767 stories by "Tim Bano"
Tanika Gupta's play follows a mother whose mind is disintegrating as her children rally around
Costello and playwright Sarah Ruhl adapt the 1957 film about the rise of a populist demagogue in this new, uneven Young Vic production
With more than 3,500 shows, the world's biggest arts festival is back at full power. But what's worth running up and down the Royal Mile for? Tim Bano picks the best theatre and comedy to see
Andrew Lloyd Webber's singing, roller-skating steam trains are back for a night of absolute maximalism. Yes, it's more spectacle than sense " but your inner child (and actual children) will …
Lacking a musical identity and feeling spiritually like a period piece, this stage adaptation of Tina Fey's Noughties classic feels like an exercise in doing the bare minimum
'Motherland' star Anna Maxwell Martin and James Corden have to battle with starchy direction and a clunky script in Joe Penhall's new play about the threats facing MPs
'Line of Duty' star Adrian Dunbar teams up with Broadway legend Stephanie J Block for another perfectly pitched Cole Porter revival at the Barbican
'The Crown' star is a man in freefall in a Miller revival that works its magic by being that rare thing: a really decent production of a really great play
Leading political playwright James Graham is burdened by the need to preserve this classic piece of writing about unemployed men in 1980s Liverpool, but the show comes alive when it finds th…
Alienating production of Maggie Nelson's 2009 philosophical memoir, is not a good showcase for the lead actors' talents
Hot on the heels of his triumphant 'Sunset Boulevard' revival, Jamie Lloyd has recruited one of the biggest young stars in Hollywood to take on Shakespeare " but this stripped back productio…
Bafta-winner Adeel Akhtar and 'Tár' star Nina Hoss are excellent, but Benedict Andrews's clever but annoying contemporary Chekhov revival insists on a grating quirkiness
Ben Power's deft adaptation of Dickens' sprawling novel emphasises its brilliant characters and eternally relevant themes, but the bleak production and dour music wrestle with one another ra…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's production is rich in ideas and beautifully staged, but it's still two hours of listening to middle-aged millennials feeling sorry for themselves
The veteran actor stars in a long uneven new production fusing both parts of Shakespeare's 'Henry IV' at London's Noël Coward Theatre
The 'Succession' star returns to his stage stomping ground, and it's where he stomps best. Alongside an extraordinary Patricia Clarkson, he owns the stage in Jeremy Herrin's spare, bleak " a…
Why is the National Theatre staging this frightfully old fashioned play from the 1930s? A superb performance from Lindsay Duncan and a production tinged with foreboding are reason enough
After multiple manifestations at Theatre Royal Bath and a southern UK tour, Noel Coward's deathless comedy hits the West End in a
Christian Czornyj's video game-inspired musical is the first by Adam Lenson's exciting new production company, which gives voice and space to artist-led
It's one of those shows that has almost become too familiar. In the last two decades every number of Jason Robert Brown's
What is it about the Bible and musical theatre? While the UK has the gospel according to Andrew Lloyd Webber " Joseph
Even if Ben Elton's successful sitcom about William Shakespeare had been given a fourth series, it seems only natural that they would
There's a fierce relevance in the story of a woman failed by a patriarchal justice system and seeking justice her own way.
Tom Stoppard has spent a career searching for the key to the human condition through metaphor: quantum mechanics, gymnastics, Latin love poetry,
Brexit gets only a couple of mentions in this roar of a monologue by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams. But the play
