Bijan Sheibani's production of A Taste Of Honey is entertaining without being flashy, showcasing Shelagh Delaney's text in all its humour, honesty and melancholia.
In a co-production with Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Everyman Theatre Cheltenham and Leeds Playhouse, Nikolai Foster and the Curve company's adaptation of My Beautiful Laundrette has shone a s…
The National Theatre production of Michael Morpurgo's novel War Horse is both the most visceral depiction of war I've seen on stage and a masterpiece in theatrical storytelling.
Nikolai Foster's 2016 production of Grease returns to Curve as part of a major tour, and, while it doesn't quite have the pizzazz of three years ago, the show remains a solid, thoughtful and…
The Entertainer is an interesting state-of-the-nation play, and although a period piece, it's undeniably a prescient time to revive it.
Making use of the intimate studio space, director Siobhán Cannon-Brownlie recreates the indie movie theatre setting of the play, while a cast of locals dive head-first into the dazzling w…
What's so great about Jack Thorne's play The End of History (as well as his consistently interesting use of stage directions) is that it has made me pause to think but is all wrapped up in t…
Celie's journey from despair to belief, love and hope is, in T'Shan Williams' hands, a believable and rewarding experience in The Color Purple.
Kenneth Lonergan's 2009 play The Starry Messenger has opened at the Wyndham's starring Matthew Broderick and Elizabeth McGovern. Longergan's work has enjoyed a series of Tony-nominated reviv…
Not Exactly Billington has set themselves a challenge to read a new (to them) playtext every week. In May, their #ReadaPlayaWeek titles included Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size, Ro…
Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet is a wakeup call to the conscious and unconscious abuse of children and adolescents " psychological, sexual, physical " that plagues our society.
This production of Death of a Salesman will become the stuff of legend, hopefully setting a precedent for future 'classic' revivals.
Not Exactly Billington has set themselves a challenge to read a new (to them) playtext every week. In April, the #ReadaPlayaWeek titles included Valerie Windsor's Effie's Burning, Rose Leima…
I'm coming to Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (1982) afresh. Well, sort of. I read the play a few years ago, but I've not seen it and wasn't born until 10 years after its original production at …
Following Melly Still's moving and visually stunning production of The Lovely Bones last year, I had high hopes for her latest literary adaptation, Louis de Bernières' Captain Corelli's Man…
Barber Shop Chronicles is a celebration of friendship, tradition and heritage. Ellams skilfully toes the line between sentiment, gaucheness, sincerity and wit while exploring issues of racia…
Not Exactly Billington have set themselves a challenge to read a new (to them) playtext every week. In March, their #ReadaPlayaWeek titles included Lisa Evans' Stamping, Shouting and Singing…
And, as with all their previous productions, Mischief Theatre's The Comedy About A Bank Robbery proves exactly why their triumph is so deserved.
Alexis Michalik's play (translated by Jeremy Sams) detailing the fictionalised writing process behind Cyrano, impishly titled Edmond de Bergerac, receives its English premiere in Roxana Silb…
I'm delighted to say that Emma Reeves' new stage adaptation loses none of The Worst Witch's gleeful mayhem and enchantment.
The joy of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train is in meeting his characters: watching them perform to each other; hearing their patois and verbal brio; exude a charisma which th…
The Girl on the Train is contemporary, both in its subject and staging. There is a strong balance between a suspenseful whodunit that drives the play and a psychological element about memory…
It's a #ReadaPlayaWeek: featuring Laura Wade's Breathing Corpses; Adult Child/Dead Child (1987) by Claire Dowie; Thatcher's Women by Kay Adshead; and Superhoe by Nicôle Lecky.
Anne Washburn's latest offering, Shipwreck, is a marathon play at the Almeida Theatre that takes direct aim at the Trump Administration.
Having seen the ways that people can come together in a crisis in the uplifting Come From Away last week, this week brought a more anarchic and nihilistic view of post-9/11 America from Amer…