rumour a few months ago has not only become a real …
James Graham's new play Best of Enemies takes us back to the 1960s, demonstrating that the roots of our division partially lay in the creation of televised intellectual debating.
The nostalgia musical is back in full force with crowd-pleasing easy listening stories that looks back to the 1950s and 60s for their inspiration.
Translating poetry to the stage can be challenging for both performer and audience, the importance of the language while alive and vivid on the page can feel verbose or intangible, even stat…
It's fascinating to see a play that, 35 years after its UK premiere, has the courage of its convictions, a drama that stays true to its characters with no soapy or simplistic conclusion that…
Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles have combined a sizeable semi-fictional tome and the familiar historical story of Henry VIII, distilling them into a properly theatrical show with something new t…
Creating socio-political change and even recognition doesn't just happen, somewhere, sometime, someone has to fight for it, and history is full of organisations who since the end of absolute…
Brought to life by two theatre actors on their way to a big career and finally united at the Old Vic, Ferran and Thallon are great now and are only going to get better " make sure you're the…
Once Britain's premier political playwright, David Hare's more recent plays have received considerably mixed reviews, largely for issues around characterisation which particularly affected h…
Taking a hard line on a troublesome musical is smart work and Sheader has given considerable thought to reconfiguring Carousel for twenty-first century audiences. In a mini-season of no…
This rare revival of The Two Character Play at Hampstead Theatre proves an interesting addition to works that reassess Tennessee Williams' impact as a dramatist " an intellectual exercise if…
Who are we and who are the people we meet? These rather profound questions have, in one way or another, been at the heart of Sonia Friedman's brief Re:Emerge season at the Harold Pinter Thea…
We may not have been able to see our fellow digital audience members but we knew they were there, making The Dumb Waiter feel like a communal event.
Fourteen months and four attempts later, Hairspray is finally back in the West End " the energy, sentiment and exhilaration of the show is completely irresistible.
Making Under Milk Wood a story within a story is a risk but one that pays off, adding a tender father-son connection that ties that multifaceted sprawl of Dylan Thomas' story together.