Has theatre's time passed? In Tim Crouch's latest 70-minute show, Truth's a Dog Must to Kennel, first staged at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh last year and now at Battersea Arts Cent…
Exploring what it means to love, grieve and build your own future, being young and Black British today, Attic Theatre Company's production of Roy Williams' new play All Roads receives its wo…
As much as the character of Nina displays resilience and fortitude throughout Graceland at the Royal Court Theatre, she is also self-conscious and delicate. This balance, and Wong Davies' ly…
From the audience at the Duke of York's Theatre, it's clear that Shirley Valentine is a much loved story and after seeing Sheridan Smith's performance, I think it's only going to receive fur…
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…
Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon takes a closer look at what is being said about the Playground Theatre's production of Grenfell: System Failure, based on the Grenfell enquiry.
Spiffingly produced and splendidly acted, Agatha Christie's evergreen whodunit The Mousetrap keeps audiences ever in its thrall. The scarcity of touring productions of plays makes this seaso…
One of the most exciting and invigorating productions of recent time, Oklahoma! at the Wyndham's Theatre is truly a spectacle of theatre which uses a number of engaging elements to transform…
Overall, The Flying Bath at Little Angel Studios is a fantastically fun production which has pretty much everything you could ask of an early years show. It's a brilliant celebration of the …
Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image Saves the World at Birmingham Rep may lack the satirical bite of the original series, but that could be because everyone is so unredeemingly awful without hav…
Writer John Mortimer once said "Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute", a notion which Enda Walsh seems to have taken to heart in his 2006 play The Walworth Farce at t…
Based on the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, but probably better known from the 1994 film starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, the stage adaptation of Th…
"Complicated, isn't it?" says one of the characters early on in James Woolf's The Play With Speeches " and they're not wrong. As writer Anthony (Matthew Parker) sits down with director Penny…
Duet For One is phenomenal, and filled with such raw emotion and moments of intense vulnerability for both characters. Not to mention the absolutely beautiful music performed on the violin d…
Find out what is being said about the world premiere stage adaptation based on the TV series: Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image Saves The World at Birmingham Rep.
Martin Edwards stars in the UK premiere of the Black Lives Matter-inspired American play This Bitter Earth. He talked to us about performance and political activism.
Donmar Warehouse, London " until 25 March 2023 With the fast-approaching anniversary of the latest war in Europe, our culture's continued fascination with the second world war gets a contemp…
They say moving is one of the most stressful things you can do. What happens when you move to your dream beachfront home that is 'in need of renovation,' you have a baby on the way, and your…
What are the limits of a woman's ambition at a time when she had no power? Lula Raczka's new play Women Beware the Devil explores accusations of witchcraft and the meaning of evil at the out…
Producer, writer and director Andrew Bruce-Lockhart talks passionately about What's Driving You?, the improv drama about the impact of speed on driving he has co-devised with A G Anderson, r…
Exhilaratingly original and pleasingly ambitious in scope and execution, Bootycandy at the Gate Theatre is the theatrical equivalent to having a bucket of cold water thrown over you: it take…
This gut-wrenching and raw retelling of Medea, adapted from Euripides' original by Robinson Jeffers, features a truly memorable performance from Sophie Okonedo.
"There was a feeling that people all around me turned from fear to 'We will win'" Â The first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine affords a rare opportunity to get the inside t…
Alan Ayckbourn's play How The Other Half Loves is the perfect comedy entertainment to brighten up a winter's evening. Three couple's lives and marriages entwine. It's the morning after the n…
Is new writing becoming increasingly literary? Recently, some of the language being used by younger playwrights seems to me to be becoming too subtle, something to be savoured on the page ra…