Polly Findlay's 2015 take on Shakespeare's trickiest comedy pays dividends Ah, 2015. Those halcyon days of packed theatres. Thank God the RSC had the presence of mind to film Polly Findlay'…
Jason Robert Brown's abstract musical offers resonant tales of the unexpected We've already had The Last Five Years in lockdown; now, we get a digital production of American composer Jason R…
Empty playhouses caught on camera and an online 'Merchant' complete a typically varied week of theatrical fare Theatres will begin gently unlocking their doors as we head into August. In the…
A festival of responses to the Black Lives Matter campaign is personal, political and powerful The strength of the response to the re-emergence of the Black Lives Matter campaign has provoke…
Lots of bum and poo gags to keep the kids happy In each of its incarnations " books, television series and theatre shows " covering more than 80 titles, Horrible Histories, created by Terry …
As Mozart, Adam Gillen erupts onto the stage as a Tourette's tornado It is 41 years since Peter Shaffer ripped off Mozart's respectable façade to reveal a foul-mouthed verbally incontinen…
Physical-theatre company Gecko's debut feature film is compelling and technically skilled Missing the office? Or are you dreading the day you have to return? What's your relationship to the …
A Broadway legend in concert lends musical buoyancy to this week's ever wide-ranging theatrical array We're easing out of lockdown, haircuts are being had, and the theatre continually shape…
Updated Greek tragedy has some good ideas but doesn't fully deliver Medea is the original crazy ex-girlfriend: the wronged woman who takes perfectly understandable revenge on the man who mad…
Helen McCrory is the broken, irreparable heart of this production Helen McCrory is an actor who can inject a world of feeling into one syllable that many actors would struggle to muster in a…
Medeas past and present conjoin across a characteristically eclectic theatre week Stop the presses! For the first time in nearly four months, The Arts Desk can point to the first of several…
Food crimes of the Sixties and Seventies are revealed here as Michelin-starred memories I knew what a Howard Hodgkin painting would look like before I ever saw one because of Nigel Slater. T…
NT archive recording of Lorraine Hansberry's last play is absolutely compelling Lorraine Hansberry's debut, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first drama written by a black woman to be produced o…
Nigel Slater is back, as is Richard Nelson's Apple family for a second time via Zoom Can this weekly lineup really now be three months old? As we move towards at least some degree of re…
Socially distanced version of Sebastian Faulks novel clips along at a fair pace Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks' best-selling First World War novel, has been adapted quite a few times in its twe…
Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical gets another shot on screen The movie adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights was meant to hit cinemas this summer, but, in response to …
Nicholas Hytner makes the familiar gloriously strange in this slippery, sumptuous show Nicholas Hytner's A Midsummer Night's Dream, filmed for NT Live at the Bridge Theatre l…
Jason Robert Brown's chamber musical has new lockdown resonance A musical featuring two people who are physically separated? Jason Robert Brown's work is a shutdown natural " as this new dig…
Some celeb-heavy revivals and a kids-friendly showstopper feature amongst this week's lineup Might we be nearing light at the end of the lockdown tunnel? It definitely seems that way, with t…
From King Lear to Bilbo Baggins - remembering the great film actor who vanquished stage fright Ian Holm was once in his local cinema on High Street Kensington, enquiring at the ticket office…
Andrea Levy's Windrush epic bursts triumphantly onto the stage " and our screens A British-Jamaican man is confused. It's the Second World War, and he signed up for the RAF on the understan…
The state of Britain then and now gets a look-in, as do animals in human form As lockdown continues, National Theatre at Home has announced its final sequence of plays, and several of the v…
THEATRE LOCKDOWN SPECIAL 9: Alan Bennett revisited, and so is Oz Some familiar titles, a 1913 rarity and a show in which the audience plays its part The government may occupy shifting sands…
Michelle Terry, John Light and Pearce Quigley lead an inventive cast relishing the comic potential of the Elizabethan stage What could be better for a lockdown summer night "out" than a virt…
A story told with the wit and elegance of a tune played on a harpsichord It has been the fate of George III " who on many levels was a visionary and accomplished monarch " to go down in hist…