Vicky Featherstone's wonderfully fluent and vivid production of Alan Warner's award-Âwinning 1998 novel The Sopranos is a boozy, raucous rite of passage
A deft work that brings Lorca's tragedy about the agonies of childlessness bang up to date
Paul Taylor is left still visibly shaking from the play's effects on the Tube home
Timothy Sheader's 45th anniversary production is the first time the show has ever been presented al fresco
The Young Vic is welcoming visits by foreign companies and engaging with local communities and young people. Its latest show, Now We Are Here, has been created by refugee writers in workshop…
Declan Bennett's hipster Jesus has go-for-broke soul-bearing intensity
Little attention has been paid to Terence Rattigan's While The Sun Shines, the 1943 wartime comedy that, during his lifetime, was his longest West End hit
It is excessively difficult to relate Anne Archer's Fonda to the figure from the fascinating footage
If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a rather delightful surprise. Fiasco, a US-based ensemble theatre company, specialise in playfully pared-down productions that put the e…
The motion of a train loosens the tongue opines Pozdnyshev, the local government bureaucrat who is our garrulous travelling companion for the hundred minutes of this horribly compelling mono…
If you're drawn to the dark and taboo-breaking side of Anthony Neilson's imagination, as exemplified by plays such as The Censor and Relocated, then the chances are that you'l…
An all-female cast of thirteen Syrian refugees takes to the stage for this remarkable venture. They weave their own personal stories into an eloquent modern re-working of an ancient text -- …
Should make a powerful impact when it is broadcast to cinemas
It's twenty years since Isabelle Huppert last appeared in a London theatre. She certainly makes up for lost time now, delivering a tour de force of extraordinary physical abandon and me…
After winning awards for their collaboration on Medea, Helen McCrory and director Carrie Cracknell resume their partnership in this revival of Terence Rattigan's 1952 masterpiece
Michael Crawford returns to the West End, after a five year break, in a piece that's appreciably different from the kind of shows (Barnum, Phantom of the Opera) that rocketed him to sta…
Lola Arias deals with agonising material in a manner that is always honest and drily self-aware
Don't let recent self-penned efforts by US screen actors Zach Braff and Matthew Perry put you off
Playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell's new production on Greece's economic descent lacks immediate subtance
Playwright Charlene James writes with great power and sensitivity about the trauma of female genital mutilation
An evening of five political satirical playlets from David Hare, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill and Alistair Beaton ​
Fluent and cannily pitched
From the moment Joe Penhall's play was premiered back in 2000, it was obvious that here we have a contemporary classic. Matthew Xia's remarkably vibrant and punchily performed revi…
The comedian's new stand-up show is "a twisted love letter" to his Jewish parents
Lucid direction by John Dove, but this play is too bitty and lacks momentum