★★★★★ THE ANIMALS AND CHILDREN TOOK TO THE STREETS, LYRIC HAMMERSMITH 1927 theatre company returns with its classic hit show 1927 theatre company returns wit…
★★★★★ FOLLIES, NATIONAL THEATRE The Sondheim spectacular returns, better than ever New cast members beautifully complement this definitive production This is a …
★★★★ EDEN, HAMPSTEAD THEATRE Thoughtful commentary on people and principles Hannah Patterson's new play is based on a true story, but stands firmly on its own two fe…
★★★★ EQUUS, THEATRE ROYAL STRATFORD EAST Thrilling physicality Brilliant revival of the 1970s classic about pagan worship and repressed sexuality There is no doubt th…
★★★ JESUS HOPPED THE 'A' TRAIN, YOUNG VIC Shards of power amidst much that is overwrought Stephen Adly Guirgis play is best when most reflective An entirely electric leadin…
★★ TARTUFFE, NATIONAL THEATRE Morality-heavy version of the comedy classic Brexit provides an unwelcome motor for John Donnelly's Molière-with-a-twist Here's a recipe for a succ…
★★★★ SHIPWRECK, ALMEIDA THEATRE Trump-inflected fantasia mixes polemical and poetic Anne Washburn's shape-shifting play won't be confined, nor will the man at its …
Canny update of a 17th-century classic locates real laughs in today's censorious landscape Breathe in the love and breathe out the bullshit. After the Arcola Theatre's founder and artistic d…
Last seen 40 years ago, James Saunders' four-hander never quite gets off the ground Bodies is the latest in Two's Company's series of what they deem "forgotten masterworks", this one making…
★★★★ ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES, THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET Rollicking remake of much-loved TV sitcom Lovely jubbly! The Trotters return to Peckham It was TV gold-dust. The o…
★ ALL IN A ROW, SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE Soapy and shrill pity party Clumsy drama tries to raise sympathy for parents with a profoundly autistic child Time once again to roll out that line …
David Ireland's dark, absurdist comedy about identityDavid Ireland is a playwright who likes to jolt his audience and Cyprus Avenue, a dark absurdist comedy about an Ulster unionist afr…
9/11-themed musical crosses the Atlantic, its capacious heart intact Against the grimmest of backdrops, generosity and even grace can be possible. That's the eternally uplifting message of C…
Martin Sherman has the excellent Jonathan Hyde telling true talesRipeness is sometimes all. Martin Sherman's new play, receiving its UK premiere at canny Park Theatre, says more about gay hi…
More like nein to five, as a beloved celluloid title is reduced to subpar pantoA musicals-intensive season gets off to a wan start with 9 to 5, a retooled version of a 2009 Broadway flop bas…
Engrossing English and Norwegian language production has some strong performancesEllida (Pia Tjelta, pictured top left) has a choice to make. The outcome of this choice will bind her future …
A rediscovered early work by one of the giants of Twentieth Century theatre focuses on a woman's struggle for independenceRemembering meeting Harley Granville Barker when casting him as…
This dark comedy raises disturbing questions about sound and intimacyTwo men called "Massimo" face the audience, one very tall, one very, well, minimo. The tall Massimo (Tom Espiner, picture…
Gillian Anderson and a superb Lily James headline Ivo van Hove's latest celluloid deconstructionWomen spend a lot of time gazing at themselves in the mirror in the Belgian auteur direct…
Rachel Chavkin's creative revival can't quite tame this sprawling epicThis year's unofficial Arthur Miller season " following The Price and ahead of All My Sons at the Old Vic and …
The south-coast's arts extravaganza reveals its 2019 line-upThe striking cover for the Brighton Festival 2019 programme shouts out loud who this year's Guest Director is. Silhouetted in…
Powerful production of Arthur Miller's play of fraternal discord, past painThere's a sublime equilibrium to Arthur Miller's 1968 play between the overwhelmingly heavy weight of history …
Musically strong, if persistent, this production has a star protagonist"In our country the capable man needs luck," belts out Shen Te, the Good Person of Szechwan in the most powerful song o…
The veteran director introduces the London premiere of the English dramatist's heretofore unknown play, 'Agnes Colander'So here we are with another edition of IQ, and the subj…
Farce and tragedy are evenly balanced in debut play from WalesWhat's worse than grieving? That all-consuming loss. For those that have experienced it, nothing really comes close. It starts t…