I believe that in theatre, just as in life, you cannot force other people to feel the things you want them to feel. You can't impose moods, points of view or feelings. Certainly, in every ar…
Lulu Raczka's brilliant double monologue Grey Man, playing at Theatre503 this week, was developed out of a one-hander first performed as part of the Shakespeare In Shoreditch festival in Apr…
Hampstead Theatre’s proscenium is so neat that its stage looks like a television screen: stark, claustrophobic and coaxing. Even more so when that stage is transformed into a hotel roo…
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While theatre often prompts its audiences to ask questions about the world we live in, it can also ask us to reflect on it, along with specific moments in history. That’s exactly what …
Airswimming is the debut play of Charlotte Jones. A two-hander, it shows a couple of mentally unstable ladies in a 1920s mental institution. The action takes place over a span of 50 years at…
A scheme that supports young directors from under-represented backgrounds has announced the winners of its directing placements in theatres across England. The Regional Theatre Young Directo…
No Villain is Arthur Miller's little acknowledged first attempt at playwriting. It addresses themes of communism, equality, the typical American household and, most importantly, the father-s…
Rupert Goold's production of Richard III is bookended by the discovery of Richard's remains in a Leicester car park in 2012. We see the scientific excavation and we hear the news report echo…
Adrift is, I would be willing to bet, one of the more unusual shows on offer this week. Taking place in a public walkway under the streets of South Kensington, the cavernous space is filled …
Hot on the heels of their previous production of The Damned United earlier this year, Red Ladder Theatre Company are back with another new show called Leeds Lads. Three years in the making, …
The constancy of Marc and Bella Chagall's love for one another from the moment they met until Bella's death was a consistent influence on Marc Chagall's work. Their love also provides a c…
Heartbeat, currently on a national tour, arrives at the Richmond Theatre to open arms. ITV's iconic television show ran for 18 years and is based on the novels by Nicholas Rhea. It is surpri…
You, Me and The Distance Between Us is a personal look at the recent humanitarian crisis and our attempts to justify our actions as a society. A one-woman show, Ellen Muriel starts by introd…
Australian circus company Circa's production Depart comes midway through this year's LIFT Festival, and it certainly sets the bar high for the shows to be performed in the rest of the festiv…
Piece of Silk, performed at the Hope Theatre in Islington, is a realistic portrayal about the influence of a father’s shame. This sensitive and honest piece of writing by Jennie Buckma…
Arrows and Traps’s Macbeth is a work of effortless energy and unending style. It is accessible, revitalised and thought-provoking. It is the story of Macbeth and the iconic witches wit…
Maybe it was that old disco classic blasting over the speakers, the glitter that had just been applied to either side of my eyes or the dance floor that transported us back to a seventies ni…
How to explain Karagula… Well, it starts with two teenagers who look like they could have been extras in Grease. Except this isn’t 1950s America, it’s some bizarre, dystopi…
When you eventually find the venue, located near Finsbury Park, it feels as though the circus came to town and was left abandoned in an industrial estate. But this venue successfully manages…
Ahrens and Flaherty's musical Ragtime is a tribute to that style of music and the culture that existed around its establishment. Based on the 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow, it links pivotal ch…
The West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds has been really starting to hit its stride this year, I think. Artistic Director James Brining has been bringing to life an array of dazzling new produc…
Most of us will be familiar with the term IVF as a process used for the conception of a baby. But few of us are familiar with what the actual reality of that term entails. The latest play by…
“History is freedom, history is imprisonment,” says one character in Blitz Theatre Group and Nikos Flessas’s surreal play Late Night, which excavates longings born from mem…
Gertrude " The Cry by Howard Barker is a radical reimagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet " and radical is an understatement. Barker's text focuses on Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, who is almost alw…