The acclaimed Irish actor adapts his memoir into a stirring one-man show Gabriel Byrne isn't a typical film star. From his breakthrough as the lustful and doomed Uther Pendragon in Excali…
Caroline Quentin leads a sparkling cast in Richard Bean's latest comedy romp Can a comedy have too many jokes? That may seem an odd question, but one that applies to this latest high-octane…
Ralph Fiennes plays infamous New York planner Robert Moses, in David Hare's new play A few years ago Ralph Fiennes starred as the narcissistic, belligerently ambitious, ultimately tragic arc…
Engaging recreation of one of the art world's most intriguing partnerships At first glance, it was the most unlikely of friendships, even for the solipsistic milieu of the New York art scene…
A new translation is uproariously funny, if a little too clever for its own good By all accounts, whenever The Chairs is dusted off for a new production it manages to resonate for audi…
Playwright Danai Gurira returns to London with her award-winning 2012 drama set in colonial Africa, starring her 'Black Panther' castmate Letitia Wright.
Stephen Daldry directs Matthew Lopez's sprawling comedy-drama about gay love after the AIDS crisis, inspired by 'Howards End' and featuring Vanessa Redgrave.
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Pulitzer Prize- and multi-Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon lands in London's West End, two years after it stormed Broadway.
Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson returns to the stage after a quarter-century in Shakespeare's most demanding role, at an age when Lear wouldn't be the only one thinking of putting his f…
Mark Strong stars as a New England lawyer dangerously drawn to the widow of his recently deceased best friend in 'The Red Barn,' David Hare's adaptation of the George Simenon novel 'La Main,…
If one definition of Shakespeare's problem plays is that they can't easily be categorised in the canon, being neither tragedy nor comedy, than that issue is swept aside by this radical Young…
One of the oldest and most striking venues in London lends itself to immersive theatrical experiences. A few years ago the Victorian interior of Wilton's Music Hall was infused with pre-show…
From the great, gasp-inducing rush of colour when the curtain opens on American Buffalo to the embrace that closes it, this revival of David Mamet's career-making rummage through the junkyar…
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." J Robert Oppenheimer's quote from Hindu scripture is often used to signify the scientist's rueful realisation of what he had created " …
Last year the London stage was treated to an electrifying Medea and an intelligent, refreshing Electra, at The National and the Old Vic respectively. Now it's the turn of the Barbican to unl…
Now that the national self-delusion of the classless society has been laid to rest by the double whammy of economic crisis and the Cameron-Osborne-Johnson era of Bullingdon Club governance, …
As revered as the Greek tragedies may be, I have to admit to feeling a little weary of all that conspicuous, over-ripe angst, and the expectation of our sympathy, even empathy for matricides…
Rona Munro's trilogy of plays about Scotland's Stuart kings premiered at the Edinburgh Festival when Scottish independence was, for many, still a cherished possibility; it transfers to Londo…
Time doesn't take any of the edge off Sam Shepard's rollicking reflection on the dichotomy of America, the tussle between the myth and the dream, represented by two warring brothers trapped …
The latest production of Tennessee Williams's sultry, brutal yet poetic masterpiece is mainstream theatre that dares to go out on a limb. Directed by Benedict Andrews, it may occasionally mi…
Imagine Dr Watson trying his hand at Moriarty? That's not the challenge of this Richard III, but the exciting prospect " to see an actor usually called upon to be the sidekick and nice guy, …
Brian Friel's affinity with Russian writers, notably Chekhov and Turgenev, is central to his work, his seeing similarities between their tragi-comic characters, hanging onto "old certainties…
Just before the curtain came up for the second half of Fatal Attraction, a chap sitting behind me told his companion, "All I remember is that it ends quite badly." It may seem like a cheap s…
Richard II arrives in London after a highly successful Stratford run, and while the glow of David Tennant's Hamlet resides still in the memory. Surprisingly, the pleasure of the production l…
Whether you're partial to Highsmith or Hitchcock, or both, there's something deliciously exciting about the prospect of Strangers on a Train. Much of that anticipation lies in the intriguing…