The pleasure of Sherlock In Homes: Murder at the Circus lies in watching half a dozen brains quickly scramble to come up with answers to what can be some pretty left field questions from the…
Buried Child is a family drama which transcends its genre and this excellent production enhances its already considerable reputation.
Feelgood musical Romantics Anonymous at Bristol Old Vic certainly works on both the level of a light confection and something more robust for the committed chocolatophile/musicophile.
A Marvellous Party, commissioned by the Noël Coward Foundation, ostensibly marks the centenary of Coward's first appearance on stage and has been produced to raise funds for actors on bot…
John Chapman asks Martin Sherman, the author of online hit Rose, a number of impertinent questions.
Writer/director Jack McNamara's clever play The Boss Of It All remorselessly targets the ineptitude of the governing classes and, along the way, takes some delightful pot shots at the preten…
The third of the Old Vic's 'In Camera' live streamed performances is Brian Friel's 1979 play Faith Healer, often described as his masterpiece.
This version of Look Back in Anger is from 30 odd years later and was mounted by Renaissance Theatre, then a relatively new company formed by a young Kenneth Branagh. The play was directed b…
Magnificently played and realised by Maureen Lipman, Martin Sherman and Scott Le Crass, Rose is well worth viewing.
John Chapman ties up a few loose ends by catching up with short play/film Shielders as part of the Traverse Theatre Festival and the live stream of Stephen Beresford's play Three Kings, star…
Two one act plays " For Quality Purposes and The Ockenden Witch " have a great deal to say about modern life " even if one is set in 1564!
Daniel Bye's The Price Of Everything is first and foremost a theatrical piece which examines the function of narrative and makes us question the veracity of what we hear.
Though the Playboy of The Western World may have been written in 1907 it still has clear resonances for the world today.
Both At Home With The Brontës and Wasted have their plus points and it is interesting to see how the same subject matter can be treated in radically different ways.
For my first Edinburgh Festival "visit" last week, I found myself following a theme (more by accident than design) but this week I thought I'd freeform it a bit more. After all that's what t…
Small Truth Theatre have reimagined their unique site as an online digital space and are currently presenting a season of three audio dramas of around 15 minutes each under the general title…
If anything, the resonances in Mike Bartlett's Albion have grown and strengthened as countrywide divisions have hardened.
The series of monologues under the collective title The Greatest Wealth was first performed at The Old Vic Theatre in 2018 as part of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the foundin…
While an online Edinburgh Festival Fringe can hardly claim to have anything like the same degree of atmosphere, various organisers are to be congratulated with getting a variety of material …
This is Measure For Measure in a production by RSC supremo Greg Doran and set in turn of the 20th century Vienna. It is and remains a difficult play to pin down but the contemporary resonanc…
The first piece Moment Of Grace by Bren Gosling takes us back to the 1980s and the last time the country faced a crisis over a virus.
One of the early entries into the lockdown theatre world was Breach Theatre's It's True. It's True. It's True: Artemisia On Trial. After some time on furlough it's now back online and availa…
Place Prints is a fascinating audio series from writer David Rudkin about places in the UK. There are certain locations where that sense of the past is much stronger than in others. These pl…
Jane Clegg falls into the category of a well-made play of three acts and is none the worse for that. Its elegant structure and growing sense of tension make it an absolute pleasure to watch.
In Approaching Empty writer Ishy Din proves himself an authentic voice, telling tales we have not heard before in a muscular and engaging style.