Cora Bissett recalls the highs and lows of being a teenage Britpop star It's now Edinburgh Fringe transfer season in London, but here's one they made earlier: Cora Bissett's Fringe First-win…
A mixed bag of performances from a big cast in Somerset Maugham's anti-war play "I don't think I have the right to influence her," says an older character of her daughter in For Services R…
Tanika Gupta's layered version launches a new era Newly arrived from a much-lauded stint at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, Rachel O'Riordan has undertaken to make "work of scale by women" du…
Dave Malloy's innovative musical immerses us in a creative crisis Where does music come from? That's the vital question posed to Sergei Rachmaninoff in Dave Malloy's extraordinary 2015 chamb…
Matthew Needham in lithe drag queen form opens new London venue London's latest theatre opening brings a stirring revival of Harvey Fierstein's vital gay drama, which premiered as Torch Song…
The director sets the scene for his debut production at the helm of Actors Touring Company I'm currently opening Amsterdam, my first production for Actors Touring Company since being appo…
Lively gig theatre revival of a 1980s account of the black lesbian experience Identity politics has been around for decades. One of the great things about the Bush Theatre in West London is …
A run-away child precipitates a cascade of questions with unintended consequences With power comes responsibility. One without the other is sickening -- and both iterations are on show in Em…
The evening is as devastatingly moving as it is bitingly funny If Russia is, as Winston Churchill once so memorably said, "a riddle, wrapped inside a mystery, wrapped inside an enigma", then…
Experimental exploration of belief and determinism is touched by genius Playwright and performer Tim Crouch is one of Britain's most innovative creatives, with a big back catalogue of chall…
This ambitious musical tackles the changing forms of family, romance and faith William Finn and James Lapine's musical " which combines two linked one-acts, March of the Falsettos and Falset…
Debut play about the parliamentary ruling class is timely, but ultimately unsatisfying In the current feverish atmosphere at Westminster, with arguments about Brexit becoming increasingly sh…
Florian Zeller's play of family anguish receives a much-deserved West End transfer A tale of teenage depression and its family resonances, Florian Zeller's The Son has a devastating simplici…
Jacobean comedy gets a rare outing It was a bold choice by director Blanche McIntyre to stage Ben Jonson's seldom performed, sprawling slice-of-life play in the bijou Sam Wanamaker Playhouse…
Final outing for Phoebe Waller-Bridge as her iconic creation We're saying goodbye to a much treasured friend. Fleabag will live on, of course " other actresses have and will inhabit the role…
A resonant tragedy of mutual incomprehension, fresh from the Edinburgh Festival Neil Armfield's resonant, turbulent production of Kate Grenville's classic Australian novel The Secret River s…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's 2013 play is tensely dark, as well as very funny You can't fail to feel the ghosts in Appropriate: they are there in the very timbers of the ancient Southern planta…
Juliet Stevenson is brilliant in an ethical debate that is both thrilling and challenging After six years, associate director Robert Icke bids farewell to the Almeida Theatre. In this time h…
More from the world's biggest and best arts festival The Red Pleasance Dome ★★★★ Comic Marcus Brigstocke has spoken in the past about his addictions and now he ha…
Autobiographical refugee story feels like a boy's own adventure Urgent, fast-paced, seemingly never pausing for breath, How Not to Drown is a real-life boy's own adventure, an appeal for com…
Class, calypso and warring gods feature in this enthusiastic revival As British summer really kicks in (umbrellas at the ready), our thoughts might turn fondly to the sunny Caribbean. Good t…
Messianic devotion and audience complicity in a slippery new work from Tim Crouch It's the end of the world as we know it. At least according to Miles, scientist turned messiah, who lost hi…
Two vicious dissections of class and identity might just leave you reeling Darren McGarvey AKA Loki: Scotland Today The Stand's New Town Theatre ★★★★★ …
Captivating and macabre, 1927's new show marks a partial return to their own origins A fat cat who gobbles up everything in sight. A king who tests his wife's fidelity with increasingly horr…
More from the world's biggest and best arts festival On the Other Hand, We're Happy Summerhall **** This affecting co-production between Paines Plough and Theatr Clywd of Daf James's play t…