Yasmin Reza's savage study of the middle-classes becomes a farce lacking in danger Yasmin Reza's God of Carnage (2008), like her British megahit, 1994's ART, is not strictly a comedy. The Fr…
Twin miseries of bipolar disorder and grief are given an unusual treatment The journey from off-Broadway to central London has taken 15 years, but the multi-award-winning musical Next to…
The Public Acts project creates a model mix of high and low for a modern ensemble One of the great wonders of Western literary history is one of the earliest, Homer's The Odyssey, an epic po…
Gillian Slovo's incendiary play points a finger at the bureaucrats at the heart of the tragedy The shadow of Grenfell Tower has already produced Nick Kent and Richard Norton-Taylor's dispass…
Two students clash over changing the world with a playlist The revolution in the title of AJ Yi's new play at the Bush is the one activists hoped to set in motion in Hong Kong in 2019, when …
Will Young brings sweetness to a thin scenario Lucky Will Young: the production of the Simon Stephens monologue Song from Far Away that he is delivering at the Hampstead Theatre is directed…
Michael R Jackson's writing talent finds a claustrophobic outlet If you are going to see A Strange Loop, the new American musical trailing a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize that has arrived …
A star turn from Gabriel Vick powers a lively but loud adaptation The heart sinks (mine does, anyway) as the latest film-to-musical adaptation rolls into town, all with similar sound-worlds,…
Pupils at an elite Ghanaian school learn home truths about their country The alternative title of Jocelyn Bioh's 2017 play School Girls, The African Mean Girls Play, might indicate that it's…
Easy targets and predictable jibes let down an ambitious production There are flashes during Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image The Musical of the old mordant humour from the show's…
A winning ensemble led by Jamie Parker deliver a refreshing piece The short story F Scott Fitzgerald wrote as a challenge, of a man born 70 years old whose body gets younger as the years pas…
A bravura turn from Andy Karl propels a tricky piece over its self-created speed bumps Groundhog Day, appropriately, is back where it started. The hit film about a TV weatherman's endlessly …
Forgotten Miles Malleson play deserves its revival Miles Malleson, known as an inter-war character actor who popped up in numerous small roles on stage and screen, was also a surprisingly p…
The Master's life seen close up but with no warts Devoted fans may not learn anything that new about Noel Coward from Barnaby Thompson's documentary Mad About the Boy, but they will doubtles…
Dickie Beau creates a tribute to past Hamlets, one in particular Lip-syncing has become the hobby of many a young TikToker, but only an intrepid professional would contemplate using the tech…
Nikhil Parmar delivers his play with passion and wit The Bond film theme plays and the lights go up at the Bush's Studio space to reveal, not a tuxedoed superspy, but a slim figure in casua…
Five actors plus loads of silly hats and accents add up to a hilarious evening It's back yet again, Operation Mincemeat, a gift of a story that goes on giving. It surfaced as the 1956 film T…
The Windrush scandal embodied with wrenching power Reggae hits are already playing over the speaker system at the Bush when the audience enters, some jigging to the sounds as they find their…
Bizarre directorial choices derail the play's serious content There was a jolting eco-themed work onstage in London recently, but sadly A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction, a Headl…
Lynn Nottage and a faultless cast offer a story that's a hymn to hope The cast of The Secret Life of Bees first parade onto the Almeida stage hefting big glass storage jars full of a golden …
Giles Terera delivers a dramatic lecture on the legacy of slavery There's a moment in the opening stretch of Giles Terera's The Meaning of Zong where you think the former Hamilton star has …
Eugene O'Hare treads familiar ground with his confessional about alcoholism Eugene O'Hare's The Dry House is the kind of spare but oddly lyrical three-hander that would have made a good Wedn…
A terrific ensemble make an exhilarating plea for Black boys with blighted lives For a show that comes with a trigger warning about the themes of racism, gang violence, toxic relationships, …
Pulitzer finalist asks how good an ally is modern technology Artificial intelligence has become an even hotter topic since Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime was first staged in Los Angeles in…
Nicholas Hytner and a crack cast deliver a fresh take on the classic musical It now seems an inevitability that Marisha Wallace will be a frontrunner at next year's theatre awards, not just…