Taut Pinter revival sacrifices the play's darkly comic underlay Add the Hampstead Theatre to the swelling ranks of playhouses opening its doors this month, in this case with a revival well i…
Simon Russell Beale and Patsy Ferran in fresh adaptation of Dickens
Paul Harvard's ambitious debut play needs further focus A 35-year-old gay man has to figure out which way to turn in GHBoy, the Paul Harvard play whose connection to the chemsex world is emb…
The first coronavirus shutdown caught playhouses unawares, but they learned lessons that stood them in good stead when the shutters came down again.
Our critic looks back on 32 years with a publication he was with from its very first issue, in 1988.
Interview with MARY POPPINS leading man Charlie Stemp
Opening and closing night were the same for vital solo show Broadway tends to be the Darwinian environment where a show's opening night can also mark its closing.
Two long-running immersive theater productions " "The Murdér Express" and "The Great Gatsby"" offered some much-needed merriment just before a new lockdown hit England.
Review of 2020 Olivier Awards
Sparky solo play leaves you wanting yet more Call him Ishmael, and the Zimbabwe-born, UK-based writer Zodwa Nyoni has done just that. That's the name of the solo character in Nyoni's slight…
Two young Black playwrights chronicle tales of the Nigerian diaspora in performances at the Bridge Theater, but only one digs deep.
Capacious biography pins down an elusive subject "The older he got, the less he cared about self-concealment," or so it is said of Sir Tom Stoppard, somewhere deep into the 865 pages …
'The Last Five Years' revival is itself revived at Southwark Playhouse
Essential series of Alan Bennett stage pairings comes to an end Stillness works like a stealth bomb in Nights in the Garden of Spain, in which Tamsin Greig further confirms her status as on…
Masterclasses make up a mighty hour of theatre "Getting dark," or so comments Irene Ruddock (a pitch-perfect Imelda Staunton) in passing midway through A Lady of Letters, and, boy, ain't th…
The Bridge theater in London has resumed performances after the coronavirus shutdown with a series of monologues by David Hare and Alan Bennett.
review of Old Vic In Camera presentation of the late Brian Friel's 1979 play 'Faith Healer'
Alfresco 'Pippin' revival at south London pub theatre
Maureen Lipman in fearless form in Martin Sherman's discursive solo play Solo plays and performances are, of necessity, the theatrical currency of the moment, whether across an entire seaso…
The sheer brio of the endeavour proved irresistible, and one wasn't surprised to see the performers' eyes misting over
C-o-n-t-a-c-t " the letters are aptly distanced to suit the times " marks the English-language premiere of an alfresco theatre piece that premiered in Paris during lockdown.
Based on the hit 1993 hit film "Sleepless in Seattle," the production is London's first fully staged indoor musical in months. Applause for that, at least.
Traverse Theatre two-hander transfers well to the screen In normal times, Edinburgh Festival audiences would now be packing into the city's invaluable Traverse Theatre, home to some of the …
For one night, we were part of a full-on theatrical experience once again A lot of rain and untold bliss: those were the takeaways from Saturday night's alfresco Opera Holland Park concert …
A New York duo celebrates Sir Noël and Samuel Beckett bewitches and bewilders once again After months spent sifting amongst the virtual, I'm pleased to report that live performance looks…