The Pope review at Royal and Derngate, Northampton " 'compellingly performed character study'
When Pope Benedict XVI resigned in 2013, he was the first pope to do so in over 700 years. Screenwriter and novelist
When Pope Benedict XVI resigned in 2013, he was the first pope to do so in over 700 years. Screenwriter and novelist
Nicholas Hytner's promenade production of Julius Caesar, staged at the Bridge Theatre early last year, put the audience at its heart. Those
One Night in Miami " Nottingham Playhouse Kemp Powers' play about a pivotal night in the life of Muhammad Ali, spent in
A group of stylish actors, immaculately clad in black, glide around a stark stage. Declan Donnellan's updated take on Francis Beaumont's 1607
In 2003, the Young Vic staged Tanika Gupta's Salford update of Harold Brighouse's robust play " originally written in 1915, and set
When Sam (Michelle Fox) was 13 she was kidnapped. Salvation took the shape of a man with a gun. As an adult
Armadillo " the Yard, London American playwright Sarah Kosar wrote the distinctive Mumburger " a skewed study of the ways in which
Rutherford, the domineering patriarch in Githa Sowerby's 1912 play, is a man for whom the family business is everything. He has sweated
Shakespeare's Globe artistic director Michelle Terry tells Natasha Tripney about taking over from Emma Rice during a period of trauma for the
Rutherford and Son " National Theatre, London Roger Allam takes the title role of the domineering patriarch in Polly Findlay's production of Githa
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil " Eden Court, Inverness A new National Theatre of Scotland tour of this
In an increasingly crowded field, this immersive dining experience-slash-cheeky cash-in created by Ami Stidolph and Sam Carrack, and based on the dizzyingly
Tennessee Williams' 1957 play is an intriguing cocktail of the mythic and gothic, laced with racial ugliness. It is a reworking of
The Norfolk and Norwich Festival has a good track record when it comes to staging creative, location-responsive outdoor work. This well-intentioned but
"Your news is bad news," proclaim a group of primary school children. They're fed up with grown-up news " it's boring, depressing
Lose Yourself " Sherman Theatre, Cardiff The new play by Katherine Chandler, the Sherman Theatre's playwright in residence, is about one day
One of the pillars of Michelle Terry's second summer season at Shakespeare's Globe is the play most closely intertwined with ideas of
Sequels rarely live up to the originals and, unfortunately, that's the case with the second production in Michelle Terry's 2019 summer season
Michelle Terry kicks off her second summer season as artistic director at Shakespeare's Globe with a continuation of the history cycle that
London is brimming with Arthur Miller at the moment. From the Old Vic to the Yard in Hackney, his plays are everywhere.
Though Vi is dead, she's still a presence in Shelagh Stephenson's 1996 play " and in the lives of her three daughters,
The Memory of Water " Nottingham Playhouse Katy Stephens stars in a revival of Shelagh Stephenson's play about three estranged sisters who
The Memory of Water "Â Nottingham Playhouse Katy Stephens stars in a revival of Shelagh Stephenson's play about three estranged sisters who return
Edward Hall's final production as artistic director of Hampstead Theatre is of Howard Brenton's wonky rewiring of Thomas Hardy's bleak final novel
Written in 1886, Ibsen's Rosmersholm is a play of upheaval and change. The house of the Rosmer family becomes the site of