Enjoyable high-definition revival of Caryl Churchill's 1982 feminist classic Caryl Churchill is a phenomenal artist. Not only has she written a huge body of work, but each play differs in bo…
Arthur Miller's possession drama staged for spectacle The Crucible is a play that speaks with unrelenting power at times of discord, most of all when the public consciousness looks ripe for …
Adaptation of Max Porter's contemporary classic gets the big-stage treatment Wow, what a collection of talent: this show stars Peaky Blinder Cillian Murphy, and Enda Walsh's adaptation, Grie…
A spikily poignant reminder of humanity in politically dark times In an age where political, social, and gender norms seem to be in perpetual meltdown, it should be pretty much impossible fo…
New staging brings the iconic 1983 movie's themes and characters into sharper focus 'Cult' is probably an over-used adjective, especially when it comes to movies. But there's undoubtedly som…
Two-hander provides multifarious acting opportunities but insufficient focus Obstetrician Dr Mary Barton had the best of intentions. As a missionary in India she had observed the poor treatm…
Resonant new play about genetics is well-written and excitingly staged Contemporary British theatre loves time travel " and not just to the past. It also enjoys imagining the future, especia…
Solo play looks back blandly at the celebrated screen dad in "Mary Poppins" I am deeply jealous of Miles Jupp's dressing gown in The Life I Lead, the solo play at the Park Theatre. It's a si…
Athol Fugard's seminal 1961 play hasn't lost its potency London's impromptu mini-season devoted to the work of Athol Fugard picks up real steam with Blood Knot, Matthew Xia's transfixing ta…
Triumphant, if crude, West End transfer of a heartfelt account of a Renaissance woman Emilia Bassano Lanier is not a household name. But maybe she should be. Born in 1569, she was one of the…
Bruce Norris's ever-provocative play puts people first, labels second "Some monsters are real," notes a retribution-minded wife (Matilda Ziegler) early in Downstate, Bruce Norris's beautiful…
Penelope Wilton and Ophelia Lovibond face off in revival of little-known 1986 play David Hare knows a thing or two about sustaining an onstage face-off. Skylight and The Breath of Life consi…
Excellent performances aren't enough to cover the holes in this fictionalised account of the Rosenbergs It's an ideal time to revive James Phillips' debut The Rubenstein Kiss. Since it won t…
Adjoa Andoh is a magnetic Richard with her hawk-like glare and vigorous swagger Richard II has become the drama of our times, as it walks us through the impotent convulsions of a weak and va…
Jamie Lloyd locates the radical soul of a classic work The grand finale to Jamie Lloyd's remarkable Pinter at the Pinter season is this starry production of one of the writer's greatest " an…
The Glasgow-based artistic director talks theatre with a difference "When we graduated we were seeing lot of theatre as a literary form," explains Candice Edmunds of the theatre company Vox …
Alex Kingston stars in darkly comic Off Broadway transfer Joshua Harmon knows how to stir and excite an audience and does that and more with Admissions, newly arrived in the West End as p…
Anna Washburn's play for the Almeida achieves lift-off in the West End As China and the US arm-wrestle for world-domination in everything from trade to military power, we find ourselves in t…
Penelope Skinner probes the men's rights movement Penelope's Skinner's monologue was a critical and audience hit at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, when its talking point found its moment. He…
Tale of female emancipation gets a necessary post-interval lift There's a lovely, quietly subversive musical lurking somewhere in Waitress, and for extended passages in the second act that …
Simon Stone's homage to Euripides is faultless, while Marieke Heebink tears at the soul Hallucinatory theatre has struck quite a few times in the Barbican's international seasons. On an epic…
Adaptation of Harriet Lane's psychological and satirical bestseller never quite takes off Okay, so this is the play that will be remembered for the character names that have unusual spellin…
New show about representations of women's prisons in the media is fun but pointless Dear Clean Break, Thank you very much for your latest, called Inside Bitch, a show which is billed as "a p…
Mental distress takes centre-stage in metaphor-heavy play We're Staying Right Here, Henry Devas's debut play premiering on the smaller of the Park Theatre's two stages, carries a trigger wa…
The final part of Florian Zeller's domestic trilogy is powerfully melodramatic Well, you have to give it to French playwright Florian Zeller " he's certainly cracked the problem of coming up…