A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's Globe, review: Risky gender-bending works like a charm
An often very funny production, but Emma Rice needs to relax and let things breathe
An often very funny production, but Emma Rice needs to relax and let things breathe
An ambitious update of Marlowe's play pulls in young audiences with Game of Thrones star Kit Harington as Faustus
The four-and-a-half hour compression of Shakespeare's Henry V, three Henry VI plays and Richard III is impressive
Sam Gold's production is exquisitely paced, taking its time with real dramatic purpose
Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State, Temporary Theatre, National Theatre
Essiedu radiates the impudent charisma, energy and wounded idealism of youth
The proceedings are enjoyable but rarely generate the requisite helpless hilarity and have a rather dated feel, however
Alexander Hanson is squirm-making as married Michel who is having an affair with Alice, the wife of his best friend
Continuing our series marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Paul Taylor explains why even one of his less celebrated plays remains a source of wonder and inspiration
You feel as though you've aged a decade as the light gradually fades
Richard Eyre directs and adapts this revival with a quietly shattering insight into its terrifying depths
This is a disturbing, balefully hilarious new play
Sheridan Smith can do little wrong these days, whether as Cilla Black or as Shakespeare's Titania
I couldn't watch the appalling scene of the foetus's emergence again unless held at gunpoint
Written in 1907 and revised in 1926, Harley Granville Barker's work is perennially a play for today
An exhilarating and sharp satire of those Christmas films in which a parent thaws and bonds with a wayward child
A resplendent day showed the different sides of Branagh's personality and reunited him with actors of an older vintage
This is warmly recommended
It's hilarious " as is Joe Bannister's enchanting performance as Orlando
The emotions that the play's Expressionism is supposed to be heightening get shorter shrift
Above all, in its very different way, it strikes me as being in the grand tradition of Black Snow
Superlative revival sensitises you to the comparable waste of young people's potential today
The work presents three of D H Lawrence's stage masterpieces, written between 1911 and 1913, as a single composite drama
This selection of plays about the iconic charter is uneven in quality, but well worth the trip
Dementia has now become what daffodils were to Wordsworth to some of the keenest artistic minds of our era