Pitch-perfect Peter Gill revival surpasses its original Peter Gill has been a quiet if invaluable mainstay of the Donmar over time. But the Welsh playwright-director has rarely been better s…
Shakespeare problem play gets a spirited reading that chimes with our #metoo timesIt's the people who are problematic, not the play. That's one take-away sentiment afforded by Caroline Byrne…
Andrea Dunbar's Thatcher-era classic is invigorated afresh The revival that almost didn't make it into town has got the Royal Court's 2018 mainstage offerings off to a rousing start. Fo…
Autobiographical debut play is sprightly but sketchy, tooThat ages-old dictum "write what you know" has given rise to the intriguingly titled My Mum's a Twat, in which the Royal Court's deli…
Sondheim and Alexander Hamilton sang out, as did a bracing array of new plays Year-end wrap-ups function as both remembrances of things past and time capsules, attempts to preserve an experi…
Visually alluring Victor Hugo rewrite needs to go back to the storyboardThese are challenging times for new British musicals. Following quickly on from a Pinocchio that ought to be way more …
Imogen Poots and James Norton in terrific form as American expats living on the edge The city of love provides a backdrop for marital discord and worse in Belleville, Amy Herzog's celebrated…
Simon Gray play is better served by its cast this time round The play that famously got away when one of its stars (quite literally) jumped ship is back. In 1995, Stephen Fry abandoned the W…
Seminal 1976 film resonates anew as Breaking Bad star gets 'mad as hell'Outrage knows no time barrier, as the world at large reminds us on a daily basis. So what better moment for …
Broadway misfire finds chuckles aplenty, and a heart, at the Garrick TheatreWhat a difference an ocean and a change of scale can make. When I saw the Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein on…
The colossus who founded the RSC and took the National to the Southbank is fondly rememberedTheatre artist, political agitator, cultural advocate: Sir Peter Hall was all these and more in a …
If this is a great era for theatre, it is not only welcome but necessary Could we be inhabiting a new golden age of theatre? It sometimes seems that way, not least in the blurring of boundar…
John Tiffany leads Jim Cartwright's debut play towards the sublimeWho'd have guessed that the London theatre scene at present would be so devoted to the numinous? Hard on the heels of G…
Lucy Kirkwood play fusing science and familial disarray is as exhausting as it is enlightening There's enough plot for a dozen plays buzzing its way through Mosquitoes, Lucy Kirkwood's play …
Starry cast lay bare body and soul in Tennessee Williams classic "Maggie the cat is alive: I am alive," or so remarks the feline, eternally frustrated heroine of Tennessee Williams's Cat on …
Oliver Cotton's new play, directed by Trevor Nunn, begins well before succumbing to absurdity and hysteria "What is this, Saving Private Ryan?" a character randomly queries well into th…
Audra McDonald's long-awaited West End debut deserves to take the town Broadway so frequently fetes its visiting Brits that it's nice when the honour is repaid.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Off Broadway hit makes a vibrant crossing to London starring Colin MorganAs with life, so it is in art: in the same way that one can't predict the curve balls t…
A cautious Miranda Hart cedes centre-stage to an enchanting young newcomer Forty years after Annie swept on to Broadway, brimming with shining-faced optimism amidst wearying times, along com…
Felicity Kendal follows with difficulty where Maggie Smith once gloriously led You have to hand it to Felicity Kendal: this ever-game actress is fearless about treading in the footsteps of t…
Rory Stewart's Iraq nation-building memoir makes for fluent if sketchy theatre"This is the most fun province in Iraq" isn't the sort of sentence you hear every day on a London stage. On…
Tony Kushner's great work arrives anew in London "We live past hope," or so remarks the AIDS-afflicted drag queen-turned-prophet, Prior Walter (Andrew Garfield), late in Angels in Ameri…
Lavish revival delivers dazzle aplenty if not much depth Can London support two dance musicals, each one dazzling in a different way? We're about to find out, now that the mother of all toe-…
Stoppard's breakout play gets a giddy 50th-anniversary revival To the list of abiding theatrical partnerships one must surely add Tom Stoppard and the director David Leveaux.
Tony winner's first play couples awkwardness and charm There's something to be said for encountering a playwright fresh out of the starting gate. Since his debut play Speech & Debat…