Troubled but tantalising Williams play doesn't entirely land this time around Where would Tennessee Williams's onetime flop be without the British theatre to rehabilitate it on an ongoing b…
Scottish production that reaps comedy gold from society's awkwardness about disablity My Left Right Foot tiptoes right to the precipice of massive offense. For some, it tumbles right in. Dur…
Jonathan Maitland skewers Brexit-era realpolitik and largely scores What could have been merely a cheap and cheesy piss-take registers as considerably more robust in The Last Temptation of …
Roy Williams revival looks beyond the headlines to see the codes, complexity and camaraderie of crime We are living in a time when gang culture rips and roars its way down London streets, an…
Arthur Miller's tragedy from an African-American viewpoint The Young Vic, a welcoming theatre with a culturally diverse audience, has been home to memorable Miller revivals before, notably I…
Timely revival for Kneehigh Theatre's frantic Beggar's Opera reimagining Five years ago this Kneehigh Theatre production caused a stir with its vibrant modern retelling of John Gay's 18th ce…
Astounding combination of theatre and installation tells the wrenching story of two Afghan child refugees Flight is a show by experimental Scottish theatre company Vox Motus, adapted from th…
Ian Rickson finds the fury and dynamism in a piece of Ibsen esoterica The past haunts the present and looks likely to torpedo the future in Rosmersholm, the lesser-known Ibsen play now re…
Greed is good or at least entertaining in feisty Off West End revival Deft and funny and nicely cast, what's not to like about Other People's Money, the era-defining Jerry Sterner play in r…
Stage version of Andrea Levy's classic Windrush story is too pedestrian Novelist Andrea Levy's 2004 masterpiece, Small Island, is a tribute to the Windrush Generation, those migrants to Eng…
New tragi-comedy about a Syrian refugee's Oxford dreams is just too gnomic Edward Hall bids farewell this venue, where he has been artistic director since 2010, with this production of a new…
The production's levity eviscerates the underpinning emotional realities Often the greatest works of dramatic absurdism spring from the worst extremes of human experience, whether it's Iones…
Kelsey Grammer leads a muddled musical take on Don Quixote The ENO continues its run of semi-staged musicals, in commercial collaboration with Grade Linnit, with a revival of this vintage od…
Poetic two-hander combines epic myth, family relationships and gender politics If British theatre often seems to lack ambition, the same cannot be said of The Half God of Rainfall, a galaxy-…
The Shadowlands playwright talks about C S Lewis, love, pain and being a writer It is 30 years since Shadowlands, William Nicholson's much-loved play about C S Lewis's unexpected love affair…
Dancing, singing and plenty of swinging in this joyful tribute to Fats Waller The joint is jumpin' at Southwark Playhouse, now hosting an irresistible Fats Waller-inspired, Manhattan-set …
The rising star of stage and screen talks grime, feminism, sex work, Nicki Minaj and SENSE8 Nicôle Lecky's one woman show Superhoe has added fire to the reputation of an already fast-risi…
Arthur Miller's classic family drama has one outstanding performance - and one dud Superstar Sally Field has come to town. With two academy awards and countless other accolades, the actor wh…
Compelling fantasia about black South Africans drowned in a World War 1 disaster While Bach's and Handel's Passions have been driving thousands to contemplate suffering, mortality and grace,…
Design dominates in Josie Rourke's farewell production For her swansong, departing Donmar Artistic Director Josie Rourke goes Swinging Sixties in this stylish but flawed revival of the Cy C…
Chekhov classic from the team behind the West End hit Summer and Smoke About a year ago, director Rebecca Frecknall electrified this venue with an award-winning revival of Tennessee William…
This memoir of a Berlin secretary in the Nazi era is the theatre event of the year Maggie Smith is not only a national treasure, but every casting director's go-to old bat. Now 84 years you…
New play about the freedom struggle in Tibet is a bit too unclear for its own good Theatre can give a voice to the voiceless " but at what cost? Abhishek Majumdar, who debuted at the Royal …
A soaringly irreverent postmodern caper through shifting attitudes to homosexuality A loo with fuschia-pink carpet to catch splashback; an Archbishop of Canterbury who's in it for the skirts…
Strong performances and snappy lines make this bleak drama sing "We don't love you any less." A natural sentiment to express to your child when you're separating from your partner, but the v…