I have been collecting these for at least 35 years and now have a nearly complete set of post-war programmes from the Stratford theatres (if anyone has a hoard of uber-rare, early programmes…
The excitement still builds on a Thursday night, when many of us sit down to watch theatre as though it was analogue television in the four-channel era.
After the theatres closed, the National Theatre was quick to announce a free mini-season of online shows from their NT Live broadcasts, which immediately became the only evening bookings in …
Despite the combined skills of its performers, The Cutting Edge lacks pace and drive and the key moment of crisis, which always seems around the corner, never arrives.
The Incident Room is a multi-layered and satisfying drama, a proper assessment of a story that gripped, terrified and obsessed the nation. This excellent production confronts our dark past h…
I, Cinna is a small masterpiece of unshowy writing and performance that is some of the best small-scale theatre of its time, equally satisfying to audiences of young people and adults.
Caryl Churchill wrote Far Away in 2000 and, 20 years on, it feels more current by the moment.
The company in People Show 137 has an admirable ability to conjure moments that capture the audience's attention and to deliver about turns that keep the audience intrigued.
Holy What's version of Antigone is about the two teenage girls at the heart of the play, Antigone herself (Annabel Baldwin) and her sister Ismene (Rachel Hosker).
Gregory Doran's RSC production of Measure for Measure is a subtle and absorbing account of a play that gets weirder with every viewing.
When The Crows Visit is a powerful new play, and Indhu Rubasingham's production is a notable success for the Kiln Theatre.
Brian Friel's Translations is a rich and complex play and, in Ian Rickson's production which returns for a second run in the Olivier, its layers are drawn out through the performances of a h…
Bartholomew Fair is full of energy and highly entertaining throughout, while making no attempt to glamorise the city's underbelly.
Robert Icke's final production for the Almeida, after spectacular successes including Mary Stuart, Andrew Scott's Hamlet and The Wild Duck, is a complete reworking of a play by Arthur Schnit…
In Sea Sick Alana Mitchell tells, in an engaging lecture, the story of how she, as a journalist, came to be investigating this little known, devastating climate change phenomenon.
A fierce indictment of cuts and callous indifference, Who Cares? comes straight from the mouths of young carers in Salford.
Ned Bennett has created an entirely compelling evening, which reveals new layers to Peter Shaffer's play Equus that we can now only see because we have changed as a society since it was firs…
Samuel Adamson's take on A Doll's House is an ambitious play, sometimes overly so, which delivers fascinating moments but has a tendency to fall short.
Freeman is a startling and exceptional piece of theatre and its run in Streatham was a coup for the still relatively new Streatham Space Project theatre.
Human Jam is precisely the type of show Camden People's Theatre should be producing: fully engaged with its community, angry but imaginative, chaotic and messy, and shining a strong, searchi…
Rebecca Frecknall's rich production of Three Sisters takes place in a bubble of unreality, both alluring and doomed to burst.
Ridiculusmus is at the top of their game and Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!, complete with fart jokes, is an absolute must-see for anyone who wants to be awed by what two men on a small stag…
Cyprus Avenue uses shock tactics to show us the horror within, but it is a comedy with depth, perceptiveness and a touch of genius.
It is easy to see why a film set mainly in a recording studio is so suited to the stage and Tom Scutt has created a beautifully balanced and unusual piece of theatre in Berberian Sound Studi…
Annie Washburn's new play Shipwreck is intended as a reckoning with Trump. The show pitches itself as a invitation to dinner with the 45th President, but unfortunately would be better descri…