★★★ STATEMENTS AFTER AN ARREST UNDER THE IMMORALITY ACT, ORANGE TREE THEATRE Timely revival of Athol Fugard's searing indictment of Apartheid Forty-nine years on, Fugard…
Poetic play about enslaved peoples and Victorian painter JMW Turner For more than three decades, playwright Winsome Pinnock has been at the forefront of new writing, often experimenting wit…
Playwright Josh Azouz's absurdism owes as much to Sacha Baron Cohen as to Beckett An ageing Nazi, stuffed into a slightly too tight white linen suit, sits at the opposite end of the dining …
★★★★★ BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS, MARLOWE THEATRE, CANTERBURY Dazzling Disney rewrite Beloved Angela Lansbury film is in sure, safe theatrical hands Bedknobs …
Deeply moving verbatim show from a bright new London company The popcorn on offer as you enter the Pleasance's performing space at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre quickly fills…
Frances Poet offers a luminous meditation on suffering and death at the Traverse Ageing Mick wakes up on Portobello beach with two gold rings in his pocket, and embarks on the bender to end …
A head-spinning thriller and a heart-wrenching monologue at Assembly Fear of Roses Assembly Roxy ★★★
★★★ CINDERELLA, GILLIAN LYNNE THEATRE A spectacular show that hits and misses A good night out, but with unrealised ambition to be rather more than that Belleville has l…
An elusive eco fable from Grid Iron makes glowing sense in its forest setting There's always a tricky balance to be struck with site-specific theatre. What's more important: the show itself,…
★★ 2:22 A GHOST STORY, NOËL COWARD THEATRE A big name cast wring all they can from a flawed script A few shocks and laughs but lacking in character-led credibility Danny Rob…
Two shows shine in a converted army reserve centre amid a depleted festival Tunnels Army @ The Fringe ★★★
*****CONSTELLATIONS, VAUDEVILLE THEATRE Chris O'Dowd and Russell Tovey join the bittersweet comedy about sex, bees and cosmic luck The gay couple and the O'Dowd option bring new laughs and t…
Kae Tempest's urgent new adaptation of Sophocles puts women centre-stage Philoctetes, Odysseus, Neoptolemus: the men's names in Sophocles' Philoctetes are all unnecessarily long and weighe…
Popular TV show gets a sometimes riotous stage perch Opposite the playhouse where the sometimes-wild royal comedy The Windsors: Endgame has just opened is the Bubba Gump Shrimp Compan…
Michelle Terry is gunning for a second Olivier with her first Viola The greatest version of Twelfth Night is not called Twelfth Night. It is, of course, the 2006 masterpiece She's the Man, …
The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic has been tweaked but also flattened You've got to hand it to the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park: this venue never simply dusts off a familiar musical …
The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, featuring the great Joanna Riding as Nettie Fowler, has been tweaked but also flattened
★★★★★ BIG BIG SKY, HAMPSTEAD DOWNSTAIRS A wonderful play about decent people This poignant, uplifting play is just what we need right now Get to Swiss Cott…
Sutton Foster makes a sensational London stage debut, with Robert Lindsay and Samuel Edwards in sterling support
A 4,000-year-old poem reopens this venue, but is more educational than dramatic The Young Vic, led by the inspiring figure of Kwame Kwei-Armah, is back. After a prolonged closure, during whi…
Percy Adlon's 1987 film reopens the Old Vic, directed by Emma Rice and starring Sandra Marvin.
David Mamet's most controversial play retains its explosive charge Before seeing this play, I decided to eat a steak. It seemed the right culinary equivalent to David Mamet, one of America'…
A timely return for Tennessee Williams' long-neglected play It's the trivia question no one ever thought to ask: where was the only Tennessee Williams play premiered outside America first pe…
Debut work from Benedict Lombe is a red-hot poem of protest What's in a name? In Benedict Lombe's incendiary debut play at the Bush Theatre, the answer to this question encompasses a whol…
HAMLET, WINDSOR THEATRE ROYAL Leaping out of time from Gandalf to Hamlet - athletic thespianism from Sir Ian McKellen Leaping out of time from Gandalf to Hamlet - athletic thespianism fr…