As her monologue My Mum's a Twat opens at the Royal Court, PR turned playwright Anoushka Warden talks about her big break " and how she survived a difficult childhoodAnoushka Warden did not …
A new era is dawning at London's Tricycle theatre under Indhu Rubasingham, its first new artistic director in three decades. Her inaugural play " starring Adrian Lester, and written by his w…
Olivier, LondonImelda Staunton leads an evening of star turns in this glittering, bittersweet dissection of midlife regret, brilliantly directed by Dominic CookeFollies is like a distinctive…
King William House, HullRevolt meets retail in 80s South Korea in this dazzling, thought-provoking production from dreamthinkspeakOne Day, Maybe is an unusual, intimidating and thought-provo…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonDavid Harrower's 1995 play explores the feral intensity of a marriage in medieval times, staged here with a fluid physicalityDavid Harrower's Knives in Hens (1995) is…
Minerva, ChichesterGitha Sowerby's superb 1924 play, with Ophelia Lovibond in the title role, reminds us that being a woman of means isn't always enoughIn a house in Surrey in 1911, the smal…
Almeida, LondonChristopher Shinn's elegant play about the nature of violence in the modern world asks intriguing questions but is short on answersChristopher Shinn's Against, receiving its p…
It was to celebrate Nina Simone's political passion as much as her musical genius that Josette Bushell-Mingo created her one-woman show about the singer. Here, the acclaimed actor talks abou…
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonAndrew Scott's prince proves a brilliant communicator as Robert Icke's acclaimed Almeida production transfers to the West EndAfter a sell-out run at the Almeida,…
Hampstead theatre, LondonBranden Jacobs-Jenkins's tale of vicious infighting at a New York magazine should make most of us value our own workplacesGloria, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, was shor…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonFerdinand von Schirach's morally perplexing legal drama puts the fate of a German fighter pilot at the audience's mercySince it opened in Berlin in 2015, Terror, by …
Barbican, LondonThere is perhaps unfair pressure on Binoche to pull off miracles in Ivo van Hove's eagerly anticipated take on SophoclesIt's an ill wind that blows at the beginning of Antigo…
Tony Kushner's 1991 play Angels in America broke the silence about Aids. As a revival wows audiences at the National, he talks about how the world has changedTony Kushner flew in to London f…
The Almeida, LondonThis revival of Martin Crimp's intricate 1993 satire captures the powerlessness of a writer chewed up by the movie businessEveryone has a story, but who owns it? What happ…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonBrecht's anti-fascist study of political power hits home in a tremendous new adaptation by Bruce NorrisThe Donmar has been transformed: gone are the elegant benches; …
The actor talks about the psychology of Lady Macbeth " and feelings of guilt closer to homeSamantha Spiro suggests, when we meet on a summer afternoon at the Globe theatre, that rehearsal is…
The actor, a household name in the Netherlands, is soon to star opposite Law in a new stage production of the film Obsession, adapted by director Ivo van HoveFirst impressions are important …
Southwark Playhouse, LondonEven the magnificent Sharon D Clarke can't make this long and cluttered musical shine as it shouldCy Coleman's The Life, with lyrics by Ira Gasman and book co-auth…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonSimon exudes feline grace and infinite variety in Iqbal Khan's excellent if unadventurous productionIt is impossible to predict how Josette Simo…
Dominion theatre, LondonFabulous choreography " and an extra helping of Gershwin " light up Christopher Wheeldon's airy musicalAn American in Paris is a lightfooted antidote to gloom, filled…
Wyndham's, LondonTennant is dissolution personified in Patrick Marber's brilliant update of his 2006 take on MolièreIf Don Juan doesn't know when to stop, I don't know where to begin in des…
Barbican, LondonCoriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra all together, in Dutch, fly by in Van Hove's extraordinary critique of the way we consume newsIvo van Hove has, with his co…
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonBest shines as a flirtatious widow in Trevor Nunn's update of a Terence Rattigan rewriteLove in Idleness is second division Rattigan, a 1944 rewriting of Less…
Hampstead, LondonThe funny and foul-mouthed Sara Kestelman steals the show in Ryan Craig's lively portrait of a Jewish familyFilthy Business, by Ryan Craig, was inspired by memories of his f…
Royal Court, LondonRobert Evans all but disappears in Simon McBurney's adaptation of the Hollywood producer's rollercoaster memoirRobert Evans, the Hollywood producer, maintains that what ma…