'Henry V' review " a chilling anatomy of one man's slide into savagery
Oliver Johnstone plays a notably brutal warrior-king in this deliberately revisionist take on Shakespeare's history play
Oliver Johnstone plays a notably brutal warrior-king in this deliberately revisionist take on Shakespeare's history play
Jasmine Naziha Jones takes the lead female role in her own debut play, which is very much a work of two different halves.
Tony-winner Owen Teale is the sixth Scrooge so far in the Old Vic's London iteration of Dickens's seasonal mainstay; Lydia White makes a notably charming Belle
The cushion of state money let the Hampstead and Donmar playhouses develop broad programs with international reach. Now they must find creative ways to play on.
Beckett specialist Lisa Dwan and Oscar winner Timothy Hutton head cast of the latest from English writer-director Terry Johnson
An adaptation of "My Neighbour Totoro" enchants audiences at the Barbican. Across town at the Harold Pinter Theater, a revival of "Good" takes viewers to darker territory.
A new musical about the life of the televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, composed by Elton John, makes spectacular entertainment from a righteous subject.
Theresa Heskins co-authors and directs overinsistent adaptation of the life of Neil (Nello) Baldwin, a 76-year-old Staffordshire legend, which launches a lovely new West End venue
Rob Madge solo play comes to the West End for two weeks, directed by Luke Sheppard, of "& Juliet" fame.
Productions of "John Gabriel Borkman" and "Blues for an Alabama Sky" conjure bleak atmospheres in two playhouses.
Feted Broadway musical finds an apt London fit Not much happens but, in its way, everything does in The Band's Visit, the gentle, sweet-natured musical that rather unexpectedly storme…
Phil Porter adapts heart-tugging memoir that was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
Sophie Melville brings Gary Owen monodrama to its largest venue yet.
Royal Court verbatim theatre is both affecting - and self-flagellating
Dissent in the ranks in uber-timely American comedy Can a play peak too soon? That's the quandary that attends the Old Vic airing of Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector's on-point if overextend…
"Handbagged," a play that opened in London a day after Queen Elizabeth II died, depicts a clever, compassionate monarch. But theatrical depictions haven't always been so reverential.
Maynard Eziashi and Donna Berlin play husband and wife in exciting Almeida Theatre premiere from Dipo Baruwa-Etti
Max Webster and Jo Tyabji co-direct Inua Ellams' modern-day adaptation of Sophocles tragedy.
Ivo van Hove returns to the Young Vic, where his shattering 'A View from the Bridge' was first seen in 2014
Two productions at the London playhouse feature heroines who, reluctantly, allow transformative characters into their lives.
While marquee productions have featured star turns from Ian McKellen and Alan Cumming, smaller shows deal with contemporary life.
Shakespeare's valedictory, to comply with the received scholarship on this climactic play of his, lands with muted force in Sean Holmes's curate's egg of a production " engaging and vital at…
Julian Ovenden and Joanna Ampil in Rodgers & Hammerstein classic directed by Daniel Evans, Ovenden's former castmate in Merrily We Roll Along two decades ago
Problematic Globe production of The Tempest, starring Ferdy Roberts as a barely-clad Prospero
Long-aborning musical still has a leg or two further to go There's further training, shall we say, still needed on 101 Dalmatians, the much-delayed show that marks the second consecutive mu…