A nippy little thing this, Lock and Key. A new musical from writing duo Barlow & Smith, a couple of cracking musical theatre actresses in Tiffany Graves and Evelyn Hoskins, and the swea…
This production of Brighton Rock has a striking physicality to it, utterly eyecatching but careful not to overly glamourise this noirish world.
A stirring and compelling evening of monologues exploring women's rights " Maxine Peake curates One Hand Tied Behind Us at the Old Vic Theatre in London.
Who knew that fascists could rhyme? WH Auden and Christopher Isherwood tackle inter-war Europe in The Dog Beneath The Skin at the Jermyn Street Theatre.
A whole lot of post-apocalyptic hurly-burly and sadly not much more besides " the National Theatre's Macbeth really is something of a red-trousered disappointment.
In Philipp Oberlohr's gentle hands, teasing out moments of blissful happiness or tearjerking sincerity, the show becomes a call to action in living your best self, in being unafraid to try a…
The enduring presence of the gods in this modern reading of Electra is a circle that is never squared, the potential intrigue of its revolutionary politics are hampered by the reliance on a …
The Best Man says nothing directly about today's White House or the most recent struggle to occupy it " obliquely though, there's insight aplenty.
Curtains has a play-of-the-day feel to it as it seeks to deal with its big issue " euthanasia " and, in some ways, achieves a measure of success.
Katie Caden's Conquest at The Vaults asks questions of how pro-active feminists need to be in contemporary society.
Given that Milly Thomas' one-woman show Dust at the Soho Theatre is centred on a young person's suicide, there's a surprising amount of humour contained therein.
Improvised murder mystery show Murder She Didn't Write brightens up the last Sunday of the month at the Leicester Square Theatre.
What could merely be dismissed as make-believe in The Winter's Tale gains real significance in what it can achieve for social cohesion, planting seeds in the minds of future theatremakers.
Structurally playful (the way captions are introduced for each chapter is ingenious) but thematically consistent (the world is going to shit, no really THE WORLD IS GOING TO SHIT), there's n…
In its exploration of artistic compromise and the perils of pursuing both sexual and political freedom, Foul Pages makes for strange eventful history.
In its emotional forthrightness and playful theatricality, this touring production of Great Expectations is one to watch out for.
As time ticks away in Rope at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, the tightly wound coils of this expertly constructed thriller remain as poised as ever.
With Monica Dolan in scintillating form with her effortless naturalism, The B*easts at the Bush Theatre proves an intelligently provocative play.
A big selling point of Philip Ridley's Angry, a set of six monologues, is that they've been written to be gender-neutral and depending on the night you go, they'll be performed by a man or a…
In the claustrophobic atmosphere of Chloe Lamford's design, Vicky Featherstone's production of Gundog provides too little variation of tone, especially as Simon Longman's storytelling resist…
The publicity for Abi Zakarian's I Have A Mouth and I Will Scream at The Vaults puts it better than I ever could " it's "a play-performance-art-protest-thing".
Es Devlin's design for Girls and Boys, aided by Luke Halls' video work, is simply stunning " the simplest of ideas realised with perfect execution.
Whether cheesecake really is more effective than counselling for grief remains unsure, but in Tiger (Vault Festival) Joe Eyre's message of remembering those who love you is golden.
The production evokes the dark and brooding mystery of an unforgiving moorland and provides an ideal setting for the psychological thriller that is Catherine Lucie's The Moor at the Old Red …
Hitting the Wall Productions' contribution to the #MeToo debate is The Internet Was Made For Adults, exploring how the greater potential for connection facilitated by the internet has had a …