Much-traveled play contains one twist too many Add Catalan writer Jordi Galcerán to the shortlist of European playwrights who are finding an international perch, in this case with a tr…
The director staging Brian Friel's Translations at the National talks about Ireland, England and the changing face of theatreIan Rickson's route into theatre was not conventional. Growi…
Michelle Terry's new company explores gender fludity, charts new directionsThere's a distinct feeling of back-to-basics to this opening double bill at the Globe under the theatre's new …
Songs silenced by the Nazis get a powerful new voiceThe show's subtitle " "Songs banned by the Nazis" " is a catchy one, and somewhere under the confetti, the stilettos, the extravagant nudi…
Stunning detail from Lev Dodin's company in desperate tragedy and human comedyTowards the end of the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg's Life and Fate, a long scene in director Lev Do…
Alfred Molina gives a towering performance as the self-absorbed artistThe band's back together. Alfred Molina plays Rothko for the third time in Michael Grandage's revisiting of John Logan's…
A not-very-brief history of Russia's relationship with lies and lyingFive years ago, when New York playwright Rajiv Joseph started on his fantasy disquisition on truth, lies and the rec…
David Shrigley's 'fun musical event' succeeds about half the timeProblem is Brighton is down in the Festival programme as an "alt-rock/pop pantomime", with actors involved and…
A kaleidoscope of colour, sound and the perfect love storyThey say that behind every successful man is a strong woman. The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk is as much " if not more so " the champion…
Sad and intimate play about rural life gets a bit lost in this large theatrePlaywright Barney Norris is as prolific as he is talented. Barely out of his twenties, he has written a series of …
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Mind-massaging travelogue of theatre, poetry and site-specific visual experienceYorkshire theatre company IOU have a tool in their armoury that most of their peers do not. It's an open-toppe…
Different Americas clash in engrossing two-hander set in Texas prisonWriter Robert Schenkkan's Building the Wall imagines modern America in the not-too-distant future. The date is 22nd Novem…
Vivid big top action makes a hugely enjoyable opener to Brighton Festival 2018When an acquaintance heard my first review of the Brighton Festival was a circus event they snorted, "Oh dear." …
A strong cast can't quite pull off the author's most political playAcross London last night politicians waited anxiously to hear their fates, and things were no different at the Va…
The playwright and novelist on what's making him head for the Brighton Festival 2018 box office Director, playwright and novelist Neil Bartlett has been making theatre and causing …
Joe 'Sunny Afternoon' Penhall's triumphant new play about the music industry really rocksPlaywright Joe Penhall and the music biz? Well, they have history. When he was writing the book for S…
Eighties musical remains a melodically rich muddle Its origins as a concept album cling stubbornly to Chess, the Tim Rice collaboration with the male members of ABBA first seen on the West E…
Romola Garai gives a storming performance in deliberately tricksy Ella Hickson playForget write what you know: writing what you feel would seem to be the impetus driving Ella Hickson's often…
New comedy about a West-Indian wake is lively, but a bit undercookedThe good news about so-called black drama on British stages is that it has broken out of its gangland violence ghetto and …
Sharon Smith of the Berlin-based Gob Squad talks age, Oscar Wilde and Nicki MinajGob Squad is a "seven-headed" Anglo-German arts collective who specialise in multimedia performance. Beginnin…
Energetic revival of Rodney Ackland's best play exposes many of its faults Rodney Ackland must be the most well-known forgotten man in postwar British theatre. His legend goes like this: Abs…
New two-hander about sex is wise and funny, but fails to achieve a climax Playwright Anthony Neilson has always been fascinated by sex. I mean, who isn't? But he has made it a central part o…
Long-aborning stage version of the Baz Luhrmann film is a protracted cartoon A much tinkered-with show needs to go back to the drawing board, if this latest iteration of Strictly Ballroom: T…
The screen and stage star invents herself anew, this time in song A onetime Martha and Maggie the Cat in the theatre, not to mention a screen siren of the sort they don't make anymore, might…