The PappyShow's Boys is introduced as a 'celebration of manhood' which is then swiftly followed by a fight. In hindsight, it isn't ironic, rather it's getting a misconception or common viewp…
Playwright Jennifer Cerys' new play Dandelion at the King's Head Theatre explores queer history through a lesbian relationship in the time of Clause 28. Here she talks about why queer histor…
Nick Makoha's play The Dark tells his own story when, as a child, his mother smuggled him out of Idi Amin's Uganda in search of a better life in the UK.
Set in Crumlin, a suburb of Dublin, writer Lisa Carroll's play Cuckoo follows Iona and Pingu over a couple of fateful days when they announce that they are moving to London. It is a decision…
I go to the theatre is to be amused or moved or challenged or interested and sadly this collection of Pinter didn't really reach out across the dark auditorium to me.
It's taken two years for the RSC's hit Don Quixote to make it to the West End with David Threlfall and Rufus Hound reprising their roles as the hapless knight errant and his squire.
Is it ironic that the most emotionally powerful scene of the RSC's Macbeth at the Barbican comes in a rare moment of silence and stillness, a scene when the Macbeths are nowhere to be seen?
Nina Raine's new play Stories is back to familiar territory: A woman desperately wants a kid. Unlike Yerma (Billie Piper was cracking in the Young Vic production two years ago) it's not a ph…
Martin McDonagh's new play is a (very) dark fairytale with colonial undertones. Who else's imagination could put Hans Christian Andersen (Jim Broadbent), a one-legged black pigmy woman calle…
Nina Raine's new play Stories is back to familiar territory: A woman desperately wants a kid. Unlike Yerma, it's not a physical problem, more of a partner problem.
A play about female genital mutilation is never going to be an easy watch but I particularly was drawn to Bullet Hole to better understand the culture and tradition that supports it, particu…
Karen Archer plays Juliana in The Other Place, a scientist in pharmaceuticals who is trying to arrange a meeting with her estranged daughter and divorcing her philandering husband Ian (Neil …
Meaningful debate, clever thought and persuasiveness get overshadowed by ego manifested as sneering, sarcasm and physical violence.
Written by Lydia Rynne, Hear Me Howl is peppered with references to culture contemporary to the 30-somethings and bubbles with witty lines and observation while handling issues such as pregn…
Getting its first staging for three decades, Tony Harrison's World War I-set play Square Rounds is based on true events and explores the devastating impact of chemical warfare and weapons of…
Arinzé Kene's play Misty has transferred to the Trafalgar Studios from a sell-out run at the Bush Theatre giving more people the opportunity to see a play that is unlike anything else you'l…
The Donmar has set about making this production of Conor McPherson's monologue St Nicholas an exclusive, intimate and atmospheric experience.
Writer Ed Edwards, who has based The Political History of Smack and Crack on his own experiences with narcotics dependency, has his protagonists speak in the third person, telling their own …
That Girl is Hatty (Hatty Jones) plucked from obscurity to play the lead in what would become a cult children's film. Now grown up she works in advertising and we find her struggling with ad…
Clare Barron's play Dance Nation at the Almeida not only sees life through the female lens, it touches on subjects that are generally treated as taboo.
Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, The Political History of Smack and Crack draws on writer Ed Edwards' own experience of narcotics dependency to examine how the politics of the 1980s trapped …
My problem with Aristocrats is that there is often a lot happening and sometimes it too easily diverts attention from the central narrative.
August was dominated by Edinburgh for me but the London theatre wheels were still turning; here's my round up of my favourite bits of news, my theatre hits and misses and few celeb spots...
New York playwright Philip Holt's new play The Peregrine is a thriller set in Argentina where protagonist Paul (Christopher Sherwood) is a fixer of the gun-toting kind.
Hatty Jones draws on her own experience as a child actor (in Madeline), plucked from obscurity to star in a big budget film, for her debut play That Girl which explores growing up and female…