There are very few companies who do what Lost Dog does so well " seamlessly combining theatre and contemporary dance, as though this was an obvious way to tell a story.
Sean Holmes' new production of Hamlet in the Globe's indoor space opens with a snatch of "Oh mother I can feel the soil falling over my head", from The Smiths' song 'I Know It's Over'.
The concept is like a Doctor Who plot opened up beyond the confines of a genre, to encompass limitless possibilities. It is both enthralling and disturbing.
Ella Road's new two-hander is set in the world of track athletics, but the two characters, Ann (NicK King) and Sophie (Charlotte Beaumont) are not just any runners.
Adapted from Ruben Östlund's film, Force Majeure is an exercise in family breakdown set among a group of well-off Swedes on a skiing holiday.
For her last production at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Blanche McIntyre expertly conjured the life of a city onto a tiny stage. Her Measure for Measure is another city play, but of a very diffe…
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare "Â Barbican Theatre, London Like all theatre companies, the Royal Shakespeare Company has experienced a tough 18 months, so it is fortunate that…
The Jermyn Street Theatre is a tiny place to stage a play that is more usually seen filling all the space on offer at the RSC or the National Theatre, but the scale gives Tom Littler's produ…
In the tiny, pub theatre-esque Jermyn Street Theatre Samuel Beckett's two monologues, Footfalls and Rockaby, exert a powerful hold.
Cush Jumbo's Hamlet has been a long time in the making. In fact, what with the pandemic and the Young Vic's long lead times for shows (which allow for some serious forward planning), I booke…
Although David Storey is a somewhat forgotten writer, wildly successful from the late 1960s to the late '70s as both a playwright and novelist, but then just as suddenly out of fashion, Home…
First staged in 1985, just before the AIDS epidemic had fully entered public consciousness, Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart rails against the refusal of US authorities to acknowledge anythin…
As soon as the title number's patter chorus kicks in, there's a smile on every face at the Barbican Centre, where Cole Porter's Broadway classic Anything Goes runs until 6 November 2021.
The Young Vic is configured in the round for Changing Destiny, Ben Okri's adaptation of a 4,000 year old Egyptian myth.
The lava in the title of Benedict Lombe's new, fierce, autobiographical play is anger. It flows over the stage, filling the crevasses of the set, and through Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo's sm…
The National Theatre's staging of Under Milk Wood is far from the first time Dylan Thomas' poem has been adapted for the stage. It's easy to see the temptation to perform a work so packed wi…
Samuel Beckett's Happy Days is, as Lisa Dwan observes, often described as 'the female Hamlet'. Dwan has played every other female Beckett lead but even she was intimidated by a role previous…
In an empty Almeida Theatre, two heavyweight actors " Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani " bring serious male energy to Lolita Chakrabati's new play Hymn.
NAKED is a powerful, funny and thoroughly engaging piece of physical theatre. It is the first show from performers Luke Vincent and Paige-Marie Baker-Carroll of the NAKEDpresents queer colle…
Cut off in its prime in March, Ian Rickson's Uncle Vanya returns to us from an empty theatre, filmed for cinema release.
The National Theatre's 2016 production of Les Blancs was directed by Yaël Farber and used the full resources of the Olivier stage to transmit its full force.
The online release of productions from Druid Theatre's 2005 season of JM Synge's complete works is a lockdown boon.
The Battle of the Beanfield is the first show by Breach Theatre, now known for the excellent It's True, It's True, It's True about Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
The chaos of national politics in the mid-1970s seemed light years away in 2014, but how arrogant that assumption seems now.
Tim Crouch's series of performances as overlooked characters in Shakespeare is a fascinating body of work. He has been developing these one-man shows (with assistance) for more than 15 years.