Joe Penhall's new play Mood Music is set in the music industry and examines the complex and tricky personalities whose deep and longstanding knowledge of how the 'business' works means they …
The Writer is and should be a show that will divide audiences, but while the piece is pointed social commentary, it also has dramatic flaws that start to put out its own fire.
In what has been a slightly over-earnest Winter season for the Royal Court, Instructions for Correct Assembly is their best show since Anatomy of a Suicide last summer, and both use a family…
As Quiz transfers to the West End, James Graham's insightful reflections on crucial moments in post-war history have fast become a vital resource in understanding who we are.
The Donmar's new version of William Congreve's play has plenty of musings on marriage and the role of women which still feel extremely pertinent; it just needs to even out the tone to make t…
The structure of The Best of James Bond is simple but effective, taking each film in turn, with the occasional digression into the wider cultural context, which makes for an entertaining and…
Although This House was written in 2012, the cyclical nature of politics means that the play is just as relevant now, with a Government attempting a major democratic change on a tiny majorit…
The business of Summer & Smoke at the Almeida Theatre is handled with such subtly that it allows the deep emotional connection at the heart of the story to flourish. With a magnetic cen…
Here at the National, as with many other attempts, the production's vision lacks real purpose and fails to engage with the complex motivation of Macbeth himself, leaving him and us nowhere t…
Well performed and interestingly staged, Frozen's most important effect is in reflecting society's unhealthy obsession with serious crime, making us complicit in its presentation as entertai…
Nothing feels rushed in Robert Hastie's wonderful new production of The Yor Realist at the Donmar Warehouse, allowing this beautifully sad production to really touch the heart. A modern clas…
The Bristol Old Vic's production of Long Day's Journey into Night at Wyndham's wrings excellent performances from its leads and brings clarity to O'Neill's huge canvas.
Nicholas Hytner's production of Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre is nothing short of a Roman triumph, capturing the wonderful lyricism of Shakespeare's writing, in what are some of his mo…
Following the success of The Flick, which had its UK premiere in the Dorfman in 2016, Annie Baker's latest play, intriguingly called John, makes its London debut in the same space.
Ian Rickson's production is a tense and unnerving experience that utilises all the skills of its excellent cast to reinforce the oddity of one of Pinter's most performed plays.
A dark new Agatha Christie adaptation has become something of a Christmas tradition, and even though the BBC only started this tradition two years ago with an excellent multi-part interpreta…
Naturally, facing what felt like a significant and unbreachable rift, instability and economic downturn was the likely outcome, which for the arts, could only mean one thing " cultural depl…
The Grinning Man may not be suitable for children (it has an age limit of 12 years), and it's certainly not a Christmas show in any way, but within the grotesque world that Grose, Morris, Te…
Because this is an exceptional year, imperfections seem more glaring, plays that haven't quite found their rhythm are more obvious, and Amy Herzog's new play Belleville, premiering at the Do…
On Sunday (10 December 2017), MyTheatreMates welcomed 15 theatre bloggers to the inaugural #MatesMeetUp at the Union Theatre in Southwark, London. In the Union's buzzing Over the Road cafe, …
We are endlessly fascinated by spies and the nature of betrayal. For those who knew the men spying for Russia in the mid-Twentieth Century, more than country or ideology, it is the personal …
It's a layered story that opens with a pub quiz, setting the scene for the world of obsessive competition fanatics, laying a direct trail from that bar to the gameshow hot-seat.
Network is enthralling, interpreting a strange story in a slick, fast-moving production that manages to reveal the media's rather shallow relationship with truth and makes profound statement…
The Playhouse Theatre seems to attract a big American star at least once a year; this year it's the turn of Christian Slater who takes on the lead role in the latest revival of Glengarry Gle…