Bravura performance from Tanya Moodie in sharp new American drama of racial discordConflict and comedy can be unpredictable bedfellows, and Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson's 2014 play …
The booming behemoth is right at home in We Will Rock You's old digsBack by feverishly popular demand, Jim Steinman's mega-musical is no longer in danger of alarming unsuspecting operagoers.…
★★★ TINA, ALDWYCH THEATRE - new Tina Turner bio-musical is simply OKPowerhouse Adrienne Warren is the saving grace of a show that plays it safeIt is, perhaps, a tale that s…
New sci-fi drama about suburban perfection lacks the necessary human touch There's a whole universe which British theatre has yet to explore properly " it's called the sci-fi imagination. Al…
Roger Allam and Nancy Carroll serve David Hare's iron fist in velvet glove to perfection"What could be more serious than married life?" asked Richard Strauss, whose operas became a surp…
Cuba Gooding Jr hardly rises, but his co-stars shine in a show stronger on wit than tunesChicago has been on, in one form or another, for a very long time.
James Graham tells of the "coughing major" who wanted to be a millionaireYou could be forgiven for not remembering the "coughing major" brouhaha in 2001, coming as it did the day b…
Rising star of the interactive theatrical experience explains where he's coming from and what he's up toSeth Kriebel, 45, is a performer, much of whose work involves audience parti…
Wycherley's sexy comedy transplanted to the Roaring TwentiesEven in its successful early days Wycherley's 1675 comedy was notorious, but it was considered too lewd to be staged at all betwee…
Documentary drama about the weather on the eve of D-Day is a successThere are few things more British than talking about the weather. What makes this play about a meteorologist interesting, …
Race, wealth and class collide in American thriller Ros and Ray are old hippies made good. She's a hard-bitten, hard-working teacher in an inner-city Pennsylvania school where her pupils rob…
One part Angels in America to six parts Howards EndAbout a decade ago, theatre-makers started routinely describing themselves as being in the business of storytelling.
Arinzé Kene writes and stars in a witty, hard-hitting play about race and culture in modern London Arinzé Kene is having a bit of a moment. He won an Evening Standard Film Award for The Pa…
Yorkshire hikers reclaim the English countryside - and their identitiesIn the same week that Arinzé Kene's Misty, a play that passionately questions the clichés of plays about black Briton…
New Adventures Artistic Director's tribute to his core collaborator and star performerMATTHEW BOURNE WRITES: Nobody deserves the title of New Adventures "legend" more than Scott Ambler;…
O'Casey's injunction to love thy neighbour above thy country hits home in this timely updateSean Holmes is artistic director of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, yet his revival of t…
A familiar title transcends the schematic to land with renewed forceNo, this isn't the large-scale Kander and Ebb musical, which opened in 1992 in London before transferring for a sizable ru…
The award winning musical returns in all its ferocity and glory It's long been a theatrical given, especially in musicals, that characters need to be seen to change: a climactic duo in the e…
Brilliant, and epic, new thriller about Japanese citizens abducted by North KoreaYou could call it an absence of yellow. Until very recently British theatre has been pretty poor at represent…
★★★★ HAMLET, RSC, HACKNEY EMPIRE Paapa Essiedu's winning DaneRSC's touring Hamlet is well worth catching anywhere en routeShakespeare's death-laden play is alive…
RSC's touring Hamlet is well worth catching anywhere en routeShakespeare's death-laden play is alive and well and breathing with renewed force in Hackney, the last British stop for an R…
★★★★★ VIVALDI'S THE FOUR SEASONS, SAM WANAMAKER PLAYHOUSE beguilingly beautiful show from the UK's most exciting puppeteersA beguilingly beautiful show from the…
A beguilingly beautiful show from the UK's most exciting puppeteersVivaldi's The Four Seasons: A Reimagining " it's not a title that trips off the tongue. Nor one, frankly, that inspire…
★★★ FEMALE PARTS: SHORTS, HOXTON HALL Women speak outAdulteress, mother and immigrant tell their stories in three monologuesHot on the heels of International Women's Day co…
Adulteress, mother and immigrant tell their stories in three monologuesHot on the heels of International Women's Day come three monologues written, directed and produced by women showing at …