Theatre Royal, Brighton: This was an exemplary festival event. First, it provided an enjoyable mix of star glamour (Vanessa Redgrave, its guest director) and local talent (the young Brighton…
Jermyn Street, London: Adam is both son and mother to Mammles whom he tends - as he has for 15 years - in the cluttered attic of their home. She is bed-ridden, crippled with arthritis. He is…
New Victoria Theatre, Woking: Meeting Sharon, Tracey and Dorien again is a bit like encountering distant relatives after a gap of more than a decade. Will they have changed much? Will they b…
Cottesloe, National, London: This beautiful play set in post-war Trinidad won Errol John the newly-inaugurated Observer award for an undiscovered playwright in 1957. It was produced the foll…
Hampstead Theatre, London: Richard Nelson has set himself quite a task in writing a play about Harley Granville-Barker. Not only is his subject revered by modern directors and theatre histor…
Bush Theatre, London: Uncertainty is the keynote of Ishy Din's first full-length play, the last of Josie Rourke's programming here before her departure for the Donmar. Read the fu…
Lyric Hammersmith, London: Puck's beautiful speech at the end of the play, beginning "If we shadows have offended", comes as something of a surprise. Not because it is deliver…
The Print Room, London: This buzzing new 80-seat venue in Notting Hill is celebrating the centenary of Tennessee Williams's birth with this late, lesser-known melodrama. Full of William…