Tania Nwachukwu creates a warm hour of music and memories with hidden bite The Bush studio space is proving a fruitful launch pad, not just for new writing but for new performers. It previo…
Absurdly romantic notions about love and war have never been funnier For his final bow as artistic director of the Orange Tree, Paul Miller has decided to go out with a bang, amid much gigg…
Frank McGuinness's new play about T S Eliot and Groucho Marx is a poetic puzzle The set at the Arcola for Frank McGuinness's Dinner with Groucho naturally features a table with two place set…
★★★★ ELEPHANT, BUSH STUDIO Stirring solo show from rising star Anoushka Lucas A beguiling debut play with both charm and an angry message It lasts only an interval-fr…
Pearl Cleage's play about thwarted dreams in Prohibition era Harlem gets a stellar production The cynical might think Pearl Cleage's play had been expressly written to address the over-ridin…
Jack Thorne's wickedly funny play offers plum roles to two riveting disabled actors This is not a play for the squeamish: here be blood and cum and unsavoury descriptions of genitalia, male …
Tanya Barfield reconstructs a simple plot as an absorbing puzzle A tender love story has arrived at the Kings Head theatre from the US, where its author, Tanya Barfield, is an award-winning…
Mrs Thatcher and Elizabeth II slug it out again in this 2013 classic It's only nine years since Moira Buffini's Handbagged had its premiere at Kilburn's Tricycle theatre (renamed the Kiln i…
Dipo Baruwa-Etti pits a fiery outsider activist against the British-Nigerian middle-class As Dipa Baruwa-Etti's latest play, The Clinic, reminds us, the Tory party has a strong showing of B…
After a hard-hitting 'Oklahoma!', the latest Rodgers & Hammerstein revival stays on the sunnier side How old is Emile de Becque? Perhaps because my first Emile was the 1958 film version'…
Simon Godwin delivers an unexpectedly conventional production, larky and fluffy After gender-flipping the National's Malvolio, the director Simon Godwin might have been expected to be equall…
A brilliant balance of raucous comedy and immense pathos Where should Leila live " Ilford or Kent? It doesn't sound like an earth-shattering decision for a 15-year-old to make, but the stake…
An entertaining but not quite convincing makeover for a tricky play There probably isn't a more able translator of vintage drama than Martin Crimp, the playwright whose 2004 version of Pierr…
Playwright Beru Tessema makes a striking stage debut We are in a room in a simply decorated house in northwest London, where an Ethiopian-British family is gathering for a funeral "tea" for…
Rodgers and Hammerstein revival goes to the dark heart of the story No surreys, fringes or corny chap-slapping: the Rodgers and Hammerstein revival that has arrived at the Young Vic from New…
Ché Walker directs his savage play, with a stellar turn from Clare Latham Ché Walker claims he wrote Wolf Cub, now in the Hampstead Downstairs studio space, in a two-day blitz prompted …
The 2010 satire about race and the realities of real estate remains blistering Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park arrived at London's Royal Court like a blazing comet in 2010, a bold kind of sati…
An epic undertaking about British teenage life, beautifully performed Do you happily binge four hours of mind-candy TV in one sitting? Alecky Blythe's latest verbatim play, Our Generation " …
Carey Crim's play leaves the issues it raises sadly undramatic Carey Crim's 2017 play arrives from the US at north London's Park Theatre trailing a feminist playwriting award for its dissect…
The author of 'The Father' plays unsatisfying games with the audience If Florian Zeller isn't a Wordle fan, I'd be very surprised. As with the hit online game, the French playwright likes t…
Nell Leyshon's play-with-music asks questions of a legacy Cecil Sharp, heritage hero or imperialist appropriator? If you attended school in the first half of the 19th century, you would have…
A triumphant musical about teenage angst When Berliners sat down to watch Franz Wedekind's debut play Fruhlings Erwachen " Spring Awakening " in 1906, they had little inkling of the kind of…
Has director Patrick Marber boobed this time? In his 1973 play Habeas Corpus, now revived at the Menier Chocolate Factory under the direction of Patrick Marber, Alan Bennett had his way with…
Hilarious and probing satire from Young Jean Lee The Korean-American writer Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men, currently enjoying its UK debut at Southwark Playhouse, is presented wi…
Katie Mitchell hits a new career high Katie Mitchell's desire to bust the boundaries of theatre has taken a brilliant turn. Over her long and distinguished career as a director she has been…