The staging and orchestration of the Palladium's new version of Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat looks to the future, as a whole new set of children fall in love with this pere…
In The End of History Thorne shuffles various perspectives within the family, examining their different experiences of the same events from multiple angles, and while these differences drive…
Bitter Wheat is not only frustratingly irresponsible in its treatment of the events that led to the #MeToo movement, it is also a poorly constructed drama.
It is the slight rearrangement of the text and its implication for the female characters that is Nicholas Hytner's most notable achievement here in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Bridge Th…
However light its frame, ultimately Education, Education, Education has serious points to make about the short-termist approaches to education funding used cynically as a political tool to w…
Femi Elufowoju Jr's production of The Glass Menagerie is fascinating with the tense and vibrant second half in particular proving both gripping and illuminating
Thornton Wilder's writing in Our Town feels as fresh and innovative as it must have done in the 1930s and taking an early season risk on a less conventional play ultimately pays off.
Even a middling Tennessee Williams play " Orpheus Descending " is better than most, and this one still has plenty to say about sacrifice and suffocation in small-town America
It's Marianne Elliott's impressionistic approach that yields considerable insight into the themes of Death of a Salesman, the characters' attachment to material possessions as indicators of …
With compelling performances from the four leads this production of All My Sons fulfils its promise, a gripping Miller tragedy that concludes with a lasting sense of devastation.
It is a vibrant and meaningful interpretation of Chekhov's Three Sisters that reaps rewards. Keep on an eye on this new theatre partnership, it could be around for many years to come.
Grief on stage and in popular culture is rarely considered as a psychological state of its own but as a means or driver for other behaviour.
In just six months, Jamie Lloyd's creative team and ever-changing company of actors has utterly transformed our perspective on Harold Pinter.
Whether rehabilitation is truly possible for such serious crimes committed by sex offenders, Bruce Norris never really decides, leaving only a dramatically engaging but morally troubling out…
Betrayal is everything you could hope for. The Pinter at the Pinter season has set a very high standard for itself, but what a swansong this has turned out to be.
For 45 minutes the audience may be gripped, stimulated and entertained in The Jumper Factory but this remains the everyday experience of all the men who contributed to the show, and it sligh…
This All About Eve is something quite different, same story deliberately new frame with staging that pushes at the boundaries of theatre and film.
What a difference a few months can make; when the Jamie Lloyd Company first announced its Pinter at the Pinter season finale show back in May (before Betrayal was added to the programme), th…
The BBC's adaptation of Les Misérables has been a huge success, gripping Sunday night viewing for the last five weeks offering the first truly comprehensive dramatisation of Victor Hugo's m…
Someone at the Globe may have sold their soul to the devil after all because it is the companion piece to Doctor Faustus, Dark Night of the Soul, that is exactly the kind of successful initi…
Aspects of Love may perhaps benefit from a modern reworking to iron out the more distasteful elements, but it should be fondly remembered.
The purpose of Jamie Lloyd's still and contained approach is extremely well and atmospherically realised by a top-notch cast who bring such clarity to Pinter Six's social commentary.
The collective works that make-up Pinter 5 feel as insightful and meaningful as any of the Pinter at the Pinter anthologies that have come before.
Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat comes to London for the first time, examining the personal and local consequences of a firm's strategic decision to change the way it operate…
Caroline or Change has a lot going for it and three potentially interesting plot lines that should fully engage, yet it never quite unites as tidily and explosively as it promises to do, the…