107 stories by "Sam Marlowe"
"Hello!" chirps Max and Harry's son, as they remove him from his packaging and boot him up for the first time "
Turning her back on a career in medicine to pursue a drama degree, the director rose rapidly through the ranks to take
Shakespeare's tempestuous late romance of loss and exile has both fairytale allure and modern resonance, its action spanning years and oceans, with
Money can't buy you love " but it can certainly get you a temporary imitation of it. In William Congreve's dazzling, intricately
What could be more British than a drama of wartime heroism and the weather? At times David Haig's Pressure, first seen in
Sometimes the story transcends its telling. And so it proves in The great Wave, a new play by the Japanese-Northern Irish writer
Tom loves Viv and Viv loves Tom. Only sometimes, Tom forgets who Viv is. Tristan Bernays' short, bruising play tenderly tracks a
"More life, more love!" cries Fanny and Alexander's doomed father Oscar, as he raises his last ever Christmas toast in this adaptation
It's a story so enigmatically compelling that many believe it to be true: the unexplained disappearance, on Valentine's Day, 1900, of three
★★★★ JULIUS CAESAR, BRIDGE THEATRE Nicholas Hytner's rabble-rousing production pits the ruling elite against populismNicholas Hytner's rabble-rousing production pits …
Nicholas Hytner's rabble-rousing production pits the ruling elite against populismAll hail! Shakespeare's Roman drama may be enjoying something of a resurgence at present, but it rarely prov…
We all know that unsettling sensation of being watched " the prickling in the back of the neck, the certainty that eyes
Despite big funding cuts and several regime changes, regional theatres saw box office receipts rise. Sam Marlowe provides her top picks and
Lin-Manuel Miranda's hugely anticipated hit musical is a massive achievement"Are you aware that we're making history?" demands Alexander Hamilton in the show that has finally made the lesser…
Blood and screaming babies, drugs and vomit: yep, there's definitely something amiss in the boho Parisian domicile of good-looking young Americans Abby
The USA in 1975: year of two assassination attempts on President Gerald Ford, the capture of Patty Hearst, and the Thriller in
Ooh la la, quel delice! This musical, based on the 2010 French-Belgian film Les Emotifs Anonymes is utterly gorgeous. Souffle-light and swooningly
Set in a country garden, Mike Bartlett's new play digs wide and deep " and the soil proves fertile. Albion is an
David Eldridge's wry-warm two-hander on the unsexy side of singledom Loneliness: in the age of the digital hook-up and the flaunting narcissism of social media, it's become a strange so…
"You have to believe me if you want me to believe you." So says adulterer Paul to his equally faithless wife Alice
B is for Birthday. It’s also for Bomb. In this grotesque, darkly funny new play by Chilean writer Guillermo Calderon, fledgling activist
Ghosts, dreams, memories and the masks we wear to present our various selves every day: there are more characters drifting through this
It ain't easy, just off grimy Oxford Street on a chilly September night, to imagine you're in sultry New Orleans. But this
The South African director has built an international reputation for creating searing, uncompromising and often confrontational drama. She tells Sam Marlowe why
Only halfway through this turbulent year, and it already seems safe to say that 2017 has seen some landmark theater. In the past, the London scene traditionally cooled off in the summer, whi…
