The season's closing pairing presents Danny Dyer and a radio revelationIt was back to the very beginning for this final instalment of "Pinter at the Pinter", with its pairing of A Sligh…
National Theatre transfer hits the West End sweet spotThe Fifties? They were terrible: bone-cold houses where people huddled round the fireplace for heat, empty Sundays that lasted a month, …
Sex and technology run like faultlines through this workThere is no doubt that this Cherry Orchard, whirled into town by Roman Abramovich from Moscow, is going to be divisive. If you, lik…
American play from mid-'90s resonates afresh todayIn the history of early photography in the Middle East, it was the Armenian Christian traders and their descendents who became the pion…
Bright new monologue about coming of age in the Instagram era really rocksTitles matter: they send out messages. So, in the current #MeToo climate, isn't it a bit provocative that there's a …
Adrian Lester compels in new American drama about care and connectionThe Off Broadway production of Cost of Living two years ago brought Martyna Majok the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the …
Revolution is about youth, music, anger, and - frankly - sexIs there a connection between revolution and theatre? The answer has to be yes " a visceral one. The supremacy of symbols, the col…
Stripped down staging of Barry Hines' iconic novellaRobert Alan Evans' adaptation of Kes is a dark, expressionist reworking of Barry Hines' novella. It pays lip service to Ken Loach's i…
Martin Crimp's latest about a sex game is all talk and no actionWhen it was announced that Cate Blanchett was making her National Theatre debut with Martin's Crimp's new play, When We h…
This intimate work unveils the miracle of acceptanceFollowing Caroline, or Change and Fun Home, the UK is blessed with another work from American composer Jeanine Tesori " this the British p…
Frantic Assembly's latest is a moving meditation on war and masculinity Nadia Fall is a good thing. Her appointment as the artistic director of this venue, with her first season having …
DH Lawrence's tragically inflected 1913 tale of family relationships powerfully toldThere's a stark power to Jack Gamble's production of DH Lawrence's The Daughter-in-Law, which has tra…
Three interconnected stories struggle to add up A road tunnel through the Alps, stretching underneath Mont Blanc: Tel (Shaun Mason) is ploughing home to London in a borrowed Merc, strung out…
Revelations that should feel toxic seem tepidTheatrical alchemy is eternally slippery.
1982 play needs sharpening in this shallow revival of a revival Time and a transfer haven't been kind to this well-meaning but surface-thin revival of Coming Clean, the 1982 Kevin Elyot play…
New play about a cab office fails to find its accelerator pedalWrite what you know, says the adage, and that's exactly what playwright Ishy Din has done with his new play, Approaching Empty,…
Ché Walker play provides a lively platform for the formidable Sheila Atim Confessions first: I fell asleep mid-way through Time Is Love/Tiempo es Amor, from too much time on trains and plan…
An intimate Andrew Lloyd Webber revival lays bare both strengths and weaknesses"Love Changes Everything", as immortalised by Michael Ball, is the most enduring feature of Andrew Lloyd Webber…
The Pinter season gallops into the home stretch, with Rupert Graves and Jane Horrocks leading the chargeThe scintillating, commercially bold season of Pinter one-acts at the theatre bearing …
American titles were everywhere but British plays and the classics got a look-in, tooWill pride of place amongst theatre productions every year go in perpetuity to the work of Stephen Sondhe…
Lynn Nottage Pulitzer Prize-winner emerges even more strongly in London A tremendous year for American theatre on the London stage is resoundingly capped by Sweat, the Lynn Nottage Pulitzer …
Shakespeare's study of flawed leadership becomes a paralable for our ageJoe Hill-Gibbins' uncompromising production of The Tragedy of Richard II for the Almeida hurtles through Shakespe…
West End transfer for Tony Kushner's musical about race and povertyWith the politics of hate alive and well both sides of the Atlantic, this seems a good time to revive Tony Kushner and…
Justin Audibert's production excels at portraying the book's alchemical qualitiesIf you're looking for a Christmas with more pagan edge than saccharine cheer, where the wolves are …
Anthony Neilson's latest is a Poe-faced delightThe Tell-Tale Heart may be the title of an 1843 short story by Edgar Allen Poe, but rest assured that Anthony Neilson's adaptation of it f…