The Best Man review at Playhouse Theatre, London " 'dismayingly accurate satire'
Written in 1960, Gore Vidal's play about American politics and populism still feels dismayingly accurate in its account of how political campaigns
Written in 1960, Gore Vidal's play about American politics and populism still feels dismayingly accurate in its account of how political campaigns
Jade doesn't like going outside. It's too risky. Kids are throwing shopping trolleys off the roof and the lift smells of piss.
Macbeth " National Theatre, London March is the month of Macbeths. There are three major productions opening as well as a new
Russia's prestigious Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre returns to London with Smile Upon Us, Lord, an adaptation of two books by the Jewish
Jess Thom's Backstage in Biscuit Land, a witty celebration of her experience of living with Tourette's, was an Edinburgh Fringe hit in
Agatha Christie knew how to keep an audience on its toes. The art of concealment is key to this: what you keep
Though it has cult status now, Hal Ashby's film about the unconventional relationship between a teenage boy and a 79-year-old woman met
Work plays a huge role in most people's lives. As a society, we assign different values to different types of work and
It's easy to see why playwright Bryony Lavery would be drawn to Graham Greene's Brighton Rock " a book that combines a
Bryony Lavery's 1998 study of crime, punishment and people's capacity to forgive is a tautly constructed chamber-piece. But it is not treated
Isobel Rogers' solo show sees her sitting on a stool with her guitar in one of the more oppressively damp spaces at
Philip Ridley's new play consists of a sextet of monologues. These have been written to be gender neutral and Georgie Henley and
Anna is contemplating leaving home. She craves independence. She wants to go to university. She is 18 years old and that's what
What do you get if you lock Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allen Poe in a room together? Frustratingly little,
Elliot and Robin were in a relationship for four years. It didn't last but they had some good times. Now Robin is
Time looms large in Simon Longman's play. The seasons change and the years roll past while the characters remain rooted in place.
Barrie Rutter clocks off from Northern Broadsides, the company he co-founded 25 years ago, with a relocated version of John Dryden's Restoration
Ahead of Marianne Elliott's hotly anticipated gender-swapped version of Sondheim's musical, Aberdonian director Derek Anderson presents a more conventional staging in his
This is the season of Caesar. Last year Robert Hastie started his reign as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres with the play
In her prizewinning play, Kendall Feaver charts the relationship between a young woman with mental health problems and her motherWhen Kendall Feaver was going through her old school reports,…
It's been over a decade since Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size was first staged at the Young Vic. It was a
Images of flying lovers run through Emma Rice's work. It crops up again and again, in Nights at the Circus, in Romantics
Fans are versatile things. They provide their holders with a way of conveying emotions that cannot be expressed in polite company with
Harold Pinter's early play The Birthday Party is a famously murky piece of work, by turns sinister and absurd. Ian Rickson's production
Last September, when I went to Bolton's Octagon Theatre to catch the opening performance of Out of Joint's Andrea Dunbar's Rita, Sue