Henry V is an intrinsically doubled-edged work. Is Shakespeare's Plantagenet hero the supreme instance of patriotism as he trounces the French at Agincourt? Or is he a war criminal? Or is h…
Receiving its superb British premiere now at the Old Vic, Bess Wohl's play is a consummately clever story about a real-life fascist summer camp on Long Island
The actor returns, agog with eagerness, to play the prince of Denmark 50 years on
Daniel Raggett's enlivening instalment is the third in Sonia Friedman's bracing Re:Emerge season
With a crack cast of actors, Dawn Walton's revival of this 1975 play is palpably a labour of love, alive to the play's impious humour and swagger as well as to its anger
With theatres finally emerging from the third UK lockdown, the industry is sending out a message of hope and resolve that should serve as a rallying call. Paul Taylor picks out the plays and…
With the 81-year-old McKellen primed to take on Shakespeare's most famous role once again, Paul Taylor explores a hero who is nowhere near his sell-by date
Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen's delightful production has already been put on ice until London is back out of Tier 3. But you would not have to be an incurable optimist to book for the resumpti…
In their lack of chanciness and spontaneity, Trump's rallies are a systematic negation of the theatrical spirit, writes Paul Taylor. And so they constitute, by default, an eloquent defence o…
Ella Hickson has joined forces with director Natalie Abrahami, whose production shifts between grimly gleeful anachronism and historical empathy
A season of Jamie Lloyd productions at the Playhouse kicks off with an inspired revival... even if McAvoy's modestly over-endowed nose could be a tad more bulbous
David Walliams's best selling children's book is given a theatrical makeover by the Royal Shakespeare Company for its main-stage Christmas attraction
Sam Tutty gives a star-making performance in a story of grief, deception, and the conscienceless juggernaut of the internet
Playwright Annie Baker has been rightly praised for the ways in which this anticipates the age of Trump and the #MeToo movement
First seen at this address 15 years ago, the production arrives after a spate of works have complicated and enriched the Mary Poppins phenomenon, writes Paul Taylor
Siobhan Redmond shines in this disgracefully funny adaptation of Maxim Gorky's 1910 play
Churchill's approach has her distinctively inspired stamp in its almost laconic outrageousness
Attempts to give theatrical space to the #MeToo movement have not been encouraging, writes Paul Taylor. Could 'Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.' be the answer?
Fast, fun and fresh in all the right ways
As his leaving present to the Almeida, Robert Icke brilliantly re-imagines Arthur Schnitzler's Professor Pernhardi
In an era of virulently born-again 'white supremacy' in the US, we have Nicholas Wright to thank for coming to the topic of Othello, show business, and race anew
Jason Robert Brown's musical take on this beloved story is beautifully orchestrated and occasionally sublime
Starring Clive Owen and directed by James Macdonald, this is a brilliant reminder of what an extraordinary feat Tennesse Williams pulled off here
James McArdle is dazzling in this laugh-out-loud, feel-bad production of Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play
Moving through three decidedly awkward family dinners over the course of three decades, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany's new play is both satire and celebration