This scenario is a ready-made play, a situation where some of the greatest scientific minds of their time are confronted with the consequences of their personal and political actions. The tr…
It is an unusual Macbeth that comes to life with the Porter's scene, the play's disconcerting post-murder comic interlude " even more so when it is performed without words. Dale Wylde's mime…
Sam Steiner's play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons at the Harold Pinter Theatre has followed a well-documented path from student drama to West End, thanks partly to the simplicity of its …
It is more than 15 years since Enda Walsh's play The Walworth Farce arrived in London and, like many big hits, the scale of its popularity then has been matched by the speed with which it ha…
Jude Christian's new production of Shakespeare's least reputable play, Titus Andronicus, has an all-female cast telling us immediately that perceptions of power will be tested to destruction…
Lazarus' production of Hamlet at the Southwark Playhouse (Borough Road branch) strips the older generation from the play, leaving us with only the younger characters. Battered, used and conf…
Plenty of productions search fruitlessly for the magic in As You Like It, but Josie Rourke's version at the new @sohoplace theatre makes it seems effortless. This is greatly helped by the de…
Sarah at the Coronet Theatre is an authentic alcoholic's tale, sentimental and entirely self-centred, but transformed in the telling if, just for a moment, we can buy into the drinker's mind…
All's Well is the definition of a tricky play, with its combination of the fantastical and the emotionally brutal, its historically specific yet confusingly vague setting and its hard-nosed,…
The Rest Of Our Lives at Summerhall, Edinburgh ends in a remarkable moment of mass dancing as the audience descends on the stage, suddenly finding themselves at full emotional stretch thanks…
Antigone, Interrupted is exceptional and thrilling dance and, like several productions at this year's Fringe, reverts to Greek myth to provide stories for our trouble times, with remarkable …
Sarah-Louise Young is brisk, charming and authoritative, engaging the audience in vocal warm-ups as they take their seats. Her confident stage demeanour sets the scene for one-woman show The…
Sara Joyce's production of The Last Return for Druid Theatre at the Traverse is carefully choreographed and absorbing. Sonya Kelly has re-imagined Ionesco for the post-colonial era, and leav…
Peter Morgan's new play Patriots at the Almeida Theatre is a history lesson, filling in the gaps in our understanding of how we ended up where we are now. Specifically, it connects events in…
Lindsay Duncan and Hilton McRae reveal the full depths of The Dance of Death's ambiguity in production that is funny and strangely touching. Directed by the Arcola's own Mehmet Ergen, the co…
It says something about national cultures that the French equivalent of The Mousetrap is Eugène Ionesco's short play, The Lesson. It has been running at Théâtre de la Huchette in Paris …
That Is Not Who I Am by Dave Davidson "Â Royal Court Theatre, London (This review consists almost entirely of spoilers) The nudge-nudge cover story for this play "Â that it's the debut b…
An exceptional piece of theatre, Girl on an Altar at the Kiln Theatre remakes a story that is part of Western cultural heritage, with deceptive ease, as though it could have happened yesterd…
Anupama Chandrasekhar's new play The Father And The Assassin about Nathuram Godse, the man who murdered " assassinated " Mohandas Gandhi in 1948, is an alarmingly current piece of work, but …
The Globe's main, outdoor theatre has not staged shows with a full audience since the summer of 2019, so the opening of its summer season with Lucy Bailey's production of Much Ado About Noth…
However, Dominic Cooke's production of Emlyn Williams' play The Corn Is Green makes a good case for reviving it but the real reason to see the drama is for Nicola Walker.
David Hare's new play is a history lesson. New York city planner Robert Moses shaped the modern city by supplying it with expressways and parkways.
The Merchant of Venice is seen as a problematic play but, increasingly, it seems that the problems are with us, as much as they are with Shakespeare.
Dennis Kelly's 2005 play After The End is set inside a nuclear fallout shelter, so it is not surprising that it deals with situations beyond the boundaries of what passes for normality.
Tonderai Munyevi is a charming performer. His experiences include different types of marginalisation, growing up as a gay man and a Zimbabwean immigrant in London.