Bismillah! An Isis Tragicomedy review at Vaults, London " 'humorous and humane'
Wound Up Theatre takes the terror out of terrorism with this delightfully drawn two-hander featuring a captured British soldier and a gun-toting
Wound Up Theatre takes the terror out of terrorism with this delightfully drawn two-hander featuring a captured British soldier and a gun-toting
Time for some noughties nostalgia. Emma Pritchard and songwriter-comedian Tamar Broadbent's new play Split follows the growth of two high-school girls' friendship
Christopher William Hill's comedy Clockwork Canaries is weird. And not in a good way. In a disconcerting and dispiriting way. In the
Fergus Morgan interviews the enigmatic West End director about star casting, commercial theatre, and the post-Weinstein landscape. The post Lindsay Posner: “I either had the choice of …
As the Vault Festival 2018 nears the home stretch, Fergus Morgan picks out five more shows that will definitely be worth seeing…
Having worked her way up through national and regional directors' schemes, Rebecca Frecknall is about to open her second production of Tennessee
It's a tragedy. London is swamped by hordes of young Disney fans, dressed in pale blue Elsa gowns, clutching precious tickets in
James Huntrods' new play, Cause, staged by director Lucy Jane Atkinson, is a neat, nuanced three-handed exploring that age-old tug-of-war between principles
Charles Hatfield made it rain. Or at least he claimed he could, travelling around the USA in the early 1900s, offering his
Like around a third of the female population, Fran Bushe suffers from female sexual dysfunction. For her, sex has always been tricky,
I tried to engage, I really did, but Nik Wakefield's solo show Air Time is one of those performance art pieces that
An interactive theatre experience for adults, designed and performed by kids. What could go wrong? Surprisingly little, in fact, in Coney's part
The Rain God Pronk! is a collective of creatives set up last spring with the aim of combining science and storytelling to
Mark Wilson's two-hander, You, originally premiered at the Brighton Fringe in 2015, and it's lost little of its power since then. It's
It feels so, so wrong to pass comment on I Have a Mouth and I Will Scream, because if there's one thing
The new show by Willis and Vere " the duo behind 2015's hit fringe farce The Starship Osiris " is called A
Lauren Silver's Surprise! is one of those frank, friendly solo shows that explores issues of mental health or social stigma with the
What makes one world real and one world imaginary? That's the Matrix-like dilemma at the centre of Exeter-based company the Peaceful Defeat's
British South Asian company Akademi is marking the centenary of the First World War with an adaptation of a short story commemorating the
As Vault Festival strides into its fourth week, there's a real sense that the festival has found its feet. Week four sees
Fever Dream Theatre's Wrecked boasts one of the bolder concepts of this year's festival. It's a 45-minute thriller performed in a crashed
No-one talks to strangers anymore. At train stations, on the tube, at coffee shops, it's smartphones out and earbuds in. Except in
Exit Productions’ show is one of the mainstays of this year's festival. It’s here from first week to last, occupying Unit 9
Therese Ramstedt's solo show Mission Abort uses Flight of the Conchords in its soundtrack, so its automatically great. But even if it
When Eugene O'Neill finished a draft of Long Day's Journey Into Night in 1941, he insisted the play never be performed and