1,125 stories by "Natasha Tripney"
While Simon Stephens prolificacy as a playwright can lead to, shall we say, occasional wibbles in quality, his willingness to experiment, to
While there's a measure of wit to Christopher Hampton's 1969 play The Philanthropist, Simon Callow's production conspires to hide it. This is
After 12 years as artistic director at London's Theatre Royal Stratford East, Kerry Michael announced last year that he would be stepping
The Bush Theatre reopens after a major facelift " it has a second entrance now, a studio space, and, yay, allocated seating
Cheek by Jowl's production of The Winter's Tale pairs irreverence and inventiveness with emotional clarity and power. Orlando James' Leontes is a
Slovenia's Mladinsko Theatre exists on the periphery in more ways than one. As Goran Injac, artistic director for the past two years,
Edward Albee's taboo-torpedoing play The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, combines the sweep of a tragedy with a thought experiment. It's a
Nina Raine knows her shit. Or, rather, her shits. She excels at writing charismatic, intelligent, affluent, articulate shits. But her new play,
The Suffolk coast is almost a character in its own right in Tallulah Brown's play. The salt-smack of the air, the wash
First staged on Broadway in 2011, David Henry Hwang's Chinglish is an amusing, if slightly flimsy, comedy about cultural and linguistic difference.
The National Theatre's response to Brexit, My Country; A Work in Progress, feels like something commissioned in a panic in the dazed
When The Jazz Singer announced the arrival of the talkies in 1927, a corner was turned. While this adaption of Paul Auster's
Pointing through the Bush Theatre's newly installed windows towards the street, Shepherd's Bush Market and the railway bridge, artistic director Madani Younis
"The Labour Party is fucked." Steve Waters' intelligent and timely new play of debate, Limehouse, open with this line before embarking on
Debbie Tucker Green has a way of making the spaces between words scream. Her latest play, which she also directs, A Profoundly
Richard Bean's boisterous new comedy, set in an England about to be riven by Civil War, is one of the flagship productions
Robert Icke understands the power of a pause. His production of Hamlet contains a lot of them. Not just the two intervals
For the second production in his Philip Ridley double-bill beneath Shoreditch Town Hall, Jamie Lloyd turns off the lights. While his revival
Twelfth Night has always been a play of abandon. Characters slip on different costumes, different gender identities, they shuck off their solemnity,
Is Hedda Gabler a feminist text? Can it be? Should it be? Selma Dimitrijevic's adaptation of the Ibsen play comes close on
See Me Now is genuinely eye-opening theatre. It puts the stories of real-life sex workers up on stage and invites the audience
A spin of the wheel. A toss of a coin. The striking of a match. Chance is part of what makes the
It started the way these things always start. A venerable figure in the theatre industry said a controversial thing. Then other people
For its first few minutes this immersive version of The Great Gatsby feels like a fancy dress party with some theatre tacked
Previously glimpsed at last year's Latitude festival, Brad Birch and Kenneth Emson's This Must be the Place weaves two separate stories together.
