Alexis Zegerman's new play feels less than the sum of its parts The Fever Syndrome has an ambition that places itself firmly in the tradition of the great American family drama (comparisons …
The musical 'Black Love' places the reality of racism centre-stage at the Kiln People often ask how long a play takes to make its way out of you. And it's always a valid question because no…
The 2010 satire about race and the realities of real estate remains blistering Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park arrived at London's Royal Court like a blazing comet in 2010, a bold kind of sati…
Ralph Fiennes plays infamous New York planner Robert Moses, in David Hare's new play A few years ago Ralph Fiennes starred as the narcissistic, belligerently ambitious, ultimately tragic arc…
Ruth Wilson is brilliant in Jean Cocteau classic adapted by Ivo van Hove Is there really such a thing as an unmissable show? Depends on your taste of course, but for sheer hype this event ta…
1970s German classic skewers capitalism, but leaves emotional depths unplumbed It's not hard to see, watching Tom Fool at the Orange Tree Theatre, why Franz Xaver Kroetz is one of Germany's…
High-energy revival of Mike Bartlett's 2009 play boasts a dynamic cast Mike Bartlett's Cock invites suggestive comments, but the main thing about the play is that it has proved to be a magn…
★★★ DOGS OF EUROPE, BELARUS FREE THEATRE An apocalyptic vision has dreadful timeliness An apocalyptic vision of an insatiable, all-obliterating Russia has dreadful ti…
Intriguing new play from Ron Hutchinson capsizes in performance You can't keep a great playwright down. Ron Hutchinson, whose award winning stage plays, such as Rat in the Skull (1984) and …
An epic undertaking about British teenage life, beautifully performed Do you happily binge four hours of mind-candy TV in one sitting? Alecky Blythe's latest verbatim play, Our Generation " …
Abigail Graham's pacy production focuses on the moneylender's fate A supposed 'comedy' gives the moneylender Shylock pride of place The Merchant of Venice is a comedy, you say? Shakespeare,…
Great staging enlivens this well-written monologue about a cross-generational relationship Love is the most difficult four-letter word. And platonic love is perhaps the hardest kind of emot…
Francesca Carpanini shines in murky Mamet two-hander "Get into the scene late and get out early." So wrote David Mamet in his 1992 book On Directing Film, and Southwark Playhouse, a…
Director Rufus Norris uses the Olivier's revolving stage like a virtuoso With its violent storms, bombed out cities and stories of families ripped apart by war, Small Island feels very much …
Dennis Kelly's 2005 play presses many 2022 buttons Lockdown, #MeToo and Ukraine give new urgency to a dystopian fable Mark was teased about the fallout shelter at the bottom of his garden …
Good in parts, but Kit Harington's king isn't the best thing about this hard-working show Sharp suits swapped for combat fatigues, a people's commander: you'd think that Max Webster's produc…
Another musical based on a movie hits London, with a moral guaranteed to please audiences Wave your pom poms for a show with its heart in the right place We open on "Seventeen is Swell", the…
Ibsen anticipates Beckett in his strange final play, austerely staged with dashes of wit In Ibsen's last and shortest play, further cut here, four people nominally climb a mountain, but actu…
Brexit battle laid bare Few critics become playwrights, but Tim Walker has done just that with Bloody Difficult Women, his debut. It's taking a risk; should any of his less generous critical…
Debut play about football and gentrification is pitch perfect Football stories are never just about a game " they are also about life and how to live it. In Tyrell Williams's Red Pitch, his…
Award-winning hymn to Stephen Sondheim leans too heavily on in-jokes Steven (David Ames) is having a birthday party. He's invited his closest friends " two of whom have recently started dati…
The author Thomas Melle had his animatronic double created for this intelligent show It's the vulnerability of the robot that strikes you in this subtle, intelligent production from the Germ…
Engaging recreation of one of the art world's most intriguing partnerships At first glance, it was the most unlikely of friendships, even for the solipsistic milieu of the New York art scene…
Sonali Bhattacharyya's new play explores sisterly love and Islamophobia with warmth and wit "You could read at home," says Bettina (Anoushka Chadha), Year 10, her school uniform perfectly p…
A longtime critic shifts gears to bring Gina Miller and Theresa May to the stage The divide between theatre critics and the theatrical profession has always been a chasm, but occasionally a…