Holy Sh!t, Kiln Theatre, Kilburn, London review: A vigorously funny production of Alexis Zegerman's sharp play by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Zegerman's astringent comedy is in the theatre's best traditions of being provocatively topical

SOURCE: The Independent at 7:54am on September 11, 2018[SHARE]

The Humans, Hampstead Theatre, review: Remarkably daring production from Edward Hall by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Insecurities stalk this bitterly funny and piercingly sad play

SOURCE: The Independent at 10:33am on September 7, 2018[SHARE]

Love's Labour's Lost, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London, review: Enchantingly daft and dexterous by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

There's real delicacy of feeling in this production as well as full-blooded fun

SOURCE: The Independent at 11:42am on August 30, 2018[SHARE]

Pericles, Olivier, National Theatre, London, review: 'An uplifting achievement' by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

A company of 200 Londoners of all ages and backgrounds has joined forces with professional actors for this show

SOURCE: The Independent at 5:48am on August 27, 2018[SHARE]

Tamburlaine, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, review: A vivid and incisive version suggesting resonances with our own age of tyrants by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

A stimulating, fluent, and strongly cast production that's trenchantly alive to Christopher Marlowe's provocative black comedy

SOURCE: The Independent at 9:48am on August 24, 2018[SHARE]

Emilia, Shakespeare's Globe, London - review: a landmark moment for the theatre by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor reviews the stunning Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's extraordinarily rousing new play

SOURCE: The Independent at 12:54pm on August 16, 2018[SHARE]

The Merry Wives of Windsor, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, review - The play has never felt so strongly feminist by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Shakespeare effectively invented the sitcom with the only play he set in England in his own times

SOURCE: The Independent at 8:36am on August 15, 2018[SHARE]

Little Shop of Horrors, Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London, review: 'You'd be mad to miss this uplifting revival' by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's tongue-in-cheek 1982 musical tells the Faustian story of a hapless Skid Row florist who wins love, fame and fortune when he cultivates a rampantly bloodthirst…

SOURCE: The Independent at 7:33am on August 15, 2018[SHARE]

Aristocrats, Donmar Warehouse, London, review: A fresh and arresting revival by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Lyndsey Turner, the director of the Benedict Cumberbatch Hamlet and Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica, directs the first major revival of Brian Friel's 1979 play since his death three years ago

SOURCE: The Independent at 9:32am on August 14, 2018[SHARE]

Little Shop of Horrors, Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London, review: 'You'd be mad to miss this uplifting revival' by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Alan Mencken and Howard Ashman's tongue-in-cheek 1982 musical tells the Faustian story of a hapless Skid Row florist who wins love, fame and fortune when he cultivates a rampantly bloodthirs…

SOURCE: The Independent at 9:24am on August 13, 2018[SHARE]

The Importance of Being Earnest, Vaudeville Theatre: Manages to be subversive and conformist at the same time by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Does anybody need The Importance "decoding" in this heavy-handed, pseudo-radical way?

SOURCE: The Independent at 12:48pm on August 3, 2018[SHARE]

Othello, Shakespeare's Globe, review: Mark Rylance is brilliant as Iago in a production that flares into glorious life by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Shakespeare's Globe's great founding artistic director stars as Iago in this production directed by his wife, Claire van Kampen

SOURCE: The Independent at 10:33am on August 2, 2018[SHARE]

Home, I'm Darling, National Theatre, London, review: Sharp, funny and sad - and well worth a ticket by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Laura Wade's first original play since Posh sees 38-year-old Judy's doomed attempt to achieve marital bliss by becoming a 1950s-style Domestic Goddess

SOURCE: The Independent at 7:12am on August 1, 2018[SHARE]

Spamilton, Menier Chocolate Factory, London, review: A relentlessly in-jokey spoof musical by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Broadway's arch-parodist Gerard Alessandrini takes a swipe at Lin-Manuel Miranda and 'Hamilton'

SOURCE: The Independent at 8:48am on July 26, 2018[SHARE]

Pity, Royal Court, London, review: Wearisome whimsy and wackiness by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Rory Mullarkey's absurdist cartoon about a society that topples into apocalyptic anarchy is not well served by Sam Pritchard's relentlessly jokey production

SOURCE: The Independent at 8:24am on July 20, 2018[SHARE]

Allelujah!, Bridge Theatre, London, review: Alan Bennett's new NHS play is a surprisingly high-spirited occasion by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

This feels like bonus treat from the 84-year-old: a play about our imperilled National Health Service that somehow leaves you bobbing on a wave of happiness

SOURCE: The Independent at 8:32am on July 19, 2018[SHARE]

A Monster Calls, Old Vic, London, review: Patrick Ness's novel is magnificently brought to life by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Sally Cookson's adaptation of this best-seller about a boy coming to terms with grief is a wondrous feat of communal story-telling

SOURCE: The Independent at 8:24am on July 18, 2018[SHARE]

The Lehman Trilogy, National Theatre, London, review: A powerful play directed by Sam Mendes with extraordinary elegance by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Magnificent performers multitask in this epic story of the Lehman Brothers family business

SOURCE: The Independent at 10:24am on July 13, 2018[SHARE]

The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Noel Coward Theatre, London, review: Aidan Turner is masterful in Martin McDonagh's savage farce by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Michael Grandage's splatter-fest revival is exuberantly gruesome

SOURCE: The Independent at 8:06am on July 5, 2018[SHARE]

Miss Littlewood, Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon, review: A new musical reminds us of the pioneering Joan Littlewood (but lacks tunes) by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Is it ironic that this anti-establishment maverick should have her work celebrated at the other Stratford by the RSC? A bit " but you're soon swept up

SOURCE: The Independent at 7:48am on July 4, 2018[SHARE]

The King and I, Palladium, London, review: A nuanced, subtly updated revival by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

There's a smack of imperial condescension in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, but this is a culturally cogent account from Bartlett Sher

SOURCE: The Independent at 7:06pm on July 3, 2018[SHARE]

Genesis Inc, Hampstead Theatre, London, review: Harry Enfield stars in an over-egged comedy about the fertility industry by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

Jemma Kennedy's ambitious play has Enfield playing both Marx and God, while Jenni Murray lends her voice to a talking womb

SOURCE: The Independent at 11:24am on June 29, 2018[SHARE]

Fun Home, Young Vic, London, review: Another groundbreaking masterpiece from Jeanine Tesori by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

A sublime adaptation of Alison Bechdel's acclaimed graphic-novel memoir about growing up lesbian in small-town Pennsylvania with a closeted gay father

SOURCE: The Independent at 7:54am on June 28, 2018[SHARE]

The Town Hall Affair, Barbican, London, review: Germaine Greer and Norman Mailer brought vividly to life in a restaging of a debate on feminism by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

New York's experimental Wooster Group revisits and deconstructs the infamous Town Hall debate of 1971

SOURCE: The Independent at 8:12am on June 22, 2018[SHARE]

Kiss Me, Kate, Coliseum, London, review: A magnificent revival from Opera North by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

It's a joy to hear this orchestra do justice to lusciousness and comic sass of Cole Porter's score

SOURCE: The Independent at 11:04am on June 21, 2018[SHARE]