Tanika Gupta's new play is a beautifully heartfelt mix of comedy and tragedy Queenie is in trouble. Bad trouble. For about a year now, this 68-year-old Indian woman has been forgetful. Losi…
Pinero's play emerges fresh-minted in an exquisite production The stock of the late 19th century playwright Arthur Wing Pinero has just received a significant boost, thanks to the brilliant …
Spirited performances of Elvis Costello's bland songs can't save this new musical It's hard to work out why Kwame-Kwei Armah chose to end his tenure at the Young Vic by directing this soggy …
Lyndsey Turner's fast-paced production doesn't let the audience engage with its hero The National's new production of Coriolanus has to be one of the most handsome to appear on the Olivier s…
★★★ HERE IN AMERICA David Edgar's new play sounds a warning from the past When political expediency intervenes in a personal and professional friendship, what should…
Brilliant revival of this key absurdist play stars Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw Modernism is us. Today. For the past two decades plays by Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter " which once upo…
★★★ THE TRUTH ABOUT HARRY BECK Nostalgic comedy about the man who originated an everyday design classic An English eccentric quietly re-invents our view of the capital I…
Slender new play about political and gender prejudice in 1950s American science British theatre has a proud heritage of science plays. From 1990s classics such as Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (199…
★★★ THE BAND BACK TOGETHER AGAIN The perils of turning back the clock laid bare The second album is still tough, even if you never recorded the first We meet Joe first a…
★★★ KIM'S CONVENIENCE, Gentle comedy delivers laughs, but proves too safe and too predictable The play that inspired a Netflix series is heartwarming, but needs more…
Waleed Akhtar's new play is about platonic love in a contemporary context Platonic love should be simple " basically you're best mates. And without the complications of sex, what could go w…
Timberlake Wertenbaker's updated version takes particular aim at colonialism The latest Greatest Hit to land at the Lyric is Timberlake Wertenbaker's 1988 award-winning play about a performa…
★★★ WHY AM I SO SINGLE?, GARRICK THEATRE Six's writers lay bare their souls in new musical Marlow and Moss are back with deeply personal exploration of how lives are liv…
★★★★ THE SILVER CORD, FINBOROUGH THEATRE Narcissism up-close and disturbingly relevant Beautifully staged and acted revival of Sidney Howard's century-old blac…
★★★★ ART, THEATRE ROYAL BATH Three men fall out over a painting in a very French comedy Male friendships buckle as egos clash, with a resonance for today's culture…
James McArdle is immense as Stoppard's true romantic When it was first produced in 1982, The Real Thing was a turning point for Tom Stoppard, the play that added to the existing perc…
Award-winning new writing is full of mystery and metaphor, but a bit too literary I live in Brixton, south London; in my street, for many years, a pair of trainers were up in the sky, hangin…
A wealth of musical talent keeps this gig musical afloat The signs in the Peacock's foyer warn that this show features "very loud music". Exactly what Janis Joplin fans want to hear. This is…
From meta-theatrical mayhem to dreams of freedom and escape in three shows from the Fringe's closing days L'Addition, Summerhall ★★★★Â
★★★★ SHIFTERS, THE DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE Winning and witty 21st century love story Only the third West End written play by a black woman will not be the last Pete…
Jewish gangsters and ice-cold adolescents in two strong shows at Summerhall REVENGE: After the Levoyah, Summerhall ★★★★★Â
Patrick Barlow's brand of silly still delivers a sly Hitchcock spoof Before the Plays That Went Wrong and the multi-role six-hander Operation Mincemeat, there was Patrick Barlow's adaptat…
Two solo shows merge poetry, rap, spoken word and theatre to compelling effect Ã’ran, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★Â
★★ THE FABULIST, CHARING CROSS THEATRE Plenty of ambition, but achieves very little Beautiful music, but curious decisions in scripting and staging sink the show On opening ni…
Boys playing girls playing boys in two joyful queer shows at the Pleasance Dome Ni Mi Madre, Pleasance Dome ★★★★Â