Theatre Royal Stratford East, London A moving adaptation of the award-winning novel, with added songs, explores the mental toll on an abducted woman and her childMy queasiness about the subj…
Boozy function rooms were once theatre's radical heart. Rising costs and the changing face of the fringe threatened all that " but pubs around Britain are pulling in audiences with their spi…
Wyndham's, LondonTim Pigott-Smith gives the performance of his career in Mike Bartlett's intelligent meditation on the pressures and purpose of monarchy today' King Charles III: a West End t…
Roslyn Packer theatre, SydneyAfter an acclaimed run in the UK and on Broadway, Rupert Goold's production of Mike Bartlett's audacious play holds particular resonance for the coloniesThe Quee…
All eyes on theatre that launched the careers of Julie Walters and Pete Postlethwaite as it brings back the old repertory model in a modern ageAs the penultimate production in the Liverpool …
Olivier, LondonThe celebrated writer-director's attempt to radically update and reclaim the story is hamstrung by a terrible text and an over-complex stagingIt's not been a great month for c…
Hampstead Theatre, LondonMore symbolist poem than play, Oscar Wilde's once-banned Salome invites a strong directorial concept. But where Steven Berkoff memorably gave us a stylised, slow-mot…
Experimental writer, theatre director and improviser, he was one of the strangest people in BritainKen Campbell, who has died suddenly aged 66, was one of the most original and unclassifiabl…
Daisy Campbell's version of Robert Anton Wilson's cult book harks back to the counterculture era of conspiracies, hallucinogenic drugs and sinister ritualsThe counterculture strikes back at …
Tom Morton-Smith's The Earthworks, set just before the LHC was switched on at Cern, is the latest collision between science and theatreTom Morton-Smith was never any good at physics at schoo…
Hampstead theatre, LondonThis adaptation shows the nightmarish conflicts faced by Stewart as a provincial governor in Iraq but fails to connect with the bigger political pictureThere have be…
By morphing from carer to cared-for, actors in a powerful new play remind us that we are all ageing " and deserve love and respect'It sometimes feels like we've stopped being human, we're ju…
Gate, London A young Cuban gets an education in race, protest and betrayal from the fugitive Assata Shakur in Kalungi Ssebandeke's imagined encounter'Assata taught me" was the legend that st…
A reader is unimpressed by Leicester cathedral's decision to allow Shakespeare's Richard III to be staged close to the real king's resting place"Dignity and honour" the authorities at Leices…
As singalong adaptations of Peaky Blinders and Fever Pitch threaten to hit the stage, what have been the most regrettable examples from the past?If you stroll down Broadway or the West End t…
In the late 1970s Bill Mitchell and I joined the theatre company Key Perspectives. I soon saw that Bill was a great learner and an even greater teacher.He taught by doing. I had written a sc…
Orchard, DartfordThe standup considers kinky sex, politics and Angela Merkel's alter ego but his new touring show is seldom strikingYou might have heard I'm controversial, Reginald D Hunter …
Screenwriter who led project to find king's remains in car park deplores plan as 'wholly unprincipled' A screenwriter who spearheaded the project to find the remains of Richard III has conde…
Arcola, LondonAlexandra Badea's fervent, over-simplistic drama is an intertwining set of tales about the victims of globalisation, from Senegal to ShanghaiA Shanghai factory worker (Rebecca …
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonIn his debut as a playwright, Stephen Unwin explores the fate of disabled youths in Nazi Germany and creates an engrossing moral debateThere is an obvious diffic…
A heartwarming and only occasionally cliche biopic from ex-EastEnders writer Tony Jordan. Plus, insights are scant in Dara and Ed's Road To Mandalay It's 1993 and Babs (Windsor, not Streisan…
Young Vic, LondonPhelim McDermott thrusts disability into the spotlight and explores the dark heart of the famous fairytaleMat Fraser is discussing his disability. Assured it was safe, his m…
He's staged Thalidomide! A Musical, stormed American TV and starred in an explicit fairytale with his wife. Now, Mat Fraser is raising hell as Shakespeare's royal villain " without the humpI…
Graeme Murphy reimagined the classic Russian ballet to tell a uniquely Australian story of Clara. For the sake of young dancers, we need more like thisThere's a touching scene that opens the…
A group of Australian actors, dancers, writers and comedians " including Charlotte Wood, Zoe Coombs Marr and Marieke Hardy as well as Pomeranz and Roxburgh " have joined a video campaign cal…