Sian Clifford and Nikesh Patel do their best with a show that's as mercurial as grief Good Grief, a new show from American screenwriter and playwright Lorien Haynes, can't work out what it …
Innovative technology places actors virtually in the Palace Theatre, Manchester The story of Romeo and Juliet is well known, worth revisiting endlessly and always relevant. But there is anot…
Film version of award-winning show about young offenders has more power than plot Film is the new theatre " this we know, but does the distance imposed by the change of medium increase or de…
Free reading for charity of Wycherley's first Restoration comedy Swaggering rakes, posturing fops, sexual intrigue, illicit encounters, wit, artifice, wigs, fans and beauty spots - these ar…
Sharon D Clarke and Olivia Colman sparkle in delightful radio play in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital The blurb for Peter Pan: The Audio Adventure, Shaun McKenna's new adaptation of JM …
Free stream of its first pantomime In a much depleted and truncated pantomime season that withered on the vine, the National Theatre's debut production of Dick Whittington lasted only four p…
Out of pandemic-driven chaos and confusion came moments of clarity - and "Blindness" "Goodbye": The single word lingered heavily in the air last March 16, as the scripted closing both of th…
The Royal Court's experimental piece is political theatre at its finest and fiercest Edition 2 of Living Newspaper: A Counter Narrative, an experimental new piece of online theatre from the …
Andrew Lincoln invents Scrooge afresh in robust seasonal perennial As proof that you can't have too much of a good thing, consider the return of Matthew Warchus's buoyant production of A Ch…
Children and adults are catered for Cinderella **** I did worry that pantomime " that most audience-driven of theatrical pursuits " might not work through the tube, but Nottingham Playhous…
Gregory Doran's outdated vision of Greek myth is bolstered by five great performances At just under five hours, Troy Story, the RSC's adaptation of as many tales from Greek myth, takes abou…
Dickens redux, noisily but with brio The twelve days of Christmas have nothing on the flotilla of Christmas Carols jostling for view this season, each of which is substantially different eno…
The Pin sketch duo's assured theatrical debut Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen together form The Pin, a sketch duo who have won much critical acclaim and full houses in the Edinburgh Fringe shows.…
New monologue is a shout out for trans and non-gender-conforming rights Travis Alabanza is black, trans, queer and proud. And they've got a lot to be proud about. In 2016, they were the youn…
Skilfully interwoven accounts of a life in which togetherness is forbidden How do you create a secular version of the Nine Lessons and Carols? The original can feel like a formulaic trot thr…
Taut Pinter revival sacrifices the play's darkly comic underlay Add the Hampstead Theatre to the swelling ranks of playhouses opening its doors this month, in this case with a revival well i…
The Dickens classic, as adapted by this venue's artistic director, shakes its holly A Christmas Carol is a seasonal standard. In a normal year, there are a couple of versions to be enjoyed, …
Paul Harvard's ambitious debut play needs further focus A 35-year-old gay man has to figure out which way to turn in GHBoy, the Paul Harvard play whose connection to the chemsex world is emb…
An ingenious depiction of the artist's gravity-defying love One of Marc Chagall's last commissions was for a stained-glass window in Chichester Cathedral, which channelled his characteristic…
Film adaptation of Jonathan Coe's 1994 bestseller is a postmodern masterpiece Classical murder mysteries end with a neat solution " and with the arrest of the perpetrator. Postmodern murder …
Scorching adaptation of Ovid is a welcome theatrical respite from lockdown Women have an awful time of it in the Greek myths. Raped, abandoned, blamed for murdering people, blamed for not m…
Opening and closing night were the same for vital solo show Broadway tends to be the Darwinian environment where a show's opening night can also mark its closing.
Lillian Hellman meets a handful of other female greats in an imaginary dinner party Feuds make good theatre. I mean, look at the furious 1970s spat between playwright Lillian Hellman and cri…
Sparky solo play leaves you wanting yet more Call him Ishmael, and the Zimbabwe-born, UK-based writer Zodwa Nyoni has done just that. That's the name of the solo character in Nyoni's slight…
It's a true achievement to feel the chemistry of a cast whirring into action again The Prohibition-era setting of The Great Gatsby brings an appropriately illicit feel to this bold dec…