Invigorating theatre: the 1971 Manhattan feminism vs Norman Mailer debate recreatedIconoclasm, orgasms, and rampant rhetoric are all on irrepressible display in The Wooster Group's recreatio…
Depressed self-sabotaging movie star failed by all around herIn the early twentieth century, Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov spliced together images of people looking at things with a bowl of …
Just a tad short on Broadway charisma, but this sophisticated production glides alongFirst palpable hit of the evening: a full orchestra in the pit under hyper-alert Opera North stalwart Jam…
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Unique interactive performance explores the privilege of mother tongueDespite the Welsh repute for singing, the Festival of Voice in Cardiff has always been more than just music.
Harriet Walter and Jade Anouka are the superlative opposite poles in a perfect ensembleWho would have thought, when Phyllida Lloyd's Donmar Julius Caesar opened to justified fanfare, that tw…
Anna Deavere Smith shines her singular light on American inequality and systemic injusticeAnna Deavere Smith contains multitudes. As the solo performance artist recounts the testimonies she …
Familiar title is reinvigorated afresh in a startling revival Lia Williams can be said to have been in her prime ever since the double-whammy several decades ago when she appeared onstage in…
Lesser-known American classic exerts a clinical fascination The American playwright /journalist Sophie Treadwell's 1928 expressionist drama crops up every so often in order to allow a direct…
New comedy about a celebrity chef sometimes sizzles, but leaves a bad taste Forget about dark alleys, deserted parks and slippery slopes: the most dangerous place in the world is likely to b…
Isabelle Huppert brings her customary rigour to some notorious writingsIn an era marked by virtue-signalling, it's perhaps no surprise that Isabelle Huppert " a woman who has always gone …
Vanessa Kirby leads superfluous update that is a lot more Stenham than Strindberg It seems appropriate that an onstage blender features amidst Tom Scutt's sleak, streamlined set for Julie gi…
Larger-than-life history of Charles Ignatius Sancho distilled into virtuoso one-man showOne space, one person, one story, one voice "Â the monologue is theatre distilled, the purest form o…
Stage adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's novel is a one-woman tour de forceIn Harold Pinter's memory play Old Times, one of the women declares, "There are some things one remembers even t…
1980s Broadway flop proves an Off West End knockout Two dynamite lead performances and the chance to savour an underappreciated score give genuine charge to The Rink, a decades-old Bro…
Sympathetic new play about a migrant's death is well staged, but imperfectly writtenRegular air travel is a hassle. All that queuing, all that security, all those hot halls, and then th…
Orlando Bloom compels as the hitman-cop ruling Tracy Letts's dark, gothic worldRight from the beginning of this production of Tracy Letts's very first play, it's clear we're in for a bi…
Late Shakespeare collaboration is by turns engaging and daftThose who find the Bard tough going " wasn't that one of Emma Rice's admissions back in the day? " should beat a path to The Two N…
Frantic Assembly's take on the crisis of masculinity is theatrically exciting but banalMasculinity, whether toxic or in crisis (but never ever problem-free), is a hardy perennial subject for…
Brian Friel's luminous play fully lands in the National's largest space What sort of physical upgrade can a play withstand? That question will have occurred to devotees of Brian Fr…
Parlez-vous Moliere? His greatest comedy falls flat in a bilingual versionThe idea of producing a classic play in a mix of two languages is pretty odd. What kind of audience is a bilingual v…
Calixto Bieito's melange of text and music delivers a mesmerising agony of desolationCalixto Bieito has a reputation as a radical theatre-maker, and by any traditional standards The Str…
The stakes are high in the West End transfer of Nina Raine's play about marriage, rape and the law Question: is Consent, transferred from the National to the West End, a sharp-tongued c…
Prolix play woodenly acted; its own satire?I've forgotten my wallet.
The boy who never grows up flies into the First World War This exuberant production both clarifies and further complicates the conundrum of Peter Pan. In any production true to Barrie there …