125 stories by "Tom Bolton"
The publicity for Martin Crimp's new play, gleefully stoked by the National Theatre, has been all about Cate Blanchett and 'bondage' scenes
David Thame has created a neat drama in Kompromat, but its explicit relationship to such a complex story, with real consequences for people who are very much alive, leaves a lingering sense …
The revival of David Grieg's 2002 play, Outlying Islands, at the King's Head Theatre reintroduces a play of wonderful, haunting poetry and complexity, a flawed but brilliant piece of writing.
Joe Hill-Gibbins' of The Tragedy of King Richard the Second is inherently divisive, and the critics have obliged but, only three days into the year, it is very hard to imagine a more excitin…
Anthony Neilson's adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart for the National Theatre updates the original, adding slasher film shocks while retaining the intense strangeness of the original.
The Merry Wives of Windsor is often looked-down-upon as a casual piece of throwaway entertainment lacking substance or serious intent, with little for scholars to get their teeth into. Howev…
Doctor Faustus at Shakespeare's Globe certainly provides an entertaining evening and, if it raises questions as well as providing answers, its approach is fresh, important and fascinating.
Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell's 'folk opera', Hadestown, is based on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, the ultimate ancient story about music.
The fourth instalment in Jamie Lloyd's consistently enjoyable season of Harold Pinter's short plays contrasts plays from either end of the writer's career.
Project 2 " Katy Schutte and Chris Mead " are improvising 13 shows, a different one for every night of their run at the Rosemary Branch Theatre.
Robert Icke's new production of The Wild Duck is bold and controversial but delivers an interpretation that strikes home very hard indeed.
The story of It's True, It's True, It's True at the Diorama Theatre is in itself fascinating and highly relevant to current concerns, but director Billy Barrett and dramaturg Dorothy Allen-P…
A Very Very Very Dark Matter is perhaps the least complete of his works for the stage, but its fierce anger and gleeful South Park-style offensiveness makes it unlike anything else on a stag…
Tamburlaine at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon brings the wonder and the terror of Marlowe's shepherd emperor to life in a production that gives an almost faultless account of a defect…
In contrast to Rufus Norris' Macbeth at the National, with Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff, the RSC's current production is focused and direct. This ensures that it is more of a success, bu…
David Suchet, image copyright Marc Brenner The Lover / The Collection by Harold Pinter – Pinter Theatre, London Both these plays, part of Jamie Lloyd’s ingenious idea for a compl…
It is in the telling of the tales, though, that Arabian Nights really comes alive. Iris Theatre uses a spectacular array of puppets, from a towering, glowing-eyed King Shahryar to birds, shi…
Stefano Massini's work about the origins of Lehman Brothers Bank is a domestic epic and a remarkable evening of theatre.
David Ireland's play Ulster American, about a Hollywood actor arriving in Britain to play the lead in a play by an Ulster Protestant writer, is a riot.
DUPed is a low-key but important monologue, fascinating in itself but something that also feels like the notes for something bigger to come.
Prehistoric is an impressive drama, which delivers a forgotten history as part of a compelling account of growing up, physically, culturally and politically.
Writers Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair have strong Edinburgh records, and they join together at Summerhall for a play which generates serious late night energy.
Antosh Wojcik is a poet and a drummer, an unusual but logical combination. In his one-man Summerhall show, he brings his skills to a performance that is highly distinctive " both experimenta…
Ed Edwards' new play The Political History of Smack & Crack takes the hopeless territory of addiction, a never-ending round of petty crime, near death, recovery and decline, and places …
Ontroerend Goed may be based in Belgium, but their varied and inventive work is an invaluable part of the British theatre scene. Their show £¥€$ (Lies), a hit at last year's Edin…
