2,446 stories by "Michael Billington"
Adelphi, LondonBased on Adrienne Shelly's film and scored by Sara Bareilles, the New York hit arrives in London in a lively production
Billed as the first Broadway musical with an all-female…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAdjoa Andoh is extraordinarily expressive in a production with politics to the fore that makes one see the play afresh
By casting an iconic English history pl…
Bridge theatre, LondonJoanne Froggatt plays a lowly journalist who ascends into elite literary circles in Nicholas Hytner's smooth production
Journalists enjoy seeing themselves depicted on …
The Vaults, LondonThis viscerally powerful piece about the 2014 revolution divides the audience into protesters and observers
Originally conceived by Mark and Marichka Marczyk, this piece of…
Kiln, London Fear and fleeting joy punctuate an exploration of family dynamics, charting the upheaval of divorce and adolescence
Florian Zeller's remarkable play completes a trilogy that vie…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonNed Bennett brilliantly directs the landmark 1973 play about a teenager who has blinded horses
I've often complained about the move towards a directors' t…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonJames Saunders' impeccably performed 70s piece takes on big issues as two couples swap partners and explore the poetry of painDedicated to retrieving forgotten pla…
Phoenix theatre, LondonThis musical about plane passengers diverted to Newfoundland on 11 September has plenty of heart but not enough biteThis musical by the Canadian married team of Irene …
Savoy theatre, LondonThis beloved revenge fantasy is as subtle as a sledgehammer but its advocacy of workplace equality makes it hard to dislikeYou can't escape the presence of Dolly Parton …
Donmar Warehouse, London This fascinating adaptation of a film about a Foley artist creating sound effects for a horror movie attacks its targets " artistic responsibility and male power str…
Old Vic, LondonThis vaudeville about the Great Depression showcases Miller's capacity to capture the state of a troubled nationThe impromptu Arthur Miller festival " initiated by the transfe…
Gillian Anderson and Lily James give fine performances but this version of the 1950 film might be a little too clever for its own goodThis is a show that reeks of chic. It stars Gillian Ande…
Crucible, SheffieldOwen Teale and Laura Elphinstone are superb, as a patriarch and his daughter, in Caroline Steinbeis's potent production The astonishing thing about Githa Sowerby's play is…
The actor shone as brightly in theatre as he did on film, helping to create modern classics from Billy Liar to Joe Egg, and playing the first Hamlet at the National's Southbank homeBecause h…
The London LibraryA cast of two do their best to breathe cohesion into a play full of sex, shrieks and floating eyes … but without a vampire in sightGiven that Bram Stoker researched his 1…
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonDyer and Freeman excel as gunmen in The Dumb Waiter and Jamie Lloyd's staging of A Slight Ache, with John Heffernan and Gemma Whelan, is a revelationThe season o…
Orange Tree, RichmondThis unsettling portrait of a world and a relationship in crisis breezes through 80 scenes in 75 minutesRose Lewenstein's play triggers all kinds of associations. Since …
Finborough, LondonRichard Kalinoski's deeply touching play is about the fraught relationship between two escapees of the Armenian genocide living in 1920s MilwaukeeDrama can tackle big subje…
Hampstead theatre, LondonAn impeccable cast play out dual narratives about life on the US breadline in a tough drama that earns its poignancyFor the 100th premiere in his decade-long tenure …
Omnibus theatre, LondonA team of musicians create discord as the neglected playwright's short, sharp drama is given a stylish revival In 1962 there were six plays by Jean Anouilh running in …
Theatre 503, LondonVÃctor Sánchez RodrÃguez's play stylishly shows how confrontation with the colonial past can lead to self-discoveryLiving European writers are so rarely seen on t…
The Bunker, LondonThe Borderline theatre group's timely satire is well-intentioned, but its funfair setting reduces it to baggy vaudevilleThis is a prime example of what you might call theat…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonIn Okereke and Matt Jones's play, directed by Robby Graham, the story, song and movement are seamlessly integratedThe title suggests we're in for an evening advocati…
Dorfman, LondonCate Blanchett and Stephen Dillane add some heft to an uninspired exploration of modern sexual mores Advance reports of people fainting in the stalls suggested we might be in …
Gate theatre, London Jade Anouka and Jonjo O'Neill give first-rate performances reading the letters between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert LowellSarah Ruhl's dramatisation of the letters exchan…
