Tracy-Ann Oberman turns Shylock into a heroic Jewish anti-fascist It's an unhappy time to be staging Shakespeare's problematic play, given its antisemitic content, so hats off to adaptor-dir…
Revived 20 years on, this Windrush musical lands differently, but is still wonderfully entertaining Is there a healthier sound than that of laughter ringing round a theatre? There are p…
Felicity Huffman, heading a superb cast, is a force of nature In 2017, two years after Hir premiered, Taylor Mac was awarded a "Genius Grant" and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for drama. Th…
'We don't use the word slave round here' - 21st century tourism skewered You do not need to be Einstein to feel it. If the only dimension missing is time, 75% of a place's being can invade …
Laura Donnelly once again soars in tailor-made part/s scripted by her partner Art makes for unexpected bedfellows, and so it proves in Jez Butterworth's moving if meandering The Hills of Ca…
Yaël Farber presents Shakespeare's blistering play with bravura Less than three years after her magnificent Macbeth, Yaël Farber returns to the Almeida with another Shakespeare tragedy…
Tony-winning production lands in the West End with an astounding cast Doom and gloom, we are told, may have abounded in the classical underworld, but Hadestown suggests otherwise. Returning …
Matt Smith stars in heavy-handed adaptation of Ibsen's 1880s classic, here with onetime Tony nominee Paul Hilton (The Inheritance) in glowering support
Matt Smith gives his all in unyielding adaptation of Ibsen morality play Real life is a helluva lot scarier right now than you might guess from the performative theatrics on display in the …
John Logan peers behind the scenes of the film world to muse on the icky relationship between life and art It's awards season in the film world, which means that we're currently swamped by …
Sarah Snook gives a virtuoso performance amid a dazzling display of tech wizardry Oscar Wilde's 1890 novella The Picture of Dorian Gray has given the world a trope built for flattery, along …
Real-life triangle around the composer's darkest masterpiece yields fitfully strong drama David Hemmings was, by his own later admission, a knowing and bumptious boy when Britten cast him as…
A pitch-perfect Lindsay Duncan leads a large and splendid cast in Dodie Smith rediscovery Sisters are doing it for themselves, just as families as a whole are, too, on the London stage thes…
★★★ JUST FOR ONE DAY, THE OLD VIC Nostalgia fest becomes a little uncomfortable when addressing a 21st century audience Saint Bob, Mrs T and a whole lot of feelgood. Oh,…
End-of-days drama from centimetres-high clay figures, in a powerful collaboration from Scottish and Norwegian companies In terms of conveying monumental events using small-scale means, Edinb…
A shocking attack kicks off an audacious experience that makes its audience complicit, in Clare Duffy's ambitious but patchy show There's been an incident in Edinburgh. Right near the Scotti…
Age has not withered one jot the FAs' fury at the absurdities of modern life You don't expect a couple of septuagenarian contraltos, aided by a spring chicken of a soprano in her fifties, t…
★★★★ OTHELLO, SAM WANAMAKER PLAYHOUSE Ola Ince makes compromises but gains much in return with her terrifyingly relevant production An Othello for our times, our c…
Lemn Sissay's adaptation of the Franz Kafka classic is just too wordy Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" is a novella whose cultural resonance has echoed loudly down the years. As a modernist me…
★★★★ BRONCO BILLY THE MUSICAL, CHARING CROSS THEATRE Accept the show's unambitious intentions and you'll have a wonderful ride With additional musical numbers, the…
Ingenious twists can't give Sam Holcroft's play a vital sense of danger Take dollops of Orwell and Kafka, with a sprinkling of Pirandello for a lighter texture, then bake. That could be the …
New play about three sisters is full of energy, but also a bit too populist for me The National Theatre is meant to represent the whole nation " and not just the metropolitan middle classes.…
Bartlett Sher's intelligent reading is gorgeously staged and winningly performed The giant crinolines are back, and the winsome little royal children with miniature temples on their heads, a…
★★★★ THE MOST PRECIOUS OF GOODS, MARYLEBONE THEATRE A story of love's triumph in an ocean of hate An account of one family's near-destruction in the Holocaust give…
Neil Simon's 1968 play allows for fun, yes, but also sadness Sarah Jessica Parker's screen renown as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City has made a London event out of the West End revival …