After You is a brief but well constructed story about musical theatre's favourite theme " love " but is less the straightforward tale of boy meets girl who live happily ever after. It is mor…
Romantics Anonymous is a story predicated on equality, mutual support and finding your own path as individuals (and as a couple) rather than waiting for someone else to come and save you fro…
The Bridge Theatre's most savvy decision is in teaming The Shrine with Bed Among the Lentils, placing together two of our finest actors who effortless and regularly transition between stage …
Good things come to those who wait, an axiom that applies in duplicate to Stephen Beresford's latest play Three Kings screened via the Old Vic's innovative In Camera series for just five per…
The first short play is Beat the Devil in which David Hare stakes first claim to what will surely be a new genre or at least a familiar theme in the coming months " the Covid monologue.
Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre may say concert on the poster but there is singing, dancing, performing and storytelling nine shows a week.
Ben and Max Ringham's work for Blindness is a masterpiece, a 70-minute performance that layers story, sound effects, music and lighting design to immerse the audience in a pandemic experienc…
The Greenwich Theatre production of The Secret Love Life of Ophelia showcases a selection of excellent young performers that inadvertently asks some big questions about how we cast Hamlet in…
The National Theatre really did save lockdown and made us appreciate our phenomenal creative industries, but they may also have inadvertently pointed the way for the future as surely as Nati…
Like Shakespeare's greatest play, The Deep Blue Sea is grief channelled into art, aligning Hamlet and Hester as two souls enveloped by death and choosing whether to live.
Theatre photography is one of the most important ways to promote a new production and simultaneously one of the elements audiences " and probably most creatives " actively think least about.
As Simon Evans' cheeky new comedy points out, when the Government finally gives the go-ahead, the best-prepared teams will have their pick of the playhouses and first dibs on an audience des…
For better or worse, the association between theatre, television and film has only grown closer in the last ten years, not just with artists moving between the different genres but also in t…
When it was first performed in 2012 James Graham's This House was an affectionate satire, using its 1970s setting to examine the still young Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition governmen…
As a great American dramatist, Williams's timeless understanding of human emotion and the particularly explosive dynamics of family groups has always been such a notable feature of his writi…
This is the theatre at its very best and on screen, both productions are gripping, using the camera work to richly convey the abstract shapes and grand vision of its boldly beautiful staging…
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most frequently performed plays, and it is a story filled with death, danger and prophesy.
Far from frivolous, this fashion-based drama is a great choice for Chichester Festival Theatre's inaugural broadcast, from a venue that so often gets it right. Perfect escapism.
The first show in the National Theatre at Home programme was the 2011 smash-hit One Man, Two Guvnors, one of the great success stories of the Nicholas Hytner era, a cheeky farce written by R…
Three Sisters at the National Theatre, Uncle Vanya at the Harold Pinter and The Seagull at the Playhouse Theatre have all taken very different approaches to reworking Chekhov, bringing fresh…
Shoe Lady is an intriguing and well-considered examination of the social and domestic pressures placed on women to perform multiple and often contradictory roles in our society.
It may be almost 20 years old, but Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years feels timeless and recognisable and this bold restaging at Southwark Playhouse is a triumph.
The psychology of Blithe Spirit snaps convincingly into place in Richard Eyre's production while at the same time it fully utilises every opportunity to make the audience laugh.
A Number packs a lot of themes, meaning and ideas into just an hour of stage time in a production that asks big questions about scientific progress.
Tom Stoppard's personal story in Leopoldstadt sees the writer return to form as a commentator of cultural, social and historical patterns.