David Greig's much-lauded mountaineering story doesn't quite peak Theatre can touch thousands of lives. But can it compete with the success of a bestselling book? First published in 1988, mo…
Everyone's favourite nanny returns, again It's been 15 years since Cameron Mackintosh's stage musical version of P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins made its West End debut.
Gender changes provide a new perspective on the balance of power This is one play by Shakespeare ripe for tinkering. It's well nigh impossible now to take it at face value and still find rom…
Multimedia haunting from Norwegian company De Utvalgte in Jon Fosse's theatre-poem In a flowering branch of London theatre, Norway comes to Notting Hill with what's becoming revelatory regul…
Annie Baker's latest will divide opinion but reward devotees The National Theatre is forging its own special relationship with American playwright Annie Baker, having now produced three of h…
Family drama is occasionally entertaining, but too dark for its own good Actor Miriam Margolyes is a phenomenon. Not only has this Dickensian starred in high-profile shows both here and in A…
Wendell Pierce confirms a performance as exciting as any this theatrical year It is 70 years since Willy Loman first paced a Broadway stage; 70 years since audiences were sucked into the vor…
David Baddiel's debut play tackles a big issue David Baddiel is a very fine comic, and over the past few years has become an acclaimed author of children's books. So I'm genuinely sad to sa…
A young carer and her mother movingly portrayed in Sean Mathias's 1985 drama When Sean Mathias wrote A Prayer for Wings 35 years ago, the subject of young carers devoting their lives to pare…
Both mystical and alcoholic spirits infuse this wonderfully distinctive chamber musical London's latest new theatre opens with an appropriately otherworldly Halloween offering: American comp…
 RSC transfers works best when it engages with the complex emotions of the play Even the most ardent Bardophile has to admit that most of the time the Fool doesn't shine in a Shakespeare…
A journey to the North, into the playwright's past, provides the genesis for 'Light Falls', opening at the Royal Exchange Light Falls is the sixth play that I have written for the Royal Exch…
First Ed Thomas play for 15 years is a post-apocalyptic metaphor-fest Memory involves places, people, things and words, especially words. This abstract proposition is given knotty life in We…
Jordan Tannahill's queering of Renaissance art is riotously vulgar and unapologetic Botticelli is a household name, but who knows the true story behind his most famous painting? The painter'…
Arinzé Kene play from 2011 packs a renewed punch Time has been not just kind but even crucial to Little Baby Jesus, the 2011 play from the multi-hyphenate talent Arinzé Kene, who…
Gorky play suffers an identity crisis in uneasily-pitched revival Even the mighty Almeida is allowed the occasional dud and it's sure as hell got one at the moment with Vassa. Maxim Gork…
A potent anatomy of how words and power intertwine At a point in history where " yet again " a few misplaced words from English politicians could wreak havoc with Irish lives, this is a welc…
The playwright on 'A Museum in Baghdad', and how she discovered the story of Gertrude Bell It all started in 2009 in the National Portrait Gallery. I'd had a meeting nearby so popped in to g…
Claire Foy and Matt Smith elevate Duncan Macmillan's rather toothless parenting drama Playing our monarch and her husband in The Crown has made actors Claire Foy and Matt Smith into TV drama…
Tristan Sturrock's Cyrano: vibrant energy matched by depth Tom Morris's production of Cyrano starts with a procession of nuns, some of them bearded, chanting verses from the medieval mystic …
Alice Birch's new play prioritizes form over content, and is depressingly reactionary Clean Break, the theatre company that specializes in working with women in the criminal justice system,…
David Greig's dream-drama of cosmic loneliness is sci-fi at its most philosophical David Greig's reimagining of StanisÅ‚aw Lem's 1961 novel has brought a masterpiece of intellectual scien…
New lecture about British imperialism is energetically engaging, but rather slender Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer who has explored issues of Muslim and British identity in var…
Provocative one-man show about a stalker by stand-up comedian Richard Gadd is darkly exciting True stories, even in a fictional form, have the power to grip you by the throat, furiously shak…
First-time playwright Ruby Thomas is a daring and exciting new voice This ingenious short work deftly investigates themes of love and identity with a breezy assurance that marks first tim…