It's momentous indeed to see a debut work at the National and this excellent production of Nine Night, in all the clamour for a National Theatre that actually reflects the demographics of th…
While utterly bewildering, the performances are so spectacular and the play is such fun you can't help but be a little bewitched by One Green Bottle.
What effect is pornography having on young people's sexual and mental development? This is just one of the questions raised in Abbey Wright's brand new piece Why is the Sky Blue?
Colab Factory excels at providing unconventional and immersive theatre experiences and For King and Country is no different.
Patch of Blue, the company responsible for We Live By the Sea, specialises in devised theatre that expands the conventional scope of audiences and here they share the life of a 15-year-old w…
Ramps On the Moon's Our Country's Good delivers a production that seamlessly integrates actors with and without disabilities to produce excellent all-round performances.
New York's Lincoln Center invited UK-based Oily Cart to be one of three theatres from outside the US to perform at the Big Umbrella Festival, the first of its kind dedicated to such audience…
The Bekkrell Effect frames robust femininity within a reversal of circus trick formation that normally builds to a series of climaxes.
If you don't know the city and you've not heard any stand-up comedy for the last ten years, spending an hour at How to Be a Londoner is a moderately entertaining way to spend your evening.
The lack of social commentary serves mainly to enhance the play's simultaneously entirely universal but completely personal quality, which ultimately makes The Gulf a touching and enjoyable …
There are some sharp writing and unexpected laughs from Thomas Eccleshare's script in Instructions For Correct Assembly, and its marriage with design elements makes this a smart production.
As the play celebrates its second anniversary, The Comedy About a Bank Robbery's continued popularity simply proves that everyone loves a good dose of comedy.
Guleraana Mir's writing is the real star of Coconut. There's room for development but the ideas are there and it's refreshing to go to the theatre to see something that feels entirely new.
It's easy to think you're not educated enough about the situation in the Middle East to be able to join in conversations like these, but there is very little about Mark Thomas' show Showtime…
Quiz transfers to the Noel Coward from Chichester Festival Theatre's increasingly successful and relatively small Minerva Theatre. Sadly, there is a sense that something is lost in the upsca…
Songs for a New World, Parade, The Bridges of Madison County and The Last 5 Years " these are a just a handful of the musicals penned by composer Jason Robert Brown, and just few of the trea…
In his audacious new play Devil With The Blue Dress, Kevin Armento examines five women's accounts leading up to " and resulting in " President Clinton's impeachment in 1998.
"You look like a fucking idiot." There was so much love in this insult, that with all the crap this family have to deal with you knew they'd muddle through it together.
For what Donnellan accomplishes with classical text, here so often revered and dogmatically adhered to, still makes Pericles worthy of praise.
When putting on a piece about violence against women, theatres must find one that is written by a woman. It'll say something much more powerful, rather than simply telling people that it doe…
Love Me Now nails the experiences of modern dating and casual sex from a female perspective, but in this case it makes a statement rather than initiates a dialogue. This certainly isn't a pr…
In the writing of Songs for Nobodies, Murray has invented singular anecdotes that grasp an entire life in a moment, without a heavy-handedness that condescends. Rather it elevates the serend…
There are numerous nice ideas in the script for Will at the Rose Playhouse, but the resulting effect is just that " nice. Nothing here is groundbreaking or fully developed and the anomalous …
Beginning with a rave and barrelling through to the last blackout, Trainspotting Live is an important contribution to theatre's ecology and balls-out fights with its reputation for being stu…
Whimsical design, innovative dramaturgical devices and an unwilling to patronise young people with obvious storytelling combine to create Beginners, a marvellous and thoughtful piece of thea…