An ambitious celebratory series kicks off in fine fashionTen years after Pinter's death, Jamie Lloyd has set about honouring the Twentieth Century's outstanding British playwright in an ambi…
Didactic theatre piece stronger on facts than dramaThe title of Tony Harrison's teacherly entertainment - it can't be called a play - refers to the square bullets invented by James Puckle to…
Oscar Wilde's best-loved comedy with extra homo-erotic innuendoAny actor playing Lady Bracknell must dread the moment when she (or, indeed, he) has to deliver that unforgettable line ab…
Ian McKellen gives a towering performance as Shakespeare's capricious monarch Jonathan Munby's production, first seen last year in Chichester, reflects our everyday anxieties, emphasisi…
Earnest environmental messages underpin a celebratory, musically gleeful revival of Shakespeare's cross-dressing favouriteIt's been raining in Regent's Park. On a balmy summer evening d…
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 …
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…
Emma Rice's lauded stage version of the film returns with charm and inventiveness intactIt would be so easy to make fun of the 1945 Noel Coward/ David Lean film in which, famously, noth…
Emma Rice's lauded version of the film returns with charm and inventiveness intactIt would be so easy to make fun of the 1945 Noel Coward/ David Lean film in which, famously, nothing ha…
Tom Stuchfield tells fascinating stories. They are jam-packed with detail: heroic, messy, bloody, romantic, humorous. Unfortunately, this rich material about a group
Sue Healy's Imaginationship, previously staged as a reading at the Finborough, is expertly patterned. Events and characters, each embodying some aspect of
Here's a clever invention: a ratnav. This gilded box both susses out vermin and bursts into song at the least hint: say
Barrie's grown-up fantasy gets a welcome centenary revivalConfused people, some of whom may have made the wrong choices in life and love, find themselves in an enchanted wood at Midsummer. D…
England's patron saint travels through time to demonstrate changing views of heroismBold and fearless are adjectives that might describe playwright Rory Mullarkey as accurately as any chival…
Ibsen hits the Caribbean in The Lady from the Sea at the Donmar. Its star explainsNikki Amuka-Bird spent the summer in Antigua, swimming and scuba diving and could have claimed to be working…
You can't go wrong with pirates. All that swash and buckle, big hats and treasure trove provide excellent ingredients for a show
When the 24-year-old Peter Hall unleashed the first English language version of Waiting for Godot at this very theatre 62 years ago,
The costumes in Colin Falconer's design are paint-box bright " scarlet, lime green and bilious yellow. There should be no room for
There are French windows in Alex Marker's splendid set, but they are not the kind through which someone is likely to burst
Brassed Off is a heart-warming story with a tough streak, not unlike this production. The first in-house show for almost 40 years
Forget the holiday airport hassle. Instead, take a good-natured trip around the world without leaving Chelsea, or somewhere nearer you on this
Shakespeare's youthful romance acted full-throttle on a balmy summer evening in the flowery surroundings of London's garden squares " what could be
F Murray Abraham crackles as a temperamental playwright German writer Daniel Kehlmann's light-touch 90-minute comedy is a chic satire on the slippery business of making art " and especially …
Emma is a challenge for the Jane Austen adaptor. Capturing the essence of the novels – witty, humorous, a touch acerbic "
This Twelfth Night opens in a jazz-age speakeasy and never really leaves there. Paul Hart's playful production centres on the considerable musical