On English Stages, Tales From the Asylum
Two new plays offer very different experiences of the sanitarium, one starring Mark Rylance and the other spotlighting a fast-rising actress.
Two new plays offer very different experiences of the sanitarium, one starring Mark Rylance and the other spotlighting a fast-rising actress.
Elizabeth McGovern's self-penned two-hander about Ava Gardner is a waste of time and talent
Sir David Suchet looks back on Poirot, Iago, Salieri, and more
A surge in coronavirus infections toppled production after production, but two stage adaptations " of a movie and a blockbuster novel " recovered and endure.
Chilean writer Pablo Manzi brings his dark vision of human behaviour to the Royal Court, directed by Sam Pritchard.
Olivier Award-winner John Dagleish takes the title role in Alexander Knott's murky, angled take on Dickens's long-suffering clerk
Tamsin Greig inherits Maureen Lipman's original role in Alan Plater's portrait of the onetime literary agent and legend
Camp Siegfried, Cabaret, and Lisa Dwan as Beckett's Winnie among the year's best theatre in London.
A London production starring Eddie Redmayne pulls the audience into a hedonistic milieu. Then things get dark.
Jasper Britton, Ria Jones and Caroline Langrishe in Alan Bennett's 1973 comedy about mortality, directed by Patrick Marber
James Graham's new play draws parallels between the bad-tempered 1968 debates between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal and the rancorous public arena of today.
Hattie Ladbury in superlative form as a gender-flipped Duke, with Georgia Landers as Isabella
RIP Stephen Sondheim, who has died age 91
The master of musicals remembered, and revered
Stephen Mangan is the best Scrooge yet, with Oli Higginson and Rachel John amongst those lending sterling support
Two London productions that play fast and loose with their literary sources lack the theatrical magic of another show that gives viewers the original, unadorned.
Arthur Darvill as Henry Finn in Royal Court play dogged by controversy; Hamish Pirie directs
Alex Mugnaioni gives a breakout performance in London premiere of 2018 Broadway play
Much-traveled musical needs a narrative makeover - but the songs are cool
Lizzy Connolly stars in a musical in search of music, and a point-of-view
On British stages, Saoirse Ronan, Cush Jumbo and Ian McKellen present contrasting approaches to Shakespeare and Chekhov.
An ageless Stockard Channing excels in fitfully effective revival of Marsha Norman Pulitzer winner
Ian Shaw plays his late father, 'Jaws' co-star Robert Shaw, in a play the younger Shaw has co-written
Tom Mothersdale excels yet again, this time at the Donmar and directed by Elayce Ismail
Suzan-Lori Parks has tweaked her Off Broadway play to mixed results "I can't sleep": So goes the fateful opening line of White Noise, the Suzan-Lori Parks play disturbing enough to spark ma…