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…
Three contrasting shows tackling climate change and mass extinction Sea Sick CanadaHub ★★★★   She's not a performer, Alanna Mitchell tells us. She's …
Ravishing physical theatre on the beginnings of life from Theatre Re Physical theatre company Theatre Re are virtually Fringe royalty these days, with a several-year history of fine shows un…
Three contrasting shows at CanadaHub tackle racism, climate change and clowning Deer Woman CanadaHub ★★★  Â
Both literal and figurative fireworks in Jamie Lloyd's innovative musical revival Following a triumphant resurrection of Jesus Christ Superstar, now playing at the Barbican, the Park works i…
Rare Philip King play turns a farce into a serious drama - and it doesn't work Theatre legends die hard. Playwright Philip King, who passed away in 1979, was once hailed as the monarch of th…
Pantomime excess in Meghan Tyler's wild but unconvincing new comedy Chekhov famously pronounced that if you're going to bring a gun on stage, you've got to use it. Is the same true for a cha…
Intellectual playfulness in Milo Rau's recreation of a gay hate crime Who'd have thought a play about a homophobic hate crime could be so much fun? Well, maybe that's overstating things a li…
Confusion reigns in an overly ambitious take on technology, time and climate catastrophe You can't question Javaad Alipoor's ambition.
Two compelling examinations of femininity and masculinity at the Traverse Theatre Enough ★★★★   Immaculately turned out in winning smiles, navy and nylo…
★★★★ MR GUM & THE DANCING BEAR, NATIONAL THEATRE Subversive family musical Madcap and menace as Andy Stanton adapts his cult children's books for the stage A grea…
  Andy Stanton adapts his cult children's books for the stage, delivering madcap characters, comic irreverence and flashes of real menace A great hunk of rotting meat hangs centre …
Samantha Womack lurches valiantly through this scarcely credible crime drama It may help if you love the book. It was a runaway bestseller, so fans must be legion, but a suspenseful story wh…
New West London venue opens with a zestful spectacular to suit all ages London's Troubadour White City theatre has got off to a, literally, flying start.
Must-see show takes place in barber shops in London, Lagos, Accra, Harare, Kampala, Johannesburg Emmanuel (Anthony Ofoegbu) runs Three Kings Barbers in London. His assistant, Samuel (Mohamme…
Sharon D Clarke leads a steamy, soulful musical revue It's too darn hot, BoJo is in Downing Street, and we're all going to Brexit hell " so we might as well sing the blues. Or at least take …
Name-heavy cast powers baggy, repetitive Off Broadway musical If good intentions were all, The View Upstairs would be Gypsy. As it is, the European premiere of this 2017 Off Broadway musica…
Trevor Nunn's busy production competes with Jason Robert Brown's exquisite score Robert James Waller's bestselling, though critically panned, 1992 romance novel was reincarnated in the Clint…
Star cast deliver a terrific revival of Tennessee Williams's last masterpiece One of the glories of contemporary London theatre is its revivals of classic American drama. Year after year, a…
Lean and hungry brilliance in Ned Bennett's production of Peter Shaffer When he gave Martin Dysart, the troubled psychiatrist protagonist of Equus, a line in which he speaks about "moments o…
Energetic two-hander offers a sparky portrait of a transforming city This witty street-smart play about a white-skinned boy born to a mixed-race mother deploys its narrative with the dexteri…
Phelim McDermott's show about the bits that were left over Who would have thought that a one-narrator show, mainly about projects that never got off the ground, would turn out to be such a s…
As The Night of the Iguana opens, the actor renowned for playing dual roles talks Tennessee Williams, Pinter - and Wallis Simpson Lia Williams is not an actor who looks for easy options. Twi…
A dramatic tour from the tomb of Italy's greatest poet and music among the mosaics Two years ago Ermanno Montanari and Marco Martinelli, the visionary partners who have powered Ravenna's rev…
Director of the moment Ivo van Hove explores an age-old conundrum Ivo van Hove's reputation precedes his work as a rumble of thunder goes before a storm.