Lloyd Owen has one of the best, most resonant speaking voices in the business and has leant his vocal luster to such roles as Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opposite Diana Rigg, an…
Review: Youth Without God, Coronet Theatre4.0starsIt is a stroke of genius. Christopher Hampton has decided to adapt Ödön von Horváth's novel Jugend ohne Gott into a play. Set in the…
Review: Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, Wilton's Music Hall5.0starsOne of the great struggles in staging generational trauma is fairly simple: how can a narrative give its audience enough t…
Review: Faith, Hope and Charity, National Theatre 5.0stars Faith, Hope and Charity is the most important play of the year, perhaps the most important of our age. The story centres on Hazel (…
Review: Shida, The Vaults4.0starsThe Vaults, the hub of fringe theatre in London, is the new home for Jeannette Bayardelle's Shida. Fresh from a New York run, Bayardelle's one woman musical …
Review: Don Giovani, Royal Opera House2.0starsMozart's Don Giovanni first premiered in Prague in 1787. With libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, it tells the story of the walking STI that is Don Gi…
Review: A Doll's House, Lyric Hammersmith4.0starsHenrik Ibsen's original 1879 play A Doll's House centres on Nora, and her stifling relationship with her husband Torvald. In Tanika Gupta's r…
Review: Call Me Fury, The Hope Theatre 4.0stars Call Me Fury is angry, captivating and musically invigorating. It trails the stories of Salem, passing through the happenings of witch executi…
Review: The Permanent Way, The Vaults4.0starsThe privatisation of the railways: how could this make for nearly two hours of exciting theatre? I'm sure I'm not the only one who wondered. Play…
A pair of TV favorites are headed to the London stage. David Mitchell and Gemma Whelan, celebrated for their screen turns as Shakespeare and Kate on the BBC sitcom Upstart Crow, will star in…
This news has us seeing double! Nottingham Playhouse has announced the new musical Identical, an adaptation of Erich Kastner's 1949 novel Lottie and Lisa, which was popularized by the 1961 a…
The talented foursome who led the worldwide cult phenomenon Ghost Stories at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre have signed on to haunt West End audiences for its upcoming fall engagement at T…
Ahead of concluding a sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre, Olivier winner Robert Icke's acclaimed staging of his play The Doctor has been scheduled to receive a West End transfer in the s…
Review: Macbeth, Royal Exchange, Manchester3.0Overall ScoreMacbeth is the season opener at the Royal Exchange, in Sarah Frankcom's final season as Artistic Director. Directed by Christopher …
Review: Until The Flood, Arcola Theatre 3.0stars Dale Orlandersmith's Until The Flood is a collage of personalities; it explores the way in which a moment is monumentalised. That moment was …
Review: Lit, Omnibus Theatre4.0starsExiting the Omnibus Theatre, the audience brims with emotion. Some do not move immediately, still under the spell. By the door, a woman says "That poor gi…
Review: Astana Ballet, Royal Opera House 4.0stars Some may like their ballet classical, some modern; you may prefer romantic, or dramatic " whatever your preference is, the Astana Ballet has…
Review: How Love is Spelt, Southwark Playhouse 2.0stars How Love is Spelt is a naturalistic play exploring the themes of love among a series of bizarre modern relationships. It's an intrigui…
Review: Conspiracy, New Diorama Theatre 3.0stars That the press performance for Barrel Organ's latest work Conspiracy falls on Friday the 13th, is an ominous symbol. This night feels ripe fo…
Review: Anna Bella Eema, Arcola Theatre 4.0stars It's something of a relief that Anna Bella Eema opens with an explicit warning that past, present and future are really only divided because …
Review: Werther, Royal Opera House 3.0stars It's important to me that I preface this review with the disclaimer that my knowledge of opera is limited. Really, really limited. This is the sec…
Review: Big The Musical, Dominion Theatre2.0starsBig The Musical, doesn't feel big, it feels hollow. Big follows the journey of a young Josh Baskin (Jamie O'Connor) until, as Tom Hanks did b…
The celebrated London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's fan-favorite musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which recently concluded a hit engagement at the London…
The French writer Florian Zeller is rarely long absent from the London or New York stage. On Broadway he is represented at the moment by the transfer from the West End of The Height of the S…
Review: Hansard, National Theatre2.0starsIt's the end of another strenuous week being a member of Maragret Thatcher's cabinet in 1988, and Robin Hesketh (Alex Jennings) returns home to his w…